It's looking good!
Nov. 30th, 2007 12:08 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
tephraI just went over forty six thousand words on this year's NaNoWriMo novel. While that would seem to say I just need four thousand more to win the reality is that I probably need five or six thousand words still. The verifier just eats words. I can't figure out if it doesn't count single letter words like "I" and "a" or even if it counts hyphenated words as one or two, but it boils down to a discrepancy between my word count in EditPad and what NaNo's site says I have.
I finally gave the thing I title. I'm calling it Dead Dolls, though it's really hard to name something that isn't finished and is still wandering around trying to find a definite plot.
Yes, nearly fifty thousand words and still no plot. This year's novel is much weaker than last year's in that respect. I'm feeling around the edges of something though. If I take some time to actually follow some of the threads I'm picking up to their logical beginnings and ends I might figure out the theme at least. In cyberpunk tradition I seem to be getting some social commentary in there.
In true "Tephie is writing stuff" tradition I also seem to be playing the "are they or aren't they" bit with my characters. Sierna definitely was last year, with just about anyone that caught her eye. Elyza and Aeryn (the weird spellings started out as maybe something significant and now are both less and more so) might be, but probably aren't, but they might have once, and could in the future, possibly again. Yeah.
Well I want to try to get a few more thousand words down before I sleep so I will have time to go over fifty thousand tomorrow so it will verify before time is up. I'll let you know if I "win" or not tomorrow.
I finally gave the thing I title. I'm calling it Dead Dolls, though it's really hard to name something that isn't finished and is still wandering around trying to find a definite plot.
Yes, nearly fifty thousand words and still no plot. This year's novel is much weaker than last year's in that respect. I'm feeling around the edges of something though. If I take some time to actually follow some of the threads I'm picking up to their logical beginnings and ends I might figure out the theme at least. In cyberpunk tradition I seem to be getting some social commentary in there.
In true "Tephie is writing stuff" tradition I also seem to be playing the "are they or aren't they" bit with my characters. Sierna definitely was last year, with just about anyone that caught her eye. Elyza and Aeryn (the weird spellings started out as maybe something significant and now are both less and more so) might be, but probably aren't, but they might have once, and could in the future, possibly again. Yeah.
Well I want to try to get a few more thousand words down before I sleep so I will have time to go over fifty thousand tomorrow so it will verify before time is up. I'll let you know if I "win" or not tomorrow.
