I'll be updating my wordcount here and perhaps sharing some excerpts, as well as a link to the google doc for the novel.
Novel in progress
https://docs.google.com/document/d/18B_V8Ts54hAnhuAwv1cGIeME6OWM27Rh-bXa7GwGMBo/edit?usp=sharing
At this point my goal is to have at least 75k, and to try not to go over 110k That means I plan on finishing somewhere in the range of 7 to 12 days. Hopefully this doesn't run away with me too hard. I really want to be done as soon as possible so I can return to my regularly scheduled program.
Merin has for years now been the character that is dearest to me. He's become my favorite of all time, and I began writing him when I realized I was onto something that was quite magical and fulfilling for me. This will be his -forth- novel. At this point I am not sure if there will be a fifth or not.
You can find his other novels here.
Book 1 - https://www.rprepository.com/c/merin/66247
Book 2 - https://www.rprepository.com/c/merin/122780
Book 2, part 2 - https://www.rprepository.com/c/merin/122781
Book 3 - https://www.rprepository.com/c/merin/161134
and here's the novel page on the nano site.
https://nanowrimo.org/participants/zhimonster/novels/across-centuries-forever-flame
Novel in progress
https://docs.google.com/document/d/18B_V8Ts54hAnhuAwv1cGIeME6OWM27Rh-bXa7GwGMBo/edit?usp=sharing
At this point my goal is to have at least 75k, and to try not to go over 110k That means I plan on finishing somewhere in the range of 7 to 12 days. Hopefully this doesn't run away with me too hard. I really want to be done as soon as possible so I can return to my regularly scheduled program.
Merin has for years now been the character that is dearest to me. He's become my favorite of all time, and I began writing him when I realized I was onto something that was quite magical and fulfilling for me. This will be his -forth- novel. At this point I am not sure if there will be a fifth or not.
You can find his other novels here.
Book 1 - https://www.rprepository.com/c/merin/66247
Book 2 - https://www.rprepository.com/c/merin/122780
Book 2, part 2 - https://www.rprepository.com/c/merin/122781
Book 3 - https://www.rprepository.com/c/merin/161134
and here's the novel page on the nano site.
https://nanowrimo.org/participants/zhimonster/novels/across-centuries-forever-flame
will add some fav bits here as I go
“What is all that ridiculous nonsense on you, and why are you smiling?” she huffed.
He knew he was in danger still, she could kill him effortlessly. She could reach down and simply bite him in two. He was, more or less staring death in the face.
“I am a Bard, a musician by trade. This is how I normally dress.” He told her. “And I am smiling because you are beautiful.”
“Well, I suppose it will at least be a little entertaining watching you try... whatever it is you have planned.” She seemed to be rolling her eyes a bit at him.
“Oh I don’t have a plan, not yet anyways. But I will.” He answered simply. He’d have to ask her some questions, and sneak in closer to get an idea of what the surroundings looked like, before he could even begin to form a plan.
“There is a difference between being confident and being foolishly cocky.” she said, tapping a claw on a smooth flat stone, as she stared down at him.
“I like to think I walk a delicate line between the two, occasionally straying to the latter side.”
“What is all that ridiculous nonsense on you, and why are you smiling?” she huffed.
He knew he was in danger still, she could kill him effortlessly. She could reach down and simply bite him in two. He was, more or less staring death in the face.
“I am a Bard, a musician by trade. This is how I normally dress.” He told her. “And I am smiling because you are beautiful.”
“Well, I suppose it will at least be a little entertaining watching you try... whatever it is you have planned.” She seemed to be rolling her eyes a bit at him.
“Oh I don’t have a plan, not yet anyways. But I will.” He answered simply. He’d have to ask her some questions, and sneak in closer to get an idea of what the surroundings looked like, before he could even begin to form a plan.
“There is a difference between being confident and being foolishly cocky.” she said, tapping a claw on a smooth flat stone, as she stared down at him.
“I like to think I walk a delicate line between the two, occasionally straying to the latter side.”
just over 5k in four hours. I consider that a successful first night.. Now, I am going to go pass out.
Where Merin finds out the real reason he had to save Ees from an angry dragoness...
“When you do, could you tell her I am sorry as well..? Both for what happened to her and...” He paused and ducked his head slightly.
Merin blinked. “What..?”
“I.. almost peed on her.” He said in low rushed mutter.
“You.. what..?” He’d just been about to reach for his wine cup again, and froze.
“Not on purpose!” His friend protested. “I had to go, and decided I’d do it into this dry riverbed that was all overgrown and had some dead trees overhanging. I didn’t realize she was sleeping down there.”
Merin tapped his finger on the side of the cup. He pressed his lips together, and his mouth twitched.
“You.. nearly peed on her.” He finally managed, struggling to keep a straight face.
“Well, a little bit might have hit her, it was dark down there.”
Merin tried to hide his expression by taking a drink, but the mental image was getting funnier by the second, he stopped, before he ended up spraying wine, and just ducked his head down, snorting helplessly for a few moments.
Ees let him catch his breath, then added. “I was half a mile away before I stopped to even do up my pants proper.”
Merin buried his face into the crook of his arm and wheezed til his eyes watered, soon Ees had joined him, tried to muffle desperate snorts.
“When you do, could you tell her I am sorry as well..? Both for what happened to her and...” He paused and ducked his head slightly.
Merin blinked. “What..?”
“I.. almost peed on her.” He said in low rushed mutter.
“You.. what..?” He’d just been about to reach for his wine cup again, and froze.
“Not on purpose!” His friend protested. “I had to go, and decided I’d do it into this dry riverbed that was all overgrown and had some dead trees overhanging. I didn’t realize she was sleeping down there.”
Merin tapped his finger on the side of the cup. He pressed his lips together, and his mouth twitched.
“You.. nearly peed on her.” He finally managed, struggling to keep a straight face.
“Well, a little bit might have hit her, it was dark down there.”
Merin tried to hide his expression by taking a drink, but the mental image was getting funnier by the second, he stopped, before he ended up spraying wine, and just ducked his head down, snorting helplessly for a few moments.
Ees let him catch his breath, then added. “I was half a mile away before I stopped to even do up my pants proper.”
Merin buried his face into the crook of his arm and wheezed til his eyes watered, soon Ees had joined him, tried to muffle desperate snorts.
I've hit 36k at this point but I'm really dragging today. I'm sick, I think it's mostly sinuses, but I have a sore throat, headache and I feel like crap.
I'm wrapping up part 1 right now though and hope that starting the second part of the novel might help give me a second wind of sorts? And I'll be able to slam out a few thousand tonight and maybe break 40k
I'm wrapping up part 1 right now though and hope that starting the second part of the novel might help give me a second wind of sorts? And I'll be able to slam out a few thousand tonight and maybe break 40k
I'm a day behind hitting 40k. Hoping that by tomorrow I'll be able to get back to pumping out 10k a day again.
at 66k currently and in the climax/finale of the novel. I may have to really stretch to break 75k and at this point I'm not sure my endurance will hold out to do so. I've been sick for most of Nano and I'm really exhausted and sapped, and I feel like it's making my writing in the second half of this really dull.
this was agonizing, and I ended up not adding a prologue and not adding in the other scene I wanted to add, and I rushed the ending a bit but FFS I've been sick and I'm so exhausted.
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