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20231116 NaNo XVIII

November 16, 2023, 8:30pm

So… Some story events. Not all of them brilliant… hence the horribly low word count (overall).

Doing a quick spell-check of Raven, I discovered an entire sub-plot that meant nothing and which I’d not even closed off. As such, I went through and deleted everything to do with that plot-line, which was merely another boy being interested in the MC’s girlfriend. It was a complication that added nothing – she was already the demon-thing’s ex – and the fact I forgot about it showed how vital it was.

Therefore, I deleted a heap of words… and so Raven has gone from 89764 to 86278 words. 3 and a half thousand words wiped out.

Wow!

So, anyway, I started what is currently called “song muse story” because there is no title, and wrote a quick-fire 4390 words of that, introducing Titania, who is the PoV character, in her early 40s, and some of the facts about her past, especially a relationship with Frank, who has become a songwriter. He’s sent her a song which is about her and their break-up.

I think I can see where this is going. I think.

But these are characters in their 40s; I have a feeling they are going to be less co-operative with me than the teenagers in Raven. Even more than the last story, this one is character-driven, being a romance. I mean, the end of the story is obvious from the word go, but it’s how they get me there that is going to be interesting.

It is probably going to be a 20k-25k word novella, though; the concept is too slight for a full-on novel.

Total words: 90672
song muse story words: 4390
Raven word count: 86278
Daily words (cumulative): 908