With this evening’s 1,307 words, that’s 2,812 words written. I had at least an extra 15 or 20 minutes when I could have been writing, but there was no where else for this chapter to go. I’d already posted this morning’s chapter from work, so I decided against adding to it. I also decided against starting the next chapter, as I need to organize where I want things to go next. My planned events are starting to stretch themselves out (which is a good thing), so the should last me a good week.
Looking over my intended “weekdays only” schedule, it seems I miscalculated. With 20 weekdays, this is about seven weekdays per arc. This means arc one actually should have carried me through the 11th. Oops! Hopefully I can stretch arc two out far enough, because I don’t know where all arc three will be headed. I might fill in the gaps in days with arc one stories, or maybe put in a chapter or two involving other characters, rather than focusing on Sarah and Samuel. As different characters will be on different quests, this gives me a chance to write more about how characters other than Sarah and Samuel fair, beyond, “So-and-so went to some-such-place, and did this-one-thing, earning him that-special-item.”
Changes
I consulted with extremely bare notes on how this scene would go. The notes had only Shamrock, Sarah, and Bernard in the confrontation. The park and tennis court backdrops was all invented as I wrote today. The original had no Arle, no dragon, and no bard who did not sing. Originally, Sarah transformed into Clover, the jewel becoming a brooch. Bernard tried to take the brooch, and this is when Samuel went into offensive defense mode. Things ended up different when actually written out.
NaNoWriMo Goals
I’m 312 over my daily goal today, and I probably could have gone an extra 300 to 400 words if I started a new chapter. But, I didn’t, so I didn’t. It’s amazing how long it can take to write even just 100 words, and yet there are times when 100 words flow in no time. (This evening’s commute was not one of those times.)
Running total: 24,038 words. I would have tried filling that out to 25,000 words if that wasn’t a whole 962 (almost 1,000!) words away.
