During week four, I “won” NaNoWriMo by writing 50,000 words. In fact, my final word count for week four is 53,501. I hit 50,000 words on Friday night and it felt amazing because I hit the word count goal before the end of the month. However, my story is far from done. I’m anticipating at least 10,000ish more words before the story is finished. My new goal for the end of the month is to finish my first draft of this story. Anyway, that’s not the reason you’re here, you’re here to see how week four went writing like one of my favorite indie authors. Well, during week four, I wrote like Sabrina G. an author of multiple genres, or as I like to say, a “Brina of all trades.”
Sabrina G. has two books published and a third on the way. She has also co-wrote another book with Ayden Perry. I have a link to her books down below if you’re interested in reading any of her books. I’ve read her first two releases: The Rhythm Of Forbidden and There Is No Love and I loved them. Sabrina is an excellent storyteller and I think you’ll enjoy her stories. Sabrina also has a witchy-elemental book coming out on January 5, 2023! I’m so excited for that book to be released. I know how much work she’s put into that book so I’m excited to finally dive into that story. Now, onto Sabrina’s writing style. Sabrina describes her writing style as “pure fucking chaos.” She’s a total pantser. She says her characters reveal to her what they look like and how they want the story to go. She does use notes while writing but her notes usually consist of random quotes that her characters tell her and small stuff like that. She has a loose outline of how she wants the story to go but at any point, her characters could change her plans. Sabrina and I write similarly and I agree with her when she said her writing style is “pure fucking chaos” because mine is too. I may sound crazy but I do hear my characters in my head and they have a say in what I’m writing. It seems like during week four, my characters wouldn’t shut up. I guess they were happy to hear that I wasn’t plotting this week because they could finally be in control of their story. Three weeks of plotting was too much for their liking and they could finally have a say in what I was writing. For the first day, I did use my notes from last week for a chapter I didn’t write because of personal problems, but other than that, I didn’t use any notes or plot anything. I wrote as chaotically as I would do normally. Writing like Sabrina was a lot of fun because I could channel my inner chaos. Some of the scenes I wrote this week had triggering content but were surprisingly easy for me to write; but I get to add those topics to my trigger warning list. Overall, I had a blast writing like Sabrina and the rest of the indie author’s I chose to mimic. It was a fun experience to challenge myself to write in different styles. I definitely want to continue writing in a serialized format because I noticed my word count was much higher when I wrote in that format. However, I do want to take something from each of the authors I mimicked this month. I definitely want to write all the smut scenes first like Miriam, I want to write in my fuzzy socks under a blanket with my favorite candles lit like Sarah, and I want to continue to channel my inner chaos like Sabrina. I hope you enjoyed my “Write Like My Favorite Indie Authors” Series and I hope to do more series’ like this in the future. Did you participate in NaNoWriMo this year? Let me know about your experience in the comments!
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