I have completely dropped the ball with NaNoWriMo, writing anywhere between 0 to 1500 words a day, but not even meeting the minimum. I think I'm behind by 11k or so? Hm. I'm hoping I can continuously write 5k for the next two days, haha (except I haven't even written over 2k for any single day yet). Let's see if I can do it. But is this story even worth continuing... hmmmmm... this story needs to pick up the pace. Also, despite this being young adult fantasy, there hasn't been very many fantastical elements yet. This needs to be fixed.

Here's chapter 2. Despite how long it is, this still reads like an introductory chapter to me, setting up the scene... :'D But at least Nokara finally introduces herself. It's been Tekatme, Tekatme, Tekatme the entire time. I tossed my words into wordle (it makes a graphic out of your most frequently used words) and Tekatme was right smack across the entire thing in huge letters. No one else even compared. XD; That's one of my problems with this year's NaNo... it's such a monologue. (What was funny with my wordle was that it kind of looked fish shaped, hehe).

Chapter 1

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Sadly, for both Day 8 and Day 9, I didn't reach 1,667 words but only wrote a little more than 1000 each day. 1k is a nice, comfortable word count for me. 1.6k is apparently not. Of course, I blame Day 9's word count on Legend of Sun Knight volume 8 (and my unwillingness to put it down).

I finished reading it. In a matter of hours. :'D (I am bursting in fondness for Adair, ahhhhh. And well, LSK in general *needs to fangirl, but, no one to talk about the last volume with, omg*)

But I did manage to finally finish writing chapter 1 of Lhordata. And sort of plan the next chapters. Not sure how many chapters I'll need... the pacing of this story is so slow.

(Hm, LJ is doing something funky to my layout...)

Prologue

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Chapter 2
Well, I managed today's word count, but I haven't made up for the past two days yet! Still, there's hope! I'm just floored by my writing buddies who've already written over 20k. I'm looking at you, [livejournal.com profile] absolutehymn007 and [livejournal.com profile] nitaspitas. =P

I've been needing to open my NaNo from last year as reference since my main character this time was also featured in last year's NaNo (but not exactly as the main character). Trying to get details about him straight isn't as easy as I thought it'd be! I wonder if his characterization even feels the same. (For one, he's not throwing around the word "lord" as much as he did last year... but maybe he'll do that more later).

Well, here's the very boring prologue that almost made me want to stop writing. XD; It rambled a lot, so I decided to cut it down by 900 words. I feel beginnings should have more momentum, but I've failed hard at that!

Whee, widget! It wasn't showing up for me before, but now it is! I have so many yellow boxes littered through mine... *mopes*


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Chapter 1

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Non NaNo stuff:

-Nisekoi has begun! New manga by Komi Naoshi (mangaka of Double Arts). I'm not too fond of the premise of his new series unlike how I was very interested in Double Arts right off the bat, but I'm excited he has something new running. Now I also kind of wish I'd said that I would nominate Double Arts for [livejournal.com profile] yuletide. Hm, it's not too late, is it...

-received an email from Kingstone about the fact that Legend of Sun Knight volume 8 is going to be out very soon. XD; Why thank you, Kingstone. :D *looks forward to the release even more* Opening my email to a huge picture of Grisia? LOVE.