Post 61 or Chapter 9 Finished

I think its interesting, for the past chapters of the book I've been writing at least 10,000 words. Now I'm actually pulling that back because what I'm really heading for is for something that will resemble what I meant for it to be from the get go. With chapter 8 I really was able to change the pace and the direction, but with that same change in pace/direction I also need to move onto the faster style.

Things happen, they happen much faster, and they probably will continue to happen at that speed for most of the rest of the story. The characters are down, the plot is set up, and its time for things to just unfold naturally. As such, I feel a shorter chapter to get the characters from point A to point B is what's needed.

Now with that said, I don't think that chapter 9 is in anyway less important than previous chapters. It just had a small point to make and a few things to collect, then its time to move on. That's how these things work sometimes. And I honestly thought about continuing it into the next area, but I felt it might be better as its own little thing. In my re-read of the story, I might do the same with previous chapters to make them go faster.


Anyway, onwards to chapter 10...

Words since last word thing: 1512
Total Words: 98,975

Change of Plans

Change of plans (Gasp, didn’t see that one coming), but I may not be doing the NaNoWriMo anymore. Besides the fact that I’ve been stressed to hell and thus have not been writing, I also got torn away from Colorado to go visit my Grandmother’s grave in Connecticut. I did enjoy going to Connecticut and seeing her grave, but I did so without my computer and thus greatly lost time in the NaNoWriMo as well as lost ideas/interest in the story I had.

However, I did randomly decided to start writing something else. To what effects it might be, we’ll have to see, but I’m going to send a small portion of it to one of my friends and see what she thinks. It should be weird.

Damn

Well, that did not go as planned. On the good side, I'm no more behind schedule than I was, I was able to break past the part that was giving me trouble, and I now have some more direction to where I'm writing. On the bad side, I'm no further caught up then I should be, I am tired as hell and lost half my day to sleep, and there is too much noise around me to write right now.

So was last night successful? Maybe, I'm not sure how to look at success right now. What I do know is I have  a lot of stuff on my mind of what I want to write which means the next few pages will go pretty quick. That should also make my friend happy because they get it a little faster too.

Words for the Month: 26,353 / 40,000
Total Words: 26,353

Distractions

Short update: I'm too easily distracted. That's about all I have to say.

Okay, if you are really curious then I guess I can say that I've been playing a game online with one of my old roommates. It's just the beta for the game, but the real thing comes out in less than ten days. I'm trying not to play it too much though, cause I do take this task seriously.

Yet somehow I managed to not writing as much as I had intended last night...

Words for the Month: 16,648 / 40,000
Total Words: 16,648