National Novel Writing Month 2023 – week three

I was so busy writing last week that I didn’t post an update.
After three weeks of writing, I have hit 40,000 words. That includes a couple of days when I’ve not been able to write at all so I’ll take it.

At the moment, it’s looking like the story will naturally conclude at around 60k. Not sure if I’ll complete that within the 30 days but I will have at least hit the 50k target by 30th November.

This story has become something else. The fifteen(ish) chapters that I did plan out, by writing two or three words as guidance for each, has given way to something else. It turns out that the story got bigger, and didn’t want to follow the guidelines that were initially put in place. It’s all coming together though and has a sense of the other two books in this series as well as being the story of another of the Fire siblings in its own right.

I implore anyone who is still fighting the good fight when it comes to NaNoWriMo to be kind to themselves, take breaks, treat yourselves and know that this is a long road but that the end is in sight.

Write on!