Imperial Advocates

Progress

• 23-11-10
  Pretty Things
  "Somehow I completely missed spotting the Novel Cover thingy on the NaNo Info page. So I skipped a word war to make one. This is another image from the Flickr set I really like. Not so keen on the purple bars and titles, but I think that font is better the one I have in the current site banner. In other news, I’m officially Behind again. I fell 327 words short of the necessary minimum for Monday–which is actually not bad considering that I only worked on it for about an hour and a half. One thing I’m finding is that I CAN churn out a lot of words if my mind is sufficiently active. Interestingly, I’m only about a third of the way through my outline. If each third is 35k, that would make the full novel over 100k. That’s not a bad length, though it might be pushing it for YA. At least I’ll have plenty of things to cut. Then again, there are at least three places where I did an [INSERT SOMETHING HERE] and I’ve given up on transitions–this Scrivener organization is good for pushing me ahead, bad for making everything connect. That’ll make revision very interesting. ..." Read More