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Adrian Astur Alvarez

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Category: Novels

Nanowrimo!

Despite the fact that I’m in the middle of rewrites on my first, I just want everyone to know that I’m still going for it with Nanowrimo this year. If you don’t know what Nanowrimo is (no, it’s not from Mork and Mindy) then I’ll tell you and maybe you’ll join me this November. Nanowrimo [...]

First draft finished!

At 11am today: two years, two cities, four jobs, five apartments (I had complicated living arrangements for a while there), and about 65,000 words after I started working on my very first novel, (tentatively – very tentatively – titled, A Very Violent Story), I finished the first draft. This is how I feel: Granted, I [...]

Novel update

Today I finished 50,000 words and I’m probably about 20,000 words away from the end of the first draft. I can’t believe after all these years I’m actually going to finish the thing! Hopefully the next one won’t take as long.