Somehow I always feel scared about jinxing my progress by putting in a title like that, but it has to be said; the last few days the writing has gone easier than ever. At this moment, I am at 39,810 words, while par for today would have been 36,666. That means that I am 190 words short of being 2 days ahead of schedule. The lovely thing about the NaNo stats page is that it tells you "At This Rate You Will Finish On", and for me today that date is November 28th.
Now before you start planning the celebrations for the 28th, I do have to add that the only reason I've been writing this far ahead is that I won't be able to write that much in the coming days, and I wanted to get a buffer in place for those days. So all may seem well for the moment, but let's wait and see what the future brings.
Storywise, things have taken an unexpected twist, when one of the side characters I made up on a very uninspired day in Belgium has suddenly fought herself to the forefront, and even decided to fall in love with one of the other main characters. Plot twists, you never see them coming. It did make for about 2,000 words of expositional writing today, which is always nice, but it doesn't really help the main story along. I still have 10,000 words to come to some sort of a conclusion, and with all the extra characters jumping on board, I don't think I will. But hey, all of my NaNo's so far have been without an ending, and those that had an ending have been partly without a middle, so who says I actually have to write a fully complete story? It's all about the 50,000 words, right?
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