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As some of you may be aware, I took the plunge this year and took part in National Novel Writing Month (Nanowrimo hereafter), a challenge in which participants aim to write 50,000 words of a novel in 30 days. Today I am ecstatic to report that I am one of those who succeeded, as this afternoon I validated my word count at 50,116 words! My novel isn’t finished but I am over the moon and filled with new confidence about my writing. I now know for certain that I can make time to write every single day regardless of what I have going on. It’s an eye-opening and exciting thing to realise!
However, putting in the effort has had some downsides. First of all, my poor blog has been neglected this month despite me promising myself to add and update or two. To be honest, everything got put on hold for Nanowrimo: WordPress, my social life, my various smaller projects and my music practice all had to be shelved for the duration of the challenge. I still managed to find time to read, though, as I can’t be doing without books! Nonetheless, I have no regrets over taking part as I have thoroughly enjoyed it and I have great pride in myself for seeing it through. I plan to right some of these wrongs starting today, and I’ll return to writing short stories to post on here shortly. I’ll also be kick-starting my ‘Fiction Fursday’ posts once again and doing my best to keep up with any writing competitions and challenges thrown my way. I’m planning on catching up with you wonderful people on the blogosphere, too, so that will be great fun!
Anyway, thanks for taking the time to read, as always, and I’ll look forward to interacting with you soon! Well done to anyone else who took part in Nanowrimo this year. Win or lose, you’re all writers to me!
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Well done, Adam. I take my hat off to you (or would if I wore one, but you know what I mean.) Give yourself a mega pat on the back – you deserve it. Congratulations on such an achievement. Viki
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Thank you, Viki ☺ I think I will!
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Awesome accomplishment! 🙂
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Thank you! ☺
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Well done, you! Amazing. You should feel really proud of yourself 🙂
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Thanks so much, Esther 😆 I am very pleased with myself and I’ll do my best to capitalise on it.
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Great! Hope it goes well 🙂
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ha, champion! Are you going to tell us a little of what it is about?
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Thanks, Geoff 😆 To sum it up in one short sentence? ‘Lord of the Flies’ set in a prison with a sci-fi element.
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Oh my. How you survived those characters!!
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It did get quite bleak in places, I must admit.
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Congrats Adam and good luck to continuing on with your novel!
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Thanks so much, Angelica! 😆 I’ll get the damn thing finished, for sure! Sorry I didn’t message you much throughout, how did you do in the end?
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Eh I gave up 😞 I am doing another challenge this month though. Two actually. 😄
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You got a lot written when I last checked, though, so it’s still an achievement. Oooh nice one! I’ll take a look on your blog today and check them out. 😊
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Yay! Thanks AJ!
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Well done Adam. What an achievement. That’s a phenomenal amount of work. Kate :0)
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Thanks, Kate 😆 It was great fun and I can’t believe how quickly the month flew by because of it! I’m gonna need to find something else to fill the void now ☺
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Well done, Adam. Sometimes it does you good to set aside some of the other things in life so you can focus on something significant.
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Thank you, Graeme 🙂 I can see the truth in that now. It seems so obvious until you actually give it a try. Thanks so much for commenting.
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This is a very late comment, but if I’d known that you were also participating, I would have added you as a ‘buddy!’
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Same to you! I cast the blog from my mind completely during that time so I had no idea you were also participating. Hindsight is a bitch, eh? 😆
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ROFL – very true! I think that I only mentioned that I was doing the NaNo thing on my blog five times…I guess you didn’t see the posts!
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My final word-count was only 50,020…nowhere near yours!
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No, I guess not. I can be a bit crap at spotting things that are obvious sometimes! Sorry! 😅
That’s great! Oh come on, I only got slightly more words than you did! I saw that one guy got 90,000! He must’ve glued himself to his keyboard!
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90K words?!? Sheesh…I can be an overachiever at times, but not THAT much! Wow…
He glued himself to his keyboard, ate stuff from bags and boxes, and probably sported adult diapers for a time!
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I know! It’s flipping crazy!
Haha yeah probably! 😆
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