As planned, at the end of Day 7 I'm not only caught up, but not too far behind my projected goal for day 8.
I've finally got a feel for the main character, and I realized why. Yesterday I mentioned that I was finally starting to feel the story and the characters, and yet when I was writing today I still felt like this story was just treading around and not really doing anything. Then two things happened. The first was that Vivienne has spent the whole story up to this point reacting. Seriously, this is her arc so far:
- Vivienne's sister calls, and Vivienne drives to see her dying aunt.
- Vivienne's dying aunt makes a weird request, and Vivienne falls in a time hole as a result
- Vivienne follows around the leader of this penal colony and the one guy who speaks English and reacts to their world
- Vivienne starts asking questions -- this was where I started feeling her a bit.
- Vivienne lets someone prod her for measurements, does some clinic work despite protests that she's not really a doctor, and makes dinner as directly when the revolutionaries finally show up -- and I lost her again.
I went to the regional forum to whine and I realized this. Thankfully, the introduction of the revolutionaries also brought the device that saves Vivienne from a life of forever doing as she's told: a device that allows Vivienne to understand other characters (though they still can't understand her), so now other characters are allowed to have a voice, instead of Vivienne talks, Avent translates, Singer talks, Avent translates.
So, that's my NaNoWrimo progress. I'm pleased with today. I spent a bit longer than I wanted to working on it, but being caught up is a great feeling.
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