I mentioned in my last blog post that I am doing what I'm calling a "Camp Sandwich," still writing every day and tracking my progress even though I'm between the April and July sessions of Camp NaNoWriMo. That gives me two months of writing between the two sessions, basically.
I didn't reach my goal of 50,000 words in April, but I probably should have set that a little bit lower. I did, however, write nearly every day, and got a substantial ways into my new novel.
Below is my daily word count in April. As you can see, it's a little all over the map, but there were only a few days where I didn't write at all. I'm pleased with that.
I'm pretty proud of my progress so far, and looking forward to working more on this novel. If I can keep up writing daily during the Camp Sandwich, I think I can finish the first draft of the novel before July's session even starts. That would free me up to work on Ruby Ransome in July, and then after July is over I can go back and revise the first draft of Amnesia.
So far the post-Camp writing is going well. I've written every day since Camp ended, and actually have made major progress on the novel, even writing several thousand words on one of those days when I really hit my stride. The following screenshot is from yesterday, but you can see that it's going well:
Because I'm continuing a project, I raised my word count goal to the length I'm targeting for the overall novel, and brought my Camp NaNoWriMo word count over once April was over. That's why the graph looks weird. But I thought it was the best way to track my word count, by continuing with what I already have. (I really wish the NaNoWriMo site offered a way to enter the starting word count though, as it would make it much easier to track ongoing projects.)
In any case, I'm pretty pleased with my progress so far, and hoping to keep it up throughout the next couple months or until the novel is finished!
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