Nanowrimo Day 1: Some extra words to spare

[annathepiper]

Ladies and gents, my Nanowrimo effort is now officially underway, with a grand total of 1,876 words clocked in on Chapter 1 of Bone Walker. This is a couple hundred over the necessary daily quota, but that’s fine–I wanted a bit of buffer just to account for the couple dozen words always taken up by contact data at the beginning of a manuscript, and then the couple hundred I’d already tried to write to get this chapter underway.

And yeah, technically, I know you’re not supposed to start a true Nanowrimo effort before November 1st. I figure roughly 200 words could be safely ignored–and I dropped about half of those words anyway because I decided I didn’t like the paragraph.

Anyway, Bone Walker is out of the starting gate, you guys. For the interested, this book will be set roughly two months in time after Faerie Blood. And I’m already close to the end of Chapter 1, which feels like it’s going to run short as my chapters tend to go. But that’s okay. Because this means I’m also very close to the return of Elessir. Muah!

No word meter, because the lovely and talented Zokutou Word Meter appears to have vanished off the face of the Net. But I daresay I can soldier on without it.

Written tonight: 1,876
Chapter 1 total: 1,876
Bone Walker total (first draft): 1,876

Mirrored from angelakorrati.com.

Comments

[wingedelf.livejournal.com]

1185 and counting in mine so far.

It's an alternate history/steampunkish thingie starting after the first failed efforts toward bringing the Island of Newfoundland into Confederation with Canada in 1869- when the younger son of a Ferryland seal-hunter discovered a way to craft an engine which ran on seal oil and screech...and resulting in an independent Republic of Newfoundland which suddenly found itself in the unusual position of being a major hub of trade between the US, Canada and western Europe.

[annathepiper]

Oh WOW that sounds like great fun! :)

[kieri.livejournal.com]

I'm sort of quasi-official this year, because I started writing a novel around the beginning of October without thinking "Hey, what about Nano?" I've actually been doing 1100-1500 a day with one day off a week. So I'm just continuing on with that and plan to keep doing so until its done. :)

It won't be 50,000 in one month, but it'll probably be 70,000 in two.

(Edited to add that my daily total today is 1,754 - higher than usual and today is usually my day off, but I'm giving myself some buffer so I can take Tuesday off instead to play Dragon Age.) :P

[annathepiper]

Whatever works! Good for you for keeping going anyway.

[demongamer.livejournal.com]

Banana.

[annathepiper]

This is not a word I've actually used in the novel yet. ;)

[pinkdormouse.livejournal.com]

Go you! I managed a few words today after failing to write yesterday.