Wakers “finishes” NaNoWriMo at a final tally of 51, 735.  I added about a thousand words this evening, but also killed about 500 others.  Ultimately the last, say, 2000 words are really a coarse outline of the end of the story.  So it’s a stretch to say it’s really “done.”  But it’s done enough for […]

Morning Update (7:23) – A tad over 2K this morning brings me to well over 51K for the month, which means … I “win!”    The story stands at present at 51,493 words, and I’m thinking it really needs about 2K more.  My experience with making my own estimates, though, is that this means I’ll need […]

Morning Update (5:47 AM) – About 500 words this AM.  Yippee. I knew it was going to be a sparse morning because  work has made a special call, and I’ll be heading it early for a day-long session.  These things are particularly wearing because you have to concentrate all day–unlike a usual office day where […]

Morning Update (7:02AM) – Got a cool 2,064 words this morning, or just over 1,000 words an hour of effort.  And I’m certain these are some really good words.  The story at this point is getting depth that wasn’t totally there  in the earliest stages of the work.  Not surprising, of course, when you think […]

Congrats to young Nick-o for completing his 50K!   Morning Update (7:06 am) – Two major scenes of progress this morning, and over 1500 words of true progress.  Counting a tiny bit of rewriting, my pace is up to somewhere around 900 words an hour, which is the strongest indicator that I’ve actually got a […]

Morning Update (7:32 AM) – Something over 1,200 words this morning, and the work is actually flowing pretty well.  I would say that for the past two weeks my work on this book has been a case of “two-steps forward, one step back.”  But the past 24 hours things seem to have improved to maybe […]

We had a great long weekend, with Brigid and Nick joining us Thursday afternoon through Sunday afternoon.  Did some wedding planning (well, I did wedding cake and wedding reception dinner tasting, Brigid and Lisa did the wedding planning).  Always great to have the kids here.  I know Nick got some words in, and I got […]

First Report (1:27 PM) – Overall I guess I can’t complain, though I will. I managed a bit over 2K words this morning, which gets me up to nearly 37,000 words for the whole. But I admit that the work today was difficult in an odd way. I have a plan for where I want […]

Congrats to Lisa on cresting the 50K mark! You just can’t beat her, you know? # Morning (7:00 AM) – It was a good morning, with just over 1,400 words logged. The main character has gotten himself fully ensnared, and it looks bad for him. Wonder how he’ll get out of this one? On a […]