Well, sort of. I was working on one of those Sword and Sorcery Fantasy type books, the big honking ones that can go five or six hundred pages. It takes at least 100,000 words to finish off one of those, and as you can see by my statistics, I only did about half that.
I had to really push to get that much done, too, as I had neglected to do any prep work, and had no outline for any of it. From this I have learned that I really, really do need an outline even if I don’t actually intend to follow it at all. The previous book went so much better. But then, this one is a lot more involved as it is a sequel.
I have some friends who intend to do their own version of NaNo in January – which we all agree is the optimum month for that sort of thing as it doesn’t include troublesome holidays or tempting weather. My intention is to do the second half then.
Toward the end I started thinking about my Montana compatriots doing NaNo. Here’s how we fared as a collective unit:
I think the gradual arc in the first three quarters reflect those who dropped out along the way, and the little uptick at the end came from all of us who were close enough to make a desperate, last-minute effort.
It’ll be interesting to see how January goes.
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