Friday, November 26, 2010

The Underground Undergrad

Day: 26
Time: 10:40 p.m.
Current Word Count: 36,847

A good word count today.  Started and finished chapter seventeen. It helped that I enjoyed and understood both the place I was writing about and what is going to happen while they are there.

The Lorio family has now joined an encampment of nomadic survivors who mainly winter in the Undergraduate Library of the University of Illinois in Champaign.  It's a fascinating place, built underground to both accomodate the symmetry of the campus (it needed a wide open space in order to work with what the University's board and architects wanted) AND - this is my favorite reason - it was also built underground so that it wouldn't cast shade on The Morrow Plots - North America's oldest agricultural testing ground. 

Yes, that's right.  They built an entire multi-level structure underground so that they wouldn't kill a field of corn.  Only in Central Illinois.  That's ingenuity.

There, they've met Thane McInerney, Bodie Wallace, and now Dr. Julius Oettel.  Two of these men will be heroes to the Lorios, and one will betray them to the Megari Authority - but which one?

It's time to do a bit of a fast-forward in the story.  The Loader will have to make another appearance, and so will the Death Angel, Michael.  All of that coming up in chapters 18-20. 

It also helped my writing today to walk away from it for a while to do something else fun, talk to a friend, go shopping, and then come back to the story refreshed.  I'm planning a marathon writing session tomorrow night.

Here's to the last few days of NaNoWriMo!  May your wordcounts be large and your frustration small.

~Mrs. W.

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