Year-long NaNo discussion

Currently at 27,400 words. Almost to 30,000!

Yayayayay!! Good luck! :D

Nice, Lena!!!! :D

That's awesome, Lena! Keep it up!

Thanks ladies! :)

Pinterest board: get a sneak-peek at some of the characters!

I've been following your board! :)

Yay! I hope you like it!! :D

Over 31,000 words!!! :D

AHHH! That's exciting!

YAY THAT'S SO AWESOME! :D

At 32,000!

Just wrote an exciting bit with my villain! Here's a (very) brief snippet! ;)

"Can his will not be bent? How long, before I can control him?"

Love it! :)

Exciting! ;)

Thanks!! It was fun to write from my villain's perspective! :)

I followed your Pinterest board. :) Looks exciting! I love fantasy! <3 <3 Can't wait to read. Will you be self-publishing?

Thank you both!
I will probably self-publish, but I have considered looking into Enclave Publishing. We'll see...

Reached 40,000 words! I think this is the half-way mark!

"Woah, we're half way there
Woah, livin' on a prayer
Take my hand, we'll make it I swear... "

You can follow my progress if you'd like: http://pacemaker.press/index.html#/us...

Isn't it great?

I think you can... I haven't tried it yet, though

Awesome!!! :D

And yeah, you can add a widget. I do. :)

I tried it on my blog, and it looks like it doesn't work on Wordpress.com sites. I'm not sure about Blogger though, and I'm guessing it will work on Wordpress.org sites

42,000 words.

I'm doing some WIP tweets on twitter, which you can follow at #SomethingMoreNovel, if you're interested

Great work so far, Lena! That Pacemaker site looks pretty cool, I'll have to use that to log my work :)

Thanks!! :) I hope you find it useful!

Passed 50,000 words! Below is the sentence with the 50,000th word! :)

He at least knew her, and that was certainly better than meeting your future wife no sooner than your wedding day, he thought.

Excellent! Great work, Lena :D

Thanks! :D

Yay!

Just finished the first draft!! Ended right around 64,000 words :D

OH MY GOODNESS, CONGRATULATIONS. THAT IS AMAZING, LENA!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Thanks!!! ^_^ I'm super excited!!

THANK YOU!! :D

I'm currently rewriting Something More, and it's been so fun to get back into the story! I'm 15,000 words in, and have added almost 8,000 to the original word count

The hooded servant entered the room and bowed low, holding a blood-soaked piece of cloth out to the muffled and cloaked figure standing in the shadows. “I was able to retrieve it from the hidden dungeon entrance in the servants’ quarters, Great One, where it lay forgotten. I am sure it will not be missed.”
“Good work, Drrha.” The figure tucked the cloth into the deeps folds of the cloak. “You will be rewarded.”

Hit 20k of the second draft! :D

Savird closed his eyes and let the warmth from the sun soak his face.

Whoo!!

A quarter of the way through the rewrites, at 21,567. Not a bad way to end the year! :D

Yay! I'm struggling through the rewrites of one my stories too. Maybe we should do a rewrite word war sometime, only it would be to see how many pages we can get done ;P

That's awesome!!!

Hit 40k on the rewrites! Almost half-way there!

Lena wrote: "Hit 40k on the rewrites! Almost half-way there!"

Yay!

^_^

WHOOOOO!!!!!!

:D

50k on the rewrites! ^_^

“And this from the boy who claimed to have no desire for the throne, no desire to rule. Yet now he defies me, claiming his right to authority over me. Can his will not be bent? How long, before I can control him?”

Lena wrote: "50k on the rewrites! ^_^

“And this from the boy who claimed to have no desire for the throne, no desire to rule. Yet now he defies me, claiming his right to authority over me. Can his will not be..."

Great work! And OMW, I love that excerpt!!! I'm so interested now :D

Lena wrote: "50k on the rewrites! ^_^

“And this from the boy who claimed to have no desire for the throne, no desire to rule. Yet now he defies me, claiming his right to authority over me. Can his will not be..."

Yipeee!! :D love that excerpt!

Thanks!! ^_^

I've reached 64,455 words on draft two, making it officially longer than the first draft!

As she leaned over him to reach her herbs, he raised his head and rubbed against her arm. She laughed again and set down her herbs to stroke his head. She knew how much he loved to have his ears scratched, and she enjoyed making him purr. He was such a big cat, his purr would vibrate all the way up her arm to her wings.