It’s the first Wednesday of the month and time for another chance to confess – well, to tell the truth in the monthly Insecure Writers Support Group post. Time to answer the optional question for this month:
November 1 question – Win or not, do you usually finish your NaNo project? Have any of them gone on to be published?
I’ve done NaNo five times – the first time in 2011 = lots of first drafts. I’ve managed 50k three times and one of those ‘wins’ is my current rewrite – draft 4 of Fates Maelstrom. I am taking part again to draft the third book in the same series; same detective and setting so this new story adds to my initial character. Not quite background, but knowing where she is going helps establish a few more aspects about detective Sparkle Anwyl.
She is a Detective Constable in Book 1 – Fates Maelstrom – but promoted to Detective Sergeant by Books 2 and 3. There may be a twist in that at the end of Book 3 due to her girlfriend – yes, she discovers that she is bi-sexual in Book 1.
Does a non-sexual relationship with a boyfriend prior to Book 1 make her bi? Book 2 was drafted, in part, in 2015 but will need some work, especially as the questions about her sexuality and identity hadn’t emerged yet.
Anyway, publication. As yet, none of my ‘wins’ has reached even the editor stage, although Fates Maelstrom is heading that way. By next year, the answer might be yes.
What about you? Do you do NaNoWriMo and get published? Are you taking part this year?
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Writing Wings 
Sounds like you’re having lots of fun with getting to know this character 🙂
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Absolutely, miladyronel, creating such characters is fun.
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I’m taking part this year to draft the second in my series. Somehow, I’m going to have to juggle doing this draft along with editing the first in the series. Should be interesting 🙂
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Juggling is always interesting, Ellen – and that includes NanO and keeping on top of everything else.
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My NaNo projects are unpolished and stored in a drawer. Nice to know some make it into the daylight. 🙂
Anna from elements of emaginette
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Yet to get mine beyond the daylight, Anna.
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I’d say you do well with NaNo. Good luck with book three.
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Thanks, Alex, Book 3 is slowly moving on.
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Thanks for all the comments. Will reply when I’m not in a Nano-panic.
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Good luck with NaNo this year. If you’re looking for another writing buddy, you can find me as KassyMarin over there. Thanks for the post, and also for having the courage to explore a nonbinary character. 🙂
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Added you as Buddy – I’m Silverwords. Interesting challenge writing a nonbinary character. Realise that the seed was there reading scenes that I wrote that are now Book 2.
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Good luck with NaNo. Your mystery character sounds good.
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Thanks, Diane. My character is making sure that she is unforgettable – at least to the writer.
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Good job getting stuff done. I’d say you’ve done a better job at NaNo than I have.
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Plenty of time for you to catch up and me to stumble but we have to be positive.
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Hi Roland! Only today I manage to visit some friends and fellow Wrimos. It has been a messy October and beginning of November.
How’s your NaNo going?
Mine’s not too bad and I even have hopes that I can finish it and make something good out of it 🙂
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Sorry to hear that things have been messy – hope everything improves, Sarah. I’ve just passed the 20k mark in NaNo by doing at least 2k each day so that I can afford some bad days. Hope that we both finish with something good.
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My first NaNoWriMo is developing slowly. But progress comes each day.
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Good luck, Thaddeus. The first is a challenge but worth it and rewarding whatever you get done.
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Hope your NaNo challenge went well for you this year. As in the past few years, I decided to sit this one out. Not sure that I’d do it again. Two “wins” proved to myself that I could do it, but not having published anything yet hasn’t proved much of anything to me other than I need a big boost of more ambition and drive.
Lee
Tossing It Out
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Thanks, Arlee. I added another win this year, although being Book 3 in a series means getting Book 1 published first. As for your words, they are always worth sharing with the world – provocative so worth publishing.
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