Rough drafts suck.
Posting rough drafts to wattpads suck more.
But a HUUUUUUGE shoutout to raindrop for all her lovely edits on Write This Down. ^^ She is a lifesaver. I intend to send the drafts to other people as well for editing advice/help/etc.
It needs help.
A lot.
But I love it, even for all its imperfections.
Seriously, this is the first time I actually loved my work despite its flaws. Say whaaaaaat?
15:29
So I saw Liam's chatango comment about the 1,200,000 words, and I was like "what?"
"I will definitely be continuing "Write This Down" even after NaNo ends, so there is that. It helps to have 12 chapters planned out (equaling roughly 1,200,000 words.)"
Oh right.
Mah bad.
12 chapters at 10k words each is 120,000 words, not over a million >.> I suck at math in the morning. Thank God for calculators.
But since 12 chapters is a fourth of the book, that means the whole book will probably be about 480,000 words. So, yah, still not close to 1.2 million.
Breathe easy people. xD I just suck at math.
16:15
Never post unedited rough drafts to wattpad. Just don't. You'll be banging your head against the wall for it for a long time.
23:38
So, I hit 38,363 words, which means I'm about 30 ahead of count (for the next quarter hour, just about).
I jumped between Samdagas' chapter and the (currently) Chapter 7, which goes back to the refugees with the Falgarith and Hessir and peeps. I usually try and focus on just one chapter at a time, but I was struggling with words and just needed to WRITE! After a few hundred of Chapter 7, I got back into the swing of Samdagas and wrote his chapter. I remembered calling Samdagas a cross between Lady Eboshi and a subtle version of Jiyaria from Naruto. That helped get back in his head.
I also slipped in a nod to the character who will be POVing Chapter 9, but good luck figuring out who that is.
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