Novmo '25: The Lost System

The

Lost

System

Ha! No way I'm going to write a blurb!
actually I might sometime I sort of want to..

Although it is a slightly late thread, I have been working on this since the start of November. The project's currently well on in its third draft, which is more like a second draft as the first draft was practically a different story than the second which was a major rewrite so maybe it's really the second draft of the second… different draft?

Anyway, it has been in the works for several months now, with lulls in consistency due to life changes, but if my estimations are correct I have about 30'000 words left to revise/edit, which is only 1,000 a day through the month!
We'll see how it goes, I am a terribly slow writer but as I'm only revising it's not impossible.

Goal: 30,000 words

Alright, in rapid fire succession.. the last few days

Day 1:
I decided on the last minute to join Novmo and didn't keep great track, but I'm pretty sure I wrote at least 800 words.
Good start we're already behind

Day 2:
1'108 words
Now we're going places

Day 3:
1,138
And I guess I caught up from the first day!

Day 4:
1,038
Very very very last minute and difficult but I got there. Plot issues have unfortunately arisen...

Day 5:
0,000.00 words
But thinking about plot restructuring counts right? right??
(Unfortunately between working two night shifts and sleeping through half the day, I wasn't able to get any writing done on the 5th).

Day 6:
1,096 words
I seem to be working the plot stuff out... To be honest I did not expect to get that figured out and still meet the word count.

Well it's been a rough couple of days and I've fallen more behind, but progress is progress and I'm happy that I've been consisten at least, its taken more effort to rewrite this section, but the story is much improved because of it, it was far too rushed and went all the wrong ways before.
Day 7:
590 words

Day 8:
714 words

Day 9:
372 words

Behind in total (not going to be too harsh on myself but it would be nice to know):
2,144 words (actually lower than I expected)

Woo! Not caught up really, but not further behind.

Day 10:
1077 words

Behind: not gonna do that math now

Work slightly got in the way... BUT I did do it all by hand and usually I don't write as much that way since its so much slower, so proud of that.

Day 11:
608 words

Total: 7,541
Behind: 3,459

Literally typed the last of it on my phone during a night shift up to 11:59pm I could not believe that I actually got 1k down XD

Day 12:
1,117 words

Total: 8,658
Behind: 3,342 (it went down :D)

Day 13:
1078 words

Total: 9,716 words
Behind: 3,284 (still lowering... slowly)

woot woot for passing 1K!!!

Thanks @Spearmit! And I nearly made 1.5k! TLS has passed 70k.
Day 14:
1,480 words

Day 15:
1021 words

Total: 12,217
Behind: 2,783

You're not that far behind! You can totally do this!

Thanks Snoink! It's beginning to actually seem so.

Day 16:
1,090 words.

Total: 13,307
Behind: 2,693

Day 17:
1,017 words.

Now, I took a couple of days off writing semi-intentionally and.... since then I've completely lost track of when I wrote what. HOWEVER I figured out where I stopped keeping track so...

Day 18 to 22:
2,636 words

Total:16,970
Behind: 5,030

Day 23
1,247 words

Total: 18,217
Behind: 4,783

Day 24
1,195 words

Total: 19,412
Behind: 4,588