The World is Quiet

Except for my daughter's snoring and the quiet notes of birdsong outside.

There's a lovely morning breeze blowing through the window beside my desk.

Kitties have finally settled down after their all-night and early morning escapades. (I had to shut them out around 1:00 AM in order to sleep.)

My oldest son plays Secret of Evermore in silence in the living room. My other two kids are still asleep.

I'm cranking out words this morning with reckless abandon, which is nice. I think I have about 1,600 so far, but I hope that will grow to many more by the end of the day. Some weekends, I'm inspired. Some weekends, I don't accomplish much because I crash and burn from stress and from things that happened during the week. This weekend has threatened to be that way and, indeed, I did crash for quite a while yesterday afternoon, but I have a goal today, and I hope to meet it.

The only things really standing in my way are worry (since my paycheck still didn't come yesterday in the mail and I feel all deja vu after not being paid for three weeks in May) and weariness since I didn't sleep well last night.

But, combating it so far. Hope to have many words today. Hope to have a major accomplishment within the next few days.

Back to the novel...while everything is still quiet and lovely.

I Can't Believe I Wrote the Whole Scene

I started out the day with four plot points left, plus some additional scenes I felt like I should add. I added the additional scenes first and then started on the plot points.

I worked on one of the major points tonight. It had much action, much emotion, lots going on. Very draining scene to write. And, because I was insistent on finishing it and on giving it much time and attention and trying to put everything I could into it, I'm up very late.

Must sleep now. Must sleep.

Three more plot points to go.

Any day now. Any day.

Looks like I need another small increase in total estimated word count. Maybe I won't need that many. Maybe I will. We'll see when it's finished.

Ancient Secrets 5,740

253,722 total words to date

253,722 / 260,000 (97.0%)

And, my julnawrimo total word count to date:

149,954 / 150,000 (99.0%)

If I'd known I was that close to the goal, I'd have written 46 more words and finished it today. Oh, well, there's always tomorrow. :)