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After Nanowrimo

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After Nanowrimo
2020.

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I did it!

Or maybe that should be you did it.


Congrats! You did the hard part of putting your butt in the chair, your fingers on the keyboard and kept them there consistently, day in day out, for a whole month. And now you have a full manuscript. That’s awesome! Good job.


Or maybe you find you are approaching a full manuscript, but haven’t finished and you’re thinking “Uh oh! I didn’t finish my project during Nanowrimo. Now what?”

This is the tough part. Because the problem with Nanowrimo is it can make you feel like a real winner, if you manage to put that 50,000 words into their site, but it can make you feel like a real loser if you hit only 30 or 40k. Or if you hit 50k and haven’t finished your story because it’s just not done or you hit some wall in the plot you can’t figure a way around. This is where most Nano-ers stop writing in despair.

But the cool part of being a writer is, if you are a writer and not just a dabbler, you take a breath, and get back into the fray and finish the darned thing. Because if you’re a writer, you’re going to write. There are no two ways about it.

So what do you do after Nanowrimo ends?

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Nano day 30

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And…. finally, just to wrap up the month, I put my final tally of AM6 in last night and (apparently, my math sucks or I forgot a day’s posting to the actual Nano site!) My final word count for the month according to their calculations was 59,819.

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Nearly 60k. (The completist in me wishes I could’ve pushed it over to a round 60k!) The book isn’t finished yet. Almost, but not quite. Still, it’s better than what I had at the beginning of the month and a semblance of something I think fans of that series are going to like! As it stands, it’s not ready to release yet, but stay tuned (or join my newsletter!) for news of its release.

I hope y’all had a productive month! 🙂

Nanowrimo day 27

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Behind with the posts again. But, Happy (belated) Thanksgiving.  Or for those of my readers who live outside the US, weekend/week. 🙂  Did y’all have a good holiday? We did not go visit family as per usual. To keep everyone as safe as possible. So my husband and I spent a quiet day at home. For the first time ever, I made sweet potatoes. Mom usually makes them and as my husband always looks forward to them, I attempted them. They came out great.

Our sweet potatoes

While I was waiting for dinner to cook, I did it. I surpassed my 50k goal for the month!

Okay. I didn’t do all that in an afternoon. I have spent the days since my last blogpost writing my little fingers off. That brings the total for the manuscript for my Antique Magic book 6 to over 90k–and the story is not quite finished yet. But as it is closer than it was in October, I’m thrilled.

Word count: 54,638/50,000.
I hope your projects and holiday/weekend went well.

Nanowrimo day 21

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Almost there! Must keep writing, must keep writing. ✍

My Nanowrimo current word count!

See this? I am also floored I have managed to put this much more into this book ( Yes, I said more. I’m using this Nanowrimo to finish this book!)

This is also why I haven’t been providing my Nano updates lately. The latest Antique Magic storyline has been grabbing me by the hair and dragging me into Word doc battle first thing every morning. I thought it would take only 30,000 words to finish the book, if that but oh no! Caitlin keeps talking. 😄

How are your projects progressing this week? We’re past the halfway point. Keep writing!!

Nanowrimo days 10-12 and a sale

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We had a storm here, the other day, so I’ve since spent the time catching up.

I caught this little guy changing “clothes” before the storm.

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Guess he needed a new raincoat before the storm. 🌧 Oh, that teasing Eta! The power flickered a bit but we never lost it and we weren’t affected by the tornado warnings. I even managed to get a newsletter out, put my Frigga’s Lost Army on sale for Veterans day, and get my word count in for the day, between being glued to the weather reports.🌧☔

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For the aforementioned sale of Frigga, if you get it from Smashwords, use the code YF69P at checkout for 67% off (Offer good through Nov. 14, 2020 ). If you get it from Amazon, you don’t need a code.

And lastly…

How are your projects going? For me, my total Nano word count thus far is… not quite 25k. I should pass that today, though. I hope y’all are doing well.

Nanowrimo Day 9

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Here we are at day nine (Yes, I realize this is dated the 10th, but the post refers to day 9).

Gosh. Doesn’t it feel like it should be November 99th or some crazy number, already?

I wrote my little hands off. That “maybe I will get to 4000 words” post yesterday? Yeah. I didn’t quite get that far, clocking in at only 3,226 words during that day’s writing marathon.

And spent today paying for it. Well, writing on the phone does hurt too, who knew? Okay, maybe I don’t use the dictating as exclusively as I should. In my defense, it has a tendency not to hear me correctly. Case in point… well, sometimes it prints things I can’t share here without the blog throwing up censor flags. Here’s one: Kaitlyn (misspelled) slimfold, picturing the torture her… etc.

🤔What the heck is a slimfold? What did I mean there? I can’t remember…

So on top of the writing, I then have to correct the transcription, quickly, before I forget what I meant. *shakes head*

Anywho, I somehow managed that whopping output yesterday and slowed it down a bit today. The day is not done. I am shooting for hitting my 20,000 word mark, is all. Taking it slow will have to do for a day or so. 🐌

Word count total: 19,128/50,000 words.