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Nano update

27/11/2012

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I've been keeping up with Nano, which I'm really chuffed about considering all the other stuff I've been juggling. I haven't been maintaining the daily wordcount updates because I was doing that on the Nano website and some days even doing that was hard. I have now hit the 42,000 word mark and there is light at the end of the tunnel.

I do have to write 2,000 words a day to make up 50,000 words, but that won't be a problem. I'll probably have to keep writing a little while longer to get down all the scenes I've got on my list. Then the truly hard work will begin-trying to mould this miss-mash of words into something resembling a draft.

At the moment I've just got a word document with headings and have slapped down words, notes, etc without any crafting or attempt to write well. There's lots of telling and not showing. It basically reads like a hundred anecdotes one after the other.

Now I'm going to have to move things around and figure out what goes where, and frame each chapter. Then go through and do the crafting. Having seen how the words have multiplied in such an amazing way by writing every day I now know I need to continue breaking up the process into small manageable chunks. 

So for now-2,000 words a day until Friday. Wish me luck. The end is nigh.


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    • Blog
    • About Me
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        • Six things writers should do
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        • The Tree That Stood Still
        • Time Kneels Between Mountains
        • Ghosts Among the Gumtrees
        • Mad Dawn Winter
      • Young Adult >
        • Cuckoos Song
        • Sassy Saints Series >
          • Sabiha's Dilemma >
            • The Good Daughter
          • Alma's Loyalty
          • Jesse's Triumph
          • Sassy Saints Series Books 1-3
        • The Climb
      • Memoir >
        • Things Nobody Knows But Me
        • Teacher Teacher anthology
        • Growing up Muslim in Australia
        • Meet Me at the Intersection
        • Rebellious Daughters
        • St Albans piece
      • Romance >
        • Dreams of Destiny Romance Series >
          • Hollywood Dreams
          • Vintage Dreams
          • Vengeful Dreams
        • Return to Me
        • Kings of the Bay Romance Series >
          • That One Summer Anthology
      • Dark Fiction Horror >
        • WomanOnTheEdgeShortStory
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      • Benefits of a residency
      • Journey to Self Publishing
      • The Art of the pitch
      • Balancing the pen and the paycheck
      • Short stories for publication portfolio
      • Evolution of an author
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      • Own the Stage
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      • Fikret Pajalic
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