Nothing.
This is Conlan
i write words
nanowrimo
8,180 words
Slow day for noveling. But I feel my loyal readers deserve a little excerpt action. Bearing in mind this is in first draft form, I present to you the world’s first taste of Untitled Novel: “That is absolutely right,” I say. “Really?” She opens her eyes. “Sure.” “Ha,” she says. She doesn’t laugh; she says [...]
8,000 words
Now I’ve got some momentum. I’ve gotten a lot of the exposition out of the way, so it’s on to the meat! Should be fairly smooth now, moving the plot along, lots of dialogue. I’m a genius at dialogue (Or, as my friend Troy would rightfully point out: Well, I’m a genius at writing dialogue). [...]
6,272 words
Well, that was a fairly abrupt jump in word count, wasn’t it? Want to know my secret? Cheating. I got to thinking about my character becoming more and more me, and I thought, who’s more like me than I am? And it turns out I’m a useful source of information about myself, in the form [...]