NaNoWriMo 2020 Day Twenty-Three

  • Words written: 1,774
  • Total words written: 32,627
  • Stories written: 6
  • Total words behind: 5,706

Not a very productive day today, and it doesn’t look like tomorrow will be much better. If I were a Democrat, I would keep up my lackluster pace until November 30th and suddenly declare that I “found” another 15,000 totally legitimate words that aren’t suspicious or fraudulent in any way. If I were a Republican, on December 1st that I actually won nanowrimo in a landslide, but was cheated out of it by the word counting algorithm of my software. Since I am neither a Democrat nor a Republican, I will just keep trudging along as best I can and make the best of a less-than-optimal situation.

I thought that my current story would be the last one I write for this challenge, but I think I’ll be able to finish it in the next couple of thousand words. After that, I’m not sure what I’ll do. Maybe pull out a trunked story idea and see if I can turn it into something good, or maybe try the Mythulu cards again. Or maybe I’ll try to play catch up early and do a few stream-of-consciousness interviews of the characters in my current WIP. Maybe that’s a good way to boost my word count for tomorrow.

Either way, without enough sleep, there’s no way I’m going to finish this thing. Goodnight.

By Joe Vasicek

Joe Vasicek is the author of more than twenty science fiction books, including the Star Wanderers and Sons of the Starfarers series. As a young man, he studied Arabic and traveled across the Middle East and the Caucasus. He claims Utah as his home.

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