Originally published on "Parsley, Sage, and Rosemary Time" on November 6, 2017, and updated for today's posting.
On another of my blogs, I wrote
about PlotOber and planning the fifth in my culinary
mystery series so the writing of it in November for National Novel Writing
Month will go more smoothly.
Well, I’m into November, one-fifth
of the way through today, and by the end of the day I need to have logged a
minimum of 10, 002 words to be on track to finish November 30th with
50,000 words.
I’ll make it. Last night I recorded
a word total of 8356, slightly over the 8335 that I needed. Pretty darn good,
with weeklong company, if you ask me.
I started strong, as I always do.
That story has been percolating for months and I focused the thoughts by using
two magic elements: my Plotober massive planning elements and by brainstorming
with my two critique groups. My crit partners have AMAZING minds! Have I said
how lucky I am to have them part of my writer’s life?
Here’s a peek at my time tracker to-date.
The far right column is the minimum
total number of words I need to have written to keep on track for NaNoWriMo. I
got a strong start, “banking” words, so to speak for when I couldn’t write much.
Note, for example in the second
column, that I had three days when I couldn’t make my minimum 1667 words for
those days. Company. You gotta love ‘em, but there is a toll. My cushion of
banked words let me enjoy my time with her.
Falling behind is inevitable, if my
past years are predictive. But it is not fatal. I will just need to write more
words on other days to catch up. She leaves today, so this afternoon maybe I
can bank some more for the other days I’ll not write much if anything.
Have I mentioned that we are
traveling for Thanksgiving this year? Again.
Each year I have about ten days of
limited productivity due to company and travel. So I just have to write harder
on those days that aren’t committed to fun, food, and family. I’ve got this!
2017 NaNoWriMo
Time Tracker
TEQUILA
MOCKINGBIRD
Book 5 “Dinner
is Served”
|
Date
|
Daily Words/Pages Total
|
Running Total
|
Minimum Running Total
|
|
Nov. 1
|
2228/7
|
2228
|
1667
|
|
Nov. 2
|
2886/19
|
5114
|
3334
|
|
Nov. 3
|
1563/25
|
6677
|
5001
|
|
Nov. 4
|
725/28
|
7402
|
6668
|
|
Nov. 5
|
954/32
|
8356
|
8335
|
|
Nov. 6
|
1662/40
|
10,067
|
10,002
|
|
Nov. 7
|
|
|
11,669
|
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