NaNoWriMo Day 18 Results - 20,000 Words, Trees, Tornados, Thanksgiving, and Tinkering · 5:31am Nov 19th, 2017
Progress
Words - 19,400 + 1,737 / 50,000
Days - 18 / 30
Average - 1,174 words a day (+33) [Required average - 1,667]
Pages - 38 + 3
Chapters - 5
Total Progress - 42.27% (+3.47%)
Hit 20,000 words today! In much less time it took me to get to 10,000. (It took 7 days instead of 11!) That's a good sign of progression.
So, quite a few things happened today -
1) Today was my family's Thanksgiving dinner day because our schedules wouldn't allow us all to meet for dinner next Thursday, so I drove down to my family's place today.
2) A tree fell on an important road I use to get to my family's place, forcing me to take a detour, because...
3) A tornado tore through my folks' town just about an hour before I arrived.
We had much to be thankful for that the tornado wasn't a very big one, it was to the north of our home, and that I missed it. A church that was only 2 miles north of home had suffered some damage.
On another side note that starts with a 'T', recent developments in the story had me 'tinker' with the original outline and 'thin' the over-all plot.
Stories have a funny way of coming to life in their own way. That's how Turtleton D. Turtledove came into being. But now with even more recent developments, I'll be cutting out an entire scene that I had been anticipating on writing for a long time. It involved quarry eels and a character acting like a bad-ass.
I spent a good amount of time talking to a friend about it, and after much deliberation and thinking, it seemed best to leave it out. While a character would earn a bad-ass moment during it, it would have completely undermined all character development that happened in the past five chapters.
And if you're saying, "Hey, Lost, that's great and all, but I have no idea what you're talking about. You haven't shared any facts about the story with me until today, and now you're spewing nonsensically about quarry eels, bad-ass events, and character development like I have any idea who these characters are, what happened in the story previously, or anything relating to the plot in general because you've been so tight-lipped about it," then you sound just like my friend.
Point is - The story is taking a path different than the one I originally plotted, but it's getting to the destination faster, more efficiently, and the ride is turning out to be a much better one than I had imagined.
