At 6 AM I woke up with an excellent way to work “Mabel Figworthy” into a random novel scene, fell back asleep, and now I no longer have any clue what my brilliant idea was.
(Mabel Figworthy, BTW, is one of the proposals for the 2004 Montreal NaNo in-joke to be included in the November masterpieces of participating Montreal NaNo writers. Last year it was a psychic ferret, thanks to Miseri mishearing something I’d said in a crowded cafe.)
Today’s word count: 4,423
Total word count: 56,889
I’m spent. I had crazy dreams of hitting 58K today, but that would mean almost a 6K day, and frankly I think I’d be useless for days if I did that. I’m so close to 57K, but I’ve been pushing, and pushing, and pushing for so long today that if I push any more something will break. Possibly something valuable like crystal.
I should go get a Haagen-Daaz ice cream bar. That will help.
I spent six hours working on appendices yesterday, and only managed to add about nine hundred words to the damn manuscript. Bloody appendices. The absence of complete sentences does horrible things to my word count. So I opened a random chapter and expanded something which required elaboration, pushing the day’s count just over 1.5K.
I was thinking about a couple of chapters in bed last night as I was trying to fall asleep, and I got up this morning with tentative ideas. I’ve already added two pages to chapter 8, and I just might start chapter 2 today as well (finally – I mean, it’s only been, what, a month and a half?).
Next time, more than two months. Definitely. Absolutely. I may be a goddess, but I’m not stupid.
Apparently the forty-five minutes of restored material in the director’s cut of Underworld improve the movie, which couldn’t have been hard to do.
*shrug*
Today’s word count: 2,544
Total word count: 50,916
If I write only 2K on every working day this month, I’ll hit the required target. I feel much relieved.
I sent Ceri home from the writing jam today with an electronic copy of the text so far. I need someone to read through it just to tell me that it makes sense. I’m fairly certain that it does, but I’m so close to it now that I can’t be an objective judge. I know I address similar topics in various chapters (i.e. herbs in different uses/formats) and I don’t think I repeat information; I’m of the opinion that it flows decently. I just need someone else to confirm it for me. I might also be missing something evident that I take for granted. Ceri will be able to point that out.
HRH says hello to all.
Orchestra tonight! I practiced the Bach today.
Is every book going to be bigger than the previous one?
No, definitely not, or book seven would be around the weight of a baby hippopotamus. According to the plan for book six, it will be quite a bit shorter than ‘Order of the Phoenix’. I am not going to swear on my children’s lives that that is going to be the case, but I am 99% certain of it.
J.K. Rowling has her own official web site, which I’ve never even thought to check out until today.