U want Mo NaNoWri?

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Well, I haven’t written anything on my writing project yet today.  I’m struggling to call it a novel really – just seems like chunk of text to me for now. 

I went to work a little earlier than usual this morning and then delivered a wedding cake that I decorated to the FOURTH floor of L’Talia.  Yeah, I carried that heavy thing up stairs and more stairs.  And then a few more even.  Then I went off to my studio to meet a client so she could pick up the jewelry I’d designed for her.  She stayed and talked to me for a very very long time so I was there two hours with her.  At first it was fine but after a while I started to get tired then I just wanted her to stop talking long enough that I could say bye and shut the door.  Oh well, I really do like the lady, and she is a very good customer, but I was really getting tired.  She has some great jewelry!

6394 words

Toward my goal of about 50,000 words.

I’m frustrated (again) with the nanowrimo website.  I guess that’s old news but good grief!  It is supposed to get better.  I hope soon.

But there is something I’ve been thinking about.  In one section of text I referred to something that happened in the past and then realized it would contribute to the overall building of tension in the story if I wrote it into the narrative of the story.  Which leads me to consider completely rewriting a whole section of the story.  So, how does that work with the whole “first draft” part of Nanowrimo?  I could write it over and keep both the first idea and the second in there… and later if I’m well over the word count, then I can cut it and it won’t matter.  But if I’m short on words it will matter if I start killing whole sections of the book to write them another way.  I will rewrite it, but I’ll admit that when it comes time to select the old text and hit the delete button – it may give me pause.