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we have a local meeting tuesday night, gonna get my behind there after work :)
i'm sure your characters will come on leaps and bounds when you start :)
3105 words done, I really want to keep going but I'll give it a rest for tonight, don't want to burn myself out too early, I'm not used to such a big project.
I'm RedMorgan and I think I am palled up with the usual suspects. I'm in the USA and travelling until Sunday but hoping to get a few words under my belt tonight or else I'll be playing catch up next week.
Well done, fmn and sj.
Just decided to do it this year yesterday evening. With no plot only a beginning. Woke up with more ideas and hope i can make it this year even with my horrible work hours.
I know, I know! :) I guess because every other year I've made a concerted effort to get ahead in the first couple of days- but then I've never hit the 50k. So maybe this year slow and steady should be my mantra!
Real life's getting in the way already - I've missed a couple of days completely so I'm heading for a pretty steep uphill climb just to get back on target.
I'm gonna stomp to over 100k by the end of November, I'm playing it smart, I've tailored the characters that weren't apart of the prompts given me, I have put in one with a stutter, extra 10k in words there and one with tourette's - another one good for 15-20k extra words.
Lee wrote: I'm gonna stomp to over 100k by the end of November, I'm playing it smart, I've tailored the characters that weren't apart of the prompts given me, I have put in one with a stutter, extra 10k in words there and one with tourette's - another one good for 15-20k extra words.
That's me hit the 25k mark. It was really a struggle getting any words out earlier in the week but it now feels worthwhile. I'm really excited about my story and can't wait to get back to it, but will leave it for tonight as that will make my Monday morning writing session all the easier.
Wow, FMN, really in the writing zone right now huh?
We're approaching 12k now. Nano stats say we're behind but we're more than happy with how much we've written and aren't going to stress is we don't 'win'. Quite pleased with how the story's going progressing too.
Great, it's brilliant when you're enjoying the story and it's surprising you, isn't it? Yeah, I really struggled this week to get words down but have picked up my mojo somewhere in this weekend. I'm so excited about finishing and hitting the editing stage!
I hit 50k today, thanks mainly to my 10k Saturday. I think I'll continue on another 5k-10k until the end of my novel though. How is everyone else doing?
I think my fingers would drop off if I tried to write 10K in one day! Great going, FMN.
I could do with a couple of days of concentrating on my novel, as I'm about 10K behind schedule at the moment. What looked like a fairly quiet month work-wise has ended up pretty busy. I can't complain about paid work, but it doesn't half get in the way sometimes.
i either write or work
i have no life lol
i havnt been reading and fora fortniht i barely saw my family
i planned to write two stories for a competiiotn but one i don't think i can (closing end of the motnth) and i start a free course online on the 25th
oh my god
work has been hectic and double my hours so ahhhh!
And I am done. I reached the end at 57,500 words, a respectable word count for a children's fantasy. This has been fun but exhausting, I'm going to go sleep for a week then try to knock out a few short stories by Christmas.
I managed a little over 30,000 words. I'm pleased, considering how busy the month turned out to be in the end, but obviously that's a long way off target.
I don't know if I'll do it again. I did find it helped with my self-discipline, so hopefully I'll learn from it and apply the same mindset regardless of what month it is.
Very well done to anyone who made it to or beyond the 50K mark!
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i'm sure your characters will come on leaps and bounds when you start :)
I'll be cheering you on from the sidelines.
Only the Collab WIP for Nano this year so - LM.Towton
rubyrubyruby @)
Well done, fmn and sj.
Here you lot. Helpful stuff from Mr Westerfield.
http://scottwesterfeld.com/blog/2013/11/nanowrimo/
I have decided to participate, in so far as to use it to get the uni project done due 27th Nov- Bethereoneday.
Hang in there, everyone.
:)
Hope everyone else is getting on well!
We're approaching 12k now. Nano stats say we're behind but we're more than happy with how much we've written and aren't going to stress is we don't 'win'. Quite pleased with how the story's going progressing too.
We've only just gone past 21k but we're happy with that :) Especially as we only really get 3-4 hours per week night to write. Longer on weekends.
I could do with a couple of days of concentrating on my novel, as I'm about 10K behind schedule at the moment. What looked like a fairly quiet month work-wise has ended up pretty busy. I can't complain about paid work, but it doesn't half get in the way sometimes.
i have no life lol
i havnt been reading and fora fortniht i barely saw my family
i planned to write two stories for a competiiotn but one i don't think i can (closing end of the motnth) and i start a free course online on the 25th
oh my god
work has been hectic and double my hours so ahhhh!
I hit 50k yesterday - hurray!
I don't know if I'll do it again. I did find it helped with my self-discipline, so hopefully I'll learn from it and apply the same mindset regardless of what month it is.
Very well done to anyone who made it to or beyond the 50K mark!