![\"Camp-Winner-2015-Web-Banner.jpg\"](\"http:\/\/www.dresan.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/Camp-Winner-2015-Web-Banner.jpg\")
<\/p>\n<\/p>\n
Woohoo! I just completed Camp Nanowrimo 2015, writing an extra 50,000 words on my novel SPECTRAL IRON! And, for special bonus points, I basically ran out of novel – I finished the end to end rough draft a few days ago, and to get the final few thousand words I had to actually go back through and start fleshing out and polishing! Double woohoo!<\/p>\n
![\"Camp](\"http:\/\/www.dresan.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/Camp-Nanowrimo-2015-04-29.png\")
<\/p>\n
This makes this not just the eleventh time I’ve finished Nanowrimo, it makes it the first time I’ve finished a novel during the month. This draft will need a heck of a lot of editing, but it is finished end to end and I had to come up with some very inventive stuff to get it there in the month – which, as always, is the beauty of Nanowrimo.<\/p>\n
![\"Camp](\"http:\/\/www.dresan.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/Camp-Nanowrimo-2015-04-29a.png\")
<\/p>\n
As you can see, I spent most of this month in the red, because I started off dealing with nine kinds of crazy. I actually can’t remember all the stuff that happened – I remember editing on LIQUID FIRE and nonsense at work and disasters at home and a truly horrific tax situation – or wait, i do remember it all, I just don’t want to.<\/p>\n
Regardless, I was able to power through in three big chunks, getting close to 3000 words a day most days and 4000 to 5000 words a day when i really cut loose. And some of the things I discovered as I churned forward, cleaning up the plot, took the book from “where is this going” to “I can’t do that, can I?” to “O.M.G. that’s an AMAZING idea!” which I now love.<\/p>\n
Lots to do to clean this up. Can’t really show an excerpt – all of this stuff is too near the end of the book. Spoilers.<\/p>\n
But still \u2026 viiictory.<\/p>\n
Now, on to the edits of \u2026 THE CLOCKWORK TIME MACHINE! After a nap.<\/p>\n
-the Centaur<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Woohoo! I just completed Camp Nanowrimo 2015, writing an extra 50,000 words on my novel SPECTRAL IRON! And, for special bonus points, I basically ran out of novel – I…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[204,197,199,1,202],"tags":[6,127,4,91,66,5],"class_list":["post-2675","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-challenges","category-fiction","category-steampunk","category-uncategorized","category-writing","tag-dakota-frost","tag-dakota-in-the-bay","tag-dragon-writers","tag-nanowrimo","tag-the-clockwork-time-machine","tag-we-call-it-living","ratio-2-1","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dresan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2675","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dresan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dresan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dresan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dresan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2675"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/dresan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2675\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3671,"href":"https:\/\/dresan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2675\/revisions\/3671"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dresan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2675"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dresan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2675"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dresan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2675"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}