Hey everyone!!


Welp, the gloomy November days continue onward....I swear it felt like night at 2pm this afternoon. Rather a discocerting feeling that winter is now fastly approaching.....

Since I haven't been on since last week, I thought I would pop in for a quick moment to update y'all on how my second week of NaNo went. Stay tuned for story snippets from The White Rose!




Monday, November 5

My week didn't start off with a bang: I only wrote 178 words. It was a partial scene in which Ealdread and Janina start discussing some common interests, which I suppose is a good start to their relationship 😏.


Tuesday, November 6

This was a really wonderful writing day: I managed to write 1885 words!

This particular chapter was one of my absolute favorites to write. It really highlights the comraderie between Janina, her sister Alvilda, Ealdread and his friend Karsten; as Ealdread *attempts* to teach Janina how to play a common strategy game (which is based on the game of chess).

Here is a snippet:




Wednesday, November 7

As it seems to be a pattern by now, today was another slow day with only 86 words. I believe this is the day that I wrote a scene that featured Janina's love for Aistarainian dance ;).


Thursday, November 8

I only did a little bit of writing while I was waiting for choir practice to start, so my word count was again small: 95 words.

Appropriately, since I was at church, I wound up writing a short snippet scene where Janina is at "church".


Friday, November 9

According to my writing stats, I wrote 82 words. I believe this is the day that I started to review all of my story arcs (all 90 million of them....) and started weaving them together.

During that process, I found that it felt similar to the arc trainwreck that I had with SOI....but this arc mess was A LOT easier to get through. I think it's because I KNOW how this story is actually going to go. oh my heavens, I'm moving forward.....aaaaaaahhhhhh


Saturday, November 10

This is actually my first day without any new writing. I literally had no time to write between catching up on some of my old writing, and running around collecting scrap metal between dairy shifts.


Sunday, November 11

In lieu of the zero day that I had yesterday, I buckled down to write a full scene today. All in all, I managed to 813 words between making a pie and watching some sick brothers.

Here is a snippet:



Currently, my "new" word count is right around 5K words, no doubt due to the small writing days that have been popping up. With all of this new material, however, my overall word count for The White Rose is over 20K!

I doubt that I will reach 50K of new material, unless I get more days over 800 words next week. But, that is still material that would not be there if I had not written anything this month. I'm satisfied, and my story is finally starting to gel together instead of being a bunch of discombobulated snippets and scenes. It will be wonderful to have a full flowing story for once!

To my fellow NaNoers, how has your second week gone? To my non-NaNo readers, what have you been up this second week of November? Tell me all the details in the comments! 

Scribblingly yours,

Catherine <3