Wednesday, November 27, 2013

NaNoWriMo - Day 27

Today was a bit frustrating in terms of word count (only 1335 words) getting me to 41000 words since November 1st.

That mostly because I was wrestling with a difficult scene: the morning after a murder is discovered with the fishermen in the town pitted against the farmers and the constable in the middle.  Meanwhile, the King and his party are trying to leave town by being taken across the smallest of the Danish straits (called the "Little Belt") except that the sailors and fisherman are all involved in the controversy and none are willing to sail.  Then on top of that, our couriers are indirectly involved in the murder and are trying to remain inconspicuous.

I wrote most of it last night, but in re-reading it this morning, it was spaghetti, so plotting that out took all day.  Here's what just part of the plot outline looks like:

I then printed up a map and simulated the movement of each of the parties:


Needless to say, this all took time away from producing words towards NaNoWriMo.  Hopefully, I can use today's planning tomorrow .

Music: the Gregorian Chant Radio channel on Pandora and brown noise.

Tea: Murchie's Prince Charles tea.

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