NaNWriMo 2009 - Winner!

I just thought I might mention that despite a Word crash losing two hours of writing I just hit 50,000 words. And I have just realised I did that in 14 days (must be a faster typist than I thought).

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Fortunately (or otherwise) the story has not told itself in 50,000 words, so I'd guess I've got another 30,000 to go to complete it. Oh well.

NanoWrimo

What can I say? I just reached 44,000 words and am taking a break. I had another idea, so I wrote it.

And I feel like I've run a marathon, which is always the problem with extended action sequences. (This might also be the last stages of the cold from the weekend).

There are still huge gaps early on, I haven't bothered dividing it into chapters, and the whole thing is likely to be riddled with spelling mistakes since I turned the spell checking off to let me type faster, but my beta reader keeps demanding I get more written because they want to know how it ends.

Hopefully this is a good sign.

Out of ideas and ill

What a combination. Eight days to go, and feeling lousy.

And thanks to someone who keeps making "helpful suggestions" I've lost the thread of the story.

Oh well, it wasn't likely to get published anyway.

NaNoWriMo progress

22,000 words, give or take a few. A notebook full of un-typed up scenes. 8,000 words to do to catch up.

What stands in my way? Interviews over the next few days, and mainly two very demanding cats. (That's not quite fair - interviews are an excuse to get away from the cats and fill yet more notebooks.)

What is beginning to scare me is finding out that a lot of what I thought was blue-sky thinking for the story is actually genuine rocket science theory. It seems having aviation as a hobby pays off.

New lens and NaNoWriMo

It's been a busy writing day for me. On NaNoWriMo I've broken 11,000 words and am hopefully on course. I need to get a few more notes written, but the story is coming together. There's now a two line summary and excerpt also up.

I also have a new lens up. The Surrey Iron Railway was a horse drawn railway established in 1801. Although it was in use for only forty years, it was the first public railway in the world.

Surrey Iron Railway
http://www.squidoo.com/surrey-iron-railway