I'm eleven days into NaNoWriMo, and I've managed to crank out 20,000 words. That puts me at a grand total of 36,000 for the book. Having reached this milestone is a great one for me. I'm one-third the way through my word count, and an equal distance through my plotline and page counts. I managed to reach page 101 with the 36,000th word, and I was expecting to write about 300 pages on the book. This makes me very happy as it feels like everything is falling right into place according to my plan.

I can't wait to get the manuscript (in 50 pages increments) in front of my CSFWG critique groups to see what they think of the first draft that I have done so far. I'm sure they'll come up with all sorts of great ideas and improvements. They always do.