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 | FINISHED |
 As of eight minutes ago, the first draft of my first novel, 'the Cradle,' is finished and ready for editing.
I went into the challenge of National Novel Writing Month knowing that I could hit 50,000 words if I keep up with the writing expectations, but I was never sure I would see the end of the story before the end of the month...
...until about three or four hours ago when I wrote the first 4,000 words of the day.
If I was a drinker, I would be downing a bottle of champagne right now. Instead, I'm passing for ginger ale.
Thank you's are due to everybody who supported me. :)
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Posted by dustin on Sunday, November 30 @ 17:13:05 EST (339 reads)
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| Teh winnar! |
In just 18 days, I have won my first ever participation in National Novel Writing Month.
In seven days, with a word total much higher than the 50,066 I currently have, I will verify my word count and receive the certificate that will probably hang on my wall for the rest of my life.
No words can describe how happy I am right now.
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Posted by dustin on Tuesday, November 18 @ 12:42:28 EST (288 reads)
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| Halfway there! |
As you will note by the Cradle Tracker above this news post, I am more than halfway to the NaNoWriMo goal! Additionally, I'm around 20% through the actual story itself, so I actually need to start writing..... faster..... if this is to be done by the end of 2008.
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Posted by dustin on Sunday, November 09 @ 11:34:51 EST (341 reads)
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| Coming in November... |
In three days, I officially kick off possibly the largest project I have ever undertaken - writing a novel.
November is National Novel Writing Month, and for over 100,000 people around the world the month serves as a perfectly acceptable excuse for birthing a 50,000 word novel within a 30 day period. Most of the people who sign up for the challenge, around 85 percent of participants in fact, fail at the challenge - usually because, if you think about it, 50,000 words is a lot.
It's a task that demands a minimum of 1,667 words of coherent, organized thought out of a writer every single day. For some, it isn't that hard - especially if you write for a living. But for budding college students, people with social and work lives and anybody else who isn't a word-processing machine, the challenge is very difficult. The failure rate is evidence of this.
But I am going to try it anyway.
My project, which has gone under three names so far (Project NaNoWriMo, then Project Solar and now "The Cradle"), is officially fleshed out, researched, pre-written and ready to... start getting written? I have a 25,059-word storyline written out that catalogs the tragic adventures of Tom Harrington, a 25-year-old Earth History graduate student who gets caught up in one of the most destructive extinction events in Earth's biological history.
The skies burn with ultra-violet light, the oceans turn red and most of the planet's surfaces disappear under a blanket of fresh glaciations as the Earth plunges into its first historically recorded ice age. But for those that cope, there is light at the end of the tunnel - a far-away civilization known by many but visited by few. A civilization that protects man and his interests, his dreams and his will to reach the light at the end of the tunnel.
A civilization known as the Cradle.
Track my progress at http://www.nanowrimo.org/eng/user/312822 and, provided that I start using it again, right here on my official website.
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Posted by dustin on Wednesday, October 29 @ 19:18:53 EDT (305 reads)
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