NaNoWriMo-- Just a bit of boasting:

[capri0mni]

Just so you know: I didn't even decide to join in until the fourth.

Yesterday, I admit, I was in full-blocked, can-barely-stand-to-listen-to-my-own-thoughts mode and managed to add a whopping 47 words to my manuscript.

Today, I added 3,600 (and change) words. In less than nine hours -- since I posted that poll this afternoon (I told you polls clear my mind.) [see footnote]

*preens*

[footnote] I fixed my character by having her be the one who first encounters my Wizard character (via a surprise letter in the mail) instead of her mother making first contact and telling her about it in a surprise conversation over dinner. Also, having her gather the mail and letting herself in from school gave me a chance to witness her relationship with her mother (as she sorts out the mail addressed to her) and the rest of the world (in how she deals with all the junk mail and pop culture surrounding that. The wizard's letter fell out of a mass of supermarket circulars, and is the Unexpected, Unknown quantity. So when she examines the envelope and puzzle out what it might mean, and what she should do with it, she begins to have a direct relationship with him before she even meets him.

Which gives her something else to be besides passive (and angry and resentful that she's been made passive). Simple, really (once I thought of it)

Comments

[spiralsheep]

\o/

[capri0mni]

Hee! Thanks.