Day 24 of 30: The Race Begins

So, today's the day. I've taken off the three days before Thanksgiving to crank out the remaining 47,000 words. Make or break. Do or die. The time has come. this is essentially how I have always written term papers, so I figure the familiar model will help me to get to work.

I've been reading The Power of Myth by Joseph Campbell, which has been tremendously inspirational in getting to the themes that I need to use. NOT that this will actually have discernible themes this time around but it's good to think about.

And all this time of not writing has made me churn through the whole story a few times and so I have a much better idea what I want to do to spice things up so to speak.

Tim has given me a rough and tumble monk/botanist for the trip there and back, which has taken the story to a whole new level. Nita has given me a gorgeous lute soundtrack (must download before continuing!) Brandy has been checking in on my (lack of) progress, asking to be one of my first readers, and Rob has been hounding my ass to get cracking, even if he is not himself cracking, ahem.

Thanks Mud, for regularly tracking my blog.

Word count: 3141