I need to figure out more interesting post titles

     Because "NaNo Rebel 2021, Day ??" is just super-boring.

    Even if yeah, that's actually all that's in the post.

    (And no, I don't have any news about yesterday's cell phone "drama," if anyone is actually reading these.  (Numbers say "no" on that, lol.)  I started the process, but it requires a credit check, and I know I froze my credit with two of the three major credit reporting companies, but I could only find info about one of the three in my long-term email storage (as it were), so I just sort of took a gamble that the one they use (yes, they did tell me which one that was) was the one that my credit is not frozen with.  Also the larger gamble that my credit is good enough for them to risk(?) supplying me with a $35 a month no-contract cell phone service.  Because yeah, that's really a giant amount of money...)

    Aaaaaanyway!

    Yesterday's total word count in my double-rebel NaNoWriMo project (not using their horribly mutilated site and doing a re-write instead of a brand new novel!) was 66,388.

    Today's total word count is 70,317.

    So today I wrote 3,929 words...but if my Switch starts having hysterics over me spending too long playing Shin Megami Tensei V, I might go back and do some more writing later tonight, because the next scene is one of the ones that was newly introduced for the previous draft, in the new subplot involving Queen Deidameia of Scyros wanting to have a say in what happens to the armor that was stolen from the grave of her son Pyrrhos (AKA Neoptolemos), and I had a lot of fun with that new subplot.  :D

NaNo Rebel 2021, Day 15

     Today is going to be a very ugly day, because instead of getting to play my new video game all day, I have to spend it on the phone with one or more cell phone companies to find out if I can switch to their service, because the provider I have right now is changing its network in January and won't allow me to keep my phone because it's "too old."  I am not replacing my phone because of an arbitrary decision by the jerks running the company, particularly not when the creep in the in person store forced me to change my service plan to a more expensive one (which also came with a $5 service fee for doing it in person!) because he insisted that was the real reason the computer wasn't agreeing to register a new sim chip to my phone, and then he forced me to update my IOS, which took forever and introduced all kinds of horrible new features that I hate, and after all that, he's just like "oh, yeah, you're just gonna hafta upgrade your phone, like I thought, but hey, you've got a few months to do it" like that was all just fine and dandy!

    ARGH!!!!!

    *Ahem*

    Anyway, I got my writing done first thing, so at least there's that.  And I got through two scenes today, because the second one was my absolute favorite in this book, and one of my favorites in the whole series:  the flashback to Eurysakes' childhood, when he witnesses his parents having a tender moment and hears his father reflect that he actually has beaten Achilles at something, because no son that Briseis could ever bear would ever match up to Eurysakes.  It also has this moment that I'm particularly proud of that's sort of a backwards call-back (call-forwards?) to the Iliad:  in one of the most famous passages of the Iliad, Astyanax is frightened by the sight of his father in his helmet, and Hector has to take it off to show his infant son that "no, it's okay, it's just daddy", so in this scene I'm showing how very different life in the war camp is for the children borne by the enslaved concubines, in that Eurysakes (who is admittedly about three, rather than an infant, but still) is totally cool with seeing his father in his armor, and tries to wear it after his father takes it off, even though it's enormous on him.  I just really love that moment and its unspoken comparison of the different situation for the children in the camp and the pampered royal babies in the city.  It's also the first scene in Eurysakes' POV, so from this point forward he's opened up as a POV character, which helps to both widen the narrative and give a very different narrative voice than that of the two girls who are more like sisters than cousins in most respects, and don't vary as much in their narrative voice as I'd really like (though I'm constantly making adjustments to make the tone and language different in their POV sequences).

    So, getting down to brass tacks, yesterday's total word count was 62,006.

    Today's total word count is 66,388.

    So today I wrote 4,382 words, plus a few hundred more because I also jotted down some story notes for the game I'm going to work on next.

NaNo Rebel 2021, Day 14

     I'm not progressing as fast as I'd like.  Or rather, I didn't progress as fast as I would have liked before the game came out, and now that it is out, my progress is even slower.  :(  On the other hand, I'm enjoying the game so far (and something happened last night that makes me think it's a direct sequel to one of the endings of Shin Megami Tensei Nocturne, which is super-amazing!)

    Aaaaaaaanyway, yesterday's total word count was 59,201.

    Today's total word count is 62,006.

    So, today I wrote 2,805 words, plus a few more 'cause I jotted down some story ideas for my next game as well, but I didn't count those.

    Oh, also today's scene completed what was Chapter 7 in the original 2014 version of this novel.  The new draft of this chapter ran for 9,017 words, and the previous draft of this chapter was 8,186 words.  It would be interesting to pick a chapter and see how its length changed over all the successive drafts!  (Might explain why that one chapter is less than half the length of all the others.  Maybe the others have been inflated over the drafts, and that one short one never was?)

Another Day, Another NaNo Rebel Post

     So...I would rather be playing Shin Megami Tensei V than writing a blog post right now, but I have to let the Switch recharge because the battery keeps draining when I play even though it's docked.  :(

    Anyway, my NaNo word count yesterday topped off at 56,221.

    My word count today reached 59,201.

    So, today I wrote a mere 2,980 words.

    I did actually contemplate going on to the next scene, but it was going to be long and complex, and would have (among other things) made my lunch more complicated...

NaNo Rebel 2021, Day 12

     Not much to say today.

    Yesterday's total word count was 52,978.

    Today's total word count is 56,221.

    So today I wrote 3,243 words.

NaNo Rebel 2021, Day 11

     Today's been pretty quiet.  In part because I hurt my ankle with all that walking around yesterday, so today I've been trying to keep off it as much as possible. 😓  (Ooh, didn't know I could do emojis on here! 😀)

    I didn't get as much done as I'd have liked to, in terms of writing, but I guess I did all right.

    Yesterday's total word count was 46,893.

    Today's total word count was 52, 978.

    That means today's words written were 6,085.  So...yeah, that was actually pretty good after all.  (It's hard to tell before I look at the numbers, because I'm working in terms of scenes, and I only got through two of them.)

    Today's writing also finished off what had been Chapter Six in the original draft of the novel, and it runs 9,270 words in the new draft, and was 8,426 words in the previous draft.

    Not sure if that's good or bad, in the long run, that I'm consistently adding that much to the text as I go.  But the thing is that it's necessary additions:  clearing up things that are unclear, adding some descriptions to long passages that have desperate need of them, and of course fixing places that the old version didn't match the actual terrain of Thessaly.  That was the biggest addition to Chapter Six, for sure; the sequence where they're planning their battle needed a huge additional explanation of why they're going to be having a pitched battle inside one of the passes between one of the few not-flat areas in the entire region.

    In other news, after looking over several alternate spots I could post these novels, I've decided to go ahead and put them on pages here on the blog, because I just do not want to deal with making a new account somewhere, wrestling with formatting, and then dealing with the site's pre-existing audience that has expectations and/or desires not in line with my book.  (Which, at best, would merely get me ignored, and at worst might get me mocked, my work verbally torn to shreds, etc.  Better to just stay here where I can feel safe in the knowledge that the internet as a whole will simply flow on past me without noticing I exist, as per usual.)

NaNo Rebel 2021, Day 10

     Whew, am I exhausted!

    Not for any writing reason, though:  it was a nice day today, so after finishing my writing for the day, I went out to a local antique mall that's in a building that used to be a pretty large supermarket and I walked through every single section (some of them twice, in fact), so I was on my feet for like two, maybe even two and a half hours.  (I probably still have mask marks on my face even now, more than an hour later...)  At least I got my exercise!  :D

    As to writing, I didn't do that much today, but I actually did a lot more last night after posting my progress to the blog. :P

    See, I went to take a bath yesterday afternoon, and as happens surprisingly often, I had a flash of inspiration while I was in there, basically composing a piece inside my head in the latter half of the bath.  As always, it wasn't as good when I typed it out as it had been in my head (someone needs to make a thought-recorder, dangit!), but I'm still pretty pleased with it, and it's way better than what it's going to be replacing.

    Of course, what it's replacing is the prologue to book 4 in a series, and my current NaNo project is the rewrite of book 2, but...hey, a win is a win, and finally having a good prologue to that book is a major win.  (Probably also means that I need to start taking more baths than showers...)

    Anyway, after I wrote that, then I also went ahead and did some more rewriting on the actual project.  So, when I posted yesterday, the day's word count was 4,736, but then I wrote 1,908 words of prologue for book 4, plus another 3,313 words on book 2, making a total for yesterday of 9,957!  (Wow, that's probably in my top ten days ever...)  That last bit on book 2 finished the rewrite of what had been Chapter Five in the original 2014 version, which ran 8,027 words in the new version, and had been 7,498 in the previous draft.

    So, anyhow, that means yesterday's total word count ended up at 43,697.

    Today's total word count was 46,893.

    So today's words written was 3,196.  Which is not a big day, but...eh.  It's okay.

    I need to write a heck of a lot tomorrow, though, 'cause Friday is when Shin Megami Tensei V comes out, and my productivity is likely to take a nosedive once I've got my greedy little hands on that. :D