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nanowrimo experience 2011

Wednesday, November 30th, 2011

It’s that day of the year again: 30 November…. the last day of Nanowrimo. The end of the writiest month of the year, the day you’re supposed to have written 50,000 words since the beginning of the month.
I made it of course. I feel a bit snotty for saying ‘of course’, but since this is my tenth Nanowrimo victory in ten years I suppose I am allowed to be a little snotty :D

Holy shit dude, ten times of Nanowrimo, that means over half a million words. Pretty wild if you ask me. If you would have told me this in October 2002 I probably would have laughed in your face. So yeah, let’s take a moment to contemplate the awesomeness of the achievement. *contemplates*

OK, moving on! :)

This year I feel like I kind of cheated. You see, I didn’t come up with a completely new plot this year, as I have all the other years. Honestly, I’ve just picked up and rewritten & translated my 2006 project, Through Crystal. I wanted to have the dutch first draft on paper as quickly as possible, so I can start editing, tinkering and fiddling with it to turn it into something that might one day (when the stars align and I shit rainbows) be publishable. If you’ve never read the story before… you’ll find mild spoilers here. So watch out.

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hey kids! can i have your attention…?

Wednesday, November 16th, 2011

I made it. :) Wordcount 50147!
Ten times Nano winner represent! :)

I’m very pleased as you can imagine. At this point I have about 13K still happening in the original version, so I think I’m going to end up with 65K eventually.
I’ll just stick to that later. For now it’s time to be really fucking pleased with myself. *nods*

You’ll find what I’ve written HERE.

nice tidbit

Wednesday, November 16th, 2011

I’m at 49K at the moment, very near to the coveted 50K. Yay!
Some interesting stats on writing in Dutch instead of English. To get to this point, I’ve written 13 chapters. In English that amounted to 45649 words. In Dutch, the same chapters grew to 49075 words. Of course scenes are loosely rewritten, but it’s still interesting to see the changes. :)

Anyway, I’m off to write the last 1000 words. See ya in a bit!