I have meant to write this post since the beginning of
December, but kept getting distracted by, you know, things. This is just one of
three or four projects I've just not done this month. So don't feel
special. I'm neglecting everything equally.
So.
Let's talk about my NaNoWriMo novel, the rewriting of Cold
Blooded.
In the end, it was not 50,000 words. It clocked in at
36,153. Which might not seem like a lot, but of the past five years, when I
have not reached 50K, this one has the most words. Fun Fact: The last time I
did reach 50K was 2016, with the first version of Cold Blooded.
Despite knowing there was very little chance of actually
reaching 50K in such a short amount of time, I still went all out on the last
day and managed to write 5,450 words on November 30th. If I could just write
that many every day, I'd be set. At that point, my goal was less to hit the
word count goal, and more to just get to the end of the story. So I wrote the
entire Third Act in one day. Which, yes, means Act Three (which should be a
quarter of the book) is only 5K words long. But that's fine. It's a rough
draft.
Now, stats. You know how much I love stats.