My Weekly Book

[Crossposted from main journal, so apologies to those few acclaimed souls who have friended both - they will be getting their rewards in Heaven.]

NaNoWriMo 2004 has ended.

With a collective word count of 410,845,023.

My personal wordcount was 34,504, spread across 37 chapters.

Which, as you will immediately perceive, is not enough to get me on the winners' list.

I'm disappointed about this, because I don't like failing at things.

But, in my own defence, I will say that I didn't start writing until November 7.

So I've chalked up 34,500 words in the space of three weeks, and I'm actually very tempted to keep going and to see if I can get to the 50,000 by December 7.

Which doesn't qualify me to win, but would be personally rather satisfying.

As points out, I didn't have 34,500 words of a novel this time last month, so it can't be all bad.

Would I recommend trying NaNoWriMo? Yes, definitely. Because of the pressure to keep knocking the words out, you are granted permission to be bad. This frees you from obsessive-compulsive checking and polishing of individual sentences.

I came to it after the blunt rejection of a long-term writing project by the BBC which left me feeling very bruised. And NaNoWriMo got me writing again after that, at a point when I couldn't even face fan fiction (and I have this cracking idea involving Snape and Andromeda Tonks but that is, literally, another story.)

So I'm glad I took part but, if you will excuse me, it's time to crack on… My hero's stood in a train station late at night with no idea about what to do next and I'm not much the wiser, so we'd better go and get him sorted out…

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