Camp NaNo?

So, I haven't posted in what seems like a really long time - I don't actually know how long it's been, but in any case, it feels like a lot has happened.

Camp NaNoWriMo started on Friday!  June 1st and I stayed up way too late to write.  I found out that I didn't actually want to start a new novel, so I'm rebelling this month and finishing a novel that I started last August during Camp last year.  Actually, I'd kind of expected to only need another 20k in this novel, but I've written almost 20k and it's nowhere near done.  Now I think there might be another 20k left.

My estimates could be very wrong though, since I don't use outlines when I write most of the time, so I don't actually know how the story is going to end.  But it's fun in any case.

Did you know that the Arabs attacked the Egyptian empire, and when the Egyptians fought back and held an impenetrable border, they ended their rule themselves?  They spent so much manpower and money and whatnot into keeping their borders safe that they didn't have enough people to farm and make food and trade and everything that made them rich to begin with.  And then when they didn't have money or food, their border broke and they were overtaken.

I just researched that.  Mostly because I've got a fantasy story that has people (vampires that aren't called vampires - they're Ilthibar) from the Egyptian era and I thought that the fall of the Egyptians might help me figure out how the "good guys" are going to defeat the "bad guys".  Well, there's actually only one bad guy, but he's so powerful that he almost counts as bad guys.  Anyway, I'm not going to say any more because not only do I suck at writing synopsises (synopsys?  Synposi?  I dunno.), but I also don't know what's going to happen in my novel yet.

So moving on.  Camp NaNoWriMo, as I mentioned, has begun.  It is day 5 - I haven't written anything today yet, but on the 3rd I wrote 10011 words from the time that I got up until I went to bed...which may have actually been quite late and past midnight.  Yesterday I wrote 6k, and today I'm hoping to write 7k, but if I don't get on that, it's not going to happen.

Actually, I almost didn't write 10k.  But just as I was about to go to bed (it was like, 3 AM) I realized I only had 600 more words before I'd reach 10k for the day.  I couldn't pass that up - I figured it be a lot easier to write 600 right then than to write another 9,400 words on another day.  So I got up from my inviting bed and wrote another 600 words, then went to bed happy. :)

Are you doing Camp NaNo, and if so, what has your writing endeavor brought you?  Great word count achievements?  Accidental history lessons?

10011 in one day