NovMo '24: Dreamwalker

WE'RE DOING THE THING!!
(nice work getting the word count on day 1!!)

@Carlito thanks! (Also, what exactly do you mean? What thing are we doing? Sorry lol I'm probably blind)

Today's Word Count: 1698
Total Word Count: 3425
Snippet:
(Small spoiler)

Spoiler

“No!” she screams. “You don’t get to pretend to be this loving caretaker after what you just said to me!”
Her hands curl into fists. “You don’t get to be anything at all! You’ll never be a doctor, you’ll never be a chef, you’ll never be anything! You’ll be sad and alone because you can’t seem to care about anyone!”
As her voice falls at the last word, she looks up into his eyes. He sees the reflection of sunlight dim as it hides behind a cloud.

(This character is usually soft-spoken and not angered easily.)

Notes:
The excitement can't stop me I'm still too excited ahhh

Today's Word Count: 1930
Total Word Count: 5355
Snippet:

Spoiler

As the vehicle goes out of view, nearing a more populated and city-like area, he hears their piercing sirens come on. He’d always heard them far away, but it occurs to him that he never really considers who is inside and who is left behind. He always thought of the professionals inside them and how he, one day, might be one. Never about the patients inside or the people outside who are scared.

Notes:
Okay so tense is actually a huge problem; I keep switching to past tense. It's supposed to be present. I didn't think this would be a problem as I honestly use present tense a fair amount, even used it for last year's NovMo. This one is 3rd person though and last year's was 1st... I'm seriously debating whether or not to switch the whole story to 1st person... (as tense is actually kind of important for this story)

OrabellaAvenue wrote:@Carlito thanks! (Also, what exactly do you mean? What thing are we doing? Sorry lol I'm probably blind)

lol you're good, I was referencing this from the first day

But other than that I'M STILL SO EXCITED CAN YOU BELIEVE NOVMO IS HERE AND WE'RE DOING IT??

but I didn't quote it and then my post ended up on a new page so it wasn't clear

Ahh, okay, I get it now! XD Thanks @Carlito!

Today's Word Count: 1825
Total Word Count: 7178
Snippet:

In their history class, their teacher instructs them to talk with their partners about the subject currently on the board. Emyr turns to Evelyn, but she looks the other way.
He was going to ask if she was okay.
Obviously she is fine.

Notes:
Okay so I had an idea that undermines a lot of what I have, but it's so much better and it honestly fits really well, so much better, and wouldn't be that hard to incorporate it for editing Orabella. I, however, am not editing Orabella and will be doing no such thing as of yet. (Although I'm debating if I should just ignore what I have written and keep going as if I already fixed everything before... hm... Like... what about 1st person... because the tenses are driving me crazy ahhh)

Today's Word Count: 389
Total Word Count: 7567
Snippet:

“Evelyn, Evelyn, little Lime. Have some patience. Give it some time.” He grins. “You like my rhyme? Think I can be a poet?”
“Sure,” she replies.

Notes:
Honestly this is so sad. And I was doing so good before! But I blame that on rehearsals and driving time and my Language Arts class. I probably can't catch up tomorrow, but hopefully I'll be all caught up on the weekend.

Omg your beginning word counts are just AWESOME. Hope your progress is still amazing... though, if it isn't, we're in the same boat together lol. ^^

Thanks @Snoink! I'm glad I'm not the only one lol
Yeah... wordcount has gone downhill... Wishing motivation and time and ideas for you to write!


Today's Word Count: Through all these days, it's been 5160 words. Lowest word count was 141, highest was 1068.
Total Word Count: 12727
Snippet:

“Looks like we’re at a stalemate.”
“But the game’s not over.”
“You’re such a nerd,” Conscious says, moving away again.

Notes:
Yeah this is less than ideal. At this point in time, I'd need to write over 2663 words per day... oops. Help lol

Today's Word Count: 2973
Total Word Count: 15700
Snippet:

[Conscious] looks up at Subconscious.
Subconscious looks down at Conscious.

Context: Conscious and Subconscious are characters. Conscious is tied up and Subconscious is standing above him disapprovingly. I just think it's funny that Subconscious is standing above Conscious.
Notes:
Bwahahah I wrote slightly above my goal. I still need to write 2500 some words per day to meet the 50000 mark... maybe if I just write thousands on the 17th I can lower that number enough...
But anyway, this day marks the day that I go over my total wordcount for NovMo last year, so at least I'm doing better than that lol.

Today's Word Count: 4024
Total Word Count: 19724
Snippet:

Looking around the room and seeing Evelyn not there as he enters reminds him that he has, in fact, seen the same thing before. He’s come in multiple times to his 5th period and has not seen her there.
He had never noticed.

Notes:
Ahhhhhh.
That's all I have to say.
Thank you.

Today's Word Count: 2818
Total Word Count: 22542
Snippet:

He doesn’t care how much his eyelids droop even as his heart races and his breath drags in ragged and sharp. He watches his breath soar into the moonlight as he passes under streetlights, and even as his brain is full of fog, his body feels fluid and unyielding to anything but his commands.

I don't even know if this is good or not. I'm so numb to writing and reading right now XD
Notes:
Me? Back to updating somewhat regularly? That's crazy. (And most likely short lived)

Yay!!! Over 20K!