***I wrote this post Tuesday night before I stopped writing for the evening and forgot about it. Since I didn't want to erase everything to write my winner post, I'm posting it and then will add my winner announcement separately.***
I feel like I've been slowly chipping away at my word count in the last week or so, and not writing anywhere near as fast as I know I can. Part of it is that I've still been reading up on the vampire literature that would have been in print in 1923. It might ultimately not matter to be this familiar with it, and I may not keep all my descriptions of Ruby's research on vampires, but I wanted to at least start with a fresh familiarity of the three main sources that would have been available at the time (more on that in a later post).
I expect once I'm done with the last one (which I'm reading now), I will go back to writing more quickly. I have a lot still to do, as I feel like I'm still toward the beginning of the story. Originally the book was somewhere around 85,000 words, but I think this rewrite is going to be significantly longer (which is good, as that was rather short).
On December 1st, I will edit the word count shown in my sidebar to reflect the actual novel's word count so far, as my NaNo count includes a word count estimate for some time spent on reading and revising, as well as some words written for things like weekly regional emails. I'll also edit the goal word count to reflect my goal (or estimate) word count for the entire novel, rather than the NaNoWriMo goal of 50,000.
Right now, though, I'm sitting pretty at 49,106 for the month. I know I could have reached 50,000 days sooner, but I'm not sorry I took my time to read the books and write about Ruby's research experiences as I read. What's important is that I made it to 50,000, and also that I've hopefully developed a habit of daily writing that'll continue into December and beyond!
Watch for a post about Ruby's research sources, coming soon!
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