My characters are killing each other again. Well, trying to kill each other anyway. It’s a bit of a major plot element that keep failing at it.

I am writing under hella pressure right now because my holiday work load is getting heavier by the day AND we are going out of town to the in-laws for Thanksgiving until mid-weekend so, unless I manage to steal some writing time while there which is unlikely, I only have tomorrow and then the 30th to finish. I also have so much I have to get done before we leave for Thanksgiving, it is madness!!!

Yikes, as they say.

But I am trying to be zen. I have done 10k plus days before so worst case, if the 30th is the only other day I get to write, I can make it happen. If I can squeeze in a few more words here and there in between then, awesome. I’m fitting writing in so far by using time designated as “sleep” so I can keep riding that train for a while more before I have to get off at Break-Down-Town.

I am still working on material for what will either be framing scenes for this book or the opening scene of the second book surrounding my villains at this point. I am having time period disastrous-ness because I don’t want to do the math/research of when this one event would have happened time line wise because then I will get all caught up in research and not write. So this one character is a TV/radio/print reporter/note taker lady because I have no idea if there was even TV in that period or if there were female reporters. I kept it vague so I can fix it up in edits. She’s something news related-ish. Leave me alone.

Tomorrow I desperately need to sneak out and buy some clothes because I seriously have nothing in my closet that is winter and newer than 5 years old so it’s a situation. I have no idea if I’ll manage any more writing before we take off for Thanksgiving but keep your fingers crossed for me and maybe I can steal a few seconds here or there.

I actually know exactly what I am writing for the next two parts even though I am long off my outline but I am so overtired that the quality of my work has declined to a bad point so I need to call it a night.

Also? Writing with broken glasses right now. They broke earlier today so I need to go see if I can get them fixed so I don’t look like a crooked-glasses square all holiday. I tired Oculus Repairo like I was in Harry Potter. Didn’t work.

If I don’t see you or blog between now and then, have a lovely holiday and best of luck with your novels to those that are playing along with this crazy NaNoWriMo game.

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I stole a few minutes today to write a little more while my husband was mucking about with Windows 7 on my new computer (more about the new computer later which is my first new computer since college so I am very excited about that).

I am at the 75% done marker! Well, at least, I am on my wordcount calculator. Apparently the potato is using a different system of rounding so the heck with him.

You know how I said I was leaving my book for now and going to write something else to finish NaNo? Well, I lied. Sort of.

I have a really good short story idea that would have easily taken me through the rest of my word count but I was still very much in the mindset of this book so I was thinking about it a good deal despite my best efforts not to.

All this thinking forced me to think about the “bad guys” a bunch and, long story short, I decided to write a few chapters from their perspective. This will not be a part of the book I just finished, mind you, rather I think it will simply be the first part of a sequel I am thinking about, but it seems productive to write it all the same. After all, the more I learn about the story on both sides, the better I can make the book I just finished so it will be helpful in the end no matter what.

Also? Loving these characters.

I just came up with this two specific characters yesterday where I had just pictured general evil dudes before so they have opened up a whole new train of thought that I am really excited about. So it’s given me that “just started NaNoWriMo” feeling of creativity even though I am technically still on the same book. Sort of.

Yeah so chugging along. So much work to do this weekend so this is probably the last chance I’ll have to write for a few days while I catch up on my pesky “real life” but I am really feeling this new addition so hopefully it will go quickly.

Are things heating up for you on this final stretch?