Well, it's now November 24th and as of yesterday at around 10pm I passed the 50,000 word mark. Yay!
But that's only about 75% of the plot, so I still have a ways to go. Still, it's one big accomplishment and I'm quite happy with it. I think that the finished novel will be around 65,000 words or so, and I think I can get there before the month is out, but to do so is going to take some serious work. Of course, that means I probably should have written something today... ahem... well, today was busy with quite a lot of things that weren't writing and I'm afraid there was no way around that. But, now... well now I have some time to write before I go to bed and I should get to that.
First, though, I'd like to tell you a little a bit about how well things are going. Because, that is, after all, why I decided to write this post.
My plan is working. Using NaNoWriMo for this novel has quite effectively shut up my inner editor and things continue to flow. So far I even, *gasp* dare I say it?, LIKE 90% of what I've written so far. I shudder to think about it. Of course, it remains to be seen if any of it holds up to the revision, but I haven't felt like I've been churning out crap much. That is always reassuring. So, I'm excited, and hopeful and starting to feel a bit nervous about the thought of getting this novel out into the world. But, I also feel confident. I think this is a solid idea, and I think that I'm doing it justice with my writing. I'm pretty sure, that I've learned a lot from the three novels that I've written so far and I only hope that my revision skills (which are close non-existent) manage to cohere in time to get this thing in shape. We shall see.
I'm seriously considering taking Holly Lisle's revision course in the not too distant future (though it'll have to wait til I've finished my TEFL class) but that's a 22 week course and I'm hoping to finish revisions on this book a tiny bit faster than that. So, I think I'll use one of my other novels for the revision course and then apply knowledge gained from that as needed to this novel.
Right. That might not have made any sense to anyone. But here's hoping that either a. it did or b. it didn't but that's ok because no one is reading this anyway, or better yet c. it didn't but that's ok because whoever is reading this finds me witty and charming and is willing to forgive the occasional spewage of nonsense.
That said, it's time to get back to writing. Yay.
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