I won Camp Nanowrimo July! But at what cost? For those who don't know, Nanowrimo is a month where you write a 50,000 word novel. In other words, normally you'd be writing an average of about 1,600 words every day. It's a great way to build resilience and gain a writing habit. I've participated many times and this time I won after 2 weeks. Or did I? It's kind of complicated. This month, I was going to write a whole new project, but truth be told, the subject matter of said novel was a bit dark and really didn't agree with my mental health this month. So, I decided to ease up the workload and to edit an existing project rather than write a whole new one. And while editing is also work, it's easier and faster to edit through a thousand words than to write those, at least in my case. On the NaNoWriMo website, you can put in whether you're writing or editing 50,000 words in the month. However, at the end of the day, it still counts 'edited' words as 'written' words. For example, I ended up having 'written' 10,000 words in one day, according to the website, with writing speeds of up to 75 words per minute, ha. The novel I've been editing was my actual NaNoWriMo project from last year, where I really did write 50,000 words in a month. I really was on a row back in the day! Since then, the novel has grown considerably, and completely changed in some aspects. See, that year I had the brilliant idea of writing in a non-chronological style. Which made the novel impossible to follow or organize. So this year, I've been editing it to make it chronological. This will make it easier to check for consistencies. But this also means that the beginning of the initial novel ends up being towards the middle of the new version. A total mess! Even though I officially won, as I've gone through 50,000 words, that doesn't mean I'm done with editing. Far from it, since the novel is a quite longer than that. As such I'll be working on it well after this month is done! For the time being, however, I am more focused on my main WIP which I'm going to query this August! Very exciting times! Below are my stats for the project. Be sure to add me on nanowrimo! My profile name is J. Dietz! Let me know below what you did for nanowrimo!
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