11.22.07
44,665!
Here it is, the end of Week Three in NaNoWriMo and I have managed to write 44,665 words - only 5335 left to write in order to achieve a total of 50,000! And if I can continue to churn out the daily totals of over 3000 as I’ve done so far this week, I should be finished in two days. I might not completely finish the novel, which continues to grow as I write it, but I will pass the 50,000 word mark well before the end of the month. Hurrah!
And, by next Novemeber, I’ll have forgotten what a slog this has been and will probably get talked into entering it again…
teri said,
November 22, 2007 at 5:02 pm
that is so impressive, susan! are you going to post any excerpts? i’m curious about how you structured the novel - did you write an outline or did you just write whatever came to mind?
islandeditions said,
November 22, 2007 at 7:07 pm
Thanks, Teri! I did post the prologue last week in response to a Writers Island prompt. It’s a story that’s been rattling around in my head for a couple of years so it’s had plenty of time to gestate. I had never written anything of it down before NaNoWriMo began, but I knew who the main characters were, what they did, how the novel began, ended and where most of the crises occured in the story. I wrote out the Prologue first on Nov. 1st and then started right into the novel. After writing a couple of chapters I then wrote the ending (last chapter) and added an epilogue which just kind of happened unexpectedly. I outlined everything else that I knew was going to happen in the middle of the novel, broke all of that up into logical chapters, and just had at it. Today I wrote a major part of Chapter 7, but I still have that to finish as well as Chapter 8. Chapter 9 is the last one and already completed. So I figure that another 10,000 words should put paid to the novel as well as heave me well over the 50,000 word total required for finishing NaNoWriMo. Of course, then comes the really fun part of writing - the editing! You know what that’s like… I think I’ll be giving this manuscript a good long rest before I even open the file again though. I’m exhausted!!