NaNo: Sunday update
Nov. 26th, 2012 06:03![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
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Caught you,
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rhapsody11 :D But I had to work for it! Love having Rhapsy as a writing buddy... tonight we're neck and neck, tomorrow she'll pass me again. It's also wonderful doing NaNo with her because she's having so much fun with her characters and it keeps me inspired. It's very cool that just short of the 40k mark, I'm chasing someone who originally planned a half NaNo - 25k. There's a special magic in a story that just keeps growing.BB2 has a beginning, a middle, and I can see the end but it'll need at least another 10k beyond the required 50. Needs lots and lots of editing for grammar and phrasing, cutting out the repetitions (one of my bad habits is saying the same thing in three different ways), taming dialogue that wanders off and has nothing to do with anything, and the rest of the joy that comes with a first draft. I always write a dirty first draft, so I know exactly what to expect - the usual horror, just way more of it *g*.
Everything's here that should be, and since I delete missteps and false starts as they happen, nothing's here that shouldn't be, except for a section that desperately needs a third character for balance. There's no time to go back and adjust scene after scene and write in dialogue and planning, so I stuck in track changes comments and it can wait till I edit. It won't change the content, just make it hold together better - an expansion, not a rewrite.
There's a chance Glorfindel may never forgive me for a certain little plot twist.
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Date: 2012-11-26 06:22 (UTC)I know what you mean about the repetitions thing. I haven't read through my 1st draft yet, because I want to finish it first. But I know when I do I'm going to cringe. As a writer friend of mine says - crappy words on a page are better than no words at all. :-)
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Date: 2012-11-27 16:11 (UTC)no subject
Date: 2012-11-26 06:42 (UTC)Nea, he, being a veteran of hardships, can truly understand what a tight pressure may cause one to do :-P
Plus, he owes you from that time and place *wink*
It sounds like you're having a good time, and I am glad. And as for the editing.... I do remember hearing that last year. The resulting BB I read then, was well done, so I know this one will be too. :-)
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Date: 2012-11-27 16:14 (UTC)no subject
Date: 2012-11-26 11:40 (UTC)- Erulisse (one L)
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Date: 2012-11-27 17:22 (UTC)That all looks rather intimidating written down *g*.
I just managed to catch Rhapsody again last night but she'll be in the lead again when she updates. I think having someone to share the final week's chase with is the most fun part of NaNo - I'm loving it.
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Date: 2012-11-27 20:46 (UTC)But I have this NaNo novel.... and oh my, I just love my characters ... and they have SUCH a long way that they still need to go...
- Erulisse (one L)
Loving every minute of it...
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Date: 2012-11-26 18:43 (UTC)My BB is three quarters finished and should be well within the word limit :D
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Date: 2012-11-27 16:50 (UTC)no subject
Date: 2012-11-26 20:08 (UTC)There's a special magic in a story that just keeps growing.
Hmmm yes, but it is starting to become epic at a point where I do start to wonder where it will end.
There's a chance Glorfindel may never forgive me for a certain little plot twist.
Tyelko just snorted, I swear. But no way he's going to end up in this current novel. Rangers only dude!
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Date: 2012-11-27 16:41 (UTC)Epic is good :) It will end where it ends. Mine has the potential for a part three but I'm not listening!
I think I ended up about 120 words ahead of you. I don't know how much value part of that has to the story. I enjoyed writing it but it's a bit self indulgent and meant I still need to get to the point of the section. That would be tonight's work, yes :(
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Date: 2012-11-26 21:31 (UTC)no subject
Date: 2012-11-27 16:31 (UTC)no subject
Date: 2012-11-27 00:03 (UTC)Offer him a big slice of chocolate cake after the end of the story and he'll forgive you.
You're almost there. Well done! :o)
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Date: 2012-11-27 16:29 (UTC)Thanks :) I have to write a bit under 10k in four days and then hope the site counts the same as Word did *whimper*
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Date: 2012-11-27 03:34 (UTC)On the downhill run now! I am so looking forward to BB2. *g*
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Date: 2012-11-27 16:21 (UTC)Actually, reading over that, playing with BB2 might be a welcome escape *g*
*hugs*
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Date: 2012-11-28 06:11 (UTC)I'm greatly looking forward to BB2 and to hear that the end is in sight somewhere out there is marvelous!
I'm sure Glorfindel realizes he's suffering in a good cause.
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Date: 2012-12-04 00:39 (UTC)