Half Way There!

I'm giving you a ten for your perserverance. No way would I have entered this. I'm way too lazy and am too succinct in my writing style. I'm so proud of you! Congrats!

You're amazing! :) You go gal!!!!

Amanda...thank you! You have no idea how much that means to me.

Marilyn...thank you, too. It's because of the support I get from people when I say I am writing a novel that i keep going.

I am actually now at 29,385 words. My goal for Sunday night was 30,000 but the last 5,000 words were so emotionally intense that I needed to break. I figure I am well ahead of the game anyway.

You're doing incredibly well. One of my fave blog pals is only up to 16,000. You totally rock.

Thank you, David. That helps...the positive reinforcement, that is. I am at 31,836. I know the next part will be a real drain on me. I am sort of taking a little time off. I am hosting a write-in at my house tomorrow so I have to do some house cleaning. At least the dishes in the sink and dumping the trash. I haven't been keeping up with the housework very much during the writing frenzy. But I would like to get through the next part by tonight.

Thankyou again, David.

Congrats. I wasn't far from the coveted half way mark myself, but life, a toddler that is refusing to sleep, and a bad illness took care of all of that.

Right now I'm about 3,000 words behind. Not horrible, but not great either. Not much can be done sometimes, but to deal and to hope to make up what you missed another day.

Jennifer...I don't know if any of this will fit into your novel but let me make some suggestions...

You can improve your word count by having dream/nightmare sequences which can be repeated with slight modifications.

Your character(s) can reiterated occurences or conversations to others who were not present at the time.

Your characters can write journal/diary entries that can reveal their thoughts and feelings about something that happened or may happen.

My novel lends itself to this but maybe yours doesn't. If you can fit them in, though it might help with the word count.

Good luck!

Oh, I am currently at 39,301 and plan on getting to 40,000 by midnight tonight (I have a little under three hours so it should be more than doable).

Not much of that would really work in mine.. Sure, I could throw it in, but I'd just cut it out in editing, so not really worth it to me.

I'm not looking for gratuitous word count boosts, just going to try to do it like I would if not for NaNo - quality wise. If I make it fine. If not. Oh well. Illness between me and my son will do that. ;)

As for the diary I can't do that since I already have a diary here and there in it. (My detective is going through the victim's diary for clues.) The rest probably won't fit.

My problem isn't needing filler. My plot is more than large enough to fill 50,000 words. My problem is having time, health and brain power to write. Unfortunately there's not much of a cure for most of that. ;) I'm just going to give it my best shot, but if I don't make it I don't make it. My well being and my son's has to come first.

Congrats on your progress, though. Hopefully I'll get better and can catch up.

I'm still slightly behind sachedule, but not by much. I ended last night with a sudden explosion of plot, I think if I get the time tonight I can get enough to put me ahead.

Good luck, Christopher. I know you can do it!