NaNoWriMo 2023 Update
As predicted, I did not update as I went, so I’m doing so now, recapping how it went. For Nov I produced 36,408 words. ~14k short of the 50k goal I think you are supposed to have for NaNoWriMo but whatever. The whole point of the event is to get you writing and that’s what I did. To hammer that point home, let’s go through the broader numbers. In addition to the words above, I had written 39,435 in Oct. preparing for NaNoWriMo, for a total of 75,843. On top of the words I had before that, I now have 116,710 toward the next Virgil novel. I feel pretty damn good about that. I have a lot more work to do. The words I have so far make up most of a pretty decent first draft but all of that has been freewritten. I just let it go and poured…
NaNoWriMo 2023
I have always wanted to post during NaNoWriMo, but I have never gotten around to it. This is my first post like that, at least that I can remember, and for all I know I won’t post again until it’s over. But giving it a shot regardless. The next Virgil McDane book has been in progress, in one way or another (or another, or even another) since 2020. I have taken it in multiple different directions since then but something clicked in the past month and I have a much clearer idea of what I’m doing. More than that, I’m actually progressing with it. For the month of Oct, I have written 39,435 words. On top of the roughly 50k words I already have, that gives me a very solid start. It’s not 90k words, even if it’s what it adds up to, a lot of that repeats and replaces…