Day 18: 28,112 words
I did not catch up the way I wanted to today — I was pretty tired and took a nap this afternoon, and didn’t feel up to going to the non-denominational Community-wide Thanksgiving service this evening. But I did make some progress — 3,000 words, which is not bad for a day’s work.
The need to keep pushing forward has some interesting side effects. As I have said, the point of NaNoWriMo is not that this draft be any good, and in some cases it definitely isn’t. My draft has been way over-expository; too often, I explain things as the narrator instead of letting my characters’ actions and dialogue demonstrate or suggest them.
But today, I had the opposite problem — I arrived at what needed to be a dramatic encounter, and I really didn’t have everything I needed to do the scene justice. (This particular plot point is not based on my individual trip experience.) I sort of rushed through it because I didn’t know what else to say about it. If and when I go back and rewrite this thing, I’ll have to do some actual research.
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