Six days, seven-and-half chapters down

So, huh, it seems that I did have a rather productive session noveling today, anyway. I have currently hit the wall of 40K (the exact wordcount is 40,045 words), and totally breached it. I... I don't have much to add to that, except that, well...

I'm still a little concerned, you know. I know that I'm aiming on finishing by the end of the month and all, but if you take into consideration that I'm in the middle of writing chapter 8, and according to my plot outline, I have 44 chapters in total, it's just... I don't know, it seems a pretty high demand, regardless of how great my wordcount looks. However, I really want to finish this novel in this month, because it's just something that drives me. Sure, it doesn't always feel good (like shown in the previous post), but at least I got something to push myself toward. If it goes over the limit of November, I'm afraid of that great monster called PROCRASTINATION.

Then there's the other thing I'm concerned of, and that's parental support. Today, when I got all happy about breaching the 40K wall, my father didn't even feel happy for me, the first thing he said was, "well, remember that next week you have your exams and you don't have to write so much then." Wait, what? Exams means more free time means more time to write! It's not like I really prepare for exams really well anyway - I've done my shit over the year, and now I don't have to worry so hard, as a result. Don't they understand that while it's hard, it's something I want to do and something that's more important than some year 11 exams that don't even COUNT on your final VCE score, but just for the fact that you SIT it and PASS it so that you can GET your VCE!

Ugh, parents.

And just to lighten things up, have an excerpt of chapter 7:

“Prince Charming and Mr Right?” asked Dee, startled, “I am sure I have heard that somewhere before.”

“I wouldn’t be so surprised,” commented Nicholas dryly (and Sebastian eyed him oddly - that was his tone of voice, not Nicholas’ - was everything alright with him?), “There’s an article on ‘prince charming’ on even wikipedia - he’s a generic fairy tale character, I’ll have you know - and ‘mr right’ is just a term generally used in women’s magazines to describe every girl’s individual dream boy.”

“And you would know, since you read so many women's magazines,” quipped Sebastian, earning himself a sharp tug on the hair by Sophie, who seemed to be of the opinion that he had been enough of a bastard for a day.