CornerScribe

Gloom, Doom and Despair

Ah, the dreaded NaNo update.

With five days to go (including today!), I’m sitting at just about the half-way point. Will I finish? Even I have to be realistic and say that it’s going to be tough, but I’m still plugging along. I spent about two days reworking a big change in the novel, and that cost me time and word count. Yes, I know I’ve said a zillion times that’s a bad idea, but I just couldn’t resist this time.

The good news is, the novel is coming along very well. It’s roughly plotted, so I have a notion of where I’m going with it. While I think that’s made it tighter, I have to wonder if that’s slowed me down a bit as well. Still, I’m going to try to hit 50,000 by Friday night. This is my fourth year doing NaNo, and I don’t want it to be the first one I didn’t finish.

How are your novels going? Anyone hit 50,000 yet?