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NaNo Results

On December 2, 2023 By Jayde HolmesIn UncategorizedLeave a comment

Okay, just done my first NaNo, and feels good to go get a lot of writing down, even if I did fall a little short of the 50,000 word target. Well... maybe a lot short. Definity short. I wrote 17,419 words of my novella Amanidas, increasing the total wordcount to 29,866. And you know what? …

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Kinda Doing NaNoWrMo

On November 7, 2023 By Jayde HolmesIn Uncategorized1 Comment

So, I'm kinda doing NaNoWrMo this year. By that, I mean I'm hanging out on the official forums and aiming to write 50,000 words, but I am not starting a new novel. I'm continuing with my current project, a story about a little girl called Astra who lives on a deserted space colony called Amanidas …

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