NaNoWriMo 2023 — Day 20

  • Writing Time: 01:35
  • Session Word Count: 1730 
  • Total Word Count: 34715 (33333 par)

Happy Threes Day! We’re officially 2/3 done and the par is 33333 words.

Today, my characters stole someone’s identity and finally made it onto the boat. That trip and their arrival on the islands filled my quota, so I will need to start figuring out the details of the islands in the next session.

While I have some ideas of what’s coming soon, I’m finding that my rough summary of the story only covers about half of the scenes I end up writing. This feels like a pretty good mix for NaNoWriMo. If I have to really solve each scene before I write, it slows me down. This way, I either have a somewhat defined scene or know where I need to go after the current scene. So I have some wiggle room to come up with things on the fly, but still enough definition that I’m not floundering.

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Author: Samuel Johnston

Professional software developer, unprofessional writer, and generally interested in almost everything.

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