#66.4% almost there
As seen on m00se and modus ponens:
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53,137 / 80,000
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Assuming I’m aiming for around 80,000 words in the first draft of my novel, I’m about two-thirds of the way there. Hrmm… I knew I should have typed up those six other hand-written chapters… Looks like I won’t make my December 4th goal…
currently playing: Pro-Tech “Re-Thread”
Dec 4th goal? Is that the novel in a month deadline?
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November 28th, 2005 at 9:33 pmNope… I opted out of NaNoWriMo this year because I’d started this novel several years ago - - and then finally got serious with it about six months ago. I already had quite a headstart by the time November kicked off. I had put 04-Dec down as a deadline out of some weirdly calculated and slightly aggressive pace that I wasn’t able to maintain.
November 28th, 2005 at 9:41 pm[...] Since a couple of folks asked, here is the “book jacket” edition synopsis of the project to which I’ve alluded a couple times now. So: After the Soy Wars, the world is a patchwork of wastelands and closely guarded communities managing their individual recoveries through a confederacy called the Sovereignties Parliament. Scattered along the borders of these communities, refugees gather, fleeing from the growing Quarantine Zones and the certain death that follows in the wake of a plague known only as The Blisters. Melissa and her Soy Guild crew have stolen a mysterious device from one of the Sovereignties and now try to make their escape, every avenue seemingly compromised and “the cone” becoming more and more a threat all on its own. Meanwhile, PI/mercenary Grey Madder is called up by an old associate to investigate a murder at a state-of-the-art hotel whose primary victim has no apparent cause of death and whose personal effects appear to have minds of their own. But after Grey’s evidence leads him to Melissa, the two are approached by a member of an underground organization called the Bodhisattvas who explains that “the cone” is a mixed blessing that could potentially clean up the quarantines or else expedite human kind’s next major step. Hope that’s not too over the top. Hard to get everything into a 200-words-or-less version. [...]
December 5th, 2005 at 9:16 pm[...] In ‘04 my excuse was… Well, I didn’t have one. Last year I was in the midst of a “serious” project. (And, honestly, I still am…) But this year I have decided to do it. November is National Novel Writing Month (NaNoWriMo) and (as declared elsewhere) I have signed up. [...]
October 25th, 2006 at 10:03 pm