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title: "Day 5 – and I am updating my novel online now"
date: 2003-11-05
author: "Richard MacManus"
categories:
  - name: "ReadWriteWeb"
    url: "/category/readwriteweb.md"
tags:
  - name: "2003"
    url: "/tag/2003.md"
---

# Day 5 – and I am updating my novel online now

I’ve decided to go the whole hog and post my novel online. There are a variety of reasons for this. One is that posting excerpts would mean it would be read out of context. If I’m prepared to post excerpts, I may as well just tell the whole story. Oh and another reason is that Erik Benson dared me to 🙂

[So here it is, all 10,035 words so far](https://web.archive.org/web/20040310153347/http://www.readwriteweb.com/stories/2003/11/05/myNanowrimoNovelNovember2003.html). Remember if you do read some of this (and I certainly am not expecting you to), there have been no revisions and I haven’t fixed up the spelling or grammar mistakes. It’s a first draft, with all the ugliness expected of first drafts. And it ain’t Hemingway, but what the hey…

*Originally published on ReadWriteWeb ([archived copy](https://web.archive.org/web/20020204040018/http://www.readwriteweb.com/2003/11/05.html#a144))*