Friday 15 November 2013

A NaNo update!



Hi everyone. I'm here to report that I won NaNo on November 13th (last weekend I wrote over 18k, just on Saturday and Sunday. It was bliss!), and I am currently sitting on 54,909 words. I'm still loving the story, so much so in fact that it keeps me up at night (not good for my health, but very good for the creative part of my brain!). I still have juicy bits to write, and am pretty much desperate to get around to writing them. This is definitely a good sign.

There have been other NaNos where once I hit 50k, I really had to struggle to write anything on the project for the rest of the month. There have also been NaNos where it took me most of November to hit 50k. And of course there was one NaNo where I wrote 120k in 30 days (NaNo kept me up at night for all the right reasons that year, too). It really varies from year to year, I think. But one thing I know is that I better enjoy this "last hurrah (for the time being)", because next year I hope to use June (BuNo) and November (NaNo '14) to do serious revision work. Then again, maybe I'll just use the rest of the year for that. Problem is, I tried that this year and just slacked way too much.

For me I guess there's just something magical about both June and November that makes me really inspired to write something new. Nowadays I always have a new exciting idea to write. But the consequence of this is that currently, my ratio of rough-ish drafts to ready-to-publish drafts is 11:0. In other words, not too good. ;)

Did you do/are you doing NaNo this year?
How are you going?
Loving/hating your project?

14 comments:

  1. Congratulations on beating it at the halfway mark! That is awesome.

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  2. Being inspired is wonderful, good for you!
    And sorry, but I think the 11-0 ration sounds awesome as well!...I know it translates to a lot of grunt work, but just think about the fact that you have essentially a backlog of 11 books that still need to be published. EXCITING!

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  3. Ohmigosh, that's really amazing! Go on with your bad self, girl! ::high fives::

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  4. Hi Trisha .. being inspired is wonderful - and so well done on getting so far already ... I really admire all who do NANO.

    Thanks too for the heart warming post about Andrew - just so very sad for the family .. Hilary

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  5. Wow, that's amazing! Congrats! And it's great that you're still so excited about the story and enjoying the writing. Awesome feeling.

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  6. Nice! Consider yourself a beating-it-out champion! :)

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  7. Criminy! Why don't you just go ahead and start another one so you can have two wins!

    To have finished already is downright amazing. Congratulations.

    Lee
    Tossing It Out

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  8. Man, you are a writing machine! It always takes me most of the month to hit 50K. But I usually start out with a blitz like your past weekend and then slack off in the middle cuz well those parts aren't fun to write. Congrats on the win!

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  9. You're a machine Trish! Isn't it wonderful that you've finished, but more importantly, been inspired by your story. I'm not getting the writing time, so just passed 18000. I've never failed to reach 50k, but I might this year. Yours in about the first blog post I've commented on...just saw it when I updated my word count, so it hasn't been blogging that's been keeping me away from my story (which I love too!) I'll finish it...

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  10. Crazy Trish, just crazy! Do you actually sleep or eat? How in the world do you write that much that fast? Not just that you have the storyline in your head but that you actually have the time to write it all out that fast... CRAZY! lol

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  11. Wow, congratulations! Yeah, way to go, you crazy writer person you!

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  12. You are a writing beast! I'm so jealous. LOL

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  13. Wow, you are inspiring. 120K in 30 days? Um, can we switch brains--just for a month? *batting eyes*

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