Week 2!

Greetings and salutations my fellow novelists!

Welcome to the all powerful week 2! (Hahaha get it? Peace. Two fingers. Week 2?)

If you're beyond your daily recommended word count, behind it or right on track this week is still the pivotal moment for you and your novel. This is the week where the IE (Inner Editor, read more about him on my last post) likes to jump out of the little box you locked him in and say hello! And other things.... Here are some facts about Week 2 you should be aware of:

1)This is the IE's strongest week. (I've already warned you about it)

2)Most Writer/Novel divorces happen this week.

3)This is when your word counts tend to suffer greatly.

4)Writer's Block (Need I say more?)

Now dont be all depressed about all of these woeful statistics. There are several tools at you disposal for this week!

1)Dont get it right, just Write.

Even though most people make the mistake of divorcing their novels this week and starting anew, dont. You will never get those last 13k words you did last week back. Keep writing! Even if you just know for a fact that this monster you are giving birth too will one day grow up and attack Tokyo, just keep at it! These are just lies the IE is telling you. It is a grantee that your novel is 75% better than what you think it is. Trust me. Keep writing.

2)Beautification.

If you find yourself without your lovely muse to guide you through your daily wordcount, you can beautify your book a little bit. Basically what you do is read back through what you've already written and add adjectives, more sentences to explain things, fix grammar issues and things like that. This should give you at least 500 words if you do it right! Remember, 500 words are better than 0 words!

3)Wordpadding

Yes, yes, yes I know this is a low, underhanded, dirty trick. But it works! There are many things you can do to your novel that can help add words.

a)You introduce a character that stutters.

The sentence: "I think I will go for a walk."

Changes to:

"I I I Think k k I I wi wi will g g go for or a a wa wa walk."

You change 8 words into 21+ words, depending on how bad the stutter is.

b)Temporary deafness.

 "I think I will go for a walk".

"OK!"

 Changes to:

"I think I will go for a walk."

"Do what now?"

"I'm going for a walk!"

"Your going to eat a dock? How does that work?"

"A WALK!"

"You are eating a walk? As in the stick?"

"NO! I'm going on one!"

"Ah! Your going for a walk!"

"Yes!"

"Well why didn't you say so in the first place?"

"I did! Stupid!"

"What about a narwhals?"

See? More words!

3)Dreams and Hallucinations:

Theses can go on forever and ever in you book without messing up your plot. Use them!

4)Have your MC write a letter, book, speech, ect.

Write what they write! Volah! A book inside a book!

So, there you are. Here are your tools to help combat the battle of the wordcounts in Week 2! Happy Noveling everyone and I will see you at the 20K mark!

-Didy