~10k Left

I feel myself nearing the 50k finish line, and yet, I'm feeling myself slowing down. It's becoming harder to write. I've felt this way for a few days, now. I feel as though the story is winding down prematurely, which is what I was afraid of. I ended up creating a battle scene just to draw out the inevitable. Whether or not it'll see the final version is a different story. I  have about 10k words left (according to the chart, I should finish by Aug. 15th), and now I have to figure out what to do with it. I hate adding filler. Especially when it requires me to ramble on about minor things about the story. I think all the 'fillers' will end up being battle scenes -- or enhancements to existing ones. I have to do something soon. I predict the story will be finished in 45k words, which was about the same amount as Firebrand. There is so much story I do want to tell, however; especially since I have a larger cast of characters.

I guess we'll have to see how things go. I'm getting nervous about this! But a little nervousness is good, right?

Halfway Point!

Well, just a little over halfway done (26,762). I've also reached the mid-point of my story. Things are going very well. Did I mention how much I really love the cabin feature? It's been one of the high points of my NaNoing adventures. It's very motivating to have others around you, bouncing ideas and motivating each other to keep going. I really hope something like this will be implemented during November's session, as well.
Onward to 30k!

Summer Camping Madness

I can't believe August is already here and so is round 2 of Camp NaNoWriMo! I have to say, I'm loving the bells and whistles OLL added to the website. The cabin feature is really awesome and fun! I chose to be around people who write in the same genre (fantasy). It's been really motivating and fun to write alongside fellow NaNoers in my cabin. The bugs are still being worked out of the system, but so far it's been nothing to major that it rendered the feature unusable.

Currently, I'm a little over 17k words. I've been writing this story like crazy because I've been so excited and eager to start on it. Firebrand is still being beta-read, so I've had to push back the release date till sometime near the end of August, perhaps. I will be relieved once the first book of the trilogy is finally released and I'll be hard at work with the edits of book 2 by then. I plan to write Book 3 in November's session. After Camp NaNoWrimo, the next big writing event will be GothNoWriMo in October, in which I plan to write a prequel to The Necromancer's Apprentice which will be told from Daggax'iylion's point of view. These are the planned projects for the remainder of 2011. Who knows what I'm going to write in 2012!