The end of last week was a bust. I spent Thursday doing backstory for the story, Friday getting ready to teach, Saturday teaching, and Sunday sleeping and reading.
Yesterday was NaNoWriMo catch-up day. #4-son had a 2-hour robotics meeting that I needed to take him to, which is in a junior high school that's in the finishing stages of being built. He did his thing and I found a table and chair far away from the noise of all the kids and wrote. Then came home and wrote more.
By the time I was done, I got ~4800 words for the day, so words for Thurs, Fri and Sat. Which means: ~13,240 for NaNoWriMo, and ~23,500 for the book.
But I still need NaNoWriMo words for Sun and Mon, so I'll put them on today's to-do list.
Story is going well. One of the things I did Thursday was spend a couple hours drawing a map of the area the book takes place in. I discovered that it's not a forest, but a swamp. A swamp that all the surrounding locals think is impassable, but the people that live there--to escape from the rest of the surrounding people--have set themselves up very nicely. Discovering that bit of the story gave things a whole new perspective.
As I'm writing really sparse and leaving out big chunks of stuff, I suspect that I'm writing between 30-50% of final word count. And I think I just hit the mid-point of the story. So I suspect that I'll be writing another epic in the 100-120k word range. When I first did the vague planning for this story, I thought this point would be the black moment, but there's no way I can get everything wrapped up in that amount of pages, so this is the bad thing that leads up to the black moment. Which should prove interesting when the black moment rolls itself around, because I don't have a clue what it's going to be.
I guess that's what keeps writing interesting. :-)
