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My NaNoWriMo Journey-Day 28- Hyped Up

In continuing my review of 'Untitled,' the editor in me is always at the fore front, and I'm at the ready to start editing. But, as I coach my clients, "Get the draft done then edit." So I'm practicing what I teach and pressing on.

However, my scenes flow smoothly through sensory language that creates a narrative/dramatic arc, though there are areas that I can see requires enhancing with the use of more active verbs to give weight to the writing. I can also see that I need to jazz up the pace to create rhythm and pace in other parts, as well as edit extraneous words, which comes from brain dumping.

Took a break from my research and commenced a scene introducing Lavina's mother, Louise. I'm looking forward to seeing how this will pan out.

I'm hyped up as I get to the finish line of My NaNoWriMo Journey.

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My NaNoWriMo Journey-Day 27-Partial Book Review

Hit the 65K mark today and need to weave Lavina's mum and dad more into the story; still researching her dad.

As such, I decided to review what I've written to date. I won't be doing any line editing at this stage, but my aim is to identify if my ideas are coming over as intended. I'm also checking to see if the backstory of the characters are believable enough to engage the reader? Is the dialogue and overall language consistent and clear? Are events and instances in line with the year I'm writing about (2004).

In addition, Lavina is doing a lot of travelling, so I have to make sure locations are not too descriptive, yet descriptive enough for the reader to get a feel for the places. And the food, there's lots of mouth-watering food.

It really helps having an outline as I can easily go through each scene to locate any holes.

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