Slog - Comments on Wait, Wasn't I Writing a Novel? http://slog.thestranger.com/2006/12/wait_wasnt_i_writing Yes, yes, in fact I was. And I did, in fact, write the whole goddamned thing, from beginning to end. I passed the fifty thousand word mark on Thanksgiving and I wound up just shy of 65,000 words on the thirtieth, making my novel almost 15,000 words longer than The Great Gatsby (confidential to F. Scott Fitzgerald: take that!) I've spent the four days since, well, drinking. And now I feel practically normal again. As I said in previous posts, this is my third completed novel. What have I learned? A full accounting after the jump.... Copyright 2008 Mon, 04 Dec 2006 18:45:10 -0800 Tue, 05 Dec 2006 19:06:42 -0800 http://www.movabletype.org/?v=3.34 http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss Comment by mattymatt Wait, there's a jump? Why wasn't I, an RSS reader, informed? How many other RSS-truncated articles have I missed out on due to this lapse in the syndication's indications?

Oh, and congratulations on your novel. Glad to see it hasn't turned you off to writing lengthy blog posts.

]]> mattymatt http://slog.thestranger.com/2006/12/wait_wasnt_i_writing#c539225 http://slog.thestranger.com/2006/12/wait_wasnt_i_writing#c539225 Conflict of Interest Mon, 04 Dec 2006 19:16:18 -0800 Comment by Savannah Blaze Lee Kudos on your third novel and win; this is my second year, AND I insanely decided to be ML for the western Peninsula (boonies), as well. Not doing that again; it's tough enough to get the count. I thoroughly enjoyed your summation of the process. If your books are filled with that wry humor, they can't be all that bad. And, yes, what's amazing is that, even when we Nanos hate our stuff, when someone asks if we'll do it again next year, the answer is always, "Hell, yes!" That probably IS grounds for therapy, now that I look at it.

]]> Savannah Blaze Lee http://slog.thestranger.com/2006/12/wait_wasnt_i_writing#c540861 http://slog.thestranger.com/2006/12/wait_wasnt_i_writing#c540861 Conflict of Interest Tue, 05 Dec 2006 07:04:05 -0800 Comment by Megan Congratulations! You're right, genre fiction is loads more fun as a Nano project. I wrote a purposely horrible romance novel this year, and whenever I needed a few hundred extra words, I just threw in another sex scene. Throbbing shafts of manhood go a long way....

]]> Megan http://slog.thestranger.com/2006/12/wait_wasnt_i_writing#c544403 http://slog.thestranger.com/2006/12/wait_wasnt_i_writing#c544403 Conflict of Interest Tue, 05 Dec 2006 19:06:42 -0800