NaNo total

NaNoWriMo 2011

Eve of November: Three character introductions, unexpected and fun dialogue, a suddenly stagnant protagonist, and a six-inches-of-mud-stuck plot. 4,644

Hit Me Like You Mean It:  Two unplotted fist fights, sexual tension between the wrong characters, pre-written dialogue taking on very different meanings, new character smell, research into motorcycles and some shady subjects, and finally drafting 90% of the beginning. 20,799

Total: 25,443

A few thousand short of my revised goal of 30k, but still an absolute success. Back on the writing track, ladies and gentlemen, thank god.

Next up: redrafting the opening, rewriting the first portion of the second part (the first thing I wrote, back in March 2010), then re-reading and fixing mad continuity errors. Oh yeah, and working in the character who has sudden prominence in a protagonist's life. After that, hopefully writing the third and final part.

I WILL HAVE A NOVEL SO HELP ME GOD. Even if I have no intent to publish it.