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…