NaNoWriMo2020 progress report – Day 17

This is day 17 and the minimum target for today is 28,339 words. My word count today is 35,198. At this rate, I’ll hit 50k on November 24th, 6 days ahead of schedule.

The key this year has been the pre-planning. I’ve always been a pantser for this event and now I can understand why I often floundered in the long middle of the month – I didn’t know where the story was going. This year I know where I’m going AND I’m open to new ideas and twists I discover along the way. Today I wrote a scen...