NaNoWriMo Day Five

Word count since the 1st:

• Day 1: 1871 (1871 words written on day one)
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• Day 2: 3359 (1488 words written on day two)
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• Day 3: 5047 (1688 words written on day three)
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• Day 4: 7271 (2224 words written on day four)
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• Day 5: (Currently) 9699 (2428 words written so far on day five)

So far I am on schedule, managing to write just over each daily word goal. I had a slow start to the month, I had a big family day so I wasn't able to write as many words as I wanted too having only a limited amount of time on the computer. I started at midnight on the 1st, which was a first for me and very exciting to be able to do so! I loved it, even though the sound of my keyboard in almost complete silence gave me the spooks and the feeling I was waking the whole household.

On Sunday I worked all day but was able to write a few hundred on my phone during a break and the rest I wrote when I got home. The rest of the week was all right, as you see above my word count for each day has increased quite a lot as I'm getting more into my story and starting to understand where things are heading.

Because of my slow start, which was slow because I realised that apart from the idea I didn't really have a plot for my story, I wasn't too sure if I actually liked my story. Almost 10,000 words later and I can say that yes, yes I do like my story. Maybe I'm almost close to saying I love it. Maybe. It's close. A few more words, perhaps. But I am enjoying it. I'm loving the idea even more, but sadly I can't tell you what the idea is. I can, however say that the story is a romance, it's set in a dystopian future, it involves a boarding school, maybe even two of them, and at the moment it's quite political.

I have done political before, in my Fantasy novel The Assignment, that book was set around the assassination of my fantasy world's supreme leader and the reason for the assassination was the way the world was run and how it behaved. My NaNoWriMo book is political along a different sort of line, I think.

In a few days, maybe next week when I'm in Week Two, I'll update again with how my story is going and what my word count is. And, if you're lucky, I may even share with you an excerpt of the Forward to my book. This will be the only piece of my book you will read quite possibly for a long time. My plan for this story is not to give it a few months of editing and then self-publish it like my last two novels. My plan is to take my time and try and give it my all to make sure that it actually comes out exactly as I want it to. So it may be years before it hits public eye.

Do not worry though and think that this is going to take up all my time and you won't ever see anything else by me again until I'm done. I tell you that this is not the case. I am very talented and can multitask.