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For the fifth time, I'm attempting NaNoWriMo. For those of you who don't know about this, it's National Novel Writing Month. The goal is to write a novel throughout the month of November. I've never succeeded at sticking out the whole month, though, so we'll see if I can manage to get back in the habit of writing every day.
First, a little background on the novel I'm writing this month. When I was a senior in high school, I wrote a trilogy filled with characters loosely based off of my group of friends. They named their own characters, gave me brief physical descriptions, and got to choose what deep, dark secret their characters were hiding. It took me a year to write all three books. At the time, I was immensely proud of the trilogy and was positive that publishers would be lining up to offer me a contract. Rereading these books seven years later, I recognize them for what they truly are. Utter rubbish. So, I'm going back through and rewriting them. And I don't mean a few tweaks here and there; I'm talking about a total overhaul. Some characters have been combined, some deleted completely, some are brand new, and all of them are now significantly darker emotionally. Anyone who read the trilogy the first time around will (hopefully) not even recognize this as the same story. I'm going to try to post updates every day, but there's always a chance I'll forget every once in awhile. Wish me luck on this journey. Today's Word Count: 1115 Total Word Count: 1115 Today's Page Count: 7 Total Page Count: 7 Favorite Line from Today (taken completely out of context): "No, I actually became a necrophilic lesbian over the summer," Lyric replied, glancing around October's locker door. "Didn't I tell you?"
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Stephanie
11/2/2016 09:45:44 am
As someone who read them the first time around, I'm ready for round 2! Now go write.
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