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NaNo: Day 13
Nov. 14th, 2009 12:42 amWord count: 22,091.
I'm less than 100 words away from beating my NaNo word count from last year, so that's got me excited. I'm almost positive that I'm doing to win this year -- especially if I have a good weekend and keep it up into next week. Even though I got kind of lazy during the latter half of the week, I managed to keep up with the daily word count schedule. Some of the stuff I wrote is definitely going to have to be redone because I either wrote it in a rush or my brain was fuzzy from lack of sleep.
In addition to going back and putting more scenes in during a later draft, I think I might change the focus of the story a bit. Now that I'm writing more plot heavy, interesting things, I really think the first part of the fic needs to have less Percy in it. After I establish him going away to college, his POV probably isn't going to pop up as much because his character doesn't matter until the actual fighting/quest bit begins...which kind of sucks, because Percy is a fun character to write.
So, story selection. I had a big Rachel scene planned, and I decided to throw Nico into it because a.) why the hell not and b.) uh, can I seriously write anything without throwing some Nico/Rachel action into it? No, I cannot. But there's less romance (so far) and more, "UGH ANNOYING KID GTFO" than anything. Most of this selection is a wonderful example of how I will just keep typing and typing anything to get my word count for the day.
( I can't write anything without Rachel/Nico banter, can I? )
I'm less than 100 words away from beating my NaNo word count from last year, so that's got me excited. I'm almost positive that I'm doing to win this year -- especially if I have a good weekend and keep it up into next week. Even though I got kind of lazy during the latter half of the week, I managed to keep up with the daily word count schedule. Some of the stuff I wrote is definitely going to have to be redone because I either wrote it in a rush or my brain was fuzzy from lack of sleep.
In addition to going back and putting more scenes in during a later draft, I think I might change the focus of the story a bit. Now that I'm writing more plot heavy, interesting things, I really think the first part of the fic needs to have less Percy in it. After I establish him going away to college, his POV probably isn't going to pop up as much because his character doesn't matter until the actual fighting/quest bit begins...which kind of sucks, because Percy is a fun character to write.
So, story selection. I had a big Rachel scene planned, and I decided to throw Nico into it because a.) why the hell not and b.) uh, can I seriously write anything without throwing some Nico/Rachel action into it? No, I cannot. But there's less romance (so far) and more, "UGH ANNOYING KID GTFO" than anything. Most of this selection is a wonderful example of how I will just keep typing and typing anything to get my word count for the day.
( I can't write anything without Rachel/Nico banter, can I? )
