As some of you may have read on my Writing page or a few posts ago, this year I’m intending to write 20,000 words per month as part of a group of several writers in my area, 5,000 a month each to novels and to short stories.

I will be making these daily posts every day I actually get around to writing, to update my word count and talk about what I’ve been writing.

So, my word count today, as you can see from the title, was 1010 words; out of a needed 666.6, I’m already ahead. This, methinks, is a good sign; I very well may do better than the goal — but for today, I decided to not get too far ahead of myself.

I did all thousand in a new story in the music magic world I first visualized in a short story in the months before NaNoWriMo 2006 and then continued during NaNoWriMo itself. I’ve decided to put the novel I did during 2006 onto the back burner for now; I may rewrite it sometime later this year, but within that world I’d rather do new stories for the time being. The new story is about a time seven years after the initial story, when my biggest character in the world has been learning music magic for seven years. It starts with her first travel out of the School of Music Magic since she arrived, hastily organized by her tutor late one night. So far, she is wondering at her first view of the larger world in years and wondering about their purposes in traveling on such short notice to so far a destination. As of yet, I’m not sure if this story will be a shorter story or a novel; I suspect I will find out as I write more!

Day summary:
Music Magic: 1010 words
Caribbean Fantasy: 0 words
Musical, Magical Sabotage: 0 words

Categories: writing | Tags: 20k, music magic, nanowrimo, writing //