PseudoWriMo update #1

So, "PseudoWriMo" (as I am calling it) is going ridiculously well! So well that perhaps I am a little afraid of how it is going to crash and burn in the near future?

I've finished with Chapter 4 and am already a page and a half into Chapter 5. The Shift covers almost 2000 years of time, from when Legolas is born until just before the War of the Ring... so it's kind of bizarre to write that Legolas is born in chapter 3, grows from infant to toddler in chapter 4, and is 15 in chapter 5. But I am pushing myself along just so I can meet my deadline in December!

If I can write 15000 words by the end of the month, I can (at an average of 2500 words/chapter) complete 6 whole chapters by the end of it, pushing me to chapter 10. By the end of December (because PseudoWriMo pretty much will become PseudoWriMos so I can finish!) I can make it through to the end of chapter 15, which is all I have mapped out at this point. Chapter 15 is already scripted (you will understand why soon enough! And by 'soon' I really mean 'within a year or so'), so really I just need to make the intervening chapters something of interest, right?

Anyway, with a final word count goal of 2500 today, I am at 2859! Perhaps I will push myself a little farther and write more of chapter 5, because I'm on a roll tonight!

More soon enough. Enjoy your weekend!

Some News!

By in large, I have been almost entirely inactive in the way of posting on this blog because, honestly, I have been almost entirely inactive in the way of writing. Writing = fodder for posting to le blog. I've written a whole paragraph ("a whole paragraph!" they shout, "nothing more than that?!") but it is Novembertime, and Novembertime, as I am sure you know, is NaNoWriMo. (NaNoWriMo is National Novel Writing Month, which is a month-long effort to write 1667 words a day to complete a 50,000 word novel by the end of the month. You can read about my NaNo exploits from last year here.)

Now, before you jump out of your chairs and cheer for me, let me strap you back in and disappoint you from the getgo by saying NO, I will NOT be participating in NaNoWriMo this year. Last year proved to me what a disaster it can make of my studies and I cannot allow myself to be sucked into that, no matter how tempting it is that it is November 1st and I am not writing a new novel.

Although I will not be participating in NaNo this year, I will, however, use this time to write. In the spirit of NaNo, I hereby promise that I will write at LEAST 500 words every day from November 1st to November 30th, which brings me to a total tally of 15,000 words by the end of November. (500 words is about a page.) This is totally doable. It will force me to continue writing the story, which has been at a standstill for a good few months now.

I still have a deadline of December 31st for this story, and goshdarnit I will be MAKING that deadline. December only involves classes till the 3rd, final exams until the 13th, and then sweet, sweet freedom.