NaNoWriMo Update #7

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Didn’t get a whole heukuva lot written over the weekend, but I did get Part One of the book plotted out very loosely. Very loosely. I am up to 35,500 words, which ain’t half bad, I guess.

Hoping this first part will match up well with the second part, and that it will all feel of a single piece. Time will tell.

Also, anyone wanna edit this behemoth when it’s done?

Sketch a Day, Day 354

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See, it’s funny because the American government spent years systematically attempting to wipe out native populations.

Wait, no, that’s not funny, it’s that other thing. Horrible. Yeah, that.

Note: I myself am actually part Native American. Not much, but my family can trace back to the Dawes Scrolls, so it’s official and all.

NaNoWriMo Update #6

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Here we are on the sixteenth. I’m up to 33,219 words as of this posting. I need to average just over 1200 words per day for the rest of the month (not including the rest of today, when I can probably knock out at least another thousand or so words).

The problem, of course, is the one I identified a few days ago: I’ve pretty much reached the end of the story I was telling. Everything’s wrapping up, everything’s tied together and running to the end. I can probably stretch it out to about 37,000, if I’m good, but that’s gonna be about it.

So I did some brainstorming last night. I think I may have to go back and add a big section to the beginning, another case that I allude to in the story already but don’t really flesh out. If I have that case in the story first, I can probably squeeze another 13,000 words out, easy.

Granted, I don’t have that particular case fully plotted, so it may not go as smoothly as I’d like…