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NaNoWriMo 2015 Update WEEK 1

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So I mentioned in my November TBR post at the beginning of the week that I was participating in National Novel Writing Month again. I tried last year and managed to get to 30,000 words before loosing my steam.

Last year I was continuing a novel that I had\have been writing for just over four years now (Remember, remember the 5th of November) but this year I have decided that it is time to try writing something completely different. Below is a list of all the things different to the aforementioned book:

Genre – Romance

I was writing a fantasy and I have focused on fantasy\romance fiction for a long time but I am shaking it up by writing a pure romance novel set in the real world (or as real as I want to make it).

Tense – Third Person

Normally I write in first person so it will be interesting to see if I can manage to write a book in third person. I’ve only wrote a little (as I write this) and it is a very big change. I have to catch myself from slipping back into first person. Thank goodness for editing!

Planning

Yeah, I didn’t plan this at all. I have a few character outlines to go by to make my life a little easier but aside from that I am writing this completely off the top of my head. I have an idea of where the story is going but how the characters get to that point is beyond me at this point in time. It will be interesting to see where the story and characters take me and if we end up at the point that i want them to be at. If they don’t then I’m curious to see where they’ll go.

Setting

As I said I’m setting this in the real world, my last story was in a world of my own creation so again it will be another challenge to work with real life places and ordinary people.

I’m basing this story in America. I’ve only ever been to Orlando, Florida so I need to research quite a lot, Geography research here I come!

So that’s all I’m going to say about the actual story at this point because I don’t want to give away the plot or what I’m writing about too much. I would love it if I could finish the first draft this month but I have a bad habit of re-reading it and editing it instead of actually writing so I’m hoping to shake this habit at some point this month.

Now on to the actual updates!

WRITING UPDATES

Day 1 – November 1st

  • Start:  0 words
  • Words Written Today – 1,830

  • Finish:  1, 830 Words

Day 2 – November 2nd

  • Start:  1, 830 Words
  • Words Written Today – 1,710

  • Finish: 3, 540 Words

Day 3 – November 3rd

  • Start:  3,540 Words
  • Words Written Today – 1, 797 Words

  • Finish: 5, 337 Words

Day 4 – November 4th

  • Start:  5, 337 Words
  • Words Written Today:  1, 706 Words

  • Finish: 7, 043 Words

Day 5 – November 5th

  • Start:  7, 043 Words
  • Words Written Today: 1, 749 Words

  • Finish: 8, 792 Words

Day 6 – November 6th

  • Start: 8, 792 Words
  • Words Written Today:  2, 024 Words

  • Finish: 10, 816 Words

Day 7 – November 7th

  • Start: 10, 816 Words
  • Words Written Today:  1, 778 Words

  • Finish: 12, 594 Words 

TOTAL SO FAR: 12, 594 Words out of 50,000 Words

Amount Until I Finish: 37, 406 Words

How have you been doing for NaNoWriMo so far if you’re participating? I’d love to know.

Until next time,

Tori x