I just finished. 50,130 words. Hurray! It is Saturday night, which means I have a whole day to spare. I am not green with envy at those who somehow completed this *weeks* ago. Not me. Nope. Well, perhaps a little.
Tonight, Pierre said to me “Well, you now have an entire month for editing. By the first of January, I expect you to have a completed manuscript, ready to send to publishers.” He means agents, he just doesn’t know it.
Happy, happy, joy, joy. I finished. Well, sort of finished. I reached my goal of writing 50,000 words during November. I’m very happy.
Now comes the editing. I need to make sure that dates and such are consistent, and I know they are not at the moment. I need to write a few more scenes that show the growing political unrest as the empire falls apart. I have a number of scenes which I stopped short because I had no idea what to say. They must be fleshed out. I need to go through and eliminate the use of Sumerian in speech because, apparently, it stopped being a spoken language at least three hundred years before the story. Ooops! And somehow I need to stick in a scene where the men realize that Jacob is circumcised. I think I’ll get Pierre’s help for that.
But I did it! 
November 30, 2008 at 9:13 pm
YIPPEE!!! Marie is an AWESOME, self-disciplined writer…with a story that sounds utterly intriguing…I want to read it already!! Congratulations to you. What a job, and with so much going on in your life…you put me to shame
! In a good way. Good job sweet Marie.
Warmly,
Tracey
xox
December 2, 2008 at 8:00 pm
Many congrats on your November victory!
December 5, 2008 at 1:03 am
Wow, congratulations! I tried this a couple years ago and managed to get around 35,000 before thanksgiving derailed me. Kudos to you!
December 5, 2008 at 1:45 am
Hey, we now seem to have a “Reply” function! Hurray. You can’t imagine how happy that makes me.
I’m not sure what to call you, but don’t worry about it. There is always 2009. I guess I’m lucky to be in Canada – our Thanksgiving is at the beginning of October.