Happy Thanksgiving guys!

43,433 words, dudes and dudettes

I've had some relatives over for a couple of days, so nyeh.

I've been trolling on NaNoWriMo's forums and am very discouraged by how a ton of people have way higher word counts than I do. It seems like a lot of people have from 50-1 million-ish k!

Here I am, lazing around and eating turkey when I could be writing! I already finished my minimum word count for the day, but I'm going to try and finish my novel by tomorrow. I only need 6,567 words and I can write about 3k in a few hours.

However, I'm going to take it easy with the writing. My nose has gotten a bit better, so I can actually breathe out of my nose now, but the sinuses in my head are still pounding like hell. Lately, I've had coughing fits every hour or so, and they're so bad that I've vomitted twice now.

I certainly can't be vomitting in school, but I've missed four days of school so far, and I already have a *beep*load of make-up crap to do.

Wow. I just realized that I haven't really bothered talking about my novel much this year xD

Umm, well, my main character has been stuck in a cave for quite some time now. Even though it saddens me to do this, I am still planning to kill him off. I still need to get to The Scene, though.

What's The Scene, you ask?

Whenever I'm writing a novel/short story/fanfic, I usually have a scene in mind that I'll be DYING to write. It is usually a scene that pops into my head the very minute I decide I want to write the entire story out.

Of course, these special scenes are filled with pure and fluffy yaoi xD

And most of the time (the exception being my novel from last year, Thirst) they are located near or at the very end of my stories. I want to build the emotions up to the scene, so I feel like I would ruin it if I just went ahead and wrote it before writing the boring parts out.

I do this because even though I'm technically the one writing it, it's the characters that tell the story. I like to see what they do and how they build and break their relationships. I just give them guidelines to follow and then they do whatever the hell they want. Even this year's novel has gone a bit differently than I had expected it to, but I'm not sure if this is a good thing or a bad thing.

Instead of a psychological thriller revealing how the pressures of society and peers and religion and everything else can break the human spirit, it has more of a lost romance in it instead. Well, I guess it isn't TOO, TOO far off from what I originally had in mind, but I wanted the romantic relationship my main character had with somebody else to be only a minimal part in the story.

Damn Inner Pervert had her way with my story again *shakes head sadly*

I wonder if I'll ever be able to write a serious novel without a yaoi relationship in it.

HAH!

Probably not.

Ah, such is life. I'll just have to suck it up and enjoy it.

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Never mind. I hope you guys enjoyed your Thanksgiving dinners!