It’s been a few days since my last NaNo update, but there isn’t too much to report.  I’ve been hovering right around the word count goal for the last few days.  Yesterday was higher–today was lower.  In the end it evens out to put me at 13,681, about 350 up on the total goal.  Not bad, except that I’ve been trying and failing to build up a cushion against another Thursday when I won’t have time to write…we’ll see how that goes later this week.

On the plus side, I finally got to introduce a delayed major character today, and thanks to his entrance I think I see a lot more dialogue in my future.  I like dialogue.  I also have a clearer picture of my next several scenes than I usually have at the end of the evening, so I may be able to get that cushion written up tomorrow after all.  Crossing fingers!

Excerpt!

The library is my favorite place.  It had limited competition, since I had never been outside of our castle, but I think it would have been anyway.  It seemed in a way a wondrous thing.  Every room in the castle had some purpose—rooms for sleeping, for eating, for sewing, for dancing.  They were practical and tangible.  And I loved that there was a room simply to store information, ideas, thoughts…and stories.