NaNo Update

I've missed a few of these lately.

42,393 words

Goal: 50k by midnight Saturday

If I stick with writing either Zephyr or Sierna I should make it. Writing Nikkol is like pulling teeth and he was part of why I fell behind schedule last week.

I'm not sure how writing Runil, Xelfi, and the two other (currently unnamed) scouts will go. Logically they should be written between Zephyr and Sierna's parts though, and I'm not sure just what they're going to find where they are heading either.

Current locations of the major players in this rambling story:
Sierna - on the Southern coast, in a back room at a bar of dubious legality talking with a cross dressing (probably) apprentice priest, I suspect he's going to be traveling with her soon
Nikkol - on the southern slope of the Northern mountains returning to his village with a sack full of not precisely legally obtained scrolls
Zephyr - midway back to the Inner Dwells of the Valley of the Wind with a young Roam scholar who just spent an hour or so staring at his naked ass to keep from freaking out about being underground in a cramped tunnel
Runil - about nine days away from a settlement known to be a bit hostile to Roams like him, he's hoping there won't be a "diplomatic incident" because the sort of diplomacy they have is a bit rudimentary

And the not so major players:
Rizma - presumably heading back up river to the Lower Dwells. She's currently out of the story.
Chirru - in the room with Sierna and the priest and making sure nothing too kinky goes on.
Aksem - sitting in the bar and guarding the escape route and chatting with his sister the bartender.
Yagen and his wife Narna - waiting for Nikkol to get back home. I'm really hoping they don't share any more information about their sex life with him.
Jirlun - blissfully unaware that his little sister just spent quality time staring at Zephyr's ass.

NaNo Update

I'm about 673 words behind where I want to be but it's still plausible to get to 50k by midnight Saturday.

Saturday is anime night so I need to really pile on the words tomorrow. If I miss the self imposed Saturday deadline I'm sure I'll hit 50k on Sunday. I was just hoping to finish with a 2k per day average so an extra day won't bother me too much, and it's still before the 30th, which is awesome.

I have learned that I'm not really a "small amounts a day, every day" sort of writer. I really need a day or two off a week to get the heck away from the story.

If you're curious about my progress since the first there's a handy widget on NaNoWriMo's site. Note that the "Written" column goes from midnight to midnight so some days, most notably the 22nd and 23rd, don't represent words written in a session. I actually only wrote about 2k today, the extra 800 or so were from last night's session that rolled over at midnight.

For the heck of it, EditPad's statistics on the file:

                   File size: 243,449 bytes
        Number of paragraphs:   2,422
             Number of words:  45,220
Number of letters and digits: 187,595
        Number of characters: 195,402

Edit: Well dang, I'm 18th out of 267 for wordcount in my region.