Finished!

With much encouragement (ouch! that whip stings!) from the redoubtable Tiffany, welcome distractions from fellow WriMos G, M and K, plus a good bit of Irish coffee, YT has finished his novel for the second time in four years. Long live NaNoWriMo! More excerpts after this novelist, emptied for a while of words, catches up on his sleep.

Word count after 30 days: 50,735

Thundering down the home stretch

Writing still goes in fits and starts. YT will have a 500 word day followed by a 4,000 word rush. It turns out to be no problem at all writing a thousand-word scene when in the flow. YT gave 12,000 words to the tumultuous weekend when Ron and Tamara go too far, too fast. Yes, your humble author has followed his own rule and written a sex scene when blissfully not on deadline. Well, there's a little sex and a lot of sensual impressions, followed by the traditional morning after breakfast of omelets (him), biscuits (her) and second thoughts (both).

Next scene is probably where Ron and Tamara see each other on Tuesday, after a lost Saturday, tense breakfast Sunday and make-up phone call Sunday night. YT has no idea what they'll say. At least that's the plan -- YT has pumped up the word count by writing scenes out of order, and damn the plot holes! Excerpts from this, uh, fine artistic flow will be forthcoming in the blog.

A note on word count. The number below is the "official" count from the NaNoWriMo web site. yWriter is more optimistic by about sixty words. Weird. Microsoft Word give the author about twenty more words than the official number. It's hard to say what would cause this, but YT will use caution and go over the finish line with a few hundred words to spare, just in case.

Word count after 27 days: 43,207