What did you do with last years work?

Mine's still waiting to be finished. I've been playing with the same characters for a while now. My current fantasy WIP is the first story in the chronology, my (currently but not forever) trunk novel is the second, last year's NaNoWriMo novel is third, and the one I'm planning for this year will be fourth. At this point I can use all the practice I can get writing. I figure I'm working on my million words.

I finished mine. It took 70 days start to finish. 99K. I left it for a while (so I could get some distance and work on other pieces). I recently started revising/cutting/rewriting the 2nd draft. It's a slow revise, but then this is the first novel I've completed as a serious writer.

I crashed out last year, because I had to move house half way through the month. I only wrote around 25k during November itself. And for seven months afterwards, when I was job hunting, I was paralysed. Occasionally wrote a sentence but no more.

In July I woke up. I started off slowly, but eventually got back into the game. I'm on 90k of my fantasy now, and hope to finish by the weekend. I've crawled from 500 words a day to around 1000-2000. Not amazing, but welcome for me as I took so long off with my head in the sand.

I plan to revise it, then start submitting to agents

It's still hanging around on the blog. Waiting for me to finish -

mistri said:

In July I woke up. I started off slowly, but eventually got back into the game. I'm on 90k of my fantasy now, and hope to finish by the weekend. I've crawled from 500 words a day to around 1000-2000. Not amazing, but welcome for me as I took so long off with my head in the sand.

I plan to revise it, then start submitting to agents

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Wohoo! So close to finished!

Hey, Mark, that's great. Good luck with it.

Mine, I never got through it. Still working on the darn thing.

I wrote a science fiction romance novel and present day technology caught up too quickly with my future technology, which kinda put me off adding anything to it.

I didn't get very far last year, but I picked up the manuscript at the end of August and have been working steadily on it since. The story was too interesting to let it linger in limbo forever.

I let mine sit for a year. This past month I have been revising a few chapters a day. I have polished the first three chapters, so I may even send those out to a few places while I'm finishing up the rest.

They are still collecting rejection letters for me. Hopefully no recipient agent or publisher will derail my attempt to collect a record number in 2007.

I have never reached the goal (so far). Right now, all my half-finished work are in the dark corners of my desk drawers communing with the dust bunnies.

NaNo 2005? What NaNo 2005?

*kicks stack of paper that looks mysteriously like a novel manuscript under couch*

I have no idea what you're talking about.

Yeah, it's that bad. The melodrama would make Jackie Collins cringe in horror.

Don't worry about it, BenPanced. All practice is worthwhile, isn't it?

Welcome to AW!

Mine is not finished yet. I'll get back to it a) when I'm done with my current project and b) when the mood hits me.

Still .

Believe it or not...

Both of my NaNo projects are on hold while I work on my current fantasy WIP, but they're still in my thoughts. My current plan for NaNo 2007 is to take one of them and finish it. I need to practice endings, not more beginnings, and given the way I write, I shouldn't have much trouble adding 50,000 more words to either project.

Just yesterday I decided to concentrate on finishing (completely through final polish) my NaNo novel by this year's NaNo and put my other big project on the back burner.

So, I'm rewriting about 1/2 of it right now.

I am on Absolute Write because of Nano, which I was invited to by Lady Cat last year. Then I finished! Yes, I did, even starting late. I know it was after my birthday which is the 3rd. Mind you, it is still being edited, which hopefully some AW member *ahem -you know who you are!* will finish it soon... I am now writing the prequel, and hope to write either the sequel in November or another prequelly sort of side show thing that I am thinking about.. or go totally on a tangent and write a children's adventure. I really loved The Railway Children and the Treasure Seekers etc. I still have children's adventures, and They tell me I'm almost 45! Just today I visited my friend and when we walked out to her meadow, I flew around it for a while in my pidgeon personna... ^_^ yes, I tiptoed around with my 'wings' out... shut up, it was fun. The grass was springy, the air was fresh.. ahhhhh! *swoops off...

I joined AW because of Nano as well. I had my 2007 novel published by Lulu as a one-off. I'm not sure what I will do with it - it would be fun to edit and try to publish, but I have a W-I-P I ought to concentrate on - and of course November is getting closer!

My last year's NaNo is sitting in a digital corner. It's finished. But it was written for a NaNo audience. It is a love story in NaNo time. Hero meets girl. Hero Loses girl. Hero must find girl in 50,000 words or 30 days, or she's gone forever. Along the way he encounters every little word padding device my writer's group dared me to throw into it. (naked zombies, an elderly lady who speaks in rhyme...)

Williebee said:

My last year's NaNo is sitting in a digital corner. It's finished. But it was written for a NaNo audience. It is a love story in NaNo time. Hero meets girl. Hero Loses girl. Hero must find girl in 50,000 words or 30 days, or she's gone forever. Along the way he encounters every little word padding device my writer's group dared me to throw into it. (naked zombies, an elderly lady who speaks in rhyme...)

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Gasp! You STEALED my plotline! just kidding! I didn't have any zombies to speak of.