Only 11 More Days!

I can't believe it's already the 19th! It's gone by so fast. I feel pretty good about my novel right now. I'm actually 1201 words ahead right now...which is good because I have to work the next three days. I want to try and stay a little bit ahead for the next week and hopefully have the whole 50000 written by the end of the 29th.

I've really enjoyed writing this novel so far. I think it might be a little while before it's ready for anyone to read it though. It will probably take me as long to edit it as it has to write it. That doesn't mean that it's going to take me a month though - I don't plan to spend two hours a day editing!

My characters had a bit of an unexpected crisis happen today - I just decided it was going to happen one scene before it did! They'll make it through though. I left off writing for the day at the beginning of the scene. I find it's easier to sit down and write if I already know what is about to happen, if I'm in the middle of something. It will pretty much give me enough words to fill up my count for tomorrow and maybe saturday as well.

After that, there isn't much more until it's finished! I have 32874 words right now. That's the most I've ever written of one thing! It's almost 11000 more words than I wrote of my novel last year. I am so determined to finish it this year! I only have 17126 words left to write!

My ending is clear-cut as well. I had the ending of this story planned out before I even started writing. I have reconsidered what I have planned a few times, but I always go back to my original plan - even if I might hate myself for it!

I realize that this post probably doesn't make a whole lot of sense. I don't want to actually give away any plot points in case any of you actually ever read my novel. I want everything to hit you when you read it, I don't want anyone to know what happens before it does!

Wish me luck with my last 17000 words! It doesn't feel like too much compared to what I've already written...but it does feel like a lot to write in eleven days. :)

Love Story

I love the fact that my novel is just a regular fiction love story. No super powers, no mythical creatures, no fantasy at all. It's the first time that I've ever written anything like this before and I'm having so much fun doing it.

It's not the most original of stories. People have been falling in love for thousands of years though, so how original can one love story be? What's so special about my story is that part of it is based loosely on something that actually happened with a certain couple in my family. I can't say anymore without giving the plot away to some people (mom!).

It's something very romantic though. People say that you should write what you know. I've tried before, but never like this. I can write what I know with fantasy, and it's fun because you can make things up that could never exist in real life. Writing a love story is different, because this really could happen in real life. It's a new experience for me, and I think that it shows that I'm growing as a writer.

If there's one thing in life that I know about, it's love.

Nanowrimo!

Ok, so I was totally planning on posting my story as I wrote it. I even started doing that, the first two chapters were posted here.

I'm not doing it anymore

I AM still writing my novel, I've just decided that it's best if no one reads it until it's completed and edited. It is just a first draft and it was putting stress on me to have to worry about it not having an errors.

Therefore, it shall remain private until it is completed.

For now I am doing great. I currently have 5654 words which is actually 2320 words above where I need to be by the end of day two. On average I should be writing 1667 words a day. I am way ahead right now because I wrote 5008 words in the first day. I wanted to hit 7000 words tonight, but I'm not sure if I'm going to.

I don't want to start out too fast and burn out in a few days.

Wish me luck!