Re: Nanowrimo word counts

In message <1wIStWPGqyRHFwLT@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>, Jacey Bedford <lookinsig@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes

Ha!
I just tipped 40k in my NaNo wordcount. If only I hadn't had those five days tied up in conference last week, I'd be almost there by now, but as it is, I may just make my 50k in time.

One week to go and 10k words to write.

Jacey

Whoo-hoo... responding to my own post...

I've done it.
50,121 words by 11.30 Sunday evening. With the conference taking five days out of November I've worked out that I've done 50k words in 20 days, thus proving once and for all tat I am a burst writer.

Because I wasn't sticking strictly to NaNo rules in that I was adding 50k words to 28k already in the bag I now have 78,468 and estimate another chapter or possibly two depending on whether the last confrontation is a single battle or a double one. I probably won't know until I write it.

So I can't really say that I won NaNo by all their strictest rules, but I can say I know I can write 50k words in 20 days if I have to... and that's while still more or less keeping up with the day job. So that piece of knowledge alone is a win for me!
:-)

I'm just going to keep going now, not necessarily pushing as hard because I have a grant to write for our local festival this week. Deadline also 30th November like NaNo. I do intend to finish the first draft by - at the latest - early December. Then I'm going to leave it until after Christmas and read it ready for the endless revision which will commence in January.

Jacey

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