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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.

Might be useful if you decide to use a LJ as your writing area. This script saves the current month of writing in the journal, grabbing only the subject and entry text, and then counts the words. Any tags (html or lj tags) are included in the saved file but not in the wordcount.

I’m using an alternate journal gconnor_writing to store my writing for the next month, to keep it separate from personal entries. I expect the writing may be bad, and will definitely be unedited. You may decide to wait for the finished product rather than reading it in real time. If you want to tune in anyway, you may click to the new journal’s info page and use the plus icon to add it to your friends.

Overview: This is a “character” story according to the MICE categories. This is really Veldan’s “coming of age” story. It takes place over the time from when he is 19 to when he is 25 (or the story might wrap up sooner, I don’t want to fast-forward too much). Basically I will start when he is 19 and seeking his place, and I will wrap up whenever he finds his new comfortable place in the world. He may or may not be done training at the end of the story, but his attraction to Elori will be resolved one way or another.

Here is an update to the previous entry. I chatted with Merlin about the info I wrote (Merlin is Altaia’s creator) and also about Veldan’s history and the motivations of the other two characters…