That's right. At 10:31pm on the 29th of November, I finished "Now and Then", a story about a girl keeping a promise.
The story is 81,556 words long, and totals twenty chapters of fun and frolics (and, admittedly torture, genocide and murder, which is less fun and frolicsome. Unless you're a Dark Lord).
Hopefully it will be published soon, but since I have been writing (more or less) non-stop for 29 days, I haven't done much beta-reading on it. There are spelling and grammar mistakes (I have already spotted a "you're" instead of a "your", for example), and I really have to re-check the continuity of the characters (making sure that someone who died in Chapter 4 isn't alive and well and kicking some ass in Chapter 15) and time-lines.
But hopefully I can publish it within two weeks (there is work stuff going on that is quite important for once, so that might delay me a bit), but almost certainly by Christmas.
Anyway - three wins out of three. Which entirely and totally rocks!
Sunday 30 November 2008
Sunday 2 November 2008
NaNo : After Day 1 (4,261)
So - depending on your perspective, I either wrote around 4,261 words or approx 8,800 words.
Why? Well - the site I was using to write the story has a very annoying and unusual feature. If you are merrily typing away, then click in the "Load File" box by accident, it freezes the text you have. And if you save it, it ignores it.
So, at various points yesterday, I ended up typing the entire chapter in again.
First I had to type the last half in, and then - because I am a moron - I pasted that over the original and so lost the first half. But the site had retained it in its buffer, so I had to retype it out, add it on to the start of the part I had already and then save it again.
But all in all, I think that I did very well to get anything posted, let alone nearly 5,000 words.
It is going more or less like I want at the moment - but to be honest, since I have no plot arc and no plans at all, it will pretty much ALWAYS go like I want. The only major change is Minnie's departure from Prison.
(Oh - I have also finally accepted I have a set idea for the future of HP. Hermione will be called Minnie. She will be friends with Luna, and possibly some Slytherins. Bones is Minister, Tonks is the D-DMLE and Dumbledore is still around. Some of this varies sometimes, but generally I like writing Min, Luna and so on, so my stories all run like that).
Anyway - time to go shopping for food, and then back to the Saltmines. And I might even consider writing in Notepad and pasting it across, simply so I don't have to do any pokery-jiggery today.
(Note : If you haven't figured it out, I am going to write the entire story, then post it. This is not because I plan on going back and changing bits, or rewriting whole swathes of the story, but becaus I am not checking spelling or anything else while I write, and I do have some standards, if not very many!)
Why? Well - the site I was using to write the story has a very annoying and unusual feature. If you are merrily typing away, then click in the "Load File" box by accident, it freezes the text you have. And if you save it, it ignores it.
So, at various points yesterday, I ended up typing the entire chapter in again.
First I had to type the last half in, and then - because I am a moron - I pasted that over the original and so lost the first half. But the site had retained it in its buffer, so I had to retype it out, add it on to the start of the part I had already and then save it again.
But all in all, I think that I did very well to get anything posted, let alone nearly 5,000 words.
It is going more or less like I want at the moment - but to be honest, since I have no plot arc and no plans at all, it will pretty much ALWAYS go like I want. The only major change is Minnie's departure from Prison.
(Oh - I have also finally accepted I have a set idea for the future of HP. Hermione will be called Minnie. She will be friends with Luna, and possibly some Slytherins. Bones is Minister, Tonks is the D-DMLE and Dumbledore is still around. Some of this varies sometimes, but generally I like writing Min, Luna and so on, so my stories all run like that).
Anyway - time to go shopping for food, and then back to the Saltmines. And I might even consider writing in Notepad and pasting it across, simply so I don't have to do any pokery-jiggery today.
(Note : If you haven't figured it out, I am going to write the entire story, then post it. This is not because I plan on going back and changing bits, or rewriting whole swathes of the story, but becaus I am not checking spelling or anything else while I write, and I do have some standards, if not very many!)
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