Passed the 10 percent mark ...

Of course that means 90 percent more to go.

I've got 6,700 some odd words on my NaNoWriMo novel so far for the first five days. The experience has been interesting. For the most part, I wouldn't say that it's particularly great writing, but every day, I'm finding something interesting within the words that I like, and would be interesting to play with on a second pass through or edit. That's one of the hard things, avoiding that desire to go back and fiddle with what I've already written, but of course the point to this exercise -- at least to me -- is to push past that part of my brain and see what happens if I just keep moving forward.

And so far, that's been interesting. There have been plot points and character nuances and story telling tricks that I've discovered that I wouldn't have necessarily planned on, but present themselves as opportunities in the writing process here.

When I first started, I thought that what plot I had wasn't much to support an actual novel, but the more I play with it, the more I like it.

And, for the heck of it, here's the first few paragraphs.

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