FIVE DAYS TO NANOWRIMO!
The kickoff party will be Halloween night, and I will be there, ready to start writing on the stroke of midnight! Well, not start start, since I've already started work on this novel, but start my NaNoWriMo word count, specifically.
I've currently got a little over 19,000 words on my novel. I was originally hoping to get to something like 30k before NaNo started, so that I could add 50k and finish my novel out around 80k. Now I'm aiming lower. I'm undecided on how long my novel should be, but I don't think I'll get to 80k, so if I start NaNo with 21 or 22k that will enable me to get 50k for the month before I run out of steam.
What else am I planning on doing before NaNo starts? Obviously adding a couple thousand words before then won't be difficult, providing my life behaves, of course. (No more days like yesterday, please, with lots of various forces conspiring to keep me busy running errands and such all day long!)
I also plan to work a bit more on my outline. I know what I want to happen in the middle, and I have a vague idea of the end, but not much of the in-betweens. I've been kind of winging it, so there are times when I get to the end of what I had planned, and think, Hmmm, what should happen next? That's not conducive to writing quickly, so I need to make plans for how I'm going to fill in some of the holes in my plot!
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