Yep, I'm past one half but I recently I remembered I'm doing Urban Fantasy. In UF any romance always has a rocky life. It seems to be one of the things that makes UF. So I need to make my MC's romance difficult. But my subconscious seems to know that for I have a set up just perfect for a little storm over the Love Boat.

I should have remembered that, In one UF novel I'm working on, even though I haven't worked on it for months, my MC is married, while he is advancing in his Mage career they are having problems. At the end of the book even though they have to work together(Or will have to if I ever get to the end)they will separate. But only until the next book. Even though she said something stupid she was going to do they get back together but....

And in another UF novel my MC is engaged. He ends up thinking she is having an affair with his best friend, she's not but she is lying about something. So he breaks off the engagement and cancels their wedding and has to stop the bad guy on his own and it isn't until the last he finds out she was lying about her family and even though the engagement is back on there is no new date for a wedding. Next book.

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In UF any romance always has a rocky life.

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Really? I hadn't heard that that was an established part of urban fantasy. I've seen that in several of the UF I've read, but I just figured it was because romance in regular romance stories is rocky (almost by definition--what else serves as the conflict or tension in a romance novel if the romance isn't rocky?).

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Really? I hadn't heard that that was an established part of urban fantasy. I've seen that in several of the UF I've read, but I just figured it was because romance in regular romance stories is rocky (almost by definition--what else serves as the conflict or tension in a romance novel if the romance isn't rocky?).

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I don't think it is official but it is in every UF book I've read and in some I have just looked over. I should say in every book that has a romance. Two or three series do not have any type of romance going on- but at least one of those is developing one, it looks like.

And you're right about a romance novels, as far as I know that is. But some of these UF romance problems are pretty heavy, though come to think of it a couple books have ordinary problems.

You're also right about mine breaking the mold. I've debated that in my mind. But in this novel, as I said, there's a set up already to go. I didn't plan it but it's there. I could make it something they overcome and let it be pretty much smooth from there. I believe the set up is something that would cause problems because they are both lying. Her about her ears and background, this one is revealed in a deadly evening with hell dogs, elves with long sharp knives and a unicorn watching it all. And my MC doing magic. Not to mention that he was almost torn apart by hell dogs just because he was with her. He might be lying about his job and why he carries a gun. I haven't quite decided for sure yet. But if he is a TV reporter is going to reveal to her his real job.

Things like that can be overcame (overcomed?) so I will think about it some more.

The key for me was a solid outline and notes about the story in advance of starting. My muse takes over, but I know where the story is going so I write towards my goal and the writing flows better that way, at least for me.

I also never went back to edit. I had to go back if something really changed, but in a normal writing mode, you may delete a scene, not in NaNo. I read five hundred to a thousand words before I started every night (I gave myself 8 to midnight to write) to get into the writing groove.

My drafts are plot and character driven and that helps get the novel down. I'll have to go back and do grammar/spelling work and fill in description and then it goes out to some readers for review. Then I'll do a solid rewrite.

I may be up there this year. I know I wrote a lot of short stories last year but not sure if it was enough to be over 100,000 words but this year it could be altogether.

I do know I won't be near you for NaNo, even if I do get over 50,000, which the way things look now I might. I don't mean just a couple of thousand over.

And when I do finish my two, well three counting NaNo's, novels I'll be needing a First reader or two.

Anyway: Glimmer is actually Glammer. I'm surprised no one caught it.

And I have spelled Fairye wrong it's something like Fairaye or Faireye I need to find it again in the book I am reading. But this one may not be as important as Glimmer- Glammer.

UPDATE: Nearly a day later, and I finished my edit and an MSWord grammar and spelling check. I'm formally done with my first draft. It ended up at 76,193.

Ah'l have another five to ten thousand to before I do The End.

50,000 may be Saturday at bedtime. I may have to rush the ending to be done by Tuesday, Monday be better.

I gave in tonight, having achieved my word count for the day, writing "Oh my gosh I think I can’t stop being boring in this book help!"

I think tomorrow I'm going to do one of those..."And then the little green men came down and stole all their gear" kinds of upheavals, or just "Three months later..." or something, because right now it's just the journey and absolutely nothing interesting happens on the journey.

I'm sure you know this but journeys can be very exciting. They can get lost, run into zombies living in the backhills(oops that was a movie, I think), get stopped for speeding, loose something, pick up flowers that turn out to be intelligent and from another dimension(An old book), crush and not burn, find they are trapped in time bubble so everyday is the same and when the try to leave they end up back where they started, come across fresh dinosaur tracks when they stop to take a nature break in the middle of nowhere, or find a guy with a metal wristband that can turn into an energy weapon(New not out yet movie) Etc. etc. etc.

When in doubt, add a car chase. Or danger. Or spies, or a kidnapping...

~Sheena

I be aiming for Sunday night to finish. It'll be more than 50,000 words so we shall see.

I have between 39 and 40 now.

Rhaythe, you might fake it to finish by then. I know I'm leaving out scenes and putting in a couple I will have to go back and add a led up to, so I can be done by Sunday night. Of course I will add more afterwards. I want it at least 80 even though 90 would be better.

I need to get done before the 30th so I can spend an hour or so doing a spell check and not have to wait inline with the last minute people. Of course the 29th might be last minute to but hopefully not too bad.

I am so sorry to hear about your wife and that's where your concentration should be.

With all the sections I have 20+, I don't feel like going back to double check right now so I'll just go ahead and say I have 44,440 words. If I did forget something I can add it later, it won't hurt if I'm actually over anyway.

Man, inarticulateBabbler, that's bad News. So many things come to mind that's it's hard to decide what to say. My great sympathies to you-Babbling is okay under the circumstances- Some people have found it peaceful to do something normal during this time but that's up to you-Reminds me that my problems are small.

My NaNo story came in at just under 59k. I think I have another scene to add, so I should end up in the low 60s.

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Thank you. Pray for her. She NEEDS it.

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My NaNo story came in at just under 59k. I think I have another scene to add, so I should end up in the low 60s.

Anyone interested in trading crits on NaNo stories in December?

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I might be very close to 50,000 despite my counting mistake, but I still hope to completely finish it by Sunday bedtime.

And I would be interested in trading crits even these are very long stories
And do you mean the way they are now? I will have add 25,000 words, at they very least.

But mine will be needing massive revisions in certain areas. I have doing some as I write--I write that way, one guy calls it the slinky way of writing-but I didn't take the time to redo certain scenes like the opening scene that I went back to when I was half way through and partially redid. I will have it spell checked but there is no doubt a lot of nitpicks that missed.

Of course with epublishing now we could keep them the length they are and epublish them as a NaNo set.

If we did do E-Pub we weren't have to worry about the length but we would have to figure out how--as one set at one price, who would get paid how or a set were the buyers would have a choice of which novels to buy???

Now I still have to run it through a spell check before I verify it.

The last 4,000 words were the fastest I've ever written for that many. I won't say it's good writing.

Congrats Sheena

I got mine in a tiny bit over 54,000 words.

So me is a winner

Boy, all of a sudden NaNo web site got busy. I'm glad I verified mine earlier.

Got a comment to make on my local forum there if I can get back on tonight. See if anyone wants to keep writing and to start a writer's group locally. We could keep the write-ins going once a month or so.

Speaking of epublishing and getting our novels ready for normal publishing.

I have been thinking about my novel and how to lengthen it. I said I would need at least 25,000 words. I'm making that 26,000 now. That would 80,000 words.

Today I decided I could easily add 1500 to bring it up to 55,500. Just add to the final scene which could use it anyway, and add a conversation or two.

But I'm not sure about adding 26,000 more words. I want to add two scenes, put in at the beginning something about abilities I gave my MC toward the end, add another couple of conversations. Maybe lengthen even more the ending. So instead of spending part of a day in the Nightland area of the Summerlands, she stays two days there. With more danger and more use of her magic which she needs to do anyway. But I don't think all of that would be 26,000 plus words. Something could come to mind when I start the rewriting but right now that's where it's at.