white noise

Word Count: 30,368

Well, I’m back in action after virtually no writing for 7 days, but I still need to take a giant step forward. If I write daily from this point forward, I need to produce roughly 2,200 words a day. As it’s only 2 p.m. EST here, I’d like to knock back a nice chunk of words before bedtime. I was up past 2 a.m. last night, and considering how rundown I can get if I’m not careful, I shouldn’t be up past 11 p.m. tonight.

Mmmmhmmm. I’m SO good at getting to bed on time. Really. I am.

I’m still happy with my progress and I’m certainly not out of the running yet. If I don’t have 50k words by midnight PST on November 30, THEN I’ll be out of the race. Strange and wonderful things can happen between now and then.

The story that’s unfolding now is merely the “outline” of what is to be. There are more and more details as time goes forward, and some of them I didn’t anticipate. Characters are exposing personality traits that I never considered before. I have a lot of research to do, too, and it looks as though I might spend some of the wintry months this season wandering the halls of Virginia Tech’s library.