It doesn’t get any easier, in fact keeping up with nano word count gets harder. It’s very easy to slip behind and once that happens it’s an uphill slog to get caught up again.
I’m full of admiration and wonder for people who’ve already hit the magic 50K and there are plenty who’ve gone past it.
Me? I’m hoving in the 30Ks but still determined to get that little winner badge for this site. I have to write 2000 words a day to keep on track. This gives me a little buffer each day, but not much, as I’ve discovered to my cost when I’ve missed the odd day or so for one reason or another.
Another reason I’m struggling at the moment is that I have run out of planned scenes. I thought I had enough to see me sailing happily over the 50K line, but that was in outline and not in reality. As we all know, outlines change, and mine has done a happy snake dance from the beginning, leading me in all sorts of directions I hadn’t planned on. Some have been good diversions, others I know will have to come out in edit.
Today saw me winding up the first act and moving into the second, and that has given me a second wind. My people are now in a different location, with a different set of problems and are about to enter a whole new world, literally. It should be fun, and a couple of them are already beginning to show their true, and previously hidden, colours.
It’s the home stretch – and I WILL do it.
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