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It's been a long road, but I managed to write an entire story from scratch. This has been a tough challenge, to be sure, but having gone through it, I know that -

Aaaaaaaaaaaand I'm only at 30,000 words. Time to pull a new outline out of my ass.
It's time to pull a Peter Jackson and find a way to make the epilogue last eight times longer than necessary because I'm nearing the last couple of chapters of my main story and I haven't even cracked 30,000 words.
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It's all about word count. I have some nano books that I never touched again after the month was over.
My brilliant plan to make a lot of writing progress in the beginning of the month to frontload my word count lasted approximately zero days. Good thing I have November 28, 29, and 30 off from work.
This is such a weird challenge for me. Normally at work my goal is to stay under a word and/or page limit. Now I'm writing crap I know will get thrown out in the editing progress.
All y'all with your crazy fantasy adventures of dragons and spells and kindgoms, while I'm sitting here writing about some Norse scrub who's getting yelled at by his wife because she thinks their son is obsessed with feet because of him.
I'm currently writing dialogue for the protagonist's four-year-old son and my spellcheck wants to strangle me right now as I'm feeding it gems like, "Do the fishies eat wormies?"
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"Only if they are hungries~!"😂
I'm thinking it should be "wormsies!"
After I went from nothing to a 50,000+ word manuscript last November, I was so excited to finally dive into the editing process and turn that mess of a draft into a refined story.

I haven't laid a finger on it since November 30, 2023.
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It's never too late. *Smile*
Tell you what. If you edit that piece and be done with your editing, I'll give you the Editing MB. Honestly, sometimes I feel NaNo is the easy part. Editing... that is the difficult bit. *Laugh*
Boy, am I sure glad I came into November with multiple story outlines, because I'm starting the third act of my main story and I'm not even halfway to 50,000 words.
The worst part about November is I enjoy the rewriting and editing process more than the writing process itself. But when I edit, I end up with a negative daily word count.
I'm really happy for my protagonist. He's gone through a lot, but he never gave up. He kept his head high and kept grinding until -

Oh, wait, it's still only the second act. The protagonist tries to save the day but he still sucks so everything goes wrong and everyone he cares about pays the price for his incompetence.
I love when the writing process comes to a screeching halt so I can open up a browser window to see if I can trace the etymology of random words to at least as far back as the Middle Ages.

I don't care if the word originated from Latin, Old French, Old English, or whatever. If someone uttered the word anywhere near Europe before 1500, then it was in use in Medieval Scandinavia because shut up it was.
From now until the end of November, all of my characters are forbidden from using contractions.
The adventures of having to invent a new character on the fly to be the villain because I decided the original villain would make a better redeemed secondary protagonist.

Tune in next week for a new episode of "Let's Rewrite the First Act Because a Handful of What Happened Is Now Inconsistent with My New Redemption Arc."
Me: Dang. I didn't get any writing done yesterday. That's okay. If I do an extra 100 words each day, then I'll make up the difference and then some. That's entirely doable.

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I feel the same way! I'm about 5,000 words off pace for the month... a completely manageable gap to overcome with 20 days left in the month. And yet, for some reason my brain keeps telling me that I'm never going to finish in time. *RollEyes*
I'm off to spend more time calculating my required daily word count pace than actually increasing my word count.
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