Days 16-17

I’m surprised to find myself at the end of today with the third thread completed — or as completed as it can be, sans previous writing, during NaNoWriMo.

Of the three I’ve done so far, this section was perhaps the most difficult, and I can point to my outline as the main culprit. I had to codify two or three outlines into one, adding some new pieces, and then try to make it all come together. I had to revise the outline as I wrote, moving and consolidating chapters, jettisoning some ideas, coming up with new ones. But it has remained, despite the difficulty, a very interesting exercise.

That also concludes the three threads I had thought to include in this version of the book, but as I said X number of entries ago, there is one and probably two additional threads I am going to return to the book. And since I am throwing out quite a bit of material from one of these two newer threads, and perhaps all of its existing material, the rest of the writing will be on brand-new sections, needing from-scratch outlines. Pieces of those will come from events that take place in the existing threads, but a lot will be from whole cloth.

• Days: 16-17
• Days Left: 13
• New Words: 5756
• Total Words: 36006
• Cooking: Turkey Pizza Skillet.
• Fluids: Water. Iced Tea.
• Exercise: 22+ miles cycling yesterday.
• Reading: The True Story of Audion
• Listening: R.E.M.
• Obsessing on: Text Editors and PHP.