The Home Stretch
November 26, 2007 by John Hewitt
Those of us participating in NaNoWriMo have reached the final five days of work. For those of you who are just waiting for me to finish so that I can resume my normal posting schedule — hold on tight. I’ve just passed 40,000 words. That leaves me with 10,000 words to go and five days to do it in. I have Monday off from work, so I am hoping to get the lion’s share of my word count finished tomorrow.
So far, this event has been really good for me. It has been several years since I last attempted to write a novel, and it feels good to take a new shot at it. What I have produced is still very, very rough, and there’s still so much more story to tell, but for me the point has been to get the first 50,000 word draft out of the way. It was touch and go for a while, but I am now confident that I will finish.
I’ll have more to say on the subject after I make my word count, but for now, I just wanted to let everyone know that I am making progress and I hope the other participants are as well.
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Still cheering you all on – louder and more enthusiastically than ever now you’re coming down the home stretch!
Crossed the line last night a little before midnight at 50,430. Whew!!! What a dash.
Yep, I finished on the 23rd. I wanted to yell in triumph but it was 11 45 or so at night… Lol. It was great. I’d never tried anything like it before so it was a huge confidence boost. I know that it’s badly written, but I do have the bare bones of a good story, though there are many plot holes lurking…
Good luck!
Congrats to Connie & Leah! YAY! I’m at 46,000. And I’m stuck. But I noticed that if I just start typing, all of a sudden IT comes to me and I hit the flow. Love that feeling! My drug of choice. And remember people: It’s a shitty first draft. ALL first drafts are bad. (I have this posted on a post-it on my monitor.)
Congrats Leah — fleshing them out is the big challenge now.
I’m up to 44,000 words now.
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