NANOWRIMO 2017

WHY AM I DOING THIS?

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Back in 2015 I won NaNoWriMo, but last year I was working a lot so I wasn't able to participate. I signed up again this year but when November came I didn't write. I didn't even think about actively participating in NaNo. I was adamant I'd start working on my novel in the new year - a fresh start.

Until yesterday. 

Apologies for the brief post, but as I'm sure you know, NaNo is crazy and being so far behind (15-20K!!) I'm writing like mad. 

I was... encouraged... to do a word sprint, and then another, and then a crawl, and by the end of the day I had added 3k to my manuscript. Today I rewrote my first chapters and had an epiphany so had to rework some things and also planned my chapters - which I'm freaking out about. Do I have enough? AHHH. Although my goal for today was 5k, I wrote 2,625 and I'm happy with that since I didn't plan to do so much editing. Tomorrow, I am aiming for that 5k since I'm now just writing the story out, no going back until it's done. I want to get that NaNoWin. 

I am freaking out about word count. I got my first chapter to 3.5k but two and three are both 1.6k. I'm on chapter four at the moment although I do feel it's in a good place to stop, but again, it's still in the 1k mark and with only around 10 chapters planned that's not enough for a decent sized book. Baring in mind that my "chapters" are just my main plot points and there's definitely room for me to split some areas into two as well as a feeling that I want to do some alternative chapters that don't follow the MC but we shall see.

I plan to write what I have planned and see where it takes me. I'll no doubt get ideas for extra chapters as I go and I can always go back in and edit where needed. In fact, as I'm writing I've got an idea for something else so that's at least another 1k added on. 

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In other news;

I have a review coming out at 10:30am on THURSDAY NOVEMBER 16TH for a fabulous new Poetry collection.

I am currently reading BLACKBIRD by N. D. GOMES which is also released on Thursday November 16th, but I unfortunately don't think I will get my review up until next week.

Please bear with me this month whilst I focus on my writing!