Exciting news!...

And it was pretty exciting!

So as you know if you read the post from Saturday, I am rewriting my novel in 3rd person. I was in the middle of writing the outline, and guess what: I finished that on Monday! 43 chapters at the current moment in time. Now you may think... yeah that is exciting, but what is the big deal? 

The big deal is that, when I was writing the outline for the final chapter I started tearing up. Yes! Okay, so a little backstory... I'm pretty hardcore. I have only cried to a book once, but that was when I was young and didn't know what a good story was. Other than that I am usually ice cold. I didn't even cry reading Eleanor and Park, which surprised me. And I especially don't cry while writing my own stuff. Like I said, I'm ice cold.

So having that moment... feeling the tears... it just made me realize that maybe... just maybe... I'm writing something real here. I still have a long way to go, I've still only written the prologue and chapter 1, but things are going somewhere, which is good. Any progress is progress nonetheless.

ANOTHER EXCITING THING...

I participated in a competition to go to a writing workshop with one of the lead authors over here in Denmark - along with other people as well. What I had to do to participate was write 2 chapters of a story about a teenager with a life threatening disease.

I first wanted to write about a girl who had cancer... but I know shit about cancer... so I would sound freaking stupid if I tried writing about it. Therefore I decided to write about a young girl who had progeria. I watched the documentary "life according to Sam" and read all I could about it. And then I sat down to write it.

It got selected. I got selected. In one week exactly I'm going to Copenhagen to participate in the workshop. And the most amazing thing is that we'll be workshopping at a hospital with teenagers who have life threatening diseases, but also enjoy to write. 

I just know it is going to be an amazing experience. I just know it.

Keep Calm and Write On.

- Nanna.

Point of no return...

When you have been working on a project for a while, you start to wonder; is this really what I am meant to write? If the answer is 'yes' then you know that you have found it. If the answer is 'no' then you got to keep looking. For the novel I am currently writing my answer is a safe and sound 'yes'.

NaNoWriMo day #10 - wordgoal: 16667 - 

Day ten. Only twenty short days left to go until we reach that dreaded 30th day mark. It seemed as though it was just yesterday NaNo started. You would think I would celebrate that we were one third of the way through, but no! Of course my grandpa was celebrating his 70th birthday that day. So I did not get to write all that much! But I did write a little over 2k words before we left for the birthday "party". Even though I did not get to write a whole lot, I still passed 64k total. Last year over the entire month I only wrote 63k-something on my NaNo-novel. So by the 10th of this year, I have already written more than I had ever done before in one month. My current novel is still not at the final length of last year's novel, which was 90k, but it is getting up there!

NaNoWriMo day #11 - wordgoal: 18333 -

How I managed to write this much on a monday, I have no idea. Maybe it was because I had an hour and a half at school where I did not have a module, so I wrote about 2k there, and then another 3k when I got home. Those 5k words were enough to finish chapter 17 and 18. And speaking of chapter 18, it is probably one of my favorite chapters. Things really start to go down in that one, and I love the end line of the chapter. But other than that the 5k words were enough to get me over 69k...the magic number, if you know what I mean...sorry about that...

NaNoWriMo day #12 - wordgoal: 20000 -

So like every other Tuesday I had to go to my writing class. It was actually kind of fun. Last week we made an outline for a christmas carol, and this week we had to write it. Now we are four girls in the class, so that was six days for each. We wrote it so people would get a bit of the story ever single day. I had to do day 4, 8, 12, 16, 20 and 24, which meant I had to finish it. If was suprisingly fun. But most suprising of all was that, when we were done the story actually made sense, even though we were four people writing it without knowing where the last person stopped. But I was really busy with my school work. I had an assignment for the 13th and I had a presentation on the 13th so, I was really stressed out. I still managed to write about 3k though, so now my total was at 72.736 words. Yes I crossed that 70k mark!

NaNoWriMo day #13 - wordgoal: 21667 -

Today was an okay day for writing. Defiently not my best, but not the worst either. I am at chapter 20 and have just crossed the 75k mark!! Still very proud of myself. The chapter I am currently writing is, and if it isn't it is going to be build up to the point of no return. You know, where shit goes down real fast. My novel is coming to an end soon, which is really overwhelming. My outline is only 29 chapters long, which means after chapter 20 is done, I only have nine to go. And once it is done, I think editing it is going to be rather hard. So far there is not one chapter my story can do without. Everything is relevant, but I do not want it to be over 100k words. I kind of want to stop at 90-95k, just so it is not too long or too short. But I will figure that out, when I have to deal with it, which is not until December where the re-reading starts...damn...

As always I will show you my progress in my beautiful graf:

I know week two can be really harsh on some people, but you can still win! You just have to get down to business and write. Even if you think what you are writing trash, all you need to do is believe more in the scissors than in the paper.

Keep Calm and Write On.

- Nanna.