Mar 14, 2011 05:39
So, you know that NaNo novel I was working on for the last 5 months (well, actually, 3 months, as Dec and Jan were NaNo recovery months)? Well, I finally finished it.
Yep, that's right. FOOL'S GOLD is finally finished at 64k. (I had to take out 11k of sex/zombie scenes, which makes the word count so low :( )
BUT! It will probably end up being close to 70k once I'm finished with it, because I still need to add a few scenes in here and there and make some changes to it. (I never change what I've written, I always have to move forwards while I'm writing. If something needs to be added or changed, I make note of it in a notebook, filed under Stuff I Need to Edit.
Now that I've finished it, I'm at a loss of what to do next. I wanna jump right back into writing, so I suppose the best thing for me to do is jump back into the novel I had dropped because I couldn't finish it in time for NaNo (and I really wanted to start NaNo with a new story). Some of you may remember what the story was. I affectionately called it Mr&Mrs Sleeping Beauty because a) I have no other title for it and b) it can be best described as Sleeping Beauty meets Mr & Mrs Smith. So yeah.
And that'll be over soon, since I was already in the last leg of the race, with about 20k or so till the end.
I wonder what I should work on after that. I haven't had too many story ideas come to me lately, which is odd. I'm hoping that now that I'm not so involved with FOOL'S GOLD.
And blah, then I'll have to work on short stories for a folio that I'll have to submit to get into some courses for next year. Gah, busy busy busy.
So yes, this is me rambling at 5:30am after a night of intense writing (7k done in the last 10 hours!! 7!!!) and possibly overdosing on tea, chocolate and hot chocolate.
Later today, I'll post my stats for the week. I'm hoping I'll be able to keep doing my weekly metric updates.
writing,
nano'10,
fool's gold,
wip,
awesome