Re: Nanowrimo word counts

Jacey Bedford wrote:

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

Congratulations -- exhausted just thinking about it...

(*Not* a type best suited to NaNo, why do you ask? :-0 )

--
Cheers,

Gray
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