Unpublished Guy's July Novel Writing Month Progress
I already exploited a loophole to rewrite a portion of one short story to meet the novel writing objectives. My thinking at that time was that if I manually rewrote the text then that should count as new words. Now, I am not sure if I need to make that distinction. After taking a second look at the FAQ, I decided that it wasn't necessary that I manually rewrite my existing writing. The FAQ addresses using an existing novel for the July novel. It doesn't say anything about short stories. If I asked for clarification, I would probably be told that existing short stories don't count to the word count any more than novels do, so I don't think I will ask. Instead, I will write with a mindset of blissful ignorance.