Chuggin' along...

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I barely made my writing goal last night. Lucky for me, barely counts. ;)

Here's where the new book stands, after an addition of 3,053 words yesterday:

26,353 / 100,000
(26.35%)

And here's how I stand on my November writing goal, after three days:

9,953 / 65,000
(15.31%)

Looks pretty good so far, I think. Except that I don't get to work much on the weekends. Real life, you know. And this weekend, that includes Christmas shopping, because my extended family is having its holiday get-together/gift exchange over Thanksgiving weekend. A full month before Christmas. Which is awesome (I'm so glad I have the kind of family that gets together once or twice a year, without fail), but that also means that--with the seven hour drive each way--there will be 3-4 days at the end of the month in which I won't get a word written.

(I can't work or read in the car--motion sickness.)

So I'm trying to plan ahead. But the stupid book keeps getting in the way of...its own creation.

Why? Because it's the first book in a brand new series, with brand new characters and brand new world-building. And I don't really know the characters or their world like I should yet. I'm getting to know them. But that means I'll have to go back during the revisions and rewrite the entire beginning of the book to adjust for the stuff I didn't know back when I wrote it.

And unlike most of the NaNoers, I don't have the luxury of aiming for quantity over quality, with the understanding that the book will need a massive rewrite later. By the time the book is finished, my "later" will consist of two weeks (if I'm lucky) in which to rewrite, have the book critiqued, and rewrite it again before it's due. So I'm trying to strike a balance between quality and quantity. And sanity. ;)

This book is due Jan 1, 2011. Boy, am I looking forward to the new year. ;)

Click below to see my critique partner Rinda Elliott's progress in our partnered not-NaNo. She made her goal too!