Hm. I’m not that far away from 30k for NaNo. I told the guys at work that my personal goal for this weekend was 32k. I think I’ll be surpassing that.
One thing I noticed now that I’m this deep in, I seem to have written up pretty much most of what backgrounds and characters I wanted to. I am now getting into the meat of the story, or rather, the main point I wanted to put out there when I began this project. This means, for me at least, that there is more thinking involved before and during the actual typing. I guess I’m trying to put some formal format to the book so I have a better sense of direction. 21k to go, we’ll see if I’ve got enough of it to keep me going 🙂
More music which is playing or has played in the creation of this opus magnus so far: Great Big Sea, Hits of 1965, Van Halen, Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers, Sheryl Crow, Rod Stewart, Roy Orbison, Echo and the Bunnymen.
It should be time soon to begin playing much darker stuff like Specimen, Gene Loves Jezebel, Siouixie and the Banshees, stuff like that… Or, the main push/ focus/ idea for the book: Generation X
And if you were wondering if I had spent all morning on NaNo, the answer is NoNo 🙂 We’re dog-sitting this weekend and those woofing balls of fur decided that 5am would be the best possible time to groom themselves. Why is it that dogs licking themselves clean can make sounds quite similar to moaning? Sheesh. Anyhow, I figured that there was no way I’d be able to sleep with all that snorting and after 2 hours of fighting it, I got up at 7am. Sheesh. Having gone to bed past midnight, I didn’t need that. I wrote for an hour, had breakfast, and then went to visit my parents. I got back a little while ago, wrote another hour or so, and now am taking a lunch break. I would also like to shave since I’m feeling quite fuzzy at the moment 🙂