Update #3 – 11,113 Words

Jeff (Baty, founder of NaNoWriMo) said it would happen, and it has.

I’m in the doldrums.

I have found that breaking the “go back and futz with what you’ve already written” habit is very hard to do. I keep wanting to go back and reread, fix that word, trash that sentence, etc. etc. rather than forging ahead with the manuscript. There’s also that nasty “but there’s nothing in the middle!” reality that most of us face when writing a project of this scope.

I’ve also discovered that I have a bad habit of wanting there to be more, more, more in terms of characters doing things, and perhaps I should slow down and get them to think more before rushing ahead to the next action.

Which is all well and good, but I’ve got a lot of catching up to do if I’m going to make it to 50K on Nov. 30. As in, I’m in the hole about 9K. Better get crackin’.