I crossed the finish line last night with 50,142 words. Yay!<\/p>\n
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<\/p>\n
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:<\/p>\n
Cairn nodded. \u201cDragons are real enough. But I haven\u2019t heard of any around this part of the world.\u201d<\/p>\n
, clearly dodging the question. \u201cWhat can I get for you?\u201d<\/p>\n
around and around her neck, mouth and nose. She tugged her mittens on and gave a cheery wave. \u201cGood afternoon then. I hope you\u2019re<\/p>\n
SOMETHINGED away to a handful of words and then<\/p>\n
to \u2018One. She was quite<\/p>\n
\u201cIt might have been the fever,\u201d Mrs. NAME was saying, and Mary knew<\/p><\/blockquote>\n
Whee!<\/p>\n
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.<\/p>\n
This year when I did that my NaNo novel went from 50,142 words long to 37, 935 words long.<\/p>\n
I threw out just over 12,000 words because I’d changed my mind about them LOL<\/p>\n
That makes my ‘My Book Progress’ chart look like this:<\/p>\n
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That little dip down amuses me \ud83d\ude42 Hopefully I will have recovered those words soon enough.<\/p>\n
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?<\/p>\n
*fingers crossed*<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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