50.326 

and I am a winner  !!!  with a two thirds or maybe three quarters finished novel.  I hope to keep writing til the end of the month and see how far I get.  It is getting complicated with a sub plot or two but it is also getting more interesting to write.

I hope I can keep going with the novel

Good luck to all the other participants :)

WOOHOO

45,016 / 50,000

So close !  Fortunately/Unfortunately I have a lot more to write to finish the story.  I have mostly enjoyed the process and the deadline aspect of NaNoWriMo.  My partner was also inspired to work on a fictionalised autobiography, and I hope she keeps writing it after the month is out.  I think she has an important story to tell as a male to female transexual lesbian.  It is a hard concept for most people to get their head around, so maybe if she can tell her story we can spread some more understanding out into the general population.

My plot has changed over the course of the month, and I think I was trying to work too many elements into the one novel.  I have dropped one sub plot entirely for the moment, and I don't think I will be putting it back in later.  I probably don't need the wordcount, and I think it makes the story over complicated.

I hope all the rest of the NaNo writers are doing well....  if you aren't at 50K yet there is still time !!

38,343/50,000

Wow what an interesting day.  I was having a problem with my plot and was lucky enough to get in a chat with another writer who pointed out some things about one of my characters and the bit I was missing just fell into place.  I now know who sabotaged the ship, how, why and who was pulling their strings.  I have no idea if I will be able to wrap the plot up in 12000 words though.  I'd like to get to 75,000 really, in the hope I have some left after editing LOL.  I don't think I'll get that far in the next week though LOL.  Never mind, I do still want to hit the 50K and am still basically on track to do so.  Fingers crossed I get there.

Good luck to the other NaNo participants :)

By the lame duck god of duckweed ! ! I think I can do this ;)

36,116 words now

I am working on this still.... though some times I wonder why as even I find it dull.  I have to cling to the hope that I can edit and rewrite this in January into something worth reading.  I am pretty sure I need to work on the dialogue.  I am not sure I am using it effectively to illustrate the right points in the plot.  I still have a saboteur with no motive LOL to sort out as well, and some alien technology to figure out how to use and what it does.  Not sure I can wrap it up in 14K remaining words, but that's not a problem as long as I either finish at however many words within a month or keep writing EVERY day until I do finish.  And no editing until the draft is complete !

Sigh.  I must be nuts ....

I've been testing Aussie jokes here and there in forums and it seems some of them just don't work away from home :(  Pesky Aussie refugees on the moon will insist on trying to share their humour.... It's a shame that in my novel America has been annexed into the Occupied Zone of Southern Canada.   Otherwise I'd use some American jokes ;)

I have lost the plot.... I mean it has run away from me altogether and I am chasing it as hard as I can but it's getting very weird in here now.

I have written about 5,000 words in the last two days trying to get this plot back to serious sci-fi but I am losing hope.

My self propelled electronic suitcases have been turned into alcohol stills by a group of Australian refugees from the next Ice Age, living in the mines on the moon. Said suitcases are now drunk on alcohol fumes and causing brawls among the Aussies by running into their ankles.

This is the same group of refugees who said they would not evacuate Earth without taking some kangaroos, wombats, emus, platypus and rabbits with them. Bastards are making it so much harder to plot. And WTF with the rabbits they are an introduced species damn it ! ! I am surprised they haven't asked for a bunyip.

HELP MEEEEEEEEE LOL, no on second thoughts this is way too much fun ;)

Though I am worried that I am crossing two genres and making life hard for myself.

30013/50000 - 5,000 words today !  and it still doesn't make sense :O

"Holy Goat Ears of Doom, Batman." ... "Yes Robin, Holy Goat Ears of Doom, indeed." 

OMG OMG OMG LOL

CRAPTASTIC !!  I am over half way now, and still plotting along in the dark while my characters order me about the place.  I must be a masochist or some such, to have such demanding characters.  Not one of them has turned out to be who I thought they were when I began outlining.  Also I am only loosely sticking to the thirty chapter outline I had.

So this is a great ride and even I don't know how it ends yet :)

25297/50000

Holy alliteration Batman !! WTF was I on when I wrote this !!

"She had been staring at these maps for hours and still she had no answer for the apparent aberration from the precise pattern that had so far revealed itself as a series of concentric circles."

When does the editing month start !!!!