Word count - Day 22

35,757 words down, 14,233 words to go.

Another 10% down and now past the 70% mark.

As expected, the 30-40K section is proving to be the hardest to write (which is amusing as I said on Day 6 that 10-20K was hardest, which I now retract). It's that part of the story where the plot needs to keep moving and build to the next peak. It is tempting to just dump a pile of information and exposition in there just to make it interesting. And all the while the characters need to remain true to themselves but still develop in increments. Then there is a small problem of not knowing how the story ends. Our poor heroes, such as they are, really don't stand a chance. Fortunately (?) I'll hit 50K words long before having to deal with this minor issue.
Three weeks in and the fatigue is beginning to set in too. Daily writing does take it out of you and whilst there hasn't been too many instances of staring at a blinking cursor it does become easier and easier to procrastinate about writing the daily requirement. Of course nanowrimo is as much, if not more about the discipline as it is the about the writing, so no real surprise there.

The current plan is to aim for 40K by the end of the working week and 45k by the end of the weekend. That puts the target at 1K per day for the final five days beyond that.