Admittedly, I'm not very good at remembering to update this. So I'll try to summarise November quickly before moving on to December. I should probably add updating this once a week to my New Year's resolutions. My list is now one item long, huzzah~!
So, November: I finished
Prince Charming with 83,074 words at 2am on the 29/11. I like how the novel turned out, but I know I'll change my mind when I get around to reading it over in the summertime. But for now I'm satisfied with the outcome of the first draft. Besides breaking my record for the fastest time it's taken me to write a single novel
— 29 days, down from a month and 3 days — it's also the only sequel I've ever completed. Usually when I attempt a second book I give up part way, so I'm really pleased with this accomplishment.
Also, during November I finished my
NaNoWriYe '09 goal of 500,000 words. I hit this figure on the 5th of November, and I'm currently up to 554,557 words as of this minute. I'm hoping to pass the 600,000 mark before New Year, but I won't hold my breath.
tina's wriye '09 progress:554,557 / 500000 words. 110% done!Besides WriYe, I'm also currently taking part in another long-term challenge as of November 1st. The
Million Word Year challenge is pretty self-explanatory: you have one year to write one million words. So far I'm keeping up with the goal. I'm meant to be at 93,160 words by the end of today - and I'm already at 93,234 before I even start writing. Oh, sleeping in until midday, how you really do eat into my writing time.
♥
I write specific Milwordy related updates in my personal thread —
titled ☆ Let Me Hear Your Voice — on their forum if you're interested in following my progress on there. It's more specific to the actual projects than my LJ updates are, and it's guaranteed to be updated every Saturday evening GMT with the single exception of June 16th 2010.
tina's milwordy progress:93,234 / 1,000,000 words. 9% done!
So, happy December! I knew we'd get here eventually. Now, what's on the menu for this month? I've been taking part in
National Novel Finishing Month. My word count goal is 65,000 words. The goals I stated on November 29th are to finish the following three WIPs I started this year:
- Love Game, 1 / 50k. — 30/11.
- Summer's Gone, 28 / 35k. —31/05.
- Tokyo Tea, 37 / 35k. — 01/08 - (Fin 02/12/09!)
I'm currently at 9,117 / 65,000 words for the month. My
AugNoWriMo project
Tokyo Tea met it's end at 5:16pm on December 2nd. It's complete with a total word count of 37,034. This is shorter than I originally intended, but I'm pleased with the outcome. It's possibly my best written novella to date. Now I've moved onto my second project of the month:
Summer's Gone. I've only written 2.5k on it so far, but just in such a short amount I've realised that I really need to re-write this novella from scratch at some point. I'll leave that for the second draft.
Now to return to my suicidal little sales assistant
— Torquil Reid, Summer's Gone — as he quits his job in the supermarket. Fun, fun, fun! ☺
☆ Tina.