I just validated my final word count of 150,714. Little higher than I was expecting.
Next year I'm going to try to finish it. Sadly, the novel I restarted to get the word count I did I'd have to get the permission of Paramount and Mattel to publish it (don't ask... just don't :P)
I didn't, but I know at least one Wrimo in the region I'm a ML for who literally started less than an hour ago :)
I'd be happy if I could just get two a year at this point.
For various reasons that related to my wife's health I don't really get days I can call my own. Which sadly leads to me getting to the point on some days where even interacting with other people online is enough to wear me down.
It's really sad because I do like interacting with people online but it literally gets to the point at times where I just have to say "nope" turn off the internet connection and just curl up with a good book.
I really wish I could take more of them in general. Tomorrow (well, technically today at this point) will be the first one I've had in almost a year.
And I totally forgot I had set it up so my RSS feed from my site would be auto-posted here LOL!
Sorry, literally just saw the notification about your reply. This year's and last year's novels are actually different from my norm. I was working with a girl who should have been a wrimo in the region I'm one of the MLs for last year but personal issues got in the way of getting to participate.
The first book is fictionalized biography from birth to roughly 2000. This years book will sadly be covering the rest of 2000 through her death last month. I actually wasn't going to write it but her dad has asked me to. A good chunk of my research folder is interviews with her dad and some of her friends and a bunch of pictures shrunk down so my iPad won't cry about the amount of storage being used.
Traditionally I do fantasy/science fiction type stories with all sorts of randomness. I actually have received funny looks for some of my purchases. There's nothing like seeing the look on someone's face when you invest hundreds of dollars in GURPs and DnD books and tell them with a straight face they're reference materials for a novel and not to run a game :P
I've posted this elsewhere (anonymously by accident though :P) but I tend to start my prep way early. I usually try to start in April. Admittedly I got to cheat a little this year since it's the second book in a set so less research and prep needed. The "stripped to essentials for book 2" research folder in my Scrivener project is just under 120MB. And I wish I could say less than 5MB of that is text only but I'd be lying (text is about 17MB of that actually.)


