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Congratulations again, Stoat!
I also got to 30.000 words this evening. My heroines were doing saucy things in the town hall though (and had a dwarf watching), when they were supposed to not linger around and instead travel to the fantasy capital, where further plot awaits them.
Now that the second half of november and the third week of NaNoWriMo have started, Chris Baty suggests the goal is to reach the 30.000 words territory by the end of the third week. For people who are still behind he proposes two days in a row of writing 6.000 words each:
2.000 words each after breakfast, lunch and dinner in bursts of 30 minutes writing, ten minutes pause, etc. (30-10-30-10-30). I have no idea how doable this exercise is, though.
Something that surprised me is his proposal to finish the novel in november, even if you hit 50.000 midway. Apparently, many people that stop at 50.000, never finish their novel later on. In his opinion, it is better to fill in many parts later on and concentrate on getting down the whole story, while the characters are still fresh in the authorīs mind.
He might be on to something here as far as my text is concerned, since my last three chapters were almost too good on the word count, and I will probably need more than 50.000 words to tell the whole story. |
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