Well up to 3,339 in word count... my story is pretty bad at the moment, LOL. Makes no sense but damn if I am not enjoying it... or writing it. Nothing like having a throw down with 80's cliched movie slashers (Freddy, Jason and Micheal) and my own characters... but that's just a tuesday in this world.
Couldn't get any work done on the novel until tonight, due to preparing to head to Philadelphia for the BookBaby Indie Authors' Conference, which started this evening (Friday). Wouldn't have got anything written tonight, either, except for a series of mishaps and mess ups that got me into Philly not at 4:00 PM, as I'd intended, or even at 5:45, which I could have managed, but at 9:00 PM. It was dark, it was raining, I couldn't even find the hotel, let alone somewhere to park the car. I pulled into the parking lot of a strip mall and checked the schedule and found I'd missed all the evening's scheduled talks. At which point I decided I'd just go find my Air BnB lodging and spend the rest of the evening working on the novel. Which I did. Only 1808 words, by the time I ended the chapter. It's really bad, truly rank. Distant, uninvolved, no heart to it at all. But it's words on the page. And I can always edit, change, and revise it. Or delete it altogether. But not this month.
Are you signed up as L Munro? I see that writer had buddied me. I still can't figure out how to buddy someone back. Tomorrow. It's late, and I've put in 540 miles today, only 370 of which were necessary.
I'm doing it this year! I need an excuse to replace excuses and perfectionism with words, words, and more words! My username is mattre if anyone wants to add me. I'm working on a space opera novel that has been floating around my mind for about a year now. Word count thus far = 2,309
6,317 words in, currently. Aiming to do 2,000 words a day. I'm. . sort of rebelling. I'm using the official 1666-1667 word count as the target for my novel, but I'm topping it up with flash fiction. I'm LMunro *waves* I'm not sure if there's another way, but I use the search engine tool in the drop-down menu on the left-hand side.
Thanks ! I'm afraid I might be coming up against a brick wall soonish. It's a novel I've been wanting to write for such a long time, so on the 1st I just decided to knuckle down and get it done.
Walls exist to make you better. When you break it down, you'll feel good. And if it seems too high and daunting, well ... you've got us here. And we'll bounce ideas off it until it crumbles.
I really want to do NaNo (in undergrad we had a NaNoWriMo group that met every day in the evenings after class and that was super fun because were were all there physically and could encourage one another). Unfortunately, I haven't done NaNo since.... I write when I can. little snippets each day. Which is hard because when I dedicate an hour or so to write, I feel like I should have dedicated that hour to homework or to house cleaning, and I feel guilty and cant focus. It will get better when the semester is over in December. Then i ill have 2 months with no homework!
Made it to 5,400. Still on target but I'm really not giving myself much wiggle room in terms of daily word count. I'm only about 400 words over what I need to be at today. Still feeling good about my progress and I just finished my first chapter. Not sure how I feel about it yet, but first chapters are usually hard and I end up rewriting them more than anything else. It doesn't matter though, because it's enough to get the ball rolling.
Only got to 1,000 the first night, 800 the next, and roughly 30 today. I've never been so discouraged yet determined at the same time. Literally have no clue how I'm going to do this, but I'm GOING TO DO IT. Good luck guys!! I wish you all luck in your writing journeys!
I'm on 379 words, I plan to do the full thing, and I don't have any excuses. So, you're cool. Knowing that I'm not the worst one out there always helps me, don't know if it works for you.
This is my tenth year of NaNoWriMo. I got to 50.000 words six times, (one of those times I got 100.000, once 75.000). But for the last two years I didn't get anywhere near 50.000 words, so I really want to reach it this year, since it's my tenth time. So far I've written just over 9000 words. I'm happy with it, but I'll be away for a few days next week. So I need to write a little extra for the days I can't write at all. So fingers crossed I'll get to the 50.000 again. And fingers crossed for all of you too!!
I figured something out, I call it write-streaming. (I probably heard that somewhere?) Anyway I've been using it since 2015, filling out hundreds of pages of notes from the cobwebs of my mind. At this point, transcribing to prose and dialogue is way more mechanical than I thought, and blindingly fast, and tedious, and exhausting... So somebody please bounce some ideas off me, lest I descend into sanity! If I don't find something else to think about, I will be consumed - BY THE EDIT MONSTER!!
My prep took longer than I was hoping and since my prep is editing my current 10.5 chapters in order to get the narrative back on track (since it needed updating) I feel like I need to get the editing done before I can feel comfortable enough writing the new material :/ currently finishing editing chapter 5 so hoping I will get to do some actual writing by the end of next week ...
Haven't managed to get anywhere near as many words as I have done. My mum's partner was rushed into hospital yesterday with what turns out to be a slipped disc, so with visiting him this afternoon, and flying through it yesterday, I'm flagging today. Current word count is 7470.
I've never had a detailed and (almost) complete outline before and it has been a tremendous help. That, and a little game I've made for myself which has proven more challenging than I anticipated: write 2,000 words in 45 minutes. That's roughly 45 words per minute which means there is absolutely no time to think, no research or wondering for ten minutes what that new character, city, band, whatever should be called. I still haven't been able to reach 2,000 but I've come close and when you manage to add 1,600-1,800 words every 45 minutes, that sure helps as well. Current word count: 32,008 ...and somehow I'm only about 12% into the story according to my outline...
If I could even type that fast, I would have the same expression as your avatar! I'm hung up at 30,392 based on notes, I'd say it's at the one-third point.
We're waiting to see what the neurologist says, but at the moment, he can't move his right leg. MRI shows that the disc is "pushing" the chord to one side, but not pinching it. That's my daily goal - Not hourly one.
