We’re more than two-thirds of the way through NaNoWriMo 2007, and with only 9 days left, I gotta pick up the pace.
I’m slightly ahead of the game at this point, but tonight I really have to turn it on as I am going under the assumption that I will not have the time or inclination to write tomorrow (Thanksgiving Day). Besides that, I looked at my outline last night and found I am only a little more one third of the way through my story.
This means that my novel is going to end up in at least the 100,000 word neighborhood. Obviously I won’t be able to complete the book by November 30th, but I do know I will have no problem meeting and surpassing the 50K goal by the end of the month. The real goal is to complete the first draft no later than this New Year’s Eve. So, the more I can do now, the less stress I’ll have trying to meet my goal next month.
Once done, I’ll shelve it for 3-weeks with a wake-up call to begin first revision on the weekend going into Martin Luther King Day. I promised my first reader I’d let him look at it once I cleaned it up a bit.
After all these years (7) of doing NaNoWriMo and other writing ventures, I feel I’m finally producing a marketable manuscript – but that’s just my opinion. Time, agents and publishers will let me know if I am right. . .or not.
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