NaNoWriMo 2014: Day Nineteen

Good Morning Everyone,
Today is day nineteen of NaNoWriMo and the word count goal for today is 31,666, and I am currently sitting at 33,380 words!

As you can probably tell, I did manage to write a little bit yesterday, in fact I did finish a chapter, however it was a very short chapter, coming in at just over 1,200 words. I wanted to try and add in another four hundred or so words, but no matter how I looked at it at the time, I couldn't find anything that I needed to add, so I decided to just let it be. Hopefully chapter twenty-one and twenty-two will be longer since they are more action-y chapters.

I mentioned yesterday that I had reached the end of what I had outlined again (since I didn't manage to finish my outline before November, and when I sat down to get more of it done, I got through outlining seven chapters and then just couldn't do it anymore), so yesterday I also sat down and finished outlining the rest of Scarlett. Yes, I finally have the complete outline finished, so I know what is going to happen throughout the rest of the story and in what order.  It also forced me to finally decide on a concrete ending for the story.

I was tossing around so many ideas for how the story would end. I wanted it to be something that would be fitting, but that readers might not necessarily expect. Isadora (the friend who forces me to do my writing every day) even gave me a few ideas that she had for the ending from reading the chapters as they came along. Some of the details of the endings that she gave me were actually very similar to some of the ones I had thought of, but I ended up choosing the one that I think fits the story best, and hopefully she will see it that way too.

Scarlett is going to have a grand total of thirty chapters, and a potential epilogue. I haven't decided yet if I want to put the epilogue in or not because it might take away from the story, but I'll see how I feel when it comes to writing it. If things keep going as well as they have been, then it looks like I will have written quite a bit over 50k words by the end of the month, which would be amazing.

I hope that you all are having a good day so far, and I hope that writing your novels is going well. As always, feel free to leave your Tablo account in the comments so that I can check it out and give you a follow.

Lots of NaNo-Love,
Helen.