run to the breakers

Well if the word calendar on the right is still functioning, you can see I’ve managed to stay on track all week, hitting 40,000 words so far. And Locks of Clay is coming along pretty nicely.

I had wanted to do some extensive plotting ahead of time, but one thing lead to another and November 1 showed up and I only had some very rough ideas in my head. I like where it’s going so far though, and if it’s a little rough, that’s what second drafts and editors are for.

I also picked up Gears of War 2 last night and ended up playing it until about 3am with a couple friends, as if there weren’t already enough distractions in this world.

I was able to get my daily 5,000 done first though, and that’s what counts.

(I also picked up a little RPG called Valkyria Chronicle, but I doubt I’ll even spin it up before february or so. January is for Persona 4, which I won’t be able to play in december, since I’ll be visiting my sister in Louisiana.)

So just like every year, the nanowrimo site has been down and out for the last two days. The widget I put up here in the sidebar to track my progress is on the fritz too. Rest assured I did NOT write zero words yesterday (in fact I wrote a little over 5,000, which is my daily goal for the month.) If it doesn’t start working soon I’ll just swap it out for a simpler one that reports only the total word count and doesn’t track daily progress