NaNo update week 2

[fay_e]

Dear Reader,

I made 25k worth of words.

Not just 25k, but 25 984 words to be exact. Maybe more, because I was editing along the way and added more words, but I'm not going to sweat the details. I MADE 25 K. I HAVE NEVER WRITTEN SO MUCH FOR ONE STORY BEFORE.

And here are the things I learned.

I can write when I'm sick
I fell sick enough on the 9th that I ran home to sleep, took 2 days of sick leave (which I almost never do) and generally did a lot of falling around. Yet on the 9th I wrote 1705 words. Ha ha.

Outline, what outline?
When I was plotting the fic, I was wondering why I had so many things to include in the later part of the fic, but not so much at the beginning. Turns that I didn't plot in enough detail. I've added in 2 new chapters, and am despairing a bit of actually finishing the story in 50k. Which brings me to my next point...

Resources are cool
This week I discovered nano_writers and the concept of a puppy pound.

The puppy pound is an especially useful idea for me, because although I might not actually rewrite, I do edit as I c&p into 750 words. And I may also need a puppy pound because -

OMG talking heads
I realised that a lot of my fics are talking heads in a room. Which is great for writing snappy dialogue, but this fic is turning out to be only snappy dialogue. It's hard to write action when the characters are doing research rather than investigation, those painful first days when you don't even know where to start and have to read everything. And my female lead is not being cooperative in sharing information, so. I'll have to see which tactics by other characters to get her to open up can stay and which should go.

The rest
Mediums remained the same, though on one very good day I wrote 4 smses worth of fic on the train ride to and from work.

I completely forgot to crosspost week 1's update, so here is the update on dw.