I did it! I participated in National Finish a Draft of Your Book, I Mean, Seriously, Come On! Month (thank you, John Green, for naming this event!), and I really and truly finished a draft of my book.<\/p>\n
This was a grand rewrite that I’ve been working on for several months now, complete with an entirely new ending. Mind you, the new parts are just a draft, so I will need to work them over. Since the new ending turned out quite different than how I was planning to write it (even better!), I will need to tweak a few details ahead as well.<\/p>\n
But the draft is finished! Now I’m hoping to do clean up and final editing in the month of December and start shopping my novel in the New Year.<\/p>\n
It’s a novel for middle grade readers, about a princess who doesn’t want to marry whoever wins the quest for her hand and sets out to win it herself.<\/p>\n
Here are my stats for the month: My novel is 5,225 words longer than at the start of November. I wrote 7,356 words in my “Writing Plan.” (Every day I write about what I need to work on in the book that day in a file just for that.) And on all of my blogs, I wrote 8,561 words. For a grand total of 21,142 words in the month of November 2010. Not exactly NaNoWriMo standards, but you have to realize that I also deleted words in my book — and got divorced.<\/p>\n
And so far in 2010, I have worked on my book (or a book) at least 30 minutes every single day. Some time I’d like to be a full-time writer, but for someone working full-time, this schedule makes amazing progress, a little bit at a time.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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