Five days in

Have you ever had the joy of meeting a character you had previously not known? It’s really quite nice to get to know them. Sometimes they may see elusive, but they are really just waiting for you to break them out of their shell and see what they are truly like. Take Kemelian for instance. My main character, Lona, was walking along nicely when suddenly his voice came from somewhere in the fen. This came as quite a surprise to both Lona and myself. Well, the two met and I was introduced to a rather shift-eyed, bald, reptile-like man who lives in the fen in a hidden house that descends under the shallows of the swamp. And then he needed a name. After asking him and several friends, I found his name must be Kemelian (see if you can guess which reptile I got that from. . .) His was not the most joyous of meetings, he is, in fact, rather “creepy” as one of my friends put it.

Well, NaNoWriMo is in full swing and I’ve nearly finished my quota for the day. Already I can see major areas that need some serious overhauling, but I have done only slight tweaking if I suddenly go off on a completely different tangent. (Yes, I know, just leave it, D.T., just leave it. . .) Some have already gone and done about half of the entire word count in five days, but I am not convinced of the good in doing that. I much prefer a slower pace with fewer errors. Not that that always lessens my errors, but one can always hope.