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Finally! I am gaining my calm back. Good thing is I am not scared of Nano anymore, now that the plot and the characters have formed -somewhat- inside my head. I have done all the research I thought I might need. What is left is to write 1167 words a day, according to the book by Chris Baty, No Plot? No Problem, which I found in the library. I don't think I'll have difficulty, sticking to a schedule. I may not do the amount of words exactly like what is on that schedule, but I may write less or more. I hope I have the discipline acquired over the two and half years of writing or rather trying to write 500 words or more each day. Plus, I went through Wannabe's challenges and found out I could write even 2500 words a day, although not every day. For Nano, I plan to come up with the 50,000 a few days before the end of the month. You never know what can go wrong if you leave it to the end. So, I'll try to write 1800 words a day or more, even though I may have days that I won't be able to write anything. Having said that, I decided not to rush me, but to take each problem and each day as it comes, and even look through the day's work for outstanding mistakes. The holes in the plot or whatever I may need to add will have to come later. I think this plot will probably take 30,000 words more. This plot came out of a character sketch for a short story contest. Although the character in that short story will be a secondary one in the novel, I plan to improve on her even more. My problem is with the main character. I think, at this point, I'm wavering between two main characters, something I didn't intend to come up with, but having two main characters has been done before by better writers than me, so I'll just let the story take its course, and possibly, the main character problem will resolve itself through the evolution of the plot or I'll handle it afterwards. If anyone is interested, here is the number of words for each day from No Plot? No Problem. Day 1 -- 1667 Day 2 -- 3334 Day 3 -- 5001 Day 4 -- 6668 Day 5 -- 8335 Day 6 -- 10,002 Day 7 -- 11,669 Day 8 -- 13,336 Day 9 -- 15,003 Day10 -- 16,670 Day11 -- 18,337 Day12 -- 20,004 Day13 -- 21,671 Day14 -- 23,338 Day15 -- 25,005 Day16 -- 26,672 Day17 -- 28,339 Day18 -- 30,006 Day19 -- 31,673 Day20 -- 33,340 Day21 -- 35,007 Day22 -- 36,674 Day23 -- 38,341 Day24 -- 40,008 Day25 -- 41,675 Day26 -- 43,342 Day27 -- 45,009 Day28 -- 48,343 Day29 -- 48,343 Day30 -- 50,000 |