NovMo '24: Our Handprints In The Mud

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OUR HANDPRINTS IN THE MUD


🍁 YA Muslim Romance
🍁 Autumn vibes
🍁 Childhood Friends to Lovers
🍁 Grumpy/Sunshine
🍁 Pakistani


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I'm planning to complete NaNo this time without leaving it halfway. I will focus on completing the first draft and not the quality of writing. Most importantly, I will try to have fun with this!


yes the formatting idea has completely been stolen from @Carlito




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*PlanMo Journal for this project:
Planning

*For the daily updates:
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Goals for Tomorrow:
"inspiring quote of the day"

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If you need/want a beta reader whenever you finish a draft, let me know!! I LOVE romance, I love autumn vibes, I love childhood friends to lovers, and I love grumpy/sunshine! And and Pakistani romance?? Here for it all!!
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thanks @Carlito :D i would love to get your feedback on the novel!! i will definitely reach out to you once it's finished!!




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Day: 1
Words Written Today: 638
Total NovMo Word Count: 638
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Maybe she was that way- an unrelenting buzzing in her blood, a longing that wouldn’t stop clinging to her. Little did she know, a school break wasn’t the only thing that was about to come to her.

Goals for Tomorrow: I’m going to be busy this month so I’m changing my daily goal from 1664 to 600 words :( I’ll still try to write more than that on the weekends though.

"The first draft is just you telling yourself the story."
- Terry Pratchett


yes, inspiring quote of the day is back from camp NovMo July 24




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Wooohooo!!! First day of NovMo done, can you believe it?? And oooh foreshadowing! Changing your goal is honestly a great idea, especially if you're busy!! Good luck with the rest of your writing!
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Day: 2
Words Written Today: 83 (yes I’m very embarrassed of this)
Total NovMo Word Count: 837
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in times like these, it was hard to believe that she had been the one to push her way out of her mothers womb. That her baby lungs had once been bursting with the effort, and need to breathe, to live and exist in this world a little longer.
she drowned her tears in the full bucket of hot water, and revelled in the steam. She let herself remember what a life would be like without fear, without stressing over stupid insignificant things

Goals for Tomorrow: I’ll make up for the words I didn’t write today

“Get it down. Take chances. It may be bad, but it's the only way you can do anything really good."
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83 words is nothing to be ashamed of!!
83 is a lot more than 0 ;)
It does not do to dwell on dreams and forget to live.

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Day: 3
Words Written Today: 681
Total NovMo Word Count: 1518
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Because the world was full of predatory men, and equal women.

Goals for Tomorrow: I think my novel is not taking the direction i thought it would. It has darker themes now? The autumn cosy vibes define the whole romance but the main character has to undergo significant transformation before that happens. I don't think it will be realistic if its a "love at first sight" thing. The reader is kind of not aware of the elaborate backstory i have and im not sure how i can express/insert that in the best possible way. It is a childhood friends to lovers but not a linear narrative so im confused right now. I know exactly what direction i want the story to take but im not sure how to lay that out for the reader. I guess I'll think of that tomorrow because its late. And thats the end of my novel rant.

"I would advise any beginning writer to write the first drafts as if no one else will ever read them—without a thought about publication -and only in the last draft to consider how the work will look from the outside.”
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Day: 4
Words Written Today: 329
Total NovMo Word Count: 1847
Snippet: nothing good today lol

Goals for Tomorrow: i think i might try to weite some scenes from the middle of the story instead of going in a chronological order. Also TRY to write better- even though the point of novmo is quantity not quality. Im currently writing at the level of a first grader XD (absolutely no offense meant to the first graders)

“I’m writing a first draft and reminding myself that I’m simply shoveling sand into a box, so that later, I can build castles.”
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wow, you're doing really great so far!
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also, as a former first grader, no offense taken lol, I still feel like I write like one who just now has an access to a thesaurus
The world needs more sparkles




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Hi! Just want to pop in and say that I'm rooting for you! I'm kind of a sucker for sweet romance novels. :) I know these last couple of days have been kind of strange, but I'm still hoping for an awesome comeback!
Ubi caritas est vera, Deus ibi est.

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Will work on this project next year

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so it might look like i have exams all the time. this is because of my school's awesome policy of conducting a series of assessments each month which have weightage for the whole year's grades. and in november my qualification exams are about to start which basically decide if i get into college or not. because im such a good little procrastinator, i need to put everything aside this month and work hard if i want to make it, so i'm leaving off this project for the moment. sorry if anyone was looking forward to this, i promise i will come back to this novel.


Goals for Next Year:
- finish the first draft of this
- start editing it

"We must let go of the life we have planned, so as to accept the one that is waiting for us."
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NovMo will come again! I hope you do well in your exams. ^^
Ubi caritas est vera, Deus ibi est.

"The mark of your ignorance is the depth of your belief in injustice and tragedy. What the caterpillar calls the end of the world, the Master calls the butterfly." ~ Richard Bach

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