The goal of fifty thousand words (or more) written during the thirty days of November (or less). I know, that "or less" should have been "or fewer" - but, then the balance of the sentence would be off. Rules? Meh!
Last year, when I did this, I arrived at the end of fifty thousand words, just a little over, and also arrived at a reasonable end to the story I had been writing. How tidy.
This time, as they say - not so much.
There are, easily, another twenty thousand words or so to find before the story is brought to something approaching a finishing point. And probably another story after that to bring the whole saga to a satisfying close.
And I am fried. My own fault, really. It seems I wrote over twenty-four thousand of those words across the long weekend we just had (and last night). Bad KjM.
Next November, yes gentle reader, I intend doing this again next November, I will have to come up with a better plan. The final sprint to the finish, while effective, is not reasonable (even in the context of the unreasonable-ness of the entire project).
Still. I did manage to get over fifty and a half thousand words of this story down on paper, however I achieved it. I am, as I was last year, as pleased with myself as "a cat with two tails".
The above "on paper" was not a linguistic throwback to earlier times. I am the throwback. I wrote the story, on paper, with a fountain pen - two actually. I ran out of cartridges for the first one, before I ran out of words, and time.
To all and any who embarked on the NaNoWriMo challenge this year, with whom I contributed to the, more than, two billion words written in the month, a heartfelt congratulations for taking on such a wonderfully mad endeavor. The world needs such madness.
It has altogether too much of the other kinds.
45-day November? I'd like a whole November repeat. I seem to have lost it somewhere. :)
ReplyDeleteI love writing on pads longhand. That's the way I always write. My inner editor runs wild and free however. For it, I use mechanical pencil and eraser.
After that extreme push, I hope you got to take a long nap somewhere!
Hi Laura, I can imagine that November seems to have vanished for you - for many of of us that did the "NaNo thing".
ReplyDeleteMy inner editor notes some things go by as I write longhand, but I don't try to do much in the way of editing until I reach the end.
Getting up for work on Monday/Tuesday was not fun. But getting the 50K done was worth it. :)