I've hit the 20K mark!
Nov. 12th, 2007 02:10 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
tikatuIn the wee hours of the morning (like 12:30 a.m.), I passed the 20K mark in my NaNo novel. I'm writing that dratted Tracy sister fic, and the people who I've shown this to have told me she's not a Mary Sue, so I guess I'm doing something right!
I got kind of bogged down in this last bit; it's a rescue, and one I hadn't anticipated. I was trying to figure out what Scott would use to block rainwater that was running down a street toward a drain. I talked with a couple of friends, including Hobbeth, and through those chats, came up with PAMs, or polyacrylamides, a water-absorbing crystal that turns into a gel-like substance. It can hold 400 times its weight in water! I tweaked it so it was far more efficient, but Scott (and I) forgot something; he's got a Penelon tent dripping rainwater... still, it's not going to affect the rescuee, I hope.
I'll put my progress bar up, so my friends can keep track of this.
I got kind of bogged down in this last bit; it's a rescue, and one I hadn't anticipated. I was trying to figure out what Scott would use to block rainwater that was running down a street toward a drain. I talked with a couple of friends, including Hobbeth, and through those chats, came up with PAMs, or polyacrylamides, a water-absorbing crystal that turns into a gel-like substance. It can hold 400 times its weight in water! I tweaked it so it was far more efficient, but Scott (and I) forgot something; he's got a Penelon tent dripping rainwater... still, it's not going to affect the rescuee, I hope.
I'll put my progress bar up, so my friends can keep track of this.
