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Current words after one week: 21283
Current Chapter: 8 will start tomorrow.
The story currently has 23 chapters projected, of which the first eight and chapter twenty three are done or mostly done. (I will probably add another thousand words to chapter 23.
I also built a spreadsheet to keep daily totals of words and do some metrics -- average length based on current production, (almost a hundred thousand words right now) average chapter length, etc. This keeps it in perspective and helps me keep focused on writing this.
Novels are not a natural environment for me. I tend to gravitate to shorter fiction. Writing Athena's Messenger, my first real novel, took a lot, and I've done substantial revision on it since I thought I'd finished it. There will probably be one more revision pass for it before it's ready for publication.
But contrast this with the six novellas and the over fifty short stories I have waiting to go out. I like to create a situation, deal with it, and get done without worrying about character development, descriptions of places, or any of that stuff. Novels demand that, and as such they involve a lot more to write.
there's a major point coming at the end of chapter thirteen. I suspect I'll be rather close to the fifty thousand word point that NaNoWriMo aims for at that point, and if current progress is any indicator I'll hit that point next weekend.
Of course there's always the possibility of a creative block, but since this is a plotted story (rare for me) I can always stopp where the creativity fails and start writing at a later point, moving forward and backward to eradicate the blocked spot from the other side. (A trick I learned from a music composition instructor)
But I'm making good progress here, and I'm pleased with it.
Current Chapter: 8 will start tomorrow.
The story currently has 23 chapters projected, of which the first eight and chapter twenty three are done or mostly done. (I will probably add another thousand words to chapter 23.
I also built a spreadsheet to keep daily totals of words and do some metrics -- average length based on current production, (almost a hundred thousand words right now) average chapter length, etc. This keeps it in perspective and helps me keep focused on writing this.
Novels are not a natural environment for me. I tend to gravitate to shorter fiction. Writing Athena's Messenger, my first real novel, took a lot, and I've done substantial revision on it since I thought I'd finished it. There will probably be one more revision pass for it before it's ready for publication.
But contrast this with the six novellas and the over fifty short stories I have waiting to go out. I like to create a situation, deal with it, and get done without worrying about character development, descriptions of places, or any of that stuff. Novels demand that, and as such they involve a lot more to write.
there's a major point coming at the end of chapter thirteen. I suspect I'll be rather close to the fifty thousand word point that NaNoWriMo aims for at that point, and if current progress is any indicator I'll hit that point next weekend.
Of course there's always the possibility of a creative block, but since this is a plotted story (rare for me) I can always stopp where the creativity fails and start writing at a later point, moving forward and backward to eradicate the blocked spot from the other side. (A trick I learned from a music composition instructor)
But I'm making good progress here, and I'm pleased with it.
