After a 5,000 word weekend where I didn't let myself on the internet, even to post word counts to Nanowrimo - I had a 5,000 word day (and I'm still going) to zoom to the finish line and beyond. 50,000 words are TOAST! I started as soon as I got up this morning,thought about the plot the entire time I was in the shower,then took a break to fight with our new neighbors, and then visit nicely with them, then got back to it. Was very lucky the end came in one of the most exciting fight sequences of the novel - when you've go so many pieces coming together like that you can get 5 to ten thousand words in half the time it usually takes.
The novel, as it stands is now up to almost 65,000 words and is a little over half-way done. I hope I can keep some of this momentum going and finish the novel in December and January. With the holidays coming up it will be hard to keep this kind of motivation going, but I intend to try. But for now -YIPEEEE! So glad I did it this year.
3 comments:
Hey!! Itz really great that ur writing a novel, but how can u only be a little over halfway with a word count of 65,000, surely you should be near the ending?
Congrats, Ips! I'm glad you did NaNo this year too. Thanks for encouraging me. I am grateful for you, my friend.
Not really, Shadz - 50,000 words is a very, very small novel - only 200 pages. A normal size novel of 400 pages would be 100,000 words, and my novel looks like it'll be about that size.
Shameless - thanks! You kicked ass - started Nano five days late, conquered it four days early, awesome job.
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