The 2012 OLL season came to a close now National Novel Writing Month has ended. I did more than the goal; as quantity was concerned. My novel is insanely long, but for the moment I sort of like it that way.
Proper tone; cadence; length; narration are all things I can figure out later when I work on a real draft. My chapters aren’t traditional at this point either, but I like that for the moment as well.
On the bright side, I can safely say the story is past the halfway point. After this current section gets finished up…there are maybe four major things before the ending. Rather, four or five locations, then the big ending. Sorry to all who want to read this while waiting for that Transformers reboot: no explosions at the end of this book. Maybe a faint trace of saltwater, but the lead doesn’t end up having a day at the beach.
Then again, there is this…
No, nope – never a part of my plan. I didn’t plan on her leaving Scottsdale in the story. Then again, anything can happen when writing a novel in the Nanoverse.
Back on topic: here’s an auto-generated chart from the Nano site; showing my daily progress in November:
So close to sixty thousand, I know. Maybe next year? That giant bump in my stats was thanks to our Day of Writing Safe and Warm, which is our region’s version of the Night of Writing Dangerously event held in San Francisco. Ours may not be as swanky, but sure can be a game-changer for a Wrimo’s word count.
My favorite way to keep track of November is with this widget:
This has been my word barometer for a few years now; and this season it was on display in this blog’s sidebar. The colors can range from red to green, as I recall. A green box means the daily word count was reached. All the other colors represent a word count below par, so to speak.
My personal hope was to write two thousand words a day. Now my plan is to make up the combined difference of all those non-green days with a newer December goal. This means 2013 will be the time to see if I’ll avenge those orange and yellow boxes.
When I verified my win, I decided to make my forum signature a little easier to see. Here’s what it became:
In case you’re wondering, all the black print and handwriting were lifted from the project I was writing for November.
Since I’m sharing images, here is something I received at the TGIO [Thank Goodness It’s Over] party for our region:
One of these days I’ll open the pack up, but I haven’t had a special enough use yet.
That about wraps up why November is a tough month to keep my attention. Now maybe one of these days I’ll finally finish one of these novels. April and July are the Camp Nano sessions for 2013. Maybe then? Oh, wishful thinking…
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