My Region hits 600k words!

I’m very happy with the writing my Nanowrimo Region is doing this year. We are showing significant growth since the first Nano in 2005, fer sure fer sure. There are a couple of uses at or past 60k! And I fully expect my region to break a million this year! In fact, I will personally make SURE my region breaks a million. But I don’t think they’ll need my help. They are doing just fine on their own.

Callaway Writers Group

 

Taking a Break

Just now, moments ago, I decided to take a break from the Nano thing.  I’m going back to work on my story “Midnight” and it’s going in the mail Monday to Ellery Queen.

My characters in “Transporter” can wait.  They’ve kinda a let me down here lately anyhoo.  So, fine.

I don’t have much left to do on Midnight so for the next hour, Hardy (who’s dead), Sam, his wife Trisha, and Frank (who are all dead), Charles, Falicity, Saffron, Madden, George, and whoever else can go sit in the green room.

Alex and Miranda are coming out to play for a while.

 

Transporter Excerpt I

I want to post a couple of excerpts from the nano novel, unedited. Later, during the finishing stages, I’ll post the same excerpts, but edited to see the transformation of first draft stream of consciousness into final product.

This one features Charles “Hangman” Dossier. A creole on the road. He had to go to Carson City, NV because “the wind carry him there.” Picture a taller version of Jimi Hendrix with Dobro and slide, cajun/creole accent (I’m trying). He has a scar from his left ear to his right ear that follows a path under his chin from a hangman’s noose. I haven’t learned the whole story from Charles yet, maybe he’ll tell me soon.

You will see a sentence where Charles contemplates the use of a word. That’s me contemplating the use of a word as I wrote it. To do Nano you have to keep moving forward and can’t get hung up on technicalities. It takes a little training.

I wandered the streets of Carson City, guitars in hand, pack on mon back. Falicity and George was still back at the rig, but I took off. I felt like a third wheel I guess. Beside, I had a mission here and had to find someone here. The cold wind blew my up and west and here I was, wandering the streets, not sure where to go.

 

Wrimo Update II

Halfway through the month and I hit 50,000 words. This means one of two things: I have a really interesting set of characters (maybe not so much a story), or I have no life. I spend every evening I think at the coffee shop procrastinating, expecting to write, but don’t write much until I get home and then it goes into the wee hours. In the last 24 hour period (15th to 16th of November, mind you it’s the 16th now and I stopped at 1:30am), I wrote over 10,000 words.

Why when I have a lot of month left?

Maybe this one I’ll finish. Besides, I HIT 50K IN HALF A MONTH!!!!

Here’s the widget. It updates every time I update my word count.

 

Wrimo Update

Well, I started this nano with a wing and a prayer. I had two character names. That was it. I had no idea what or who these people are/were. I’d never met them before. At the first Write-In (November 1st) at the local coffee shop I found an interesting artifact on my table. Some of the “kids” were boasting their 2,000 word word counts, and I hadn’t even started. The artifact was something the coffee shop uses for ordering: a large playing card. Namely, the seven of clubs. They hand you one of these cards when you order, then they bring your food to you. This way they don’t mix up orders. This wasn’t my card though, it was a leftover from dinner rush. It was sitting behind my laptop screen, and if I hadn’t got up from my chair to get the candy I brought, I may not have seen it.