Word Count: 18,697
Remaining Words: 31,303
Time flies. It’s cliché, but true. We’re already two weeks into NaNoWriMo and I should be roughly halfway through my novel. I’m not. But I’m not fretting (yet). I am, however, (much more than) halfway done with my NaNo board.
I’ve finally found the face of my female MC, Tessa Harding, and that face belongs to Christina Milian. She has the perfect balance of sweet cuteness, and sultry sexiness. 
I also managed to find the faces of two supporting characters, Sydney Averdale and Christian Cooper, portrayed by Meagan Good and Ian Somerhalder.
At one point, when I was adding the additional character photos to the board, I became choked up. It’s the moment I realized that I love my characters, even the flawed (and some might say, downright evil) ones. Granted, I love those characters in a different way; I’m trying to figure out how they became such broken people.
I’ve finally added my mind map, which should help with the journey—no more needing to dig through my notebook to find sequence of events and such.
Just looking at the board gets me fired up, but I still see whitespace and that must be rectified.
And I’m not entirely sure this is NaNoWriMo related, but I’ve been inspired to write more short stories lately. Frankly, I think it’s a stalling tactic my mind conjured up to aid its procrastination efforts, but some of the ideas I’ve had are exciting. But I’m just jotting down the bare minimum of notes so I can write them later and focus on NaNoWriMo now.
# Sunday Salon: Week End Round-up - Today, I Read… wrote on November 22, 2009 at 5:56 pm:
[...] did, however, manage to get most of my NaNo board finished and discovered the face of my female lead along with a few secondary characters. Since I [...]
# NaNoWriMo 2009 is Over - Today, I Wrote… wrote on December 2, 2009 at 3:56 pm:
[...] novel. It was well mapped out, but as I wrote, new scenes kept popping into my head. Looking over the mind map on my NaNo board, only about half of those little bubbles (which are scenes) have been completed. But for now, I’m [...]