Ok. 55k. I’m still hoping to reach 75k before the end of the month, so there will still be a book there after I cut out the crappy parts (at worst, I will end up with a nice haiku…), but I’m taking a break from this. I’ll let it sit until the weekend or next week, try to clear my head, waste my time with this time waster that I found here, let the MSS cool off, then read what I have so far and see what makes sense and what doesn’t. Let a couple people comment on it. Then start re-writing – I’m thinking characters need to be developed more, etc.
I am in awe of all the NaNoWriMo people busily churning out novels of varying quality. If I tried to do that I’d probably end with with a Joyceian thing that blithered on endlessly and said nothing and was totally pointless.
alas, the quality of mine doesn’t vary much.