Greetings, everyone! I hope November/NaNoWriMo is treating you well!
We are currently starting the second week of NaNoWriMo 2021, and I have to say, I am pleased with the progress I have been able to make. Book 9 is now finished, and I am currently working on Book 10 (aka- the novel I intended to write for this month).
In last week’s update, I mentioned that I wrote about 10.5k words for Book 9, and I was hoping to finish the draft over this past week. As it turns out, the first draft of Book 9 (which was supposed to be about 50,000 words, give or take) needed an additional 22.5k words. This is, of course, with the inclusion of six chapters that slipped between the last two events I had on my outline/timeline. The final count is 72.5k for the draft, about 18k of which was written between 1 Nov and 7 Nov. That said, the draft has been completed, and I’m really pleased with how it turned out. On top of that, I currently have about 2,000 words written for Book 10. Ideally, I will get 50k words this month for Book 10, but we will see how it goes. Beyond that, I have a bit more plotting to do for Book 10 (and the final arc), but I should be able to take care of that easily enough.
I am almost done with the Star Trek novel I have been reading over the past week, Double Helix: Double or Nothing by Peter David. I should be able to finish it in the next couple days. I’m not sure which book I’ll pick next, but I do have quite a few on my “to be read” list, so I’m sure I’ll be able to find something entertaining.
My plans for this week mostly involve continue drafting Book 10. If I can pull off another almost 20k week, that should give me a pretty comfortable buffer for the last half of the month. Other than that, I plan to outline a bit more of the current book and arc, though there is a decent chance that the outlining will happen fairly close to when I’m actually drafting that section. I intend to continue reading Double or Nothing, with another book to follow shortly after.
If anyone would like to add me as a writing buddy for NaNoWriMo, my username is fantasy_writer42, and you can find my profile here.
I think that’s everything I’ve got for this update. Thanks for reading!
~ Theresa
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