As some of you may or may not know I’ve been taking part in Nanowrimo and through November life been slowly but surely increasing the word count on my first novel creation.
At about 10.30 on Saturday the 30th of November I finished the first draft of my manuscript at a word count of 50107 words. Each of them were the rain I’ve not been about much.
I’ve been keeping up with some of you but in the last week especially I’ve not been keeping up or posting on here. I’ve learned a lot from taking part, particularly the power of consistent writing to move the word count up. It’s a powerful thing and even if you don’t take part out write 1600 words a day even a few hundred count.
I had expected to get to around 20k and would have been happy with that but I managed to keep it going.
Was there anyone else reading this who took part? How did you do? What would you do differently next time?
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Good job persevering. Glad to read that you learned a lot from this experience. I did not participated this time around.
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Thank you… It’s hard work. Maybe next time?
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Who know?!
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Fingers crossed eh?
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So pleased for you Simon. Well done, that’s quite an achievement. I need some of your discipline.
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Thanks Miri… I think it was more blind panic some days 😂
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At least you did it
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I did 😀
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Congrats on winning NaNoWriMo! That’s a wonderful accomplishment.
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Thank you Rebecca, it’s appreciated. Did you take part?
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I have before, but never won it. My writing is typically at least partially historical, which means lots of research. Maybe next year! I have about 30K of a novel. Another 50K would get it finished!
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Oh I see… Yes that would slow you down.
Couldn’t you write the outline plot and add detail after?
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I’m a plodder, who writes totally linearly and line by line from beginning to end. Maybe I need to shake it up one of these years!
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It’s whatever works for you. Some people I know write out of order… I have no idea how
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