NaNoWriMo Note

          I finally did participate in NaNoWriMo officially in 2004 and actually made it to the around 50k mark. The novel isn't finished but the word count was sufficient to make me a winner. I think when I edit it at NaNoEdMo I'll write some more of it too. With all the computer problems (Fred can supply some of that information, I'm afraid I whined to him until he took pity on me and gave me his old computer -- and thank you again Fred, and thank Gail for me too, she was part of this!) I had during November I'm surprised I wrote so much as I did then. It needs to be edited anyway, because I ended up generating some newer characters while writing it that I really need to edit into the story earlier, and then decide why what I thought would be the ending, isn't (yes, I skipped ahead and wrote the end because I was just about a thousand words short of the 50k). Final total: 50,106.
          Finals actually should take precedence because your education is very important. I figured if we aimed for a thousand words a week it could be five days of 200 words per day or a weekend of 400 words per day. Figuring a schedule like that will help you deal with the scheduling (unless you only have five minutes here and there, in which case a notebook is more practical and perfectly fine).
          I am stuck on one major detail. The character that my novel is built around, the crux of the series, may be of the wrong species. He started as an ogre, but an ogre is a human-eating giant: even if his own people were combined with human people, I'd think being a giant might be a little huge for what I intend for him. The two tries I jave now, the second one reacts to his being a giant and I'm not sure if it really works. I don't want to go with gnome because, even though it mgiht fit, I don't want to rip off Xanth where Piers Anthony always refers to Good Magician Humphrey as gnomish.
          It's going to take a bit of thought, that one.