NaNoWriMo Update #2

And so arrives the halfway point of NaNoWriMo! 

This past week, the bulk of my time was spent on the final draft of Land of the Elements. I got a whopping 42% done this week, bringing the total to 47%. Halfway there (basically)! The editing itself has been fairly smooth sailing. I am happy with the prose—the book itself is easy to read, and the pacing is great. I have not had to add much to fix the character problems I talked about last week. I have found that removing certain lines of dialogue and simplifying scenes has helped just as much—if not more so—in places. I have one major plot fix to bring to the back half of the book, but even with that I suspect Land of the Elements will come in around 95,000 total words.

Even with the progress made on Land of the Elements this week, One Time still got some love. The third short story is written, and the word count now stands at 16,524. I’m hoping to break 30,000 before the end of the month, and so far that pace is holding! I have about a dozen total story ideas for this book, and I hope to get through about half of that by the time NaNoWriMo comes to a close. 

My goal for this next week is to hit the end of act two in Land of the Elements and draft another story for One Time. The way things are going, I suspect I’ll be further along than that, but with Pokemon Scarlet/Violet releasing on Friday, who knows! 

Until next week! 

JB6