Scribbled Fiction

This is the last week of NaNoWriMo. How's your word count coming? Are you close? Are you done ??? I just crossed 50,000 yesterday, but there's a bit more to be written of the story (just a tad, you see) so I'll be writing probably up until the end of the month trying to finish the story. Now, may I be candid for a moment? Just a moment? If you ever hear me say again that a novel's going to be really long, slap me . I do this every time I'm writing a novel. I don't know if something's up with the way I do my plot points or what, but I'll reach the midpoint and have a huge word count, and then the other half of the story will only be a fraction of the length of the first half. What am I doing wrong here? I don't know. But I say the same thing I said last week every NaNoWriMo, and sometimes in between, and I'm always wrong. So the next time I say something's going to be really long, call me out on it, and if it turns out to be really long...

Where are you on your word count, my writing warriors? You are fierce, don't stop writing! This week has been a little easier for me. However, I caught a cold, so there were a couple days where I barely made the word count and no more while I'm trying to write 2,000 words a day. But good news! The writing is going a lot easier because now my conflict has arrived! Remember how I said I had no conflict, so it was going slow as heck? I have that problem no more, and I am pleased! Okay, now the reason why I'm trying to write at least 2,000 words a day: This novel is turning out long . I've more than passed the 30,000-word mark, and I haven't even reached my midpoint yet. It's a kid's book, but it might turn out to be the longest thing I've ever written. It is lengthy . And I might be adding a few too many scenes, but the novel is seriously doing this on its own. I was seriously blindsided by the length of this. And I love a manuscript turning out long...

Hello, my NaNo word warriors! How's your word count coming? I'm not quitting NaNoWriMo, don't worry. But all through week 1, I was just ready to hit my head against my keyboard over and over again (replay the gif from last week). And it took me waaaay too long to figure out what exactly the problem was. I mean, I was hitting my word count goal every day, but I wasn't super sure what was making me grind my gears so hard. But ha, dumdum me, I didn't realize I was lacking all conflict! Due to Javi being, what, six? and taking a liking to the cat folk characters really easily so that I could have them forge a bond, there was no conflict between the characters. Then they were on the skyboat for chapters on end, so could be no conflict between the cat folk and the other humans. There's a small amount of conflict between the catfolk themselves, but it's still brewing and hasn't 100% come to light just yet. Now all the conflict I had in my outline is...

NaNoWriMo word warriors, where you at?? Drop me a hello in the comments and keep me updated throughout the month! I wanna know who's doing this with me! NaNoWriMo has already started, and I am TERRIFIED!!!! Not only do I have to reach the word count, which is difficult enough, but this year I have to dodge work as well! AAAAAAAAAA!!! Anyway, now that we've gotten past that, let me talk about this year's project for me! This year's project is about a kid named Javi, a very small boy with red hair who just wants to be loved and have a lot of fun. But will he get what he wants? Hahaha, NO!!! Here's my blurb for it. I don't think really highly of it, but I'm sure in time I'll come up with a better one. The surface of the world has been destroyed, wiped out by a magical storm over a century ago. Now, everyone lives and works on islands in the sky- everyone, that is, except for the catfolk, who are said to be traitorous invaders. Little Javi is a...