Progress report

The Write-in tonight was a blast! We really have such a great group of writers. We range in age from a 16 yr. old to several of us pushing hard at the big 5-0, but every single one is supportive and willing to help in whatever way possible. We only did one word war for 30 minutes, but I still managed to get over 1400 words written--despite participating in a lot of silliness, plotting problems (others, not mine for a change, lol), zombie discussions (you had to be there, I think), sharing of chocolate, and, of course, coffee drinking.



So anyway, here is the report for yesterday:

Title: The Gates of Annwn
Words Written: 3015 on 11/12 (28039 total so far)
Progress: reunited the main characters and finished their new plan for reaching Annwn.

::deep breath:: Whew! I'm just over 28000, so that means I should be able to break the 30000 word barrier by end of day tomorrow. I'm still having a great deal of trouble wrapping my brain around these numbers...

Today's Prompt Is...

A Lesson From the Deep--This card begins by explaining how baby killer whales don't sleep at all during their first month of life. (According to the info provided, scientists theorize that this is to keep the babies from freezing to death until they develop the needed layers of blubber to prevent this from happening.) "As you head through the ides of your novel month", the card then challenges you to take inspiration from these babies and know that you're developing the tools ("the kind of thickened skin and world-wise writing experience") that you will be using for the rest of your writing life. "Even if it just feels sometimes like you're swimming in circles."

The card and the kit that it comes in can be found here:
No Plot? No Problem! The Kit!

Now I'm going to go find some tylenol and lay down again. Hopefully this headache will subside enough to allow me to put some serious word count up by day's end. :)