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britedark

First Day of NaNoWriMo

Nov 01, 2013 23:09

And I'm off, slightly slow. I missed the Midnight kickoff with the local writer's group, as I had an important meeting this morning at work, and felt I could not afford the short night, of staying out well past midnight to get a start on writing 50,000 words in November. Lot of good that did me, as I then proceeded to have a night where I didn't ( Read more... )

nanowrimo, real life, these old bones

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landofthekwt November 5 2013, 19:25:16 UTC

Good luck with Nano.

landofthekwt November 25 2013, 16:41:05 UTC

Congrats on reaching 50,000 words for Nano. I look forward to reading what you have written.

britedark December 1 2013, 04:50:59 UTC

Thanks. I finished with about 62,000 words, and actually reached the ending, though the climax is an utter mess. Most of the writing was pretty much free-flow, what is happening style, rather than the more detailed writing that the novel will have. This was, as Chris--the guy who started all this 14 years ago--said, this is draft 0. Or, as I like to think of it, in programming terms, this is the prototype.

But, this, one, hopefully, unlike last year's, will go further than version 0!