Phew…

I’m afraid I’m really through with NaNo this year. I’ve been too busy, and then too tired, to even write a word in the past two days. I guess this says it all.

Regardless, I’m wondering if I shouldn’t rewrite everything from scratch later on. I can’t decide. I envisioned the story told at the first person, because it seemed logical at the time, but the more I was writing it, the more it started to feel somewhat wrong. I’m not sure if this is a right impression though, or if it’s unconscious laziness on my part (I seldom write first person POV, so of course this was going to be harder!). Maybe I could achieve the same effects with a limited thrid person POV, and by still keeping one viewpoint character, that is. Maybe.

Heck, I’m too tired to properly think of these things now anyway. I’ll see once the exams are over.

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Day 20

Hmm. At least I avoided the humiliation of writing less than 1,000 words today. And I didn’t think that officially giving up was just so hard - someday, my pride will kill me, I guess!

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Day 19 - Blah

I finally passed the 20k words. I guess I won’t go much further though. There’s too much going on right now for me to still have time to write and, above all, desire and commitment. I think I can do something nice with that story, but right now, I’m not doing it, really. Because I can’t. I just can’t.

I’ll go on writing it during November if I find some of that elusive time and passion back, but with 30k words to go in 10 days, and the exams looming ahead, I very much doubt I’ll make it in time to win NaNo. I will go on writing it, though. There’s no doubt about that. I just can’ tell now when I finish it.

And updates here are still to be expected anyway!

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Day 18 - Simply Day 18

That’s one sucky word count for yesterday. But given the day I’ve had, I’m not surprised at all…

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Day 17 - An evening’s word count

Chapter done. I ended up naming him Caine all the same. Duh. T_T But I swear it’s because I’m considering reading the Amber series again, and I quite liked the character of Caine there. Yeah, Julian’s and Gerard’s brother. That Caine. Twisted enough to my liking. So I snatched his name away.

I’ve gone under the regular 1,667 words, but couldn’t reach the 2439 words I need to write to make it to 50k by the 30th. Tough. Truth is, I still have Sanctuary to finish, as well as other books to read for school, so I’m now devoting time for these again!

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