I’m keeping on track with Camp NaNoWriMo. Sure, my word count goal is a paltry 20,000, but I’m all set to win and continue with the story into August and possibly September. What I thought would be a shorter story (~30,000 words) has ballooned into almost 50,000 words and will probably be 60,000 or 65,000 by the time the last scene is written.
When I got the initial idea for the story, I was almost certain I’d run out of ideas because at first, there didn’t seem to be much involved with the plot. I was more or less setting up the background for another story that would take place after it. But I’m really good at racking up word counts, even though I know that 90% (likely more) of what I write will eventually be edited out. So the ideas kept coming as the story progressed, and I have 13 fairly long chapters planned that should take me through to the end of the story. I hope I will accomplish what I set out to do: set up the events of the story that’s coming after it (and get out of the corner I wrote myself into before).
How’s your Camp going? Are you going to win?
