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This post is only about 28 days late. Oops. My bad.
Well, once again I have failed spectacularly at writing an entire novel in one month. I even tried to turn it into a competition with one of my friends in hopes that my competitive side would win out and give me the kick in the pants that I need. In hindsight, that was probably a bad idea, considering that he's a published author and I am not. (You can pick up his books Focused Insanity and Ghosts of Glory for pretty reasonable prices if you're interested. Or, check out my review of Ghosts of Glory if you're not sure urban fantasy is the genre for you.) Sorry for that brief moment of shameless self-promotion. Back to my original point! In an extremely unsurprising turn of events, he most definitely won the "who can write more words in a month" competition. Fortunately for me, he's an outrageously good person so he didn't make me do anything humiliating as acceptance of my defeat. (Had I won, I was going to make him wear a kilt and walk around the English department quoting Braveheart for a day. Bet you're all wishing I'd won now, aren't you?) However, the month wasn't a total bust. I managed to write 10,938 words, which ended up coming in at just under 50 pages. I also have a complete outline for the rest of the story, so I'm hoping to finish it before next year's attempt (and inevitable failure) at NaNoWriMo.
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