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This afternoon, at 7:10pm, I hit 50000 words on my Nano novel, which officially puts me over the line. Of course, the story is not actually complete yet, and I have no intention of leaving poor Tomoko and Akiko standing in the middle of earthquake-ravaged Tokyo. I'm near the end of Chapter 9, with about 1500 words to go on that, then about 6000 words for Chapter 10 to finish off. The very simple outline (dividing into 10 chapters, with a major event in each) worked out really, really well, with each chapter finishing between 5200 and 6400 words. Then again, I read back over a section today and found gems such as "the hose filled slowly, not quickly", so the process of editing will be entertaining.
The 50000th word: "if"
The reward for reaching it: a delicious vanilla slice from Thwaite's Bakery in Colac tomorrow.
What happens next: I finish the novel so that I can stop having such alarming dreams!
What surprised me: a good number of the characters that were introduced as a function (so that Tomoko could talk to someone about home, so that Tomoko had a childhood mentor, so that a boring walk could have a conversation in it) have come back to be relevant to the main plot at a later stage. Also, writing something 50,000 words long. That was a shock to my brain *and* my arms.
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The 50000th word: "if"
The reward for reaching it: a delicious vanilla slice from Thwaite's Bakery in Colac tomorrow.
What happens next: I finish the novel so that I can stop having such alarming dreams!
What surprised me: a good number of the characters that were introduced as a function (so that Tomoko could talk to someone about home, so that Tomoko had a childhood mentor, so that a boring walk could have a conversation in it) have come back to be relevant to the main plot at a later stage. Also, writing something 50,000 words long. That was a shock to my brain *and* my arms.