I’VE WRITTEN 50,000 WORDS THIS MONTH, which means that I’ve successfully fulfilled the goal of JuNoWriMo.
But wait, there’s more!
I’ve only just begun Chapter Nine of twelve planned chapters, so I’ll be writing on into July, until I reach my ultimate goal of 72,000 words.
Milestone self-congratulations in the form of frozen yogurt are in order, I think.
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Also, hooray poster:
Read about its design and other amusing WriMo-related news at the OLL blog.
WORD COUNT: 20,249
Did you read that? Twenty thousand, people!
I am a hilarious word machine.
It’s the fifth day of NaNoWriMo/Camp NaNoWriMo/JuNoWriMo, and I’m exactly on track.
WORD COUNT: 14,157
This morning I completed yesterday’s word count by finishing Chapter Two; then I began Chapter Three, in which there’s a spaceship crash and an underground lair, and, later, torture. I wrote two thousand words before noon, which was what I wanted to do, but since some of those were catch-up, I still had eight hundred left for the afternoon. Nevertheless, I prevailed!
I’ve been doing such a good job chronicling my achievements (read: bragging), that I might just try to keep on every day this month. Since I’m already writing a lot, what’s a hundred-word-report at the end of the day? Too bad I can’t add that to my word count as well.
(Also, I updated my About Me page, since I’m a graduate now and whatnot.)
Although the website isn’t quite functional yet, I’m participating in Camp NaNoWriMo, a summer version of the novel-in-a-month phenomenon. Formerly known as JuNoWriMo, which can stand for June/July Novel Writing Month, this challenge has the goal of writing a 50,000-word novel in thirty days, which breaks down to 1,667 words a day.
I’m going to be (re)writing my novel THING, wherein Tom Lord the former marathon racing pilot and one very eccentric professor try to keep the professor’s nemesis from stealing his invention. It’s zany sci-fi in the spirit of Douglas Adams, but without intelligent mice or anyone named Slartibartfast.
Of course, I can’t do anything halfway; rather, I overdo. And in the spirit of excess, I’ve decided to write twelve chapters instead of ten and at least two thousand words a day instead of sixteen hundred. For a total of 72,000 words.
It’s June 1. How am I doing so far?
WORD COUNT: 3,820
Yeah. Go ahead and be impressed.
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