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6128 words so far. So I did about another 1000 words this afternoon. Tonight I will head back over to my office (the coffee shop) and bang out another thousand.

My plan is to have the entire novel, all 200,000 words or-so of it, wrapped by January. I'll be going through the revision in February and I'll be writing publishers throughout spring of 2009. Therefor, a few sample chapters will be available in six months.

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:eek:

200,000 words!?

I hope you are planning a convenient splitting point about halfway through there....

What kind of novel is it? :banana:
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[quote name='philothea' post='1692419' date='Nov 3 2008, 04:43 PM']:eek:

200,000 words!?

I hope you are planning a convenient splitting point about halfway through there....

What kind of novel is it? :banana:[/quote]

A Thriller. :cool:

Oops! I meant to say that it's a 120,000 word or-so novel. :lol:
It's one part The Lone Gunmen, one part Ted Bell's Alex Hawke series, one part Harriet The Spy. Shaken, not stirred.

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[quote name='philothea' post='1692419' date='Nov 3 2008, 04:43 PM']:eek:[/quote]
Your novel looks like an interesting idea. Planning on doing anything else with it after NaNoWriMo, or are you thinking it might just be a good writing exercise?

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[quote name='Lounge Daddy' post='1692428' date='Nov 3 2008, 04:00 PM']A Thriller. :cool:

Oops! I meant to say that it's a 120,000 word or-so novel. :lol:
It's one part The Lone Gunmen, one part Ted Bell's Alex Hawke series, one part Harriet The Spy. Shaken, not stirred.[/quote]

Oh, good! 120,000 is much better. Sounds neat. Let me know if you ever want a reader! :D

[quote name='Lounge Daddy' post='1692514' date='Nov 3 2008, 05:43 PM']Your novel looks like an interesting idea. Planning on doing anything else with it after NaNoWriMo, or are you thinking it might just be a good writing exercise?[/quote]

Thanks! It's a background story which connects two existing novels (both of which need revision whenever I figure out whatever happens in this Nano novel!) I'm not planning to try to get this particular one published, but I might give it away for free as bonus background material. I don't know if it'll wind up being much longer than 50k.

(ETA: 5192 so far.)

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[quote name='missionseeker' post='1692749' date='Nov 4 2008, 12:02 AM']missy knows everything :mellow:[/quote]

:lol_pound:

The conversation on the phone after his above post:

"You know what?"
"What?"
"I wanted to reply to your post that I know with 'Of course I know. I'm omniscient!'"
"But then PM would call you a heretic...:unsure:"

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I'm getting as much writing in as I can during the day today. Tonight after the kiddies go to bed I might be too distracted following the election results rolling in.

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I packed it in and left the coffee shop at 8:30pm.

Before I flipped to some news websites and turned on Glenn Beck's live election night webcast...

I checked my word count: 10,164 :cool:

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LD you're winning, mine is around 9k.

Oh Missy and I have decided that Obama is doing NaNoWriMo. His speeches are novels in themselves.

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8200. I want to keep going, but I'm at the end of the chapter, it's late, and I'm trying very hard to have a belated anniversary with BG. I'm ahead anyway. :)

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[quote name='MissyP89' post='1693717' date='Nov 5 2008, 01:23 AM']8200. I want to keep going, but I'm at the end of the chapter, it's late, and I'm trying very hard to have a belated anniversary with BG. I'm ahead anyway. :)[/quote]
Oh common. Ahead of who?
Keep going. Don't let a little anniversary get in the way.

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