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Yep, I made it. Never really in question, I just let things slide the last few days so it was a bit crazier than usual (last 3 years I've finished both the story and Nano at about 55k words and 2 days in advance. Today I finished 50,642 and at 5 PM, lol.)
I am not at all happy with the story, but I realized I do have some cool stuff down. Again I have to work on plot, or more particularly how I lay out events and maintain tension in a story. I think I really must plan better for my next novel, I thought I had so much figured out with this one, but I think a solid outline with scenes (and using the Bickham concepts of Goal-Conflict-Disaster or along those lines as other writers-on-writing discuss) is the way I have to go.
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Didn't make it - got to 38802. BUT I am still very stoked with that effort
Lots of excuses I could go into for not finishing but they really don't matter.
Really happy with the story idea - and I wouldn't have come up with it if it wasn't for Nano. So, even though I didn't finish, I'm not down about it - I'm still quite proud of myself actually
Congrats to those of you that did finish - which looks to be all of you Well done
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First time I've tried NaNo, and I won about an hour ago. Feels good. This is the first time I've finished a draft of a novel that I actually think might have a chance. I've got a lot of work to do before I'm ready to have people see it, but I'm pretty satisfied with it.
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quote: Didn't make it - got to 38802. BUT I am still very stoked with that effort Lots of excuses I could go into for not finishing but they really don't matter.
Really happy with the story idea - and I wouldn't have come up with it if it wasn't for Nano. So, even though I didn't finish, I'm not down about it - I'm still quite proud of myself actually
Good, that you got that far in one month. And good that you are happy with the idea. As you seem to know you can still finish the novel. And if you try for the normal range for novels looks like your a bit over one third there.
You didn't say if this was your first time but if it is than you know what to expect next year if you do it. So this was nice practice as well as a good start on your novel
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I have mentioned that I am going to redo the ending...at stuff. The original idea was to just drop various editions to the scenes, with maybe a little tweaking to get the new stuff to fit with the old. But today when I started the process I decided it would be a whole lot easier and probably be better writing, if I would just rewrite the whole ending adventure from scratch. I will include a lot of stuff from the original ending but it will be a whole rebuilding not just a redecoration
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Well done 
