NaNo Day 22: With a loud exhale, he exclaimed, “this cold! It’s like the North really is descending on us.”

With a loud exhale, he exclaimed, “this cold! It’s like the North really is descending on us.”

~ Write This Down

Too much has been going on this month, so in a sense, I left the NaNo contest. I intend to write vigorously the next week or so till the end of April. My goal is to hit 15k. That's about a chapter and a half. If I can get that much written by the end, I will be uber excited! As such, I will keep track here to see if I can meet that goal.
But the NaNo site is in the winning phase where you can already start submitting your words. Because of that, they have denied the ability to change your word count goal. As I said, I will keep track here and try to meet the 15k goal on my own. After the camp is over, I will then enter my total results in.

So, this year, I have already written 5008 words as of this moment in time.

I started writing when the novel was at 51,090 words. My word count includes what I wrote in the novel as well as two short stories (one being 352 words, the other being 613 words). Those were the little stories I used in the Mayatari writing challenge this month. I am including them because, well, a) I wrote them this month and b) It will boost my word count.
But unless I get another prompt on Mayatari, all I am focusing on insofar is my novel.

Chapter 5 is at 8181 words currently. That means I have at least 1819 words left to write (each chapter is 10k). Then I am going to finish writing my Uslo chapter (which is plotted as chapter 6). That one is currently at 5211 words. Only 4789 left.
So those two counts combined will get me to a total of 11,616 words. Yay!
I'm not sure if I will work on Chapter 7 or.... hmmm.... I do have some of Chapter 7 written already (919 words). But I might just use the remaining time to write Chapter 9. Chapter 7 might end up changed around cause it's a very boring POV point so far. We shall see though.........