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xerinmichellex) wrote2009-11-30 11:50 pm
xerinmichellex) wrote2009-11-30 11:50 pm
I still have ten minutes!!!!
I need to make an addendum to my NaNo statistics, but it's okay since it is still November here in Chicago!
After thinking it over the weekend, I realized I needed to add a scene in Elisabeth's narrative. A little scene, nothing too big or shocking, but something to contrast a scene later on in the story. So, today I added it in--3,000 words and all. (Not bad for an idea I slapped together at 11pm yesterday night.) That brings my final total up to 46,000. Still shy of the 50,000 you are suppose to hit for NaNo, but I did finish a novel in the allotted time frame.
Hopefully I can add in roughly 4,000 more words in the revision process to bump it up to 50,000. I don't want to saturate the manuscript too much with needless material that would eventually get cut out in the editorial process--if the novel even makes it that far. I'm kinda happy with the short length, to be honest. I feel like the novel gets right to the point. It hits you in the gut, as it should considering the subject matter.
THE STORY OF ELISABETH ROSE (that's the title, in case you were wondering) isn't my "darkest" novel per se, but it is close. And I feel so much better that it is out of my head and system. Sometimes, you need to write a story that's painful. As much as you hate the subject matter, it's better to get it out than have it rot away inside of you. If anything, I'm just glad TSOER turned out the way I wanted it to and I don't have to listen to Elisabeth and Lola tapping away in my head.
Yes, I sound crazy. You have to be a little bit insane if you spend your entire life creating different worlds and devoting your time and energy to invisible people that nobody else knows or hears until they're in front of them on a sheet of paper, inside of a book, don't you?
After thinking it over the weekend, I realized I needed to add a scene in Elisabeth's narrative. A little scene, nothing too big or shocking, but something to contrast a scene later on in the story. So, today I added it in--3,000 words and all. (Not bad for an idea I slapped together at 11pm yesterday night.) That brings my final total up to 46,000. Still shy of the 50,000 you are suppose to hit for NaNo, but I did finish a novel in the allotted time frame.
Hopefully I can add in roughly 4,000 more words in the revision process to bump it up to 50,000. I don't want to saturate the manuscript too much with needless material that would eventually get cut out in the editorial process--if the novel even makes it that far. I'm kinda happy with the short length, to be honest. I feel like the novel gets right to the point. It hits you in the gut, as it should considering the subject matter.
THE STORY OF ELISABETH ROSE (that's the title, in case you were wondering) isn't my "darkest" novel per se, but it is close. And I feel so much better that it is out of my head and system. Sometimes, you need to write a story that's painful. As much as you hate the subject matter, it's better to get it out than have it rot away inside of you. If anything, I'm just glad TSOER turned out the way I wanted it to and I don't have to listen to Elisabeth and Lola tapping away in my head.
Yes, I sound crazy. You have to be a little bit insane if you spend your entire life creating different worlds and devoting your time and energy to invisible people that nobody else knows or hears until they're in front of them on a sheet of paper, inside of a book, don't you?