Whoot whoot!
I’m excited to announce that I completed NaNoWriMo!
I crossed the finish line last night with 50,142 words. Yay!
The story, Prairie Magic #3 (no title yet) is far from finished, however, so I’m still going to have to keep chugging along there. I feel like it’s beginning to come together though, so that”s a nice feeling. Hopefully it will continue LOL
When I am doing NaNoWriMo I don’t delete anything. Like, nothing. If I write a paragraph and then decide I hate it, I don’t delete it. Instead, I just hit enter a few times to shove it down to the bottom of my manuscript and then keep writing. So as a result the bottom of my manuscripts look something like this:
Cairn nodded. “Dragons are real enough. But I haven’t heard of any around this part of the world.”
, clearly dodging the question. “What can I get for you?”
around and around her neck, mouth and nose. She tugged her mittens on and gave a cheery wave. “Good afternoon then. I hope you’re
SOMETHINGED away to a handful of words and then
to ‘One. She was quite
“It might have been the fever,” Mrs. NAME was saying, and Mary knew
Whee!
It’s a huge mess. But the fun part is that as soon as I cross the finish line I just select all that crap at the bottom and delete it.
This year when I did that my NaNo novel went from 50,142 words long to 37, 935 words long.
I threw out just over 12,000 words because I’d changed my mind about them LOL
That makes my ‘My Book Progress’ chart look like this:
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That little dip down amuses me 🙂 Hopefully I will have recovered those words soon enough.
My goal is to have the first draft of this story done before the new year. That will be tricky because I have another looming writing deadline… but NaNoWriMo is tricky and I pulled that off, so maybe?
*fingers crossed*
