Life After Nanowrimo

Now that the first draft of my novel's done, I plan to take some time to relax and do other things. I'll jot down notes on the changes I want to make to my novel, planning out the rewrite, but I won't be pushing myself toward a lofty goal. This will give me time to finish a knitting project I'm working on, and it will give me time to keep up on here.

Eric took me to the movies Sunday. We saw part one of the new Harry Potter movie. I can't wait to see part two! It was a lot of fun, and it was good to see him again. :)

There's not really a lot going on here. My mom will be coming on Saturday, so Jeff and I will have to pick her up at the airport. I'll miss the T.G.I.O. (Thank God It's Over) party with the Yetis, but my mom's worth missing it. :)

Lois

Nanowrimo Writing Progress: November 30, 2010

I did it! I did it! I did it! I've finally written a 100K novel! :D

Actually, it's 102K words, but still... ;)

Here are my stats for today:

Today's word count: 4,606
Novel's word count (Official): 102,077
Novel's page count: 180

I still haven't added the fight scenes, but I may do that tonight at the write-in. My word count will grow a little more, and I'm happy about that, but I'm so relieved to have reached my own personal goal! :D

I finally killed off another character. I was going to do that later, as I had other scenes to write, but I ended up writing it now (yesterday, actually). Today, I added the scene where my main character finds out about it...and he has an uncomfortable, dark (literally) experience, then comes to an understanding with the person who forced him to go through it. It was fun writing. :)

I also wrote another encounter my MC has with the villain, and it did not go well for him, poor fellow!

All in all, I'd say my writing session for today went well. Tonight's writing session will be more action oriented, and if I have time, I may even add a deeper, more personal scene or two. *g*

Lois

Nanowrimo Writing Progress: November 29, 2010

Well, I finally sat my butt down and got to work again. OpenOffice, known for bloating document word counts, has done it again. I still need to write another 3,500 words or so in order to "officially" get to 100K. I'll do that tomorrow.

Here are my stats for today:

Today's word count: 7,524
Novel's word count (Official): 97,671
Novel's page count: 172

I've still got some fight scenes to add, plus a couple of other scenes. Hopefully, they'll be enough to bring my official word count up to 100K.

I look forward to the re-write, but I probably won't start work on it until after the new year (if I can hold myself back for that long). I need to put some distance between the novel and myself so I can go back to it with fresh eyes. I'll be thinking a lot about it, though, and all the changes I want to make to it.

Lois