NaNoWriMo hits (and passes) 15,000 words

I just hit 15,337 words, and since three big chunks of prose narrative came into my head this afternoon while I was on the bus and I'm still writing them all down, I expect to get at least a few hundred more words in before the day is over.

This puts me 3,668 words ahead of schedule (assuming I was writing the minimum per day to reach 50,000 on November 30th).

I've changed my female main character's name to Tatiana Amanda Kavelin (making her ethnic background Russian) and the male main character's name to Jeremy Peter Anderson (making his ethnic background English).

I'm glad that the project has finally "kindled" -- whole segments of text and interaction popping unbidden into my mind are the sure sign that the creative fire has taken hold and is growing. The last several days have been a long slog through plotting, research, and more plotting. Now I can start to coast as the story writes itself.

NaNoWriMo update

I'm up to 17,779. That's just over 4200 words written in one day.

I am now 6110 words ahead of schedule.

*is ded from amazement*