My word count is up to 22,445 - an new all time high for me. I have never written ANYTHING this long in my life. Very exciting stuff!
The novel is progressing nicely. Most of my characters are slices and small bits of people I have known throughout my life. The setting is places I know well and can describe in detail. Since this is my first novel, something I've always wanted to do, I wanna stick with things I know...."write what you know". Of course my grammer and punctuation sux, but that's OK. I am following a rough outline, yet letting my characters and the situations dictate the direction of the novel. I am always there looking over them from above and bring them back if they start going astray.
Over the last several days, I cranked out some serious word count. To complete NaNoWriMo, you need to write at least 1,666 words each day. At first, this sounded insurmountable, but not any more. My average since begining has been about 2,500 words a day.
Looking forward to leaving work so I can write....oh, yeah, there is my "lunch break", right?
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I checked your blog before you had added the latest posts. Awesome! Write Darren, write!
Funny thing, you took on a project very simalar to one I started, at about the same time. My 50/50@ 50 project. Every day - do it no matter what! I'm down to my last week of a photo a day for 100 photos. Not every photo is a masterpiece, but I have surprised myself more than once. It sounds like you are on your way to your own discoveries.
I hope you don't run into any snags, like I did. Don't let technical difficulties stop you. Around day 89 of my project, my computer decided it didn't like my web page software and it crashed. I couldn't update my photoblog. It took me days to accept that it wasn't going to fix itself. It took me days to accept that I needed to buy a new computer. It took me days to accept that I needed to fix a lot of things and move on.
But, I kept on taking photos, every day. I had to buy a new mac, but I kept on taking photos. I had to re-load all my software and re-create my entire photo web page, but I kept on taking photos. I'm not even up to date, but I hope to have things back together and on the web before the end of my 100 days. Right now I'm waiting for my external hard drive to arrive so I can double back everything up. Darren, back up, back up, back up. On the computer, on a hard drive and a third backup off site (at work, on a server, on a disk at a friends house.)
But ... the moral of the story isn't to back up, the moral is to keep on writing!
I'll send you a link when I get my act pulled together.
Take care. We're with you.
/Cyan
P.S. You were asking about writing prompts. I bet some of my stranger photographs could make you think. I know they have me wondering, "what in the world was I thinking!"
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