La Vie Boheme

Forward momentum

Aha, I finally cracked that blasted 25,000 word ceiling. We had an abbreviated and relaxed Write Club Minus One tonight--Julie and I explored the new Barnes and Noble, not realizing they were closing at 9 for the holiday. Good thing: they have a study section with huge tables and power outlets under each table. Bad thing: there aren't many tables, and you gotta be kinda quiet over there. Write Club is generally not so good at quiet. But their cafe is a Starbucks, so that's all kinds of good too.

My word count for today looks pitiful--700 words--unless you factor in the pages and pages of handwritten outline I've got now. I have a detailed outline for the next several sections (they may be chapters, we'll see), and a sketchy outline of the entire rest of the novel. Go me! I think this is really going to help me write this. My biggest problem has been having to stop after each scene and go "Duhh... where to now?" It seems that now that the NaNoWriMo pressure is off my shoulders, I'm eager to start writing on this again.