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If I write as much as today – 3800 words – again tomorrow, I’ll make it past the 30k mark.

I wrote one scene today which is my favourite part of the story so far. The dialogue is sharp, there’s no waffling, and it reveals a side of the heroine that has only been hinted at so far. This side is necessary to make the big twist work, though. If I keep up this momentum, I might get to write the big twist as soon as Friday …

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I have figured out a few crucial things for the story. Now it looks like I have actually enough material to turn this into a story that spans 50k – maybe more than that.

All’s well in NaNoland.

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Yay! *made it past 20k happy dance* Unlike yesterday, writing was easy today. And fun, lots of fun.

It’s my seventh NaNo anniversary, too, I’m writing my 8th November novel. Every year on November 8, I plan to write a long post to express what this event means. But then I’m usually too knackered to write about it. Well, I guess I’m expressing my gratitude adequately with my annual donation on this day every year.

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2580 words today. They didn’t  come easy.

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2248 words today. 2248 reluctant words. Ah well, 2k+ is all that matters. My treat: the ISBW NaNoWriMo special episode.

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Had a deadline for a freelance gig, which I had kind of forgotten about … So lots of last minute non-fiction writing instead of hitting 13k. No write-in, either. Ah well.

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One thing I realized today: I have to stay off Twitter until I made the wordcount goal for the day.

Tomorrow: 13k and quite possibly write-in at the British Library.

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Some 2300 words today. I think I’ll shoot for 3k tomorrow.

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2604 words today. Just over 1,000 in the morning and after lunch and some 500 words in the evening. In between writing sessions, I took my characters for walks to listen what they had to say. Fun.

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Good start. I have decided that I’m taking my time this year. No writing for the sake of upping the wordcount. I want to write at least 2,000 words a day, but they have to be relevant words.

I’m still editing last year’s manuscript, and there’s just too much blah in there. I’m effectively writing the whole thing again, and I don’t want to do it with this one.