Ohhhh–oooohhh! Livin’ on a prayer! Take my hand and we’ll make it I swear…
Ahem.
Halfway through November. I’m creeping up on 24,000 words, and am fully confident that by today’s end I will have hit 25,000 words! I’m currently clacking away at the Portsmouth Public Library, where in just over an hour Hallie Ephron will be motivating me and giving me tips and inspiration in a talk entitled “How to Write FAST without Losing Your Compass.” And as luck would have it, I am literally navigating in the particular part of the story I’m in right now (well, not including any of the number of flashbacks I tangentially explore with startling frequency).
In a rebellious act of overt procrastination, I headed my dallying self over to Wordle.net early on in my Write-In stint to make a word cloud of my novel thus far. Here it is: