First Day of Nano Update
I stayed up Saturday night until 1:30 in the morning because I was so in the zone with outlining my story for Nano. So far I have outlined the first 10 chapters. I have decided what the murder is all about and I have two sub plots going.
My main murder involves a someone who didn’t take a bad rejection lightly. The story also has a sub-plot that is based off of a true crime that happened here in Iowa several years ago. Of course I don’t know all the details but what I do know I’ve embellished to make the story even more interesting. My close friends and past buyers (from when I was a Realtor) may remember the story. It was one I used to explain why the seller was required to sign a document called the Ground Water Hazard form and involves disclosing what may be buried on your property.
I attended the first write-in this afternoon at Smokey Row, a coffee shop in the Sherman Hills District of Des Moines. I surpassed my word count goal of 1667 words a day by writing about 2300. It has helped having an outline to follow. Since I’ve only outlined about half the story so far, I will continue outlining as I go. I really have a good feeling about this story and hope my enthusiasm will carry me through to the end. The 50,000 words necessary for Nano will not be enough to finish the story but my new goal is to have the first draft complete by the end of the year and start revising the first week in January. At that time I will be looking for either a critique group or at least a couple of readers.
Hope your writing is flowing smoothly and if you are taking the Nano journey with me, I wish you good luck.
Until next time, keep writing, plotting, and reading.
Virginia
I have been writing too – I have quite a bit done already on the story for today’s word count and it is only 2:30am! What is your username – we can be writing buddies.
Good luck with your novel! Kathy
Good to hear you’ve been writing. I am vagruv in the Central Iowa Region of Nano. We have a very active group. About 15 of us met at Kryptonite Coffee last night. I haven’t written yet today but for the first 3 days I have over 6000 words. I’m trying to average 2000/day. I’m going to a couple write-ins a week. They are like a burst of words. We pull a card to pick how many words we have to write in a half hour. Then they set a timer. The leader keeps track of everyone’s numbers and gives a total for the group. We even had a few people from the Ames area on-line doing it with us. We had over 40,000 words just last night. We meet at different coffee shops or areas each night. Wednesday is in Ames so I don’t plan to go there.
We get a ticket each time we attend. And she plays other little games where if she calls on you and asks what someone else’s name is, you get two tickets, if you know. We have a party after it’s over with and we donate books on writing that are given away.
Keep going, you can do it.