Nov 22 2009

NaNoWriMo: And we have a winner!

Published by at 8:16 pm under Writing

I passed the 50,000 word point in my NaNoWriMo novel sometime today, qualifying me for the win. Yay! But the novel itself is a long way from finished, I have plot threads still dangling. Another ten thousand or so words should do it. With eight more days until the end of NaNoWriMo, that should be easy.

That’s just for the first (or even zeroth) draft. It may qualify for a NaNoWriMo win, but it’s a long way from “finished”. I have a lot of placeholders, what we’d call “stubs” in computer programming. That’s where I’ve just outlined a scene or a necessary sequence of actions that I didn’t feel up to writing at that point, and I’ll go back and expand later. That also includes a couple of characters that I introduced late and don’t have real names or backstories yet, factual details that I need to research, and so on. There are also a few chapters I want to change the sequence of. Plus line edits. But that’s all part of the process.

Congratulations to all the other NaNoWriMoers out there who have already passed (in same cases, totally blown by) 50K. For the rest, keep going! There’s still more than a week left.

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2 Responses to “NaNoWriMo: And we have a winner!”

  1. Brad R. Torgersenon 07 Dec 2009 at 1:01 pm

    Good going, my friend.

    Way better than me, in that I’ve been telling myself I need to get started on my novel — for the Lincoln City workshops — for over a month. And haven’t started yet.

    I am such a slacker. A slacker, I say!

  2. Alastairon 02 Feb 2010 at 9:33 pm

    Brad, if you’re reading this — and you haven’t finished your novel — GET BACK TO WORK!!!

    😉