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20231104 NaNo IV

November 4, 2023, 7:15pm

I've done enough writing for one day. I had to write through to the first of the friends getting killed, burnt to death, because that first death is often a hard one to do. Now I can kill characters with impunity. Not sure why it feels tough doing that first kill, even after so many years of killing people left, right and centre, but there you go. Off-screen and nastily, his death will be the first of many. I have to kill the best friend as well.

And the girlfriend? That's the way things are headed...

As a pantser, I let the story flow. It is not my tale, but the story of the characters, and they are the ones who tell me what is happening and is going to happen, so I have to listen to them. I am but their scribe...

Lots of words today.

That mental shittiness is still there, still at the forefront of my thoughts. The cause will not leave me. It feels like it's getting worse; I'm immature, I know, but it is still affecting me so badly.

So I write.

It's all I have.

Total words: 22953
Daily total: 5607