Is it really week 3? Well, I suppose the first week was only two or three days long, so I won’t feel bad that I’m only sitting at 19762 words. And I really, really won’t feel bad about that number since it is finals week and I have 1.5 projects left to do and a lovely multiple choice test waiting for me. (The .5 project is mostly just gathering some pictures and the other one is an essay, so I should be able to finish relatively quickly.)
I am seriously excited for the next two weeks, though. Because after TODAY my summer classes will be done and I can play with my Camp NaNoWriMo project with more intensity. And I do mean intensity because I just found out that one of the passengers currently on board Jorry’s ship the Zephyr was actually hired by Devon’s real mother to track him down.
Sweet holy conflict, batman!
In Jo’s defense, she sorta thought Devon’s real mother was dead. And the lady did leave her three month old baby behind when she got arrested, so … yeah … Jorry feels fairly justified in her choice to keep him. (Fairly justified. She does have the moral capacity to see how murky the situation really is.)
But, let me tell you, the scene where she gets confronted with this information was super fun to write. Here, I’ll cheat and leave a snippet on this board as well:
“That boy’s name is Devon Barlow and he is my son,” she said very quietly. “He is more a part of me than my own skin. If I ever hear you even whisper such a story on this ship again I will disembowel you. Are we clear?”
Well, alright, so that’s more of a quote than a snippet. If you want the actual snippet you have to go over to the Camp NaNoWriMo page. At any rate, I need to run off and finish my finals so that I can breathe again.
AJMaguire 