First Draft November, Days 13–16

Progress: 6,032 words. Total word count: 29,356.

First Draft November, Days 11 & 12

Day 13

Today’s word count: 1,502. Total word count: 24,890.

No more lessons from The Novel Writing Workshop. I’m going through other workshops by The Forever workshop. But I won’t share here. I’ll share some in Notes, instead.

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I’ll be busy with other stuff these days. So, even if I am inspired and eager to write more, I’ll stick to the daily goal. Today wasn’t one of those days, anyway.

First and last sentence fragments:

—reminded her of home, and how poorly her mother cooked.

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And I’ll come home,—

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Day 14

Today’s word count: 1,485. Total word count: 26,375.

Today’s guiding question is: Who enters your protagonist’s life at this point, and how does this relationship force them to see themselves, or their goal, differently?

I’m loosely following the Save the Cat structure, so this would be my B plot. The character that enter’s my protagonist’s life is actually my character, but younger. At this point, she starts going through her old diary entries.

This forces her to see herself and her goals differently because she realises things weren’t exactly as she remembered, nor as she had recorded them in her diary entries.

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First and last sentence fragments:

—to my family, to my writing, and hopefully to myself.

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This wasn’t—

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Day 15

Today’s word count: 1,481. Total word count: 27,856.

First and last sentence fragments:

—my first neurological exam.

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One can learn—

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Day 16

Today’s word count: 1,500. Total word count: 29,356.

First and last sentence fragments:

—many things from a single utterance.

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She felt defeated, again,—

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