Nanowrimo winner means I wrote 50,000 words over the course of November 07. This was the eighth annual National Novel Writing Month with 90,000 international participants. It was thrilling at first, then grueling, and then it was over. I managed 2,000 words a day until my Thanksgiving visit to Bar Harbor, where I fell to 500 words a day, hitting the final count on 11/26/07. It was more than I'd ever written at once and I'm amazed I did it.
Unfortunately, I haven't finished. At the TGIO (Thank God It's Over) party at Subway in the Fenway, I learned about Nanofimo (National Novel Finishing Month) in December (NOW!) and am trying to gear up for an impossible 30,000 more words. Then there's Nanoedmo, National Novel Editing Month, in March 08. Nothing focuses the mind like a hanging, says Samuel Johnson. Or a deadline, says I.
What is it about? It is a fashion mystery: a fashion designer's boyfriend goes missing, turns out to have enough debt to get mixed up in some luxury counterfeiting of designer shoes (Gucci, Prada) made in China and maybe connected to the yakuza... an excerpt.
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