Steady steady, just keep up the pace

I’m still having a lot of fun writing my novel. I took the first chapter to my writing group last night. They professed to enjoy it, but that may have been more relief that I wasn’t forcing them to read more HTML documents. But I did have fun reading it to them. What’s funny now is that I’ve kind of lost the thread. I think once I get this novel done, I’m going to work out more of a plot arc in advance. I still have the idea for my plot, but I found myself running through it in just a couple chapters, which is well under 50,000 words. Ooops. I think if I get the video project done in the next few days that will give me a better shot at completing the novel. I can write while guests are here over Thanksgiving and not feel guilty that I’m not paying attention to my son. And if I can get the SCA site live this week (maybe Thursday?) that will be yet another chain off my shackles. I’m technically not caught up to my required amount today, but I still feel good about my chances of winning this year for a couple of reasons:

I didn’t get angry at myself when I stopped for a couple days. I just let myself rest and then started back up
I find that it’s relatively easy to get in the 2,000 or so words. Especially when I let myself just write.
With just a few more words, I’ll have written and recorded more for Nano than in any other year.
The scenes are coming thick and fast. Almost too fast for me to write them down.
And finally, I’m still enjoying my characters. I love the fact that I’ve got Charles in the book. That makes me really happy.

Anyway, stats for today: 19332 words of fiction. Nothing on the non-fiction front, but I’ve got another article’s notes written from Monday and should have some more to show there in a few days (after the videos are done). Update, I added a few more words to try to get to par. I think I missed by like 2 minutes. Rats. But my word count before bed is now 20026 words Yay!