Quick Editing Update

So, I’ve been writing a lot about what I’ve been reading lately, and though I’ve considered yet another post about Twilight (which I finished last night while playing the surprisingly addictive iPod touch game, TapDefense), and am definitely planning one on Emily Climbs, by L.M. Montgomery, I kind of wanted to write a quick update [...]

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The End.

So, I did it. I finished. I wrote those two beloved little words.
The End.
This draft has come out to a total of either 55,891 words, or 56,032 words, depending on whether or not you count scene headers (which are mostly descriptive, for my own use.) 
I started it at 12:01 a.m., November 1, 2008, and finished [...]

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Almost… There…

So, last night, I did it! I started feeling much better and so I wrote the final climactic scene. Well I have about 200 more words to write (maybe less), finishing up Dex’s POV, but then, that’s it, I’m done with the first draft.
Heavy emphasis on first. I figured out exactly what the story was about [...]

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Thanksgiving. Words.

I have a really bad headache, for some strange reason. Not sure why. It’s making writing difficult, which is somewhat upsetting, considering the fact that I decided today to skip straight ahead to my climax, (I’m really only skipping one scene. One. That’s it.) and I can practically feel all the words behind their dam, [...]

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350 words and not one more.

I didn’t manage to get up early this morning… I barely managed to get up on time. My alarm annoyed me, and it really annoyed Skittles, and then, somehow, amazingly, it managed to get turned off before I’d gotten out of bed. Yeah, that never leads to any good.
I first made it onto my computer [...]

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Mush brain.

It’s true. Tonight I have mush brain. Last night, slimy mud brain, tonight, mush brain. Still, I managed to get my words, all 2,241 of them, mostly because I got up (relatively) early and wrote them before doing other stuff. Might try that again tomorrow, except that doing it tomorrow would require waking up, well… [...]

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And public self-shaming works.

Approximately 300 words (and thirty minutes) ago, I was at this very page, about to admit defeat. And then I couldn’t do it–not after my post about how horribly easy 700-odd words would be. So I went back, and continued to write, even though my brain felt like it had some really slimy mud in [...]

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The unthinkable…

Lack of motivation is definitely an issue once you’ve “won” Nanowrimo–it’s the reason I’ve won twice, and then stopped at 51K both times. 
Today, I did the unthinkable for November… I edited. I even deleted words! I know. Okay, so, we’re talking about approximately 100 words deleted, but still. Last night, before falling asleep, I decided [...]

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50,016!! I won!

I finished that last section much faster than I thought I was going to, (once I got to the point where Marie would notice her brother was missing, I couldn’t exactly make her just ignore it!) so I was still a good 400 words or so from the end, and spent an hour wandering around, [...]

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49,066

Less than a thousand words to go to hit the end. Woo!
I had a brief thought that I could write this next bit from the cat’s POV, which was a fun idea, until I tried to actually write it. Yeah, it didn’t work so well. I’m still inclined to try at least one scene, somewhere.
All [...]

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