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In reply to the discussion: Bring it On NaNoWriMo 2015! [View all]

Lilyhoney

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1. I tried last year.
Mon Oct 5, 2015, 11:43 AM
Oct 2015

I did not come close to winning.

I put my story away for the month of December and continued in the new year. I hit 50,000 words at the end of May and let a couple of people read my underdeveloped manuscript with no valuable feedback.

I started writing again on August first and just printed my 80,000 word manuscript last week.

I have been adding notes to add or move events and have been reading my editing reference material.

I have a lot of work ahead of me.

I am going to use the month of November to challenge myself to make the first 50,000 words of my novel a better version of what it is now. My goal is to have the rewrite done by the end of the year.

I wish you well at giving the challenge a second go. Let us know how you do.

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