Nanowrimo: made it!

[redbird]

Current word count: 50,164

I figure I'll try to finish this scene, at least, before pasting it together, submitting it to the word-counting software to prove I've done it, and then going on writing.

But I've just written 50,000 words of fiction in 27 days, and some of them are even good. The book isn't close to finished, and it has various inconsistencies that need fixing, but it's real and I can keep going.

Wow! I had no idea if I could do this, or what I was going to write about. I'm still not sure--this wasn't supposed to be nearly so cozy a book, and the main characters surprised me by falling in love, and major plot threads are still hanging--but wow.

UPDATE: When I put it all together, the word count came up slightly short, so I had to write a few more paragraphs before I talked to their robot. And now:

Comments

well done

[rysmiel.livejournal.com]

How much longer, length-wise, do you think this story is going to take to tell ?

My personal best was 25kwords in 5 days - which was pretty solid first draft, too, it's only expanded to just over 27kwords in the current draft of that thing. Mind you, that was while staying with someone whose host/guest comfort levels were such that she would have been annoyed had I done anything at all to help around the house, so I had really unprecedented levels of nothing else to do.

Re: well done

[redbird]

I have no idea--there's at least one crucial decision as yet unmade (in the sense that I haven't plotted what Olivia will do, let alone the consequences), and that will majorly affect what happens after and how long it takes.