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20231023 J'ai Fini

October 23, 2023, 9:00am

So, I finished a story. The 3k start has become a 47k word novella, meaning I wrote 44k words in 8 days. Almost a complete NaNoWriMo in just over a week.

It was certainly an interesting experience.

So, it's about a guy who captures a girl he's fascinated with in a crystal and, two decades later, two of her old friends need to rescue her. It's told with a through-story and a lot of flashback chapters. Almost but not quite non-linear. Set in 2019, because I didn't want COVID to be a factor.

Here's the chapter breakdown. (Oh, it doesn't have a title yet.)

CHAPTER 1 - 1994
CHAPTER 2 - 2019
CHAPTER 3 - 1997, 1998
CHAPTER 4 - 2019
CHAPTER 5 - 1994
CHAPTER 6 - 2019
CHAPTER 7 - 1989
CHAPTER 8 - 2019
CHAPTER 9 - 1990
CHAPTER 10 - 2019
CHAPTER 11 - 1991
CHAPTER 12 - 2019
CHAPTER 13 - 1990
CHAPTER 14 - 2019
CHAPTER 15 - 1994
CHAPTER 16 - 2019
CHAPTER 17 - 1993
CHAPTER 18 - 2019
CHAPTER 19 - 1983
CHAPTER 20 - 2019
CHAPTER 21 - 1993, 1994
CHAPTER 22 - 2019
CHAPTER 23 - 1989
CHAPTER 24 - 2019
CHAPTER 25 - 1993
CHAPTER 26 - 2019
CHAPTER 27 - 1990
CHAPTER 28 - 2019
CHAPTER 29 - 1994
CHAPTER 30 - 2019

There you go. I did try to remember Chekhov's gun throughout, but when I do my edit after November, I'll see how well I did in that regard.

Anyway, just another little look into my writing world.