50026

Finished it with about 14 minutes to spare. Apparently, I have to pay $25 for the t-shirt that I won, so I think I'll just take the moral victory.

Passed 42,000

This is exhausting. Every 1,000 words I get through reminds me of Cool Hand Luke eating the 50 eggs. I just need George Kennedy here to, like, peel my words or something.

38,509

Moving right along here, although I've only got a couple days left. It will probably come down to a writing marathon/quest/journey before midnight the 30th. Maybe I'll add a couple random subplots just to have a place in the story for word dumping and whatnot.

25,034

Finally passed the halfway mark. Still kind of doing it in pieces, but it's coming together, more or less. Still terrible though. Don't let me give you the wrong impression.

Still going, but not quite as strong

I was starting to catch up, but now I'm falling behind again. I'm getting stuck at certain parts, writer's block and whatnot. So then I'll skip ahead to random other scenes and start writing them. So it's a mess right now. Just a huge dirty mess.

Still at not anywhere near as many words as I'm supposed to have.

Unlike my cohort, Natus Doggus, who is gamely proceeding at wild speeds, I am sucking badly.  I am well behind, and my wife, dog, mother, and mother's dog are coming to town so who knows when next I can write.  Also, io9.com informs me I'm supposed to be 1/4 of the way done.  LOL.

Passed 10,000

This is a pretty good milestone. Still behind, but catching up. Like I said, what I'm putting out is awful writing. Basically one step above bullet points. But as soon as I catch up, I can start editing. And that will add words when I fill in parts I left un-detailed. I do that just to move the story along without stopping to analyze too much. Here is an excerpt from before I started wild non-stop writing:

Brick just shook his head and said, “Look, I need you to open his skull.” At this, the ninja nodded and karate chopped the alien’s skull through the flesh, right in the sweet spot, cracking it open like a coconut.