NaNoWriMo 2014 - Day 30 - 101%

Writing will resume on Monday, December 1st.

NaNoWriMo 2014 - Day 29 - 101%

Writing will resume on Monday, December 1st.

NaNoWriMo 2014 - Day 28 - 101%

Day after Thanksgiving. We're up at my sister's family's ranch and I'm writing through a tiny Verizon "hot spot" device.  I completed NaNoWriMo but still estimate that I need to push the word count target from 50,000 to 75,000 words to complete my novel.  Writing will resume on Monday, December 1st.

50290 / 50000 words. 101% done!

NaNoWriMo 2014 - Day 27 - 99%

Only 400 words today.  Too much turkey!  Still, I'm continuing to fill in the "stub" scenes and that is progress.  I'm hoping to have several hours to write tomorrow which means not only should I complete the NaNoWriMo challenge, but be able to validate my manuscript.  I am estimating my novel to require about 75K words though.

49600 / 50000 words. 99% done!

NaNoWriMo 2014 - Day 26 - 98%

Today was another good day of writing, filling in stubs, not just creating empty ones.  Brother Einar and Lærke leave Odense and arrive at Krogen to find out that King Knud and his entourage left two days ago.  They borrow two horses and ride down to the small village of Copenhagen, then continue on, catching up around the merchant town of Køge.

49210 / 50000 words. 98% done!

NaNoWriMo 2014 - Day 25 - 94%

Wow.  Almost 2000 words today.  Not just "stubbing" but actually writing out a few of the stub scenes.  I have Gunnar and his henchmen getting ready to try to kidnap the prince on his way to meet his father.

And note that the percent complete is to for the NaNoWriMo goal, not the percent complete of the actual book.

46920 / 50000 words. 94% done!

NaNoWriMo 2014 - Day 24 - 90%

I'm getting really good at stubbing.  I wish I were as good at filling words into a "stub scene" as I am at instantiating empty stubs with bits of detail.  I did work three quarters of the way through the plot outline (in a Google Docs spreadsheet) creating missing stubs and making sure that things happen in the correct order.  The end is coming a lot clearer.

45200 / 50000 words. 90% done!

NaNoWriMo 2014 - Day 23 - 88%

This seemed like yet another wonderful day of writing with almost 5000 words written.  Alas, most of it is stubs (empty scenes with one level of detail below that of my plot outline).  I did get a LOT of stubbing done.  The King is Jelling.  I know what the bad guys are doing (until they get to Jelling with the King).  I'm very close to discovering exactly how the climax will happen.  Lots of loose threads either need to tied back into the weave or snipped off.

44211 / 50000 words. 88% done!

NaNoWriMo 2014 - Day 22 - 79%

Today looks like a spectacular writing day (4000+ words) but it wasn't.  Oh, it was fun.  But most of the expansion were stub scenes filling out the plot outline and copying/pasting text from last year's scenes in ready to be edited tomorrow like a butcher trimming the fat and grizzle off of a flank steak.  It was very good progress though.  I will have an easier task the next week just filling in stub scenes and fixing mechanics.  Tonight's NaNoWriMo Write-In was small but fun.

39432 / 50000 words. 79% done!

NaNoWriMo 2014 - Day 21 - 70%

This was a good day for writing (2000 words today).  Lærke arrived in Odense and made her way to the priory.  It's now the next morning and she's being brought to a tavern ("Odensblót") for the next step.  She saw a "crucifix" in the town center.

35006 / 50000 words. 70% done!

NaNoWriMo 2014 - Day 20 - 66%

A normal writing day...  about 1600 words - enough to break even.  Sten has joined the King's entourage in Krogen as they're about to leave for Jelling.

33005 / 50000 words. 66% done!

NaNoWriMo 2014 - Day 19 - 63%

A pretty good day of writing.  I got a lot of stubs filled in as well as responding to some feedback from a respected alpha reader - many changes to the beginning of the story.

31340 / 50000 words. 63% done!

NaNoWriMo 2014 - Day 18 - 58%

No words (zero, zip, nada) were written on the 18th day of NaNoWriMo.

NaNoWriMo 2014 - Day 17 - 58%

This was a weird day for writing.  It wasn't that I got met my word count (2700+ words), but that it was mostly stub scenes with the action described but no text written out.  My plot outline (in a Google Drive spreadsheet) is about 3/4s full and ready for the villain to start plotting what he'll or she'll do.  I have more than enough outline to fill in tomorrow before than happens though.

29000 / 50000 words. 58% done!

NaNoWriMo 2014 - Day 16 - 53%

A very good day for writing.  3300 words!  And this is despite getting to go to a birthday party for the mom of a friend.  I've gotten Sten from Snoghøj across the Lillebælt to Mæthelfar arriving at the Priory after dark.  He's waiting outside the locked gate for Brother Einar to unlock the gate (if they'll open it for him after dark).  Scanraithe is with him!

26259 / 50000 words. 53% done!

NaNoWriMo 2014 - Day 15 - 46%

Today was a good day for writing.  It wasn't good for much else though.  I got a number of things smoothed out in the story and the plot outline extended (it needs a bit more work tomorrow).

We had a great Write-In at our home tonight with 4 people total (twice the number of people from last week).  We all made our word counts!

23237 / 50000 words. 46% done!

NaNoWriMo 2014 - Day 14 - 42%

Not a good day for writing; only 400 words.  My primary trigger (lunch) never really happened.  We got to go down to an "Open House" down at the Lyceum Theater to see my son's artwork as part of a show put on by Platt College.

21205 / 50000 words. 42% done!

NaNoWriMo 2014 - Day 13 - 42%

Today was a good day for writing.  I completed the scenes in Lund (but came up with some new questions) and got Brother Einar back to Krogen.  The two ambassadors have arrived in Wittenberg after their mission to Boleslaw in Pomerania and are looking for Prince Hartaknud.  They nap.  More tomorrow...

20762 / 50000 words. 42% done!

NaNoWriMo 2014 - Day 12 - 36%

Not a massively productive day for writing because the bulk was spent getting passports for 3 members of our family.  Still, I was able to put the suggestions from last night's critique group into the first section of the book and edit the last section in Lund.  I'll start to catch up tomorrow.

18056 / 50000 words. 36% done!

NaNoWriMo 2014 - Day 11 - 34%

No (zero) words today.  But I did have a wonderful lunch with a friend that I haven't seen for 10 years.  And I had the first 3 pages of my novel critiqued by 4 other authors tonight.  They gave me great feedback.  Oh, and I gave up trying to keep up with Twitter today (only).  That counts for something.