Still counts! (Counting up to 50 000)

So I have a teeny bit of Nano Advice for nanowrimo-ing.

Strikethrough is your friend friend. The goal is to rewrite and edit as little as possible, cause that's part of the process. Learning to power through on a first draft. But sometimes I just really need to take something out! Just a wee bit! So now I use strikethrough, and it doesn't change the word count. So that when I edit the book later, I can find the things that really need removing. ...I think it counts, man. The words did get written, after all. They must count. ;-)

If there are whole sections to take out, then I just bold them or something. Set them apart visually.

Also, if I change ideas on something partway through, I don't go back and edit the stuff that's no longer relevant. I just start writing as though that's what I'd been doing all along. (Though going back and ADDING stuff is always cool!)

Froggy AuntB was saying in Comments that she's contemplating changing to a different story. I say, if she does, to make sure to keep the original words/story. What do you think Dallas dream sequences are for? Just start the new story like this:

Claudette woke up with a start. "Wow... weird dream."

Then start the new story. As Akon once sang: "Still counts!"

(Don't forget to add a blog widget! My dad reminded me today.)


She kept lookin' at her watch
(Doesn't matter, had sex)
But I cried the whole time
(Doesn't matter, had sex)
I think she might've been a racist
(Doesn't matter, had sex)
She put a bag on my head
(Still counts!)