Day 30: 52,805 words
The weird thing is, once I broke 50,000, I wasn’t on deadline anymore. Once I broke 50,000, it didn’t really matter how many words I wrote tonight. There was no reason for me to keep up the breakneck pace I’ve followed all month, much less exceed it.
But I got carried away anyhow — this stretch contained a big, climactic scene, and one that I felt intensely personal about. My total word count today was in the neighborhood of 3,000 words — almost twice the 1,667 that is a NaNoWriMo participant’s daily goal, and 10 times what I needed to break 50,000 after yesterday’s performance.
I think I can wrap up this draft over the weekend — if not tomorrow, then Sunday. Then I will set it aside for a bit and come back to it later in December. There is major rewriting to do. But I will do the rewrite this time. After the 2004 NaNoWriMo, I set the manuscript aside for the whole month of December. When I looked at my manuscript in the cold light of January, I decided it wasn’t marketable and haven’t really done anything with it since. This one may not be marketable either, but it’s unique enough that I feel like I need to at least try.
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