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NaNoWriMo #2: ~1600 words

Submitted by jlpowers on Tue, 11/03/2009 - 11:01am

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I sat down to write last night with no real idea what was happening next and no real hope of getting any words, and ended up with a nice little scene and my 1600 words for the day.

So NaNoWriMo total: 4100 Book total: 14,400

The big thing I did last night that I've never done before when writing a first draft is: skip a really big part of the scene, summarizing it down into a couple sentences.

I did this because I don't have a clue where this story is going, and yeah I could have done that scene and put all the stupid details in, but if I don't know what's going to be happening over the rest of the book, that really doesn't make much sense.

Gee! I think I'm finally getting the hang of this rough-draft idea. :-)

And I officially signed up on NaNoWriMo today. Userid: jackiepowers

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