NaNoWriMo: Week 4

Wow! What a week!

In spite of having Neal home for two extra days and spending most of the day on Thursday eating turkey with good friends, I had a phenomenal writing week.

Average daily word count for the week came in at 6,431, with average daily word count for every writing day this month at 6,113.

The high count for the week was also a lifetime high for daily word count. On Wednesday, I wrote 10,406 words of fiction. Wow! I couldn’t believe it when I looked at the day end totals that day, but there it was, right in front of me.

Other totals for the project are amazing, too, but other than saying I have been surprised over and over again by this challenge, I’m going to save that information for the final report. There is, after all, one more day left for me.

The day-to-day stats for the week look like this.

November 23, 2009 – 8,574 words
Worked on Chapters 51 – 63, epilogue

November 24, 2009 – 5,048 words
Worked on Chapters 54 – 63, epilogue

November 25, 2009 – 10,406 words
Worked on Chapters 54 – 65

November 26, 2009 – 4,251 words
Worked on Chapters 57 – Epilogue

November 27, 2009 – 6,451 words
Worked on Chapters 63 – Epilogue

November 28, 2009 – 3,854 words
Worked on Chapters 63 – Epilogue

I spent the last part of the week writing final conflicts. I didn’t really plan an ending for this part of the book and the ending I had in mind is going to most likely be in book two or three of the series, so I needed an ending for this.

So I set up separate documents and began writing endings with a certain idea in mind. I got three that way, but none of them really seemed to strike a chord.

Then on Friday afternoon, I had to take a mid-afternoon break (a nap!) because of some health stuff and while I was there, I had an idea that had previously been unconsidered.

It has nothing to do with any of the other ideas, but it does pit two very strong aspects of the lead character against each other and sets up a life-and-death crisis that forces her to make a difficult choice.

It fell together almost effortlessly once I got back to writing and by 8:30 p.m. Friday, I thought the book was done but for fine tuning.

When I reviewed it again the next day, I felt the same way. By the official end of the work week, I had everything done but that one, last chapter; that Ah-ha! moment.

I have no idea as I write this post where that ending will come from, but I trust it will come.

Everything else has come together as needed on this project. The LORD will provide the ending.