Word Count Update

The word count on my first draft is a around 28,000 right now. I'm participating in NaNoWriMo and am using it to add 50,000 words to my draft by the end of the month. 8,000 words in the total count have been written this month, so I'm only a little behind. I'll be writing more tonight.

If you're participating in NaNoWriMo as well, feel free to add me. My user name is Kurogawa.

Finally, a Title.

A title came to me tonight as I was writing. It's funny how things I try desperately to think of just come to me when I'm trying to do something else. Anyway, here's the title.

The Mark of Horouh: Book One of the Dragon Wolf War

I put another 1200 words down tonight as well. Not as much as I hoped to do, but not a bad number either. I will work on it more tomorrow. I'd like to finish this chapter by the end of the week.

It's Good to be Writing Again

I just wrote 1000 words tonight of actual writing, not outline. It felt great to get back in the seat and write. I have a lot of ideas that I really want to put to page with this novel and I think I can do it. I should be able to write more in the coming days.

Major Changes on the Way

I had a major brainstorm this last week for the plot to my book. I'm really excited about it, but I'm not going to share it here because of spoilers. This new idea just really clicked with me and I'm happy to say that I won't have to change much to the story to make it work. Here's looking forward to writing more this week.

Another 1800 = Word Count at 4%

I added another 1800 words to my manuscript this week. I've been working on the outline, but that doesn't count as real writing in my book. The chapter isn't done yet, but I won't have anytime to work on it anymore before it's due tonight for my writing group, The Bartlebys. I'm going to finish the chapter with another 1000 words or so on Monday and then move on to the chapter 3.

Word Count at 2%

As of the time of this posting, I currently have 2561 words written which is roughly 2% of my goal. I would have had more, but I threw away a thousand words because it ended up being trying to do too much in too short of a space with it. No need for exposition dump.

I joined a writing group recently, and we have a goal of writing 3k to 5k words a week. This week, including the notes I took and the stuff I threw out, I wrote a little more than 4k words, but the only words that really matter are the ones that end up in the novel.

Starting Up Again

I took a long break from writing on my novel because of the craziness I put myself through with school, assistant directing and acting in a musical, working on Warp and Weave, and graduating. I don't recommend that to anyone.

However, I am back and am working on my titleless fantasy novel. My goal is to reach 100,000 words with this novel and right now I have a little more than 600.