Great word count Tina. Very impressive.

This week is my first week NaNo record for the number of words committed to the page. For that I am truly grateful because other things are going to need to take precedence this week.

While the word count is flying along I didn't anticipate the political machinations which would happen (I don't think they would have happened last year if I had have kept writing – but who knows) nor the sheer number of characters I'm holding in my head – I normally keep it simple. Ha! Not this year.

This week I've let my female MC get lost in the forest and then she almost drowned. She's going a bit loopy actually which is the start of her finding her way back to her memories. The male MC was almost killed and he's lot the plot a bit from grief.

One character died of natural causes (which in the end I couldn't write because I was so attached to him and had to do it from afar through another characters eyes who is emotionally detached from him) another died of poisoning. The dude poisoned was meant to spear head as antagonist so having to go in from another angle – which actually makes far more sense. Someone with much more to lose.

I don't think anyone said anything quirky though my female MC had an “I carried a watermelon” moment at the graveside were she said “I … you … we bury our dead too.” Hoping for some snappier lines once these two get together and interesting things begin to happen between them. Love our sense of humour though.

sfor why can't we do it other months of the year … who knows? I'm hoping to keep the pace up from now on, finally comitting to a few other novel ideas which have just been floating around. But to get this one finished.

Hey Jodi,

Sounds like you're having a fantastic time of it. I know that you will be busy come week two but I hope you will keep it up. Political intrigue is always a good motivator in a story.

I also see that you are at 20,144 words. WOW. Brilliant Job.

PostSecret card for a character? This is genius!

I'm at a little more than 20k right now, but it's okay to be a bit behind, because I'm a newbie.

Thanks for stopping by Deidra. I know I should post a recap of Week Two but it's awful so I think I'll wait for the Week Three recap.

Congrats on breaking 20K.

Was surfing around the Nano site and found a link to here in the Blogging Nano post. So how are you doing on NaNo this year? I've just finished the NaNo goal but my book is far from finished, its going to be around 80K by the end but I downloaded my certificate this morning.
This was my first year of doing it so it was quite an experience. Are you still only at 21,695 words. Better get some caffeine and introduce some alien ninja monkeys
So you already have some published work. Congratulation on that, I'm hoping to edit and rewrite over the next few months and then get it to a publisher. My goal is full rewrite by Apr 2010.
BTW, I made a post about it in my region (Calgary, yeah I know, nobodies perfect ) that I am using Open Office for my writing and the Nano Word Count Submittal was 2000 words less than what OO gave me.
Good luck, there is still time.

Was surfing around the Nano site and found a link to here in the Blogging Nano post. So how are you doing on NaNo this year? I've just finished the NaNo goal but my book is far from finished, its going to be around 80K by the end but I downloaded my certificate this morning.
This was my first year of doing it so it was quite an experience. Are you still only at 21,695 words. Better get some caffeine and introduce some alien ninja monkeys
So you already have some published work. Congratulation on that, I'm hoping to edit and rewrite over the next few months and then get it to a publisher. My goal is full rewrite by Apr 2010.
BTW, I made a post about it in my region (Calgary, yeah I know, nobodies perfect ) that I am using Open Office for my writing and the Nano Word Count Submittal was 2000 words less than what OO gave me.
Good luck, there is still time.
Oh, I am maramyfriend on NaNo.