I'm gunna cheat.

[skyring]

Word count verification doesn't end until a minute before midnight, Howland Island time. I think that's somewhere west of Hawaii. And I'm going to use as much of that time as I can, which is probably an additional twenty hours or so. I figure I'm entitled, cos I was so tired at the moment of 00:01 1 November that I went to bed and didn't write anything until that night, and it was only a hundred words or so.

Besides, I've cheated already by writing the first chapter months ago. I'm not including that in the word count. Despite the temptation.

Anyway, we'll see.

Comments

[whytraven.livejournal.com]

As I understand it, anything goes. Spell out the words of your chapters. Put the notes you have been writing to yourself into the story [in square brackets]. You are not writing a novel, you are writing the first draft of a novel.

Purple is fine. I wrote a steamy sex scene for my second novel as a standalone scene which I will plug in later. The first one I could hardly bring myself to refer to it. I think that somewhere in the middle is great; no, you don't need to spell it out. Mind you, that "hot blooded husbands" book...

[whytraven.livejournal.com]

If they let you do it, you're not cheating.

[bookczuk.livejournal.com]

Go Pete, Go!

And don't think of it as cheating. Think of it as assisting yourself!

[alrescate.livejournal.com]

There's an old baseball saying..."If you aren't cheating, you aren't trying." So go for it Pete! I know you can finish this in time! (Just stay off the steroids.)

[whytraven.livejournal.com]

Oh, use chapter 1 in the word count if you have to. It belongs there, and you wrote so little in the first days that it makes it worth using.

[alives.livejournal.com]

I know I've mentioned this before but I love Nat King Cole.
Would you turn up the volume so I can hear? (lol)

Vickie