About where I expected to be today. Once again, not sure where I'm going with this! I wish Astrither would tell me what she was planning on doing.

Also had to break in the middle because I wasn't sure what Kyta and Astrither would be up to, and it affects Eydis and Aislin. Darn timelines that actually affect each other!

Today: 3069
Total: 43,305

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Whooo! Best day in my personal NaNo history! Over 6000 words today. And, that puts me at over 40K. I am very proud of myself, and very tired. Another two days of 5K, and I'll be done. <3 Not likely to happen quite like that, with my schedule, but you never know. Also brought my minimum words per day to win down below 3000, which is a nice feeling. It's around 2500, but in actuality it's closer to 3000 still, because of the aforementioned writing-after-midnight thing.

Today: 6142
Total: 40,236

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Whew! That's a long one.

Not enough, but still respectable. Exactly 2000 words! I thought it was funny. I have no idea what's going to happen next, or how to wrap this up.

Today: 2000
Total: 34,094

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Wrote about 115 yesterday, most of which was edits to the previous day's work (which you're actually lucky enough to get, since I'm posting this late. :p Decided I wanted to win today, and have to write over 3000/day to win. So I wrote more than that, and now I'm down to almost exactly 3000/day. So tired... Ii'd like to write 3500/day, so I can finish a day early, given my tendency to do most of my writing after midnight. Starting to look for ways to wrap up the story.

23rd: 115
Today: 3633
Total: 32,094

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Again with the posting stuff days after I wrote it... I'll keep stats for the day it was written, since that''s more useful.

Today: 926
Total: 28346

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Wrote 800+ words in a 15 mins yesterday - pretty happy with that! Unfortunately, I was tired and blargh after that (besides busy - Friday is games night here), so didn't write any more. :(

Today: 1291
Total: 27,420

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Yup, didn't write anything on the 18th. Came down with the flu and tried to do homework too. Didn't work out too well. Slept 11 hours and felt much better. Slept through my class, but it was Japanese so that wasn't as much fun as one would hope.

Wrote most of this while tired and zombieful. It may not make much sense.

Today: 2673
Total: 26,129

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I have to write over 2000 words a day to win now. >__<

The bit I crossed out was because I didn't feel like losing 125 words because I changed how that section was going. I seem to be getting worse at not stopping in the middle of sentences. :)

Reading back on it, the notes about fixing stuff like SOURCE and CHECKTHIS are really funny.

Yeah, posting stuff the day I wrote it... this is from the 17th. Didn't write much.

"Today": 768
"Total": 23,456 (whee, 23456! They're in sequence)

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Yeah, I stopped in the middle of a sentence. I do that sometimes... wasn't sure whether to continue the scene, or jump to another one.

Heh, it's funny when I post a day's writing 19+ hours after midnight. Though less than that the writing, since I tend to do my writing after midnight. :p

Also, I started installing Arch Linux on my brand new computer. ♥

"Today": 1005
Total: 22,688
Should be at: 26,667

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Ack! The last two days were... problematic. Real life conspired to keep me from writing, um, anything. I'm supposed to be at 25K as of midnight (that is, two hours ago), and I was still at 19K. But, the good news is that between midnight and now, I wrote almost 2600 words, which is pretty darn epic for me. It helps that I know what I'm writing about.

Today: 2592
Total: 21,633

( Story... )

Still not quite caught up, and in fact further behind than I was yesterday (only wrote half what I needed to be at), but still excited. More bouncing ideas off a different friend, and more epic ideas for the plot. The end of the story may have shifted some, since I have ideas for what happens after my nebulous idea of "the end", but there's no way that's enough for a second NaNo.

Today: 1008
Total: 19,041

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Yesterday, had an awesome evening hanging out with friends, but unfortunately only wrote about 85 words. Today was much more productive - I wrote almost 3600 words between 4ish and 8ish, with a couple breaks. Could have gotten more, but had to do other things. Another 300 words and I'm caught up (though, now that it's past midnight, I'm 2k behind again. :(

Today: 3594
Total: 18,033

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Sooooo, forgot to post this last night. Went to bed late and unwriting full.

Today: 836
Total: 14,354

( Story... )

Ugggh, tired. I have a midterm tomorrow, but I hadn't written anything today so I ended up staying up until 2 again writing. Got to where I should be, though. Not much substance, just randomness about the gods and stuff.

Today: 1504
Total: 13,515

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I'm simultaneously pleased with how much I wrote today, and annoyed that I didn't finish the scene I was trying to finish.

Today: 2601
Total: 12011

( I also decided to put the actual story text behind a cut, so my posts wouldn't be so long! )

I think my writing is getting more disjointed. I've also started a section in my notes for things to change when I revise it with things like introduce the side effects of shape changing earlier, Kyta doesn't actually dislike the smell of salt, add more deity chimes to Aytoria, not so many rambly boring parts, and give a name to the falconer in the woods and figure out why he helps them. I also have a bunch of comments about "figure out Aytorian religion" and "why did $character do $action" and "what role to shape changers play in society and religion", which I sometimes have an idea what's going on, but need to flesh it out better.

Yay, I'm caught up for the day! Supposed to have about 11700 by the end of the 7th!

Whoo, better progress this time! Almost caught up with where I'm supposed to be today. Another day like this and I'll be back on schedule. :) Thinking of speeding up the pace - I'm almost 10K in and I'm still in the intro.

Today: 3013
Total: 9410

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Yeah, so yesterday I wrote 46 words, so that didn't really deserve to be posted. Did better today - just over 2K. I had hoped for more, but my brain turned off early. Mmmm, brainz... At least I'm only a day behind.

In case it doesn't show up right, Astrither's name is more correctly Astriðer (the third last character being an old fashioned character for th). She spells it correctly in her narratives, as does anyone who would likely know, but characters like Kyta don't know any better. Same for El​ður (Elthur).

Eventually things like OTHERTRIBENAME and ENEMYTRIBE will get replaced, but for now, they're reminders to fix it after NaNo, or when I'm procrastinating. In my actual draft, EMPIRE got replaced to Aytoria or Aytorian, as appropriate.

Also yeah, I tend to stop in the middle of paragraphs/thoughts. I don't do middle of sentences much anymore, thankfully.

Today: 2020
Total: 6397
Supposed to be at: 8340ish

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Blargh midterm tomorrow (today, technically). Not quite 5K. :( Better luck after exams?

Total: 4330
Today: 1181

( Story... )

I has crazy plots stuff now! I bounced ideas off my boyfriend for a while, and things went happy fluffy explode, and now I have all sorts of neat stuff to write.

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Total: 3174
Today: 1153

Not where I want to be, but at least I have stuff to write about later.

So, for those of you not familiar with it already, it's November, which means it's novelling time! In an attempt to keep me motivated (and back up my novel) I'm going to try and post it here in daily increments. Just remember, it's NaNo, so everything is unedited, raw, and possibly self-inconsistent. But I'll still happily accept comments on anything you like or dislike. :)

It's starting out very NaNo-y - no title, no plot, little world, just some characters and stuff.

( Story under the cut )

Today's wordcount: 2010
Total wordcount: 2010