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Starting word count: 7,001
Yesterday’s word count: 2,279
Total word count: 9,280
The product: A little boost to chapter four and all of chapter five, in which we travel to an inn with trompe l’oeil walls and a conveniently situated French restaurant.
The process: Yesterday felt like a slog, so today I offer slog-dispelling silliness. See it after the jump.
Starting word count: 5,004
Yesterday’s word count: 1,997
Total word count: 7,001
The product: A little fleshing out in chapter three and drafting of chapter four, in which we eat fruit tart in low gravity and meet a matchmaker. Later, we see major drama between journalists arguing the pros an cons of NaNoWriMo.
Starting word count: 2,504
Yesterday’s word count: 2,500
Total word count: 5,004
The product: Some fleshing out of chapter two and all of chapter three, in which our heroine visits her BFF for tea and cake and we learn which amenities make a baker’s kitchen on the moon truly enviable. Read on for how procrastination reared its ugly head.
NaNoWriMo Day 1 (Part 2): Having a Crush on the Story
by Tracy V. Wilson | November 2, 2010
At this point, I’d call what I’m working on “heavily derivative.” It’s pretty clearly drawing from Jane Austen, not only because I love her, but also because I’ve been plodding through all 544 pages of “The Annotated Persuasion” for an absurdly long time now. It’s also flavored by Jasper Fforde’s “Shades of Grey,” which our very excellent video writer Ben Bowlin (of Stuff They Don’t Want You to Know fame) loaned to me a few months ago. See my word count stats and Steven Johnson’s take on good ideas after the jump.
Last night, after watching my friends’ vaudeville-esque Halloween cabaret, a friend of mine mentioned National Novel Writing Month. Spending November knocking out 50,000 words of original writing has turned into an annual tradition for him. For me, it was a one-time thing — I spent November 2005 in a failed attempt to draft a novel I’d been thinking on for a couple of years. I got to the finish line, but by the time I did, I was so disgusted with my last 30,000 words or so that I’ve never gone back to revise it into what I originally wanted it to be.
Have you always wanted to write a book? Do you find yourself without plans for Labor Day weekend? If the answer to both of these questions is yes, then the 3-day Novel Contest might be right up your alley.
The title of the contest pretty much says it all — you have three days, or 72 hours, to bang out a novel. That’s obviously a much shorter timeframe than the 30 days provided to participants in November’s National Novel Writing Month (NaNoWriMo), but an insane deadline isn’t the only difference.
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