wordage and NaNoWriMo

991 words on Wednesday and 1700 yesterday, taking it to 45,016 total at the end of last night. It was 13,559 at the start of November, so 31,457 during the month. I wasn't officially participating in NaNoWriMo, because a) I'm not physically capable of doing 50 kwords in a month without risking damaging my hands, b) I had a contracted book to write, so I did actually have to do all the stuff you're actively encouraged to drop in NaNoWriMo in pursuit of learning that you really can find a novel's worth of words and get them on paper. I already know I can put together 50 kwords in coherent fashion. :-) Averaging 1000 words a day of decent first draft over that period is a fairly good target for me, so I am pleased even if I didn't do the 50 kwords.

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cced from my Official Author Newsletter, just in case anyone here is interested in a cover art print:

The new book won't be out for a while yet, but I do have some cover art prints. Since I had to reformat my laptop's hard drive last week and have spent the last week putting things back together, I'm not in the mood to dream up anything fancy by way of a contest. :-) If you want a chance at one of the postcard-sized prints, email me at jules.jones@gmail.com with "Contest: Dolphin Dreams" in the subject. I'll draw a name on Saturday morning California time. You can see the pretty picture at
http://www.julesjones.com/fiction/details/dolphindreams.html