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National Novel Writing Month

Short attention span

At last I feel I’m getting somewhere. I’ve had “the dark story” beta’d and it’s back with me now to beat out the bits that don’t make sense (lots of them), but I’m in the home straight. What on earth did I do before I had a beta?

Another story, which I sort of wrote as a response to a challenge (somewhere on VAMB) has been sent for beta’ing and I’m currently jotting down notes (while still fixing up the dark’un) for another story. From yet another challenge at VAMB.

NaNoWriMoThere’s nearly three weeks to go until NaNoWriMo, but as yet, I haven’t got even an inkling of what to do. Perhaps my latest outline/challenge story may suffice. Although I doubt it.

Pounding away

JottingzStill working away on “the dark story” (not the working title). It’s a little less dark now, which is good, because it was starting to depress me. It’s about the only thing I’m working on at the moment but it’s still growing in size. That I haven’t got a proper ending for it hasn’t got me panic struck yet, but I’m sure it will soon.

I’m also trying to think about a story line to use for this year’s NaNoWriMo. I haven’t decided whether I’ll do a Voyager story or try my hand at original fiction. There’s still two months to go, but I’d like to do a bit of outlining or planning before the start date.

The “technical department” have also changed my theme again. I like this one very much, but it doesn’t do wide pages like the other one. The jury is still out.

Fallen over the line, but…

Not very happy about the ‘finished’ product. The whole ‘just type and don’t edit’ thing is just too seductive. It’ll take me as long to edit as it did to, um, type. But it is fun. And very consuming. I’ve thought about nothing except the damned novel for six solid weeks (you’re allowed to plan before 1 November).
Winner! Still, I did it. And finished early too. If you can call it finished. Hopefully though, I can have it ready to post within a few weeks, after I’ve changed a major part of the setup (I had this new idea day before yesterday, but controlled myself and didn’t succumb to the rewrite temptation – hence the early finish). I think the final product will be lucky to be 30,000 words.

Making up for lost time…

I’ve really started brain dumping now. I’ve got over 33,000 words and there’s plenty where they came from. Having said that, when I edit this puppy, I think at least half of what I’ve written will not make the cut. There’s just too much talking…blah, blah, blah and not enough action.

But, it’s been a fantastic experience and it’s still not over. I’ve got just over a week and I’ve still got lots of stuff that I’ve been jotting down in notebooks all over the house.

With a bit of luck, I may be able to recycle some of the bits I cut from the final 50,000 words into something else. There’s bits I really like, but in the context of the story, they’re a bit superfluous. In NaNoWriMo, superfluousness counts.