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I know the feeling will probably pass, but the novel writing expedition is really becoming enjoyable. Had another fine write-in session with some of the other Nanoers in Mono again, came home and watched a bit of crap telly and decided I’d actually rather be writing because that would be more fun and have largely been doing just that for the rest of the evening – aside from a brief pause for dinner.

So I’m stopping for the evening having reached 15,113 words, a mere 1557 short of where I should be by today (16,670). The story however is rolling along nicely and the characters aren’t deviating from the plot outline in any drastic way, indeed the main protagonist and the Femme Fatal have just hopped in the sack together as planned.

An excerpt from today’s work, nothing too steamy…

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My Wee brother Kenny has been staring in the unlikely role of “Ill guy with Flu” for the NHS’s flu-jab campaign and it is getting somewhat disconcerting to see my apparently stricken brother staring out of every high street chemist’s window having also mysteriously changed his name to Ben.

The Herald‘s diary the other day mistook him for a publicity stunt for the new Saw movie as he was re-enacting the famous poster for the benefit of passers-by in Sauchiehall Street.

So work took me to Derby at the beginning of the week which, I’m very glad to say, went fine as I was implementing a solution using software I’d written. Last night though the local Derby NaNoWriMos were having a write-in meeting which I gate crashed.

We had a marvelous time writing and chatting and I discovered this morning that I actually passed the psychologically important 10k word barrier while I was there but didn’t realise it at the time because my laptop’s battery ran out and the machine shut down before I could check my final word count.

Update:
There are pictures of the event here.

So at 10,004 words I am still a little behind where I should be (13,336 by the close of play today) but that is not insurmountable in a good evenings noveling tonight. Assuming I can stay awake as I did get up at 04:30 to catch my flight back to Glasgow and have come straight into work.

A brief excerpt from recent work:

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