To recap, or rather, to formally introduce...
Month: April
Series: None
Title: The Adventures of Faith Harper
Genre: Fanfiction novel
Synopsis: The year is 1841, and the place is St. Petersburg, Missouri. The quiet life 15-year-old Faith Harper leads is shaken when the new sheriff boards at her house, around the same time that her uncle and cousin move to town from St. Louis. Knowing what it's like to be without family, Faith intends to make her new family feel welcome. This becomes difficult when her dear cousin Becky Thatcher gets engaged to that rogue Tom Sawyer, and Uncle Josiah is judging the murder of Dr. Robinson, all within days of arriving. "Uncle Abe" makes it perfectly plain that he doesn't intend to be family to the Harpers—only a superior. And to pile on the agony, Lyle Peters doesn't seem to be the old school comrade he used to be...
Intended word goal: 15000
So let's take a look at the first 15 days of this Camp NaNoWriMo month and the progress I've made on my novel!
Day 1
Word goal: 500
Words written: 539
Nothing too difficult.
Day 2
Word goal: 1000
Words written: 1195
Again, nothing too difficult.
Day 3
Word goal: 1500
Words written: 1630
Yawn...
Day 4
Word goal: 2000
Words written: 2008
If Camp NaNo had the same badge system as November NaNo, then I'd get the "1667 words" writing badge. :)
Day 5
Word goal: 2500
Words written: 2590
This is where I would get November NaNo's "Updated word count 5 days in a row" badge.
Day 6
Word goal: 3000
Words written: 3090
Exactly 500 words, as was the original daily goal. Boom.
Day 7
Word goal: 3500
Words written: 3500
I did it! One week of beautiful perfection!
Day 8
Word goal: 4000
Words written: 3500
That is to say, I didn't do any writing on this day. (It's the infamous Week 2; what else is new?) I had a big college test online that I had spent all week studying for, and I had to take that night. But I got a good score on it, so it was a different kind of win. :)
Day 9
Word goal: 4500
Words written: 3840
Once you get off track, it's so hard to get back on...
Day 10
Word goal: 5000
Words written: 3840
Again, I didn't write anything on this day. I had a chunk of homework reading and I had to pick my battles. Writing is great, but so is graduating college. :)
Day 11
Word goal: 5500
Words written: 4505
Finally got some good words in!
Day 12
Word goal: 6000
Words written: 4525
20 words is better than 0 words!
Day 13
Word goal: 6500
Words written: 5509
A couple days prior I got an email from NaNoWriMo, encouraging me to participate in a Writing Marathon involving word sprints for five days in a row, with the word sprint time limits increasing each day: 10 minutes, 20 minutes, 30 minutes, 1 hour, 2 hours. Being me, I didn't notice the email at first. :) But on this day I did get around to doing the 10-minute word sprint, and it definitely help me bump up my word count!
Day 14
Word goal: 7000
Words written: 5717
Now that I had finally started the Writing Marathon, I was supposed to do the 20-minute word sprint on this day, but I didn't. I was either on the Internet when I could have been writing (meh), or doing homework (better).
Day 15
Word goal: 7500
Words written: 6275
I got the 20-minute word sprint in, and it felt so good to crank out the words! It also helped hugely to have the right music playing in the background. :) (Now you can probably expect a future blog post about noveling music...)
I'm not perfect, but I'm still going! :)
Here's to the next 15 days!
~EKL <><
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