Unexpectedly, I crushed my old story’s word count record tonight.

Old story word count: 18,945

Words before: 18,113

Words today: 2,022

New word count: 20,135

Yes, I’ve broken the 20k mark within a week. Let’s keep this momentum going, shall we?

I listened to Green Carnation’s – The Acoustic Verses consistently while writing the past few days. Today was no exception.

As for the picture inspiration, I wrote a lot of quick-witted scenes. Fortunately, I had these folks covering my back.

I didn’t reach my word count today because Monday’s leave me little time to write. Boo-urns!

The exciting thing is that my story is really taking off and I’m having a LOT of fun writing it.

As I mentioned in my first NaNoWriMo note, I have attempted other writing projects but always became dissatisfied with them. At the moment, my longest story I’ve attempted ended at 18,945 words. From the looks of things, by tomorrow, I should surpass old record.

And I’m not even a week into this yet. . .

Words before: 17,102

Words today: 1,011

New word count: 18,113

This picture of inspiration really hit the nail on the head with the scene I was writing. It was brought to you by the letter “internet.”

Yes. It’s a letter. . .

Keep on Space Truckin’!

And on the fifth day, I created more words.

I had a bit of a hurdle getting started with writing today, but I’m glad I achieved my writing goal. I was literally struggling for hours on it. It definitely had something to do with the music I was listening to.

Words before: 15,505

Words today: 1,597

New word count: 17,102

The scene I was writing today was definitely a sad, emotional one. After struggling to get a feel for writing the scene, I turned on Paatos’ “Silence of Another Kind” album, and used the following image for inspiration:

Keep on Space Truckin’!