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

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LizW65:
Dumped approx. 50% of it, took a break to recover from surgery, have yet to get back to it, except in my head.   I'm planning to start up again sometime this week.

Nickeris86:
mine are berried under the pressure of graduation.

Kali:
Buried.   And the irony here is just killing me.

My Nano is busily being beaten into an actual novel (the one I'm talking about in the thread where I'm lookin' for beta readers).  It is now almost as large as it was originally (closing in on 50k), but I've added so many new scenes that the ending of this book will bear almost no resemblance to the ending of the NaNo version.

Which is probably good, because when you write a 50k story in 2 weeks, odds are it sucks diseased mongoose wang, and mine did.

I did manage to preserve the corn dog scene, but I have removed the were-hamster scene.  Favorite upcoming scene needing reworking:  Shirtless Smokin' Hot Catholic Priest Scene!  Which parallels nicely with my favorite recently added scene, Shirtless Psychopathic Werewolf Scene.

I'm a simple creature, really.

KevinEvans:
Latest update,

Our project is 4/5ths done. The edit version is up to 90K (26 chapters) words, with eight more chapters yet to be edited and added in to the total. The deadline to have it ready for our first readers, is Condit in SLC. May 27-30.

This should put us comfortably in to the 100 to 120 K word length that our prospective publisher wants.

The second novel is already at the right length, and needs word polish and continuity checks.

We even have a pitch set up for Nasfic.

Sweating it out,
Kevin

meg_evonne:
It wasn't Nano, but I'm deep in revision of YA using the shrunken manuscript concept, I'm switching from 3rd intimate to 1st POV, and religiously reading and recording as part of that revision.  I've placed a three month time frame to get it finished.  I received a full manuscript review by a Penguin editor and an agent who kindly asked to see my revision when I'm ready.  Who knows?

Life goes on...

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