NaNoWriMo 2020 Part 3/3

 This should have been posted yesterday, so I am sorry about that.  Thankfully there's the rest of today to go yet because I think I only barely hit 5K in the total number of words for November so far.  Don't worry, I promise I'm ignoring most distractions to try to get that 50K minimum by tonight's midnight deadline.  I'd better get back to it, but I also am waiting to hear back about my car who is in the shop thanks to a lovely issue with the steering.  It seems that the power steering has gone out.  Wish me good fortune and I'll try to post again this upcoming weekend!

NaNoWriMo 2020 Part 2/3

 Okay, so it's been a week and I haven't made much progress.  I got the next drabble written for my Winter Challenge, and a bit more written on my story.  My word count right now is only 3,473 words towards that 50K.  The drabble I've finished is needed some massive paring done to it since I wrote twice the maximum number of words so, ouch.  As for the story, Duo has just been introduced as Percy's first cousin and Percy stole the scene to ramble on, again...I last left off with the other two about to be revealed.  And, boy, am I not looking forward to that!  It promises to have some major breakdowns because of it, but I need to get through the meeting to whatever is next for my story.

Anyway, happy writing, and good luck with those word counts!  Honestly, I'll be happy if I can reach 10K at this rate.

NaNoWriMo 2020 Part 1/3

 Okay, so I've been really lax on this blog.  This time however I wanted to let everyone know that yes I'm participating in NaNoWriMo 2020.  This is the first post for it and so I have to inform you of what I'm working on and what my current progress is.  My current progress, before I go any further, is only 2,026 words.  I know, I haven't written much.  But, I have a really good excuse - and yet is it an excuse and not a reason, because if I really put my mind to it and focus I know I could have written so much more by now!  Anyway, my excuse is this: I've been getting my teeth worked on.  It isn't fun, but I think it's better than to keep putting it off.

Okay, so that's out of the way.  Now it's time to gush about my project. I had originally decided to focus on a fanfic that I got an idea for where Duo Maxwell of Gundam Wing is the son of one of the Prewett brothers who'd been killed in the first war.  Percy was the one who would learn this as he was the only one to actually participate in the FRA (Family Reunion Act) that had been put into place by the muggles who'd just gotten out of their wars.  Harry and the Dursleys happen to learn that Harry's father and a cousin from his father's side had been found as well.  The cousin on his father's side also happens to be a cousin to Percy (Black blood, such a useful plot device.  I swear if they're a pureblood, they are related in some way to the magical Black family.) as well.  Now if I could just keep Duo, Harry, and Percy from derailing each bit of progression with their tangential conversation.

That's not all I've worked on, though.  I joined a Discord channel a while back called Harry Potter Fanfic Club (HPFF).  If you want a link to join, let me know! But anyway, in this we have a writing challenge.  The Winter Writing Challenge is to write 12 100-250 word drabbles using a word from a provided list of 12 for inspiration.  So I managed to get a few of those typed up.  And one of the said drabbles is definitely an outtake from the aforementioned project at a minimum.  A second drabble, however, decided it wanted me to be working on a much later chapter of a fic whose working title is Dursley in Time.  It's a bit annoying, but I reached almost 300 words, realized what was going on, saved that as a future in my fanfic folder, and then tried to basically summarize what I had typed up.  Then I had to pare that down.  It took me a bit of time.  Both of those base stories are told from Dudley's point of view.  Then I managed to write up two drabbles that are canon-complaint.  One was basically some Harry as a child's thoughts, though I think he might come off as older, and the other from Narcissa Malfoy after the Battle of Hogwarts.  

So, yeah, I've been a bit busy.  It's fun though and I keep getting distracted by the discord channel, so there's that.  Back to this post though.  I'll keep writing as much as possible, and hopefully, I'll manage to keep blogging.  I have a few drafts for other posts semi-started.  I just need to type them up, edit them, and schedule them to be posted.  Also. I need to remember to keep the NaNoWriMo updates accurate!

Good luck to other writers and have fun!