40 000 is the new 30 000.

Nanowrimo ends in a week or so.  It was another good experience.  I wil have another story on paper.  Even if it is a first draft, it is better than nothing.  I am also doing well, in general.  There was many scene that were really easy to write.  Usually, my writing can be categorized into fantasy with some tiny bits of science fiction.  Most of my characters have magic or psychic powers.  The setting is most of the time on other planets.  In one story, there are the beginning and the end involving a spaceship orbiting a planet.  At least two of my stories had taken place on earth.  Lately, I started to explore other genre.  In 2011, I have done erotica.  It was really kinky.  In 2013, I try my hand in the gothic.  Last year, I took a break.  I had no stories in my head at the time and my mind was set on other things.  This year, I try horror.  I haft succeded in that.  I do have some element of horror, specially in my characters.  For the rest, I kind of miss the mark.   There is only once scene that I am satisfied now.   I will have to work on tension and putting more horror when I will do my revision.

In past years, I found that between 30 000 and 40 000 words was the hardest to write.  It was where I wrote the slowest (my perception anyway).  It was my no man land.   Maybe it was right in the middle of my story.  It is usually where I have the most struggle in my stories.  I often have precise ideas for the beginning and the end.  For the middle,  it is always less precise.  I only had few ideas here and there for the middle.  So, it must be why I was rushing so much there.

This year, no problem writing in the 30 000 gray area.  It is only in the last few days, when I hit the 40 000 words that I start to falter.  I don't know why.  I didn't have any written plan this year.  I thought it would make it a little bit harder.  It wasn't the case.  I had all in my head and until now, I wrote furiously to put it all down.  I am at a point where I got some ideas on the go, as the story developped.  It was a very late addition to the story.  It is there that I am struggling right now.  I feel I am near the end.  I have to think fast.  I think I will wrap quickly that scene, leaving it's further development for later, in the revision process.  I think I will go for the ending.  I want the ending to be of epic proportion, so, I better start now.  As I am in the early 40 000, I am assured to reach the 50 000 words in the next few days.