It’s been weeks since the last update but I continued to toil away on my novel, completing it a day early with an official word count of 50,050.
I give you my tiny jpg award picture:
Woo!
In 29 days of writing I had:
- 21 days when I wrote over the 1,667 minimum (most was 4,545)
- 2 days when I wrote under the 1,667 minimum (1,013 words and 12 words, respectively)
- 5 days when I wrote 0 words
- 1 day where I mucked up and forgot to add an entry but was probably around 1,800 words
Although I met the requirements of NaNoWriMo the novel is still unfinished and is a structural mess, though at least it’s not a structural disaster. In hindsight I think it was too ambitious to fit within the constraints of the 30 day write-like-a-madman format but there’s enough in there to make a rewrite (eventually) worth pursuing. And it helped reinforce the habit of writing every day (I believe I would have skipped fewer days if the requirement had only been to write and not to a minimum word count to stay on track).
Overall I’m pleased to taken part and to have won but The Mean Mind will be tucked away for now while I go back to finishing up The Ferry.
