Paper Flowers.

I've won NaNoWriMo. Well, words-wise. Just doing some fine-tuning right now and I might be uploading some chapters to Wattpad and whatnot. Someone at my horseback riding told me about Wattpad and I figured that I should at least give it a shot. Dip my toes in the water. It's a pain so far, but it's interesting nonetheless and cool. Hopefully I can get this all together.

Currently have 40,874 words. Jesus. Anyway, I think I'm doing pretty well so far. I am getting more into the head of my villain, for starters, and starting to feel like he isn't just some evil Van Helsing. Even had some nice Even Evil Has Loved Ones moments. So I am getting there. I am.

Currently have 34,070 words, and some stiff fingers, but an overall sense of feeling like I got some good crap done in the midst of everything else. I also noticed that my work is getting more paranoid in tone -- there is the subject matter, of course, and then there's...well, recent events. Let's say it's a case of real life bleeding into fiction. At least I got some characters right. I hope.

Currently have 27,332 words so far. Not bad. Not bad at all. And I'm starting to feel for the first time that they're not crap either. Phew.

Currently have 23,827 words. Which...yeah. Not too shabby. Anyway, I think I did well in terms of flashbacks to the Monster Slayer's backstory, even though...well, do vampires have an afterlife? I kind of got the impression from the book version of Dracula that staking them kind of "set them free", in a sense, but can they appear as ghosts, for starters? What would an afterlife for a vampire (or afterundeath?) be like?

Any vampire aficionados (as my villain's foster father -- who died before the events of the story -- is a vampire. No, the villain's not a vampire himself) out there, I would welcome any input. I mostly want to make sure I'm not messing things up.

Currently have 21,204 words. Ouch. Also feeling pretty awful right now (trying to write through what I can only assume is either a cold or allergies; I know I have a lot of sniffling and feeling fuzzy), so I'm thinking I better rest.

Currently have 17,779 words. Which is something. I think I did okay, considering the rough morning I had.

Currently have 14,304 words so far, and, remarkably, my hands aren't hurting this time around. Heck to the yes. Added some pretty interesting backstory for Diana, though I am worrying a bit about her becoming Jamie Lloyd 2.0. I mean, yeah, she doesn't turn evil temporarily yet, but she's got the being chased thing and getting bullied by others as a kid (she attended a series of schools with werewolves, etc.) thing, only for being a human. Mostly because others see her as another potential recruit for the Monster Slayer. And I got to add in a bit of some of Diana's issues with her human heritage because of that. It's an interesting angle to start exploring and hopefully I'll do well.

Currently have 10,761 words. Ow. Anyway, got a bit more into my villain's backstory, which is a plus. Worried that almost everything else is crap, but I thought that part was at least pretty good.

So, current wordcount for today is 5,517 words. Also, Jesus. Mostly, a lot of the wordcount came from my main villain's own issues. Thinking he was betrayed (even though he was kind of the one who betrayed everyone. Less Caesar, more Brutus actually), etc. It was pretty interesting -- even if I feel like I have to take a mental shower now -- to get inside his head. Also got to write a tender scene between the main character's adoptive parents. They're both happily married, and I'm definitely hoping I can capture the scene of them being happily married while also dealing with the mother's guilt from the past. (Let's say she has a lot of self-blame) I'm not married myself, so I have no idea.

In terms of influences, I will admit Stephen King was one of the things influencing me a little writing the adoptive parents bit. One of his best examples is PET SEMATARY (which I may have covered in the shipping meme) where he really captures how close Rachel and Louis' relationship is before the whole incident with Church starts off a domino effect of awful. (The poor Creed family. I'd say they were several of the most screwed over people in Stephen King's books) So I definitely hope the adoptive parents come off as likable. Heck, I hope all the characters are likable and in the case of the bad guys, compelling.