Plugging Away
When I finished NaNoWriMo at the end of November with 50k words, I estimated another 20k – 30k before I finished the story.
It’s now the end of December, I’m sitting at 75k words and I estimate I have another 20k – 25k left to write before the story comes to a satisfying conclusion.
What happened? I have no idea.
Sometimes characters do unexpected things and lead me down unexpected paths. Which is great because I have all of these new ideas that I can’t wait to work into the second draft.
It is interesting to see how much NaNoWriMo motivated me.
November = 50k words. December = 25k words
If only every month was national novel writing month.
You can get there, just keep plugging away. I finished mine at just over 80k, and I’m in the very first stages of editing…
Congrats! Good luck with the editing. What genre is your story?
Sci Fi, and yours?
It is a fantasy story that needs a lot of work
I participated in nanowrimo for the past two years and have ended up with 2 completely different ‘stories” which need editing.. No way I could do it every month
Have you finished editing your latest novel?
I’m about 1/2 way there.. I am now turning it over to a writer friend who is remarkable in his editting skills..
Congrats! Unfortunately, I didn’t like my story this year and it was a chore to finish it. I have a lot of research to do on it and need to sit down and plan some things out so it doesn’t continue to be one big train wreck. I’ll have to see how Camp NaNo treats me this year.
Good luck with your research and I hope your story turns out the way you want. At least, you got through and finished it!