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| GUESS WHAT?! |
I won at NaNoWriMo, for the first time ever!!
That's right, these past 29 days, I wrote 50,000 words of a novel. 50,081 words, to be precise. And the amazing thing is, tonight as I uploaded my word count (which I would obsessively check every 10 minutes or so on the website) I was in the middle of a scene, and could have kept going!
I'm not going to lie -- it was difficult, and I'm tired of writing. But I also feel the fire in me, that I used to feel when I would routinely crank out several thousands of words in a single sitting. It's incredible what getting into a habit can do for your productivity!!
My story has a lot more to it! I still have to get the dead sister in league with the witch, and set her on her bounty-hunter plot line (that's my favorite story arc so far, I'm really pleased with it).
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| Hard at work |
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| Time, captured using math and pictures |
I was six days late hitting the halfway mark. Then on day 25, I wrote over 6,000 words. That was the day when I gave up trying to advance plot, make it funny or poetic or rational or wise. I just let everything go. First, I made all the characters have sex, because sex is incredibly easy and satisfying to write. Then some people got into fights, because action is easy and satisfying to write. Then I chucked in a few more characters, killed off some people, ditched the talking fox, and introduced a witch. It was all free-flowing words from then on out, and the best part is, it was FUN.
Fun is the most important part!!
I'm just pleased as punch to have won, after two years of failure.
Hopefully I will keep on writing. I'd like to keep going tomorrow, and see how many words I can write before I get tired of this story. Maybe I'll even end the story! Momentum triumphs!!
How have you been doing this November?
Did you participate in NaNoWriMo?
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