Nanowrimo progress report

So, here I am on my third day of Nanowrimo. I've achieved my wordcount of over 1667 words per day and have enjoyed the experience thus far. The novel's taking shape and I'm happy with the way the characters are acting. In contrast to my previous endeavours, I've laid down some pretty strict rails with plot milestones. I'll have to hit these in order to keep the story rolling along. One of the things I like writing is dialogue and describing what the characters do while they're conversing. Since I was a teacher, I'm all too aware that I want to suggest the inner realms boiling inside my characters and not overtly state their mental conditions. I don't want to spoon feed my readers. I've noticed that I do have tics and go-to phrases, and that although the writing is not cliched per se, the actions my characters make are a little obvious - at least to me. As an example, for someone being angry, I've just written that the tips of his ears turned red. That seems a bit on-the-nose for me. I know I'm treading a line between being subtle for myself as a reader, and still being explicit without being explicit for the general reader's sake. Ho-hum.

I've set this story on an industrial estate, so I've had lots of fun on Google maps looking a the layout and which businesses presently occupy units. The estate I have in mind was one up in the North East. Other, council run annexes seem to have been added. In my story (it seems so pretentious to say Novel) I've added a tech building. think this may give me room for a sequel if I like what I create this time round.

Oh, and I've got a writing buddy. That's way cool. I've not had a writing buddy for over thirty years! Brittlegill - a poet I think.