NaNoWriMo

Had a few off days, then stayed at home while Paul went to the St Louis Night of Writing Dangerously, from 5pm to 11pm at MoKaBees.  I can't do late nights, but I did get 4165 words done and hauled myself back on track for my 60k story.

This is a longer story than I expected.  Normally I plan out a 50k novel, broken into twelve 4200 word chapters.  My chapters are anywhere from 4700 to 5300 and I haven't resorted to adding poems, song lyrics, or other obvious padding to the story. Sorted out the

Crossed the 25k mark this week, but I haven't quite got to the halfway point of the story, that's another few thousand words away.  I have a nasty suspicion this one wants to be quite a bit longer than 50k.  Characters are turning out a lot

There's a point in NaNoWriMo where you're trucking along writing your story, and one of the characters does something unexpected.  You don't know where the words came from but you just typed them and they weren't in the plot, or even in