Nanowrimo Day Two (One)

Wordcount: 1678

Okay, so I’m a day behind, thanks to the Gong Ride yesterday, but I should be able to catch up over the next few days and head into Week 2 on schedule. So far I haven’t started the story proper, I’m starting with backstory and a bit of biography, just as much to refresh my own memory of the character as to pad the wordcount. But it’s mostly working, and hopefully the story will come out better than my previous Nanowrimo win in 2006.

I’m also taking advantage of the fact that Scrivener, a word processor I’ve heard a few rave about, has a special for Nanowrimo participants. So far I’m liking it, and even trying to actually take advantage of the organisational and project management features it has. A few things jar in the workflow – such as not being able to get a combined wordcount for a multi-file manuscript without exporting and counting elsewhere – but it’s possible this is just stuff I have to learn, rather than stuff that isn’t there.

A short snippet from tonight’s writing session.

A sound filtered its way through the alcoholic haze and into Gutgore’s consciousness. Footsteps, running away along the cobbles. He looked up, but the small boy was gone, the sound of his small strides disappearing into the fog.