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I am glad that I looked on the forum, because I had forgotten to use the validator. While the best part is doing the story, it is still nice to gain the rewards along with it.
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Ta Dah! 51393 words, according to my count (more like 51460 according to Nano's, but hey, whatever!)
It's a big 'ol pile of junk right now, but I am amazed once again at my ability to actually pull together threads I had lain earlier in the story, things I had even forgotten about (in spite of my best attempts with documents to track character names and plot points.) I have again learned a lot this time. Mostly about the value of outlining, which I only appreciate here on this side of having written 50k without having outlined and feeling like half the words were enormously hard to write because I didn't know where I was going.
But more importantly, I have renewed energy and attention for my last year's Nano project. Can't wait to dust it off in December and start editing! I took a look at the first 25 pages (single-spaced, so probably the first 12k words or so) and it's really not that awful. I hope to be querying on that one (Nano 07) by early next year, wish me luck!
For those who haven't finished - keep it up, you can do it! I found that once I hit a downslope with the climax, I was able to really churn out words - I hit something like 2k in 35 mins or something crazy like that. For those who have finished and won - congratulations! Not sure about you, but I think I might be able to do anything right now.
And to everyone else as well! I too, feel like I could conquer the earth!
I was wondering if we should start a Hatrack Nano Finishing group? Might help keep us on track to shore up those rickety bits and actually finish these puppies.
What do you think?
Leslie
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I would love to do a finishing group. I think my first Nano novel and my second one might just possible actually need to be one book with two story lines, but I'm not sure. They might not meet in enough places, but they both end at the same moment--the one where my next novel starts!
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I validated past the 50,000 word mark! The story is a mess and in need of a rewrite if I wanted to finish it up; however, I wrote every chapter planned in my rough outline. I can't believe I wrote more than 90 pages in a week. A month ago I didn't believe that was possible.
Congratulations to every Winner, as well as to those with lower word counts who continued to progress and learn through the NaNo experience!
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Post Nano Survey? Have you worked on your novel post-nano?, Opened the file?
Did you make any goals? Have you stuck to them?
I was so thrilled after Nano that I made all these aggressive goals and got all excited for about a week. Then I closed the files and have not opened anything having to do with my novel since. I have completed a couple of shorts and a flash, sent in my WoTF entry and a short. Done a whole lot of critting and rework of existing work, but every time my cursor hovers over that file, I freeze.
My suspicion, is that it is such a big mess that I am afraid to see how bad it is. You know its only bad if I open and look at it, right?
I am posting this to make a public goal that I will complete a review of the mess- with comments and todo list before the end of January.
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I haven't looked at it, but I still have the goal to work on my last year (2007) Nano project to get it out to market. It's in much better shape.
I always need to let big stuff like this sit for a while, so I don't mind that I haven't touched the darn thing. It works better for me to let it lie and then look at it in a few months.
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I just started looking at it--and it's better than I thought, but I had forgotten how often I wrote notes like "And right here would be a scene showing Kyra's personality". I still have a lot of work to do.
A to-do list is a great idea--maybe it wouldn't seem so overwhelming.
quote:You know its only bad if I open and look at it, right?
Nope, I'm sure mine's a mess, which is a big part of why I haven't opened my NaNoWriMo project file since November 30.
I figure I'll wait for March, when I can participate in a support group. Did you know about National Novel Editing Month (NaNoEdMo)? I don't remember how I heard about it.
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I haven't touched my nano novel, but I started a short story in the same world. I'm not sure it's going to work as a short story, though. It keeps trying to grow and jump into my nano story.
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quote:You know its only bad if I open and look at it, right?
Sorry, but this made me chuckle. Whoda thunk that Schrodinger's Cat would appear in such a way in a writers workshop forum?
But it fits. It is so true. I have a novel buried somewhere that I wrote when I was still in high school (mumbldy-mumble years ago), and I am afraid to look at it whether it turns out to be bad or good. (If it's bad, it's embarrassing, if it's good, then maybe I haven't improved that much over the years after all. I just don't want to know.)
Courage, though, LAJD. I have faith that it won't be as bad as you fear it may be.
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aspirit-- my husband actually groaned when I mentioned Nanoedmo to him. That sounds pretty cool, although I'm still going to plow through until then. Melanie
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I hope to be querying on that one (Nano 07) by early next year, wish me luck! 
