I revised a novel that I've done for Camp NaNoWriMo before, but I'll reintroduce you to it:
Month: April
Series: Three Peas
Title: Three Peas
Genre: Young adult novel
Synopsis: Sadie wants to fit in, but she can't even fit in her own family. Four fathers have come and gone, and her mother has decided that she's old enough to take on a parental role in the house. Mother's word is law, so Sadie wants to exceed expectations and even impress her younger brothers and sisters. But her siblings have never respected her as an equal, so they're even less eager to respect her as a figure of authority. And Mother has always been bossy toward her children, but now her bossiness seems to reach new levels, mostly falling on Sadie. Can Sadie rise to the occasion day after day, despite what anyone else says?
Austin knows a lot, but he doesn't know what a true home is like. He's been all across the East Coast hopping from foster home to foster home, ever since he lost a father to custody issues and a mother to cancer as a little kid. Judging from the promising first few weeks at the latest foster home, Austin may actually last longer than a year. But his foster dad is no "warm and fuzzy" type, and his foster brothers will take advantage of him whenever they can. If they found out about the hobbies he keeps under wraps (nothing illegal, just unexpected), they'd put him right back in the system. Can Austin keep his secret, stay true to himself, and score himself a permanent family?
Lily has hope, determination, and nothing else. All she wants is to escape her life at a dumpy boarding school for orphans, at the mercy of the school management's "royal family". She could escape if she was adopted by a visitor, which happens every once in a while. But she's never been considered for adoption in her lifetime, and she's running out of time. Not to mention the hierarchal royal family has it out for her and the other teenage orphans, and will stop at nothing to make her in particular miserable. Can Lily maintain hope for happiness any longer, or will old grudges and exaggerated incidents come back to beat her down?
Intended word goal: 50000
My biggest goals for this revision were to flesh out all my characters, give my antagonists proper motivations to make my protagonists miserable, and add another chapter for each protagonist's point of view. In case you can't tell by the way the synopsis is written, this is one of those books where the POV changes between main characters.
Did I accomplish that? Well...you'll see.
(It's been long enough that I don't remember each day clearly, so I don't have many witty comments to add this time.)
Day 1
Word goal: 1667
Words written: 1208
Day 2
Word goal: 3334
Words written: 5989
Day 3
Word goal: 5001
Words written: 7629
Day 4
Word goal: 6668
Words written: 7907
Day 5
Word goal: 8335
Words written: 8373
Day 6
Word goal: 10002
Words written: 8500
Oops.
Day 7
Word goal: 11669
Words written: 9189
I had a very important skill evaluation test for my medical certification today, so if there's any day to fall behind it's this one. (I passed and did awesome, by the way.)
Day 8
Word goal: 13336
Words written: 10247
Day 9
Word goal: 15003
Words written: 10446
Day 10
Word goal: 16670
Words written: 15234
Day 11
Word goal: 18337
Words written: 17002
Day 12
Word goal: 20004
Words written: 18292
Day 13
Word goal: 21671
Words written: 20020
Day 14
Word goal: 23338
Words written: 20737
Day 15
Word goal: 25005
Words written: 21473
Day 16
Word goal: 26672
Words written: 22015
Day 17
Word goal: 28339
Words written: 22018
Whee.
Day 18
Word goal: 30006
Words written: 23065
Day 19
Word goal: 31673
Words written: 23315
Day 20
Word goal: 33340
Words written: 23700
Day 21
Word goal: 35007
Words written: 23921
Day 22
Word goal: 36674
Words written: 23921
For the first time this month, no words written.
Day 23
Word goal: 38341
Words written: 24247
Day 24
Word goal: 40008
Words written: 24665
Day 25
Word goal: 41675
Words written: 24731
Day 26
Word goal: 43342
Words written: 24731
Day 27
Word goal: 45009
Words written: 25447
By now, my only goal was to make it past the halfway point...
Day 28
Word goal: 46676
Words written: 25447
...So I checked out. Happy Thanksgiving!
Day 29
Word goal: 48343
Words written: 25447
Happy Black Friday!
Day 30
Word goal: 50000
Words written: 25447
Happy Small Business Saturday!
Did I meet the NaNo-wide 50000 word goal? No. Did I beat my personal best of 40041 words? No. Did I add those extra chapters? Not completely. Did I flesh out my characters and make my antagonists properly motivated? A bit. Could I have done all of this if I had applied myself more? Probably.
What's my excuse?
We got on the plane December 1st.
Deal with it.
~EKL <><
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