NaNoWriMo Day 24

A good day today, though I'm buggered as I write this, having spent most of the day trying to catch up to the 40k target word count for day 24 and not having had a brilliant sleep the night before, given the taste of the impending summer we're having... still, between writing and watching the cricket and taking the required meal breaks, I managed to knock out 4,466 words in about twelve hours. That's about 378 words an hour according to my calculation, a rate of knots that I have to get revved up higher if I want to finish November with 50,000 words.

But finally, almost 35k in, I'm at a point in the story where I feel confident sharing (though only with selected beta readers, of course), and I've covered some of the more crucial plot points along the way, so I'm feeling good about the direction the rest of the novel will take. It's just a matter of finishing it now, and I've got a new daily word target to hit of 2,180 words per day if I want to make it!

Tomorrow's write-in at the SA Writer's Centre should hopefully do me some good, dedicating the entire three hours to just writing, writing, writing... but tomorrow also means that there's only five more days of NaNo to go - am I gonna make it in time???

PS - I updated the Novel section of my NaNoWriMo page, which has a sneak peek on it (although it doesn't give away very much - or does it...)!