The Cydia arc is pretty much over! A nice local climax marks the end of their adventures in Cydia. Lots and lots of stuff happening in this writing – like I said, this is going to extend out for six more days through December 6th while I write the War arc, which is the ending of the novel. Will Talos make it? Will Cydia make it? What will happen to Earth? How the hell is Jason going to close up the gaping plotholes? Why are there so many typos? All will be explained over the next six days in… NANOWRIMO OVERTIME!

Word Count: 100,268

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With one day left to approach 100,000 words – my goal for this crazy month – we find that our heroic trio might just have to give up searching City Square – not because they’ve found nothing, but because they’ve found too much. Graham is thrust out of consciousness and into The Collective, and the end of the Cydia arc begins. You’ll see a huge transition in the next writing as I take the situation from one world to three worlds – Cydia, Talos, and Earth.

I’ll hit 100,000 tomorrow, and continue writing until December 6th, when I’ll reach the novel’s ending at no less than 120,000 words. It’s been an awesome November!

Word Count: 95,081

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Playing that catchup game after Thanksgiving is fun. I’m frantically trying to end the Cydia arc and begin the War arc by 100,000 words.

Word Count: 91,694

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Thanksgiving! For the first time ever, I didn’t write. I decided I was so stuffed with food that I deserved a break. See ya tomorrow!

Only wrote a half day today. It doesn’t set me back, but it doesn’t keep me ahead. I’m on track now to reach 100,000 words by the 30th, and I’ll be writing to 120,000 until December 6th, when the story will end! Woo!

Word Count: 86685

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And now Cydia gets interesting.

Word Count: 85,093

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I had a long day working with home theater people to repair our home theater system. I only wrote half as much as a result; tomorrow’s entry will be double length, with any luck, putting me half a day ahead.

Word Count: 81,749

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God, I love candy corn.

Huzzah for the 80k milestone! Today’s 5,000-word entry, making up for yesterday’s short entry, introduces Variable’s new fetch and the concept of The Leaf. And, in total craziness, the group of three move forward to other places. Lots of other stuff happens, too.

On my mother’s request, I actually TRIED sparking a relationship between Ames and Graham. I had initially avoided this because I didn’t want a mushy relationship to muck up the story, like it does to so many other stories, and my limited relationship experience alone is enough reason for me to avoid it. But when she read the story and then asked me, “Where’s the sex?”, I don’t think I could leave their relationship out of the story any longer!

Word Count: 80,063

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Sorry for posting this late; some server troubles prevented me from accessing the site. At any rate, I only wrote half as much yesterday. I was coming home, and wanted a break. I’m going to write 1.5x for Day 23 to make up for the loss and hit 80,000 words.

Word Count: 75,267

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