Nov 112014
Taking a page from Dean Wesley Smith‘s Writing in Public series, I’m going to start documenting my NaNoWriMo-driven push to finish the first draft of Alour-Tan II.
The typical NaNoWriMo goal is to write a short novel from scratch through the month of November, totaling at least 50,000 words by the end of the month. I’ve modified those parameters to better-suit what I need to do with this book. My goal is instead to write 80,000 new words (supplementing the 20,000ish I had already written for a total of ~100,000) over the course of the month, completing the first draft in the process. I don’t include the preexisting words in my NaNo total, as that would most definitely be against the “rules” of the “competition”.
| Date | Written | NaNo Total | Overall WC | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sat, Nov. 1 | 0 | 0 | 19271 | NaNo begins, but I don’t! |
| Sun, Nov. 2 | 2709 | 2709 | 21980 | |
| Mon, Nov. 3 | 2769 | 5478 | 18823 | Notable removal of some stuff from the existing manuscript |
| Tue, Nov. 4 | 966 | 6444 | 19789 | |
| Wed, Nov. 5 | 3049 | 9493 | 16349 | Another big chunk of existing text removed |
| Thu, Nov. 6 | 3441 | 12934 | 19790 | |
| Fri, Nov. 7 | 473 | 13407 | 20263 | Beer o’clock on office Fridays doesn’t do good things for my word count |
| Sat, Nov. 8 | 2145 | 15552 | 22408 | |
| Sun, Nov. 9 | 0 | 15552 | 22408 | “Write every day” is good advice. So is “don’t work every day.” |
| Mon, Nov. 10 | 1873 | 17425 | 24281 | |
| Tue, Nov. 11 | 729* | 18154 | 25010 | WC as of 0900 this morning; more planned for this evening. |