Hello all! So, as you know from my post yesterday, April Dreams has been around for 6 years. Here are my end of 2016 stats-
67 (68 posts)
3,740 views (can I make it to 3,750 by the end of the year? :))
893 visitors
164 followers (OMG guys, this blew my goal of 150 out of the water)
675 comments (Wow, thank you all so much!)
As you can see, I’m over the moon with these stats. Now, enough with that boring stuff. Let’s get to the year in review.
Hello, guys!
So, I recently joined a group on YWP NaNo called The Super Awesome Writing Club. Its been giving me lots of motivation to write/edit. So I sat down at my computer, opened the NaNo writing program, and stared at my 30K words…
of pure crap.
That’s right, you read that correctly. This is how I turned 30K words into a still shrinking 9K.
I wrote two stories during NaNo. I decided to focus on one called (title in progress) Behind Locker Doors: Middle School Exposed.
…Basically. Why not put my crazy friends to use?
So that already put me down to about 18K.
I was all: “Hey, not too shabby for half of my NaNo WC!”
Happy go lucky-ily, I replaced all my NaNo rambling chapters with the edited chapters, for a grand total of…
6 freakin K.
So I added back in the unedited, in progress chapters… 9K. Just 9K! I was astonished and surprised. What happened to my words of pure gold? I lost half of my word count. Which brings us to the post…
Continue reading “Re-Evaluating The Purpose of NaNo (& GIFS)”
Hey everyone!
Just wanted to let y’all know some very exciting news.
NaNoWriMo started today!
Check Out this cool participant badge thingy I got!
April Dreams 