<sigh>
Sadly, the novel-in-blog experiment has come to an end as I’ve been gripped by writer paranoia again (I knew I should have gone with my gut instincts and never even put the thing online) with relationship to something called “first publication rights.”
Now, I don’t believe that putting any or all of a rough draft, NaNoWriMo novel into Movable Type and publishing it as 30 separate blog entries would preclude getting a dead-tree publisher to buy it but, as they say, better safe than sorry (copyright and future sales being one of the instances in which I believe that it is better to ask permission than forgiveness).
That being said, I’ve password protected the book so if you want to read it give me a shout: woodstockdc AT yahoo.com and if you ask nicely, I’ll give you a username and password.
Total word count to date: 27,757
Pounds gained: 0
Emotional crises weathered: 3
Real people I’ve borrowed for characters: 1 (hope you don’t mind, Carrie, I borrowed your librarian)
Congratulations on making it past the halfway point! Admittedly, I peeked at a couple of passages earlier in the week, hoping your characters might inspire my characters to stop having long, philosophical conversations and do something. 🙂
Are you going to any of the nano-write-ins?