Comments on: NaNoWriMo – the finish https://grahamclements.com/nanowrimo-the-finish/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=nanowrimo-the-finish Writer, blogger, and dreamer. Sun, 04 Dec 2011 01:37:01 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.6.5 By: Graham Clements https://grahamclements.com/nanowrimo-the-finish/#comment-1731 Sun, 04 Dec 2011 01:37:01 +0000 https://grahamclements.com/nanowrimo-the-finish/#comment-1731 Satima, I have not used outline view, I will have a look at it. What's different about this novel is I am doing a James Patterson and having lots of short 1800-2300 word chapters, so in the 50,000 words so far, I have nearly finished chapter 24. For other novels my chapters tended to be well over 5000 words.

Anthony, I think it will be a lot more pleasant to edit due to those small chapters. When I start the second draft I will be able to set myself the goal of doing a chapter a day.

]]> By: Anthony J. Langford https://grahamclements.com/nanowrimo-the-finish/#comment-1732 Sat, 03 Dec 2011 05:09:49 +0000 https://grahamclements.com/nanowrimo-the-finish/#comment-1732 Congrats Graham. If anything, it does force you to push on. It's the only way to get that first draft out.

Now for the real work.

]]> By: Satima Flavell https://grahamclements.com/nanowrimo-the-finish/#comment-1733 Sat, 03 Dec 2011 04:43:18 +0000 https://grahamclements.com/nanowrimo-the-finish/#comment-1733 Graham, congrats on finishing so well! What an achievement!

Do you know how to use Outline view in Word? It makes it easy to keep track of your chapters and scenes without having to use writing software or having to save each chapter as a separate file. You'll need to learn to use Styles properly for it to work, but once you have the hang of it you will finish up with a ms that's easy to work on – you can shift scenes around, for example. And you won't overwrite a chapter by mistake!

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