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title: "Nanowrimo Day 18 – virtual worlds and avatars"
date: 2003-11-18
author: "Richard MacManus"
categories:
  - name: "ReadWriteWeb"
    url: "/category/readwriteweb.md"
tags:
  - name: "2003"
    url: "/tag/2003.md"
---

# Nanowrimo Day 18 – virtual worlds and avatars

[34,094 words. The latest is here.](https://web.archive.org/web/20040115010118/http://www.readwriteweb.com/stories/2003/11/18/nanowrimoNovelPart3.html) Yesterday and today was spent writing a long chapter 41, where the main character Declan is inserted into a virtual world as an avatar. I surprised myself with some William Burroughs-like imagery to descibe the virtual world. It’s likely to need some tidying up when I finally get a chance to do a revision of my novel.

I’ve got about 16,000 words to go, which I hope to finish with a couple of days to spare. I can see the finish line now, so my morale is quite good. I’m learning a lot doing this novel, which I’ll share with you in December when I have some spare time 🙂

*Originally published on ReadWriteWeb ([archived copy](https://web.archive.org/web/20020204040018/http://www.readwriteweb.com/2003/11/18.html#a153))*