Thursday, November 19, 2015

NaNoWriMo 2015: Day 19

I did a thing I haven’t done with this book before: Go back and change something I had already written. My standard writing process is that I forge ahead and never look back. If something occurs to to me, say in chapter 13 that affects something in chapter 7, I make a note in chapter 7 and then I go forward from chapter 13 *as if I had already written the extra stuff in chapter 7*. This way, I always have forward momentum.

Now, this was nothing major today. I wrote chapter 37 at my 5am session. When it came time to write chapter 38 during my breaks at the day job, I got to thinking “Hey, if I made one small change at the end of chapter 37, the tension would be upped for chapter 38.” So, I went back and re-wrote a few sentences at the end of 37 and then wrote 38. I figured it was literally about four lines so it wasn’t major, but I don’t normally do that kind of thing.

Day 1: 3464 (3464 total; 46,536 remaining)
Day 2: 2325 (5789 total; 44,211 remaining)
Day 3: 2637 (8426 total; 41,574 remaining)
Day 4: 1709 (10,100 total; 39,900 remaining)
Day 5: 1732 (11,900 total; 38,133 remaining)
Day 6: 2453 (14,320 total; 35,680 remaining)
Day 7: 1767 (16,087 total; 33,913 remaining)
Day 8: 2371 (18,458 total: 31,542 remaining)
Day 9: 1712 (20,170 total; 29,830 remaining)
Day 10: 2023 (22,193 total; 27,807 remaining)
Day 11: 2181 (23,374 total; 25,626 remaining)
Day 12: 1801 (26,175 total; 23,825 remaining)
Day 13: 2008 (28,183 total; 21,817 remaining)
Day 14: 3539 (31,722 total; 18,2789 remaining)
Day 15: 2177 (33,899 total; 16,101 remaining)
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Day 18: 2707 (40,084 total; 9916 remaining)
Day 19: 1917 (42,001 total; 7999 remaining)

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