First weekly NaNoWriMo Update

I have completed the first chapter of Sarabande, the sequel to my novel The Sun Singer that I am writing as my National Novel Writing Month project. At 946 words per day, my current word count is 6,688, well below the the 1,667 words per day I would need to write to reach 50,000 words by the last day of the month.

The word count is low because I am typically a very slow writer in spite of my wish that I could write like the wind. Also, it has been many years since I wrote The Sun Singer, so it is taking more "fact checking" than I expected to make sure the opening scenes of Sarabande merge accurately with what I have already written about these characters.


Meanwhile, I notice that three of my NaNoWriMon writing buddies are moving along at flank speed. Zulmara's word count is 32,356, Flying Writer's count is 18, 750, and Pat Bertram's count is 13.159. Congratulations to them on their fast-typing fingers and co-operative muses.

I am relatively pleased with the rough draft of Sarabande at the end of chapter one. My protagonist (Sarabande) is embarking on a lunar journey in terms of her inner development throughout the novel. Physically, she has left the alternative universe of Pyrrha on a search for Robert Adams, the Sun Singer, in our world. She needs his help.

This story has been on my mind for some time. However, I was somewhat spooked by the idea of actually writing it, for then all the infinite probabilities had to collapse down to a specific plot. (It's always hard for my actual words to live up to the story as it lives in my imagination.) So, NaNoWriMo has been a catalyst, getting me started, regardless of my actual word count on November 30.

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--Malcolm