You bums, letting real life get in the way of your Nano novels! Why I outta...

I hit the 20,000 word mark at some point last night. 20,000 words, only 400 or so worth keeping. But forward, ever forward. I'm almost exactly 1 day behind in word count. As in, I hit my Saturday goal on Sunday. But for those who are still plinking away, I don't know about you, but I can do 1500 words in less than 2 hours, if I am even slightly trying. I'll bet I could do it in an hour if I was paying attention.

So anyway, at this point in the novel, I had a pointless car explosion. Well, it was just a parked car that burst into flames while my characters were sitting at a stop light. But it's a car explosion nonetheless, right? What else...um, no pirate treasure yet. I have to decide soon if she's going to find any, and if she is, where. Maybe I'll have her find a puppy in her back yard. I could get a good few thousand words out of that. I have lots to say about puppies.

You can see that if they make a movie out of this book, it will be rated G, right?

Well, since my gig wraps up next week, I may find some time to throw garbage into my novel, but I hold no illusions of "finishing" in time.

Does that help any? ;-)