HELLO LADIES AND GENTLEMEN!!

Now it’s time for NaNo stats!

Prime (remember, this is unedited)
Number of words: 50,027
Number of sentences: 3,507
Average sentence length (in words): 16.85
Average number of syllables per word: 1.6
Gunning Fog Index: 10.36

Fun times.

OH MY GOD, Prime was not meant to be a novel. A novella, yes, but not a novel. My plot petered out at about 37,000 words or so, and ever since I’ve been pretty much connecting scenes and writing filler dialogue to see what comes of it. I’ve gotten some good stuff that might replace old stuff, but putting all this crap in detracts from the story, I think. But what the hell, I love writing this story.

Word count at which I’m supposed to be: 25,000

Word count at which I actually am: 15,035

Percentage of story so far written that is dialogue: 92.1%

Let me reiterate from blogs prior: my story is about NUMBERS. Numbers do not have physical properties. Thus, I cannot write about physical properties—visual, action-based, or otherwise—in this story.

Thus I’m stuck with dialogue and the thought processes of my MC (yes, yes, I know numbers also can’t talk or think…shut up, it’s my world!). And since I’m a stickler for interesting, realistic dialogue, I’m finding it very difficult to create quantitiy over quality with my dialogue.

I’m also finding it very difficult to refrain from making obscene amounts of math puns throughout this.
Must…refrain from math puns…must…refrain…

Why in the hell did I choose a NaNoWriMo plot that made no allowance for physical description? I’m realizing how much I rely on that in my writing. Oh well. A chance to improve on my dialogue, I guess.
Even though I haven’t made much progress yet, I’m finding the whole NaNoWriMo thing more of a stress relief than I thought I would. Which is odd.

General synopsis of my story, by the way:

Once the new outlook took hold in the Numerical community, it was difficult for any one of the Positives to turn against it. The idea that they were superior to the Negatives chewed with an insatiable hunger at their minds and turned them against their counterparts with a speed and illogicality that had never before been witnessed in the Rational world.
The divide widening, the 0verseer useless and indecisive, the Primes alone were unaffected. A collective anachronism from a time when unity was a common theme throughout the universe of mathematics, they alone stood left to bear the decision of whether to restore harmony to the Rationals, or to banish the Negatives to a different realm, perhaps to the Irrationals or the Imaginaries, or even to a new category of Numbers all together.
But they needed an insider–a Number not of their own caliber, a Number with connections in both the Positive and the Negative realms–in order to determine the best course of action.

And in the end, they chose Twenty Seven.

Yeah. This stems from the short writing exercise thingy from Intermediate Fiction I put up here a few months ago.