Documenting getting a novel out of my head and onto paper. It's a pre-telling of Shakespeare's Hamlet. The Bard set his play in the early 16th century; I'm pushing my novel 5 centuries earlier into the early 11th century. It occurs 2-3 months before Hamlet's father is murdered by Hamlet's uncle (so, but no ghost). It's told from the point of view of 3 Danes who work as observers for the Roman Catholic church.
Saturday, November 30, 2013
NaNoWriMo - Day 30 (Final!)
My word count (in Scrivener) passed 50,000 words last night and that's what I posted up on NaNoWriMo but when I validated the word count in MS Word, it was only 46,700. That's because I'd excluded 4 files of text (from the re-write of Chapter 7). I re-included them this morning, since I actually did write those words, and validated my manuscript up on the NaNoWriMo website and passed! Here's my final stats:
Here's the winner's banner that I can now post:
So, now I have an incomplete 50,286 word manuscript. What's the next step? Find some alpha readers and continue pushing it out to the end. Then do a major re-write, find an agent, and see if I can get it published. Woohoo!
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