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Each November, I take part in NaNoWriMo.
This year, I wrote a sequel to a book I finished 2 weeks before hand.
Throughout February, I’ve dipped in and out of reading, re-writing and whining over the first instalment. But today, it’s March, and I feel like I’ve made no progress.
I was whining about it last night, when Ellie Di commented on my frustrations.
“Sounds to me like you might actually have one book spread across two. Have you thought about what you can cut and combine?”
Oh Shit.
I hadn’t even considered that my two books might actually be one.
80,000 words is an okay novel-length. 92,000 is almost perfect.
Combining them will surely involve a lot of cutting, and I’m not sure how to re-write the information I still need to include.
I asked my friend Sorcha, who read my first book, and she seemed unsure.
“I suppose you could, but you’d have to be really careful because there’s a lot of important backstory on the antagonists etc… and the assassins that you need to keep in otherwise people might get confused.”
So this month of March, I’m editing: be that re-writing, cutting, merging or beginning bits again.
I’ll be updating my progress here: http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/novel-draft-aftercare/threads/107884 and measuring it according to pages:
Current Score:
Day: 1
Pages Edited: 5/314 and 0/310
Scenes Edited: 1/71 and 0/80
Are you editing a piece of work? How do you measure the process?
– Rose –
Wings of Flight 
I also participate in NaNoWriMo and I’m not happy at all with the progress I’ve made, or haven’t made with my 2012 WIP. Your post has given me the motivation to use March as the month I make some progress. Good luck to you and thanks!
Good luck with your progress! I’ve been using the NaNoWriMo forums (i use it all year round – it’s a real motivator!) to keep track of how I’m doing in this edit, too.