So November is in the past and Nanowrimo is done for another year. I ended up with a little over 41,000 words written so didn't quite make the target alas. Trying to do this while planing a business trip to the other side of the world was probably a little ambitious in hindsight...isn't hindsight wonderful!
That said, I do want to finish this story and won't let the end of the challenge be the end of the story! I think I will try and write one chapter a week until this thing is done.
The story of FATE Inc and it's employees will be told!
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Thursday, December 3
Thursday, November 12
Progress...
Passed twenty thousand words today while doing the bulk of the next chapter, so still on schedule and rolling along. After any days I have struggled with so far I have been able to catch up again the next day. So far, so good!
Wednesday, November 4
Rolling along nicely so far...
Tonight was spent doing a little editing and correcting a few obvious errors in the text so far in addition to finishing off Chapter Four...I did promise myself I wouldn't do too much of the editing and correcting before it was all done, but with me posting my progress there were just some things I had to tweak as silly mistakes always annoy me! Nicely ahead on the word count so far so even building up some slack for the almost inevitable wall that will come at some stage during the month. A good start is always welcome! Hope you have been enjoying the tale so far..I am having to resist the temptation to jump ahead and write scenes I really want to get into that I know are coming up but am trying to be disciplined and make sure I finish the chapters in sequence.
Friday, October 30
Welcome to my little experiment!
I have taken part in Nanowrimo three times before, and only completing it once. So when I thought about entering this year I decided to things a little differently! You see I love writing. I don't really care whether anyone thinks I am any good as I am usually my own worst critic, but there is one thing I am bad...really bad...at and that is actually finishing work. Even the one year taking part in Nanowrimo that did yield 50,000 words and past the target it didn't yield a finsihed story because I wrote more earlier in the planned story than I had anticipated and still to this day haven't finished it up.
So that being the case this year I have decided to do it a little more publically. Namely by publishing the chapters as I go throughout the month. I am hoping that it will both give me some motivation to keep going if I know someone is reading (one of you will be enough for me) and any inspiration from comments or suggestions as people (or person, again not shooting too high here) read along.
There is also the story itself. This is actually going to be a story that I first sketched out and wrote some snippets for over eight years ago now. I have just never forced myself to find the time to pull it together into something coherent. So I figured that this year was a good opportunity to take that story and finally let loose on it and hopefully turn it into something worthwhile.
Usually I edit my writing...a lot...so this will be an interesting experiment in that regard as well. Even when I have done this in previous years I always felt I couldn't show anyone what I wrote during Nanowrimo because it was unedited, it was raw, and I feared it was awful. So this is one factor that still has me doubting this is a good idea, but I really want to tell this particular story and well, I need to kick myself up the rear sometimes and force some forward momentum out of myself!
So this is it, forward momentum!
A slight dislaimer upfront as well, I do still have many of the original snippets I wrote for this story so I will be aiming for more than the 50,000 words if possible, only because I have some written already as my posts today will demonstrate there is already a prologue and a first chapter and scatterings of some other stages later on in the story (if they remain in the story as I write this time!)
The story by the way is called FATE Inc and I hope you enjoy it! (or at least what I finish of it!)
So that being the case this year I have decided to do it a little more publically. Namely by publishing the chapters as I go throughout the month. I am hoping that it will both give me some motivation to keep going if I know someone is reading (one of you will be enough for me) and any inspiration from comments or suggestions as people (or person, again not shooting too high here) read along.
There is also the story itself. This is actually going to be a story that I first sketched out and wrote some snippets for over eight years ago now. I have just never forced myself to find the time to pull it together into something coherent. So I figured that this year was a good opportunity to take that story and finally let loose on it and hopefully turn it into something worthwhile.
Usually I edit my writing...a lot...so this will be an interesting experiment in that regard as well. Even when I have done this in previous years I always felt I couldn't show anyone what I wrote during Nanowrimo because it was unedited, it was raw, and I feared it was awful. So this is one factor that still has me doubting this is a good idea, but I really want to tell this particular story and well, I need to kick myself up the rear sometimes and force some forward momentum out of myself!
So this is it, forward momentum!
A slight dislaimer upfront as well, I do still have many of the original snippets I wrote for this story so I will be aiming for more than the 50,000 words if possible, only because I have some written already as my posts today will demonstrate there is already a prologue and a first chapter and scatterings of some other stages later on in the story (if they remain in the story as I write this time!)
The story by the way is called FATE Inc and I hope you enjoy it! (or at least what I finish of it!)
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