Macy Lights Slowly Catching Up
It's 2/3rds of the way through November but I have only just passed the halfway mark.
With only 10 days left and 20 days gone, I still have half the novel to write. It's been a crazy month so far, lots of things happening and work taking far too much time, but I'm determined to finish the novel and get my 50,000 words within November.
Even though my average word count required for the rest of the month is 2,500 words per day, I still reckon I can do it.
I realised that there was only one more weekend left in November but hopefully that won't be too busy (unlike all the other weekends so far).
Still, that didn't stop me from creating an extra artificial one. I'm going to take next Thursday and Friday off work because:
- I deserve a break, and
- I have to finish NaNoWriMo
...it just wouldn't be the same if I didn't win.
The Story
As I've said before, I'm just loving Macy Lights and the Battle for Ashton's Gate so that's added incentive to finish as if I needed any more.
Interestingly, I decided yesterday that the novel itself could be split into three parts. I have written Part I in the first 25k and have hinted at what happens in Part II. Part III will be written for my second 25k.
This means I shall be delaying writing Part II until after November, which will also be about 25k.
This turn completely took me by surprise since my plan had always been to write Part II right there inside the novel (not that I knew it was separate part back then). The only shame is that I had to write a short synopsis right in the middle of the novel instead of writing the whole lot. Ah well, sometimes that's just got to be done during NaNo.
Finally, wish me luck for what will be a mad rush for the rest of November.
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