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I am now up to over 4300 words in my novel! I got into the 16th page last night in my writing as my creative genius took over and kept me up until after midnight, a full two and a half hours later than I had intended. My novel has been an ongoing project for a couple of years already, and the progress is slow, but for the first time, it is working. I did take a longish break recently while I took a fiction writing class, and although the class mostly applied towards short stories, I learned enough from the class that I decided to hold off on the novel until after the class was over so I could apply lessons learned. Last night I did a thorough re-edit and added some more pages.

For an idea of how big it is for me to have 16 pages... I have never gotten past 10 or 11 before, not because I did not have an idea, but because I would have this "master plan" for a story, but no idea of how to go about it. I would think of an epic plot where the main character goes from Point A to Point C, except I never really had more than a vague idea of what Point B was, much less what happened during Chapter 2 or 3, so while the first few pages were (at least I supposed to be) great, writers block and inexperience always trashed the rest of the story. Not this time! Besides having notes equaling the length of the story so far, I have literally spent hours going over the plot and character development, changing and tweaking it and fixing problems with it. I am finally getting somewhere.