Day SIXTEEN

I managed 2500+ words today.   I'm up to 34540 words now.  I've been setting up a couple of action scenes for a few days now.  Accomplished one today, and that leads to another one.  These both lead the character to the eventual climatic events of the novel ... I have just over 15000 words to hit the apex of the story, then start winding it down.

As I've said before, it isn't just about writing a lot of words.  You have to create a story with a beginning, middle, and end.  You can digress, creating eddies  and whirlpools within the story, you can examine rooms off the main hallway, you can introduce quirky characters with telegrams ... you can do a lot of things, but at some point you follow the general three point outline: beginning, middle, and end.  Somewhere near the end of the middle, all your work should begin to culminate in some event or series of events ... this is where it all should start to make some sense, or at least you deliver the main course of the literary feast you have been preparing and cooking all of this time.  Then, after this feast,  you can start on dessert and start clearing the table, effectively ending the story.  In NaNoLand, if you do all of that right, it should be right around or after the 50,000 word point. 

At least that is the general working theory.