I tried to push it last night. Pretty darn good, but still a very daunting daily number of words left to complete by the 30th. Today I booked to where I could sit down and start typing at lunch. I mean really scurried and only checked the clock to get back to work on time. I had started thinking about seeing if anyone was going to the guilderland library – I’d heard that one or two wrimos had been meeting there during the month and late today I decided I’d try it. What could be bad? If it was too noisy I’d make my escape etc.
Got there earlier than the scheduled time and the nice librarian told me to flip on the switch in the room. Got all set up and was already tapping away when a nice local in-the-flesh wrimo person showed up. WITH A FREAKING SCOTTISH ACCENT! We did some intros and got down to it. Different writing styles, but still getting the job done.
When the 30 minutes til closing announcement came I was stunned. They shut off the wifi at 15 minutes with another heart-stopping announcement. Shouldn’t that be a quiet librarian voice, or maybe something slightly hal-like? Anyway we both clutched our chests and gasped and then after some chat I was boogieing my way home!
My helpful hint for finishing up with a bang at the looming close of NaNoWriMo: a huge big crowd scene at the end of the tale that involves gathering up a whole lot of characters and spreading joy and love all around. After fearing I was one big source of talking heads (aka too much dialogue), tonight I wrote more descriptive stuff than I thought possible.
