Under the Gun

28,000+ words... but need to be at 35,000 by end of today. Not going to happen; too much on the RL side.

The frustration I'm having now is that, for padding sake, I keep drifing into minutiae on the story (what they wore, what food was on the table, etc.) instead of pushing forward with the story line. Compounding that frustration is that it's actually a good thing: I'm finding backstory and motivations for my characters that I didn't have a clear picture of until now. So I'm anxious to get ahead, but every time one of my characters helps me out, it keeps me down in the weeds some more. Ah, well; that's a NaNo writer's life. Words are great, even if you prune 'em on December 1st.

I'm in a local group's contest for the best novel to be voted on for group edits and internal publication. I'm on the fence as to whether I can even get this thing done by the end of December, but I'm certainly going to give it my best. That means this blog will have an extra few months of life to it -- kinda like the Mars rovers.

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