NaNo Update: The final push

If the daily target to write 50,000 words in thirty days is 1,667 words a day then I should by now have written 43,342.

My actual word count is now 43,360.

For the first time during the challenge I am ever so slightly ahead of where I should be and the night is still young. I should easily crack 45,000 words by the time I go to bed and will probably (hopefully) exceed that. That will leave me a mere 5,000 words to go. I am hoping to finish by close of play on Sunday night, three full days before the deadline.

I was a little concerned earlier because, as I mentioned in another post, I skipped forward to write passages that would appear later in the book. However, as the plot of the novel has subtley deviated from my original outline, I was concerned that those passages I wrote may no longer fit into the story and would have to be considerably rewritten or dumped entirely. That would be 4,000 words down the crapper. Fortunately, it didn't take a great deal of work to amend them. In fact, I was able to extend those stray passages quite a bit by incorporating new information that I improvised earlier. So, it's all good.

Oh yes, I'm gonna' make it. Can't stop: I have a novel to finish.