Today: 1054 honest prose, 241 in notes
Total: 3453 story, 1911 notes, 5364 total
I am technically at my minimum pace of 10%, but including my notes is a bit like cheating. They will grow into real story bits too, hopefully much more than the notes themselves, but I haven’t typed *those* words yet. :)

For friends who are interested (or just incredibly bored), chapter 1 is ready to be exposed.
Chapter 00 Kingdom of Endwin, a brief history (480 words)
Chapter 01 Hot tea, cold reunion (1129 words)
If you do read it, please leave a comment just saying you read it. Or, ask me questions about the characters and setting if you like :)

That is all. *tud*

Word count day two, 1928 prose, 419 notes and crap

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Finally, some text I can show people. Kingdom of Endwin, a brief history 486 words. Also, lost some time this morning drawing maps and 93 words of non-prose geography notes.

I have generated about 1000 words of outline and other material (568 family tree+683 cause and effect). None of it goes in the finished product but I feel like it’s a good start.

I also have a page and a half of scrawl that traces my hero (45) to his great-great-great grandfather. It is a huge file and loading time is slow due to my DSL. It won’t make sense without the notes (which I’m not going to show you, neener neener).
Gen 1-4 (500K jpg) 25 sec
Gen 4-6 (1.7M jpg) 85 sec

Writing in gconnor_writing will be hidden (for now). I will probably come back and un-hide the entries later, if things go well. I would love you all to see it, but the end is kind of a mystery and I will probably end up writing it kind of back-to-front a bit.

Edit: 471 more for 1722 today, though not much of that counts as prose. Nighty night.

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I am obviously way behind my goal of 2000 words a day. I blame my job for this. This site launch was not supposed to totally eat like six whole days of my life, and two more sizeable chunks of evening time. I consider my job quite rewarding, even though it is not always fun, and l am usually satisfied, and proud of myself and my team. However, this week I feel like I have been sorely used. I am a hero at work, but there is a cost.

Anyway, I was barely keeping my head above water going into this, and losing six and one-half days out of the first 13 did not help matters. I was about a day behind on the 7th, and now it is the 14th and I am 7 days behind.

I tried to make up for this by getting up early and writing more, but between this morning and now I was only able to cough up 650 or so words. I am still bone-tired and sleeping from 1 to 6 doesn’t help. It also doesn’t help that I was held for an additional two hours after work and we had a guest over for dinner.

I will still give it a sporting chance, but if I don’t make it, I am not going to feel guilty about it. What I am going to do is finish the fucking story, November or not. I value work very highly but I am not willing to give up the rest of my life entirely.

10,000 words as of this morning. Added a bit to the end of one and the beginning of the next.
Writing: Home (1805 words)
Writing: The next day (2323 words)

Story writing has stalled for a bit, due to work. (We met a huge deadline, it was brutal due to last-minute issues, and the wildfire seems to be 80% contained :)

I feel a bit guilty for leaving Veldan hanging. The month is almost half over and I am only like 18% done. Oh well, I will try to make up for some lost time.

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Summary of writing bits