Ealain

Last year, NaNoWriMo (National Novel Writing Month) kicked me in the metaphorical pants and I wrote 5 chapters of my story in one week (then proceeded to stop), whereas before it had taken me months to write 2 chapters.

In the last year since then, I’ve written 4 more chapters.

See, I NaNoWriMo differently than the usual crowd. I work on the same story I always work on. I write for content, not just whatever comes to mind (my usual process). It just gives me the motivation to sit and write more often than usual. And that’s priceless.

So, this November, here’s to at least 5 more chapters. Anyone wanna join me?

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Summary: In the past week I have written for a total of 8 hours and 45 minutes, totaling 32 pages and 10,025 words. Also known as five chapters, though half of chapters three and four were already written. Seeing that it took me over six months to write 2 chapters, it really is amazing that in one week (or actually five days since I took two off), I’ve written 5 chapters. Woo-hoo for NaNoWriMo.

So, for those of you who have been wondering what all these protected and chaptered posts have been, it’s my story. All glorious 76 pages and 7 chapters of it. If you’re interested in reading it as it is written, comment me here and let me know. If I know you well enough that I trust you, I’ll send you the password.

Day 1: 2 hours, 4 pages, 1281 words

I was busy throughout the day but I finally got a chance to write tonight from 9pm to 11pm. I was planning on heading off to bed at 10pm because of class tomorrow but couldn’t stop. Just ask Trisha.

Day 2: 1 hour, 5 pages, 1705 words

I got really into it today, reminescing and getting so into it that I wrote so much in such short time. For those of you reading my story as it is written, I’ll be adding the chapters as they are written so it should hopefully be more frequent cuz of nanowrimo.

Day 3: 2 hours and 15 minutes, 8 pages, 2328 words

hehemwahaha. Entire chapter. *squeels*
That finished off the first fourth of my story. Very very excited.

Day 4: took a break

Day 5: 1 hour, 6 pages, 1784 words

The majority of chapter six written. Still need to expand it and write more for it, though.

Day 6: 2 hour 30 minutes, 9 pages, 2753 words

I finished off Chapter 6 by adding in 141 words to the end. It’s a shorter chapter but it works out ok. I’m kind of disappointed in the way things are playing out in chapter seven; not enough of the emotion is captured, I think and what I planned to take place in 10 pages only turned out to be 6. So now I’ll either have to expand, whick I dont feel like doing right now, or combine what I planned for the next chapter into chapter seven as well. We’ll see. But for now I’m taking a break.

I came back afterwards and wrote for another hour, expanding what I had and then writing three more pages after that. I broke the 10k mark!

Day 7: Day off