To be fair, we've all had Friday nights like that. 🙃

12k. 🙌

11k words and I'm still slowly rolling along. 👍

#novicenovelling

Spaghetti stylee (think writing, plotting and line editing with half the plot still decided or written - that's 🧩 'clever' chaos for ya 😉) ...

10k of clean draft reached.

Onwards.

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No pugs yet, so you know I'm still battling away. 🙃🐾

#cleandraft
#fictionwriting

So. On what I'm calling my 'clean draft', I've reached an edited 9k.

Into Chapter 3 I go.

#novicenovelling

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Keep going! I'm writing too. 🙌

Writing and editing in my spaghetti 🧩 way. Approaching 5k.

#novicefiction
#novel
#noAIinmywork
#storyboardhelponly
#myvoicemywork

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Two scenes (900 words) written + edited this week. 👍

#novicefictionwriter
#onaroll
#novel

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440-word scene (vertical expansion) added + edited this week.

#spaghettistory
#onaroll
#novicefictionwriter

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It reminds me of Gladys Knight. Yet, however pretentious, I'll take it. 🙃

I got 'bougie', so I'm now entitled to mooch about all year, acting the entitled, prosperous dandy. At least I'll get to wear my green wellies more often. 😎

Story update: 2,200 words. Time to speed up in Jan. Every day, I plan to read + write 'something' every day, however small.

Come on!

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Parent for the win, show no mercy! 💪

Update: Those who follow will remember I've used AI to structure my plot.

It's been useful but become counter-productive (imo), so I've pivoted to this draft rinsing out anything that isn't my idea/voice. Lesson learnt, I guess.

So, this revised draft is inching its way to 1k of the 13k written.

We've had a stern chat and it's now a novella WIP.

#comeon
#fictionwriting
#alone
#getonwithit

#firsttargetofthisdraft
#extendingCh1
#to3kwords

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My story that wants to be a novel when it grows up: my 13k words are all tidy tidy and line-edited.

Now for more thinking on the way forward.

#fictionwriting
#prosealone
#newbie
#poweringon

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www.instagram.com/stories/pame...

Throwback to first non-parent, with girlfriend, holiday. Italia 1986, crazy clothes, EastEnders extra filming and carbonara for breakfast, while Tracy took over the 🇮🇹 airwaves with her Italo-Disco banger. ☀️

Lovely Indian summer day in North Yorkshire. 🏵️

#alittlewalk
#2.75miles
#villagelife
#england
#writinglater
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www.instagram.com/reel/DIkIU_T...

The lyrical genius. 💪

#eminem
#rap
#slantrhyme
#accentualverse
#musicality

I'm hoping he's back home, safe and warm with a full belly. 🐾

Good must always overcome evil.

www.instagram.com/reel/DOLaFEM...

I think I've reached Chapter 20 on the editing. Interspersed with ripping the plot about, swearing and generally tarting it up.

What a lark! 😆

#noobfiction
#prosealone
#writinglikeatwat
#spaghetti
#poweringon

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Good luck with this! 🙌

Well done! 🙌

I'm English and read this with my breakfast tea. 🫖

Resting from tangling with fiction, keeping my poetic hand in with a quick Shakespearean sonnet.

Resting from tangling with fiction, keeping my poetic hand in with a quick Shakespearean sonnet.

Chapters 12-16: tweaked and edited. Rolling on.

#noobfiction
#novellaattempt
#prosealone

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