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4-month check in: How's your NaNo doing?

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Kali:
I've tried to go back and edit mine a couple of times, but it never came to anything.  I know what needs fixing, both in specific and in general, but I haven't been able to stand it.  I 'blah' over large chunks of it.  That means even I'M bored with my novel.  Yikes.  That said, I was re-reading Donald Maass's excellent "Writing the Breakout Novel" book and got an epiphany on how to fix a large chunk of the story.

And I finally figured out how to write the beginning correctly.  I've known from the day I set it down that the ending was awful; it meandered, it babbled, it droned on and on.  Now it's better.  Ok, it's no "I opened the door and Morgan fell bleeding at my feet" in terms of media res, but it's much, much better.

Just wondering if anyone else is still working on theirs.

Darwinist:
Buried under the other four novels I started and never finished

KevinEvans:
We have one of our two, almost ready to submit, (it needed the most work) the second is in need of much less work. Both of the works in progress will be ready before NASFIC, and we have the pitches ready for our targeted publishers.

The next novels are blocked out, and ideas are sorted for preperation. It is important to rember that novels can sit for years before a decision is made, so writing one and waiting on it is a losing game.

regards,
Kevin

elsupremo:
Mine is dormant. Life exerting too much pressure in other areas.

Cooper:
Editing '08 right now.  Been tweeting it under #projectmana.

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