NaNoWriMo updates...

I haven't done much writing for the past couple days. My word count is currently at 51167. I suppose the big sprint to 50K on the weekend exhausted me! Not that that's a bad thing or anything. I've reached the NaNo goal already. Now to reach my personal goal off 100K! 

I'm going to use up the next few days for research. My NaNo novel is about three sisters in German-occupied France. I was originally going to set it during WWI, but I bumped it up to WWII just because I know more about it. At least, in general. My knowledge of France during WWII is limited to episodes of "Allo, Allo!"

The library felt like it only had limited resources regarding France in WWII, but I did take out two books on it: France: The Dark Years, 1940-1944 by Julian Jackson and Occupation: The Ordeal of France, 1940-1944 by Ian Ousby. Occupation is turning out to be an invaluable source because it has a nice chronology of events in the back of the book for quick reference. 

Last Wednesday while downtown, a friend and I went to Attic Books and I found a few books on WWII in their 'Bargain basement' as well as a couple on the main floor that I can use for research. None are specifically for France during WWII, but most are about WWII anyway. I have a thing for that particular time, so I welcome books on the subject! 

I've started writing a bit of the ending. I don't want to say what might happen in case I jinx it. 

Keep writing, fellow NaNo-ers/Wrimos! (whichever you prefer to be called)