52,276 words – The end of a novel (or just the beginning…)

52,276 words (or 52,359 going by the counter on the offical site… maybe it counts words with hyphens as two instead of one?), and my novel is finished. *ahem* Well, the first draft is finished, at any rate. Considering one author said that it normally takes her about 12 drafts to get something that can [...]

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44,000 words (and a picture)

Well, that was a painful 6,000 words.
For all my worry that I wouldn’t have the story finished by the time I hit 50,000 words, I then decided that if I followed by current plan, I would run out of story before I ran out of words.
So I tried to make the chase scene longer, and [...]

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38,148 words

Well, 38,000 words and counting. I have to admit that I am quite pleased with myself at this point in time. I’ve managed to keep up with my writing again today – despite going out to Bible Study tonight. I even managed to plan around that, writing 2,000 words earlier in the day and having [...]

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32,000 words

Thankfully, I felt much better when I woke up this morning. And spent a lovely time this morning watching some Pride and Prejudice (BBC version).
Then, of course, when I tried to enrol for Uni for next year it wouldn’t work for me. *sighs*
Anyway, I’ve just knocked off almost 7,000 words, so am feeling quite please [...]

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25,000 words

Well, yet another day, and I’ve managed to bring the total word count up to 25, 161, which I am quite pleased with. Especially with how today started out.
I work up feeling quite horrible. So went back to sleep. Woke up again, feeling quite horrible, and slept again. Woke up, and decided I needed to [...]

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18,600 words

Just a quick update to say that I managed to get 18,600 words written by saturday night. A fair bit less than I was hoping for (21,500), but I should still be able to make it to 50,000 by the end of the week.
Just so long as I do a fair bit of typing between [...]

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16,000 words

Well, I thought I’d add a quick post to say that I’ve managed to reach 16,000 words. I’m also finally starting to think that I’m actually enjoying my story (if I don’t enjoy it, how can I expect anyone else to?). Not only that, but I’ve somewhat surprised myself at my typing speed. Which is [...]

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Getting Started

Well, I was going to re-activate my old blogger account (had to agree to Google’s terms of service now that it’s taken blogger over), but for some reason it doesn’t like my password. At least, that’s what the problem seems to be. That, or a glitch in the system at the moment, as it won’t [...]

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