After doing almost no writing Thursday, the bare minimum Friday and over three hours’ worth Saturday, I’m finally back up to quota on my NaNo novel. For those of you who have been following the excerpts, I apologize for the lack of timely updates. Excerpt the 10th is online now, but don’t go looking for the 7th, 8th or 9th for they do not exist.

I’m at a difficult part of my story. All of the players (including one I hadn’t originally planned on) are in place but for the last, who isn’t due for a while yet. I’m at the point where The Plan is to be put into play that is supposed to lead to The Resolution of The Story. (Sorry, got carried away with capitalization.) My problem? I have no idea what The Plan will be. Hoo boy. I’m just going to throw my characters into harm’s way and see what happens. It’s worked for me so far, right? Right?

In real-life news, yesterday’s “Sunday NaNo Social” at Java Vivace was sparsely attended, but the four of us had a good time nonetheless. It seems there’s been a different group every time, which can be a good or a bad thing depending on your perspective.

Next week I’m pre-empting the usual coffee-shop meeting in favor of a midway-through-November party at our house. We’ll see if I can convince anyone to attend…