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. Need to come up with some adversity for Veldan to face, or some adventure other than training. Need to figure out how he feels about things and what motivates him - such as the character worksheet items.

592 words today. And I erased some material I had accidentally duplicated yesterday, so it was a net gain of about 400. Lost some time to dicking around with queryint (1 hr) and gladiator (1 hr). I was really only paying attention here from 9:30 to 12:00 with a couple distractions. So I really need like 4-5 hours per day if I am going to do this. I wanted to do 2000 per day which would have been 10000 by now. I am officially 1 day behind so I have to make that up. ...

Ack, this is getting harder, not easier. I have been at this for like 4 hours and have only 1100 tonight. 1. I lost some time with work foo, I was working on work between 6:00 and 8:30. Can’t do that if I want to write and also sleep. 2. Spent some time talking to M about my characters and how I really don’t know them yet. It was interesting, as distractions go. ...

Dusk (2387 words) this one is pretty much done Extra material: exercises for mages in training (125 words) background material Elori (259 words) background material Elori background data (188 words) background material Visualization exercise (1059 words) This is a flash-forward Home (742 words) This should come after Dusk Timeline, updated (408 words) more background material Total: 5168 words And yes, I have a script to figure this out for me, now, not just the total but the breakdown of each chapter or article. Isn’t that great?? Isn’t caffeine WONDERFUL!?!? ...

5180 words. That pretty much means: 500 Friday, 2600 Saturday, 2000 Sunday. I was hoping to use the weekend to get a bit ahead and make up for Friday, but it looks like I am barely holding my own. Anyway, 5180 means I am 10.360% novelist. I am averaging 1666 words per day, which is the bare minimum - this allows for no days off. I would rather get 2000 every day and allow for 5 days off during the month. (On the other hand, if I count Friday as a day off, I’m actually 1000 over. I should be able to make up the 1000 and earn an additional day off :)

Added more to Dusk - 2388 words. Started on the next section, 408 words. Other extra material brings me up to 3189. Excellent!

1909 words so far. Some of these are extra material, like the list of exercises for mages. Oh well, it still counts :) I skipped around a bit, so if you really want to read things in order, don’t read yet. If you do read, I appreciate any and all comments though.

Probably won’t work out this month very much because I’m busy busy busy. Fri 11/01: Sat 11/02: Sun 11/03: Mon 11/04: Tue 11/05: Wed 11/06: Thu 11/07: Fri 11/08: Sat 11/09: Sun 11/10: Mon 11/11: Tue 11/12: Wed 11/13: Thu 11/14: Fri 11/15: Sat 11/16: Sun 11/17: Mon 11/18: Tue 11/19: Wed 11/20: Thu 11/21: Fri 11/22: Sat 11/23: Sun 11/24: Mon 11/25: Tue 11/26: Wed 11/27: Thu 11/28: Fri 11/29: Sat 11/30:

Fri 11/01: 500 (500) Sat 11/02: 2680 (3180) Sun 11/03: 2000 (5180) Mon 11/04: 1661 (6841) Tue 11/05: 358 (7199) lame Wed 11/06: 2053 (9252) Thu 11/07: 231 (9483) distracted Fri 11/08: zip Sat 11/09: zilch Sun 11/10: zero Mon 11/11: nada Tue 11/12: uh-uh Wed 11/13: nope Thu 11/14: 688 (10171) lame Fri 11/15: 529 (10700) Sat 11/16: Sun 11/17: Mon 11/18: Tue 11/19: Wed 11/20: Thu 11/21: Fri 11/22: Sat 11/23: Sun 11/24: Mon 11/25: Tue 11/26: Wed 11/27: Thu 11/28: Fri 11/29: Sat 11/30:

Not a very brave start, but it’s something. 310 words so far.