Daily NaNo check-in: as far as word count goes, I am on target.  As far as the actual story…  There are complications.

For one thing, at 20k out of 50k words, I’m only on chapter 7, my villain only just showed up out of flashback for the first time, and everything still seems so very rushed (namely the traveling–somehow, I pictured the duo having a lot of shenanigans as they go from place to place, but I ended up just summarizing the travels).

…It was at this moment that I realized that this thing is going to be more than 50k words.

So my new plan is now this: continue with what I’m doing in the rushed pace and get all the major events and plotlines of the book done and win the 50k NaNo challenge, hopefully by the 22nd.

And then, take the time to put in all the spacing and side-events as I edit so that it has the proper pacing.