NaNoWriMo 2014
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), got home late, slammed a huge coffee and managed to get out 1,200 words before I collapsed. There's gotta be a better way...
What's holding you back?
Perhaps you should consider Camp NaNoWriMo next April. That's what I did - set a more modest goal, and I not only met that goal, but surpassed it by over 2000 words. It's a great feeling to finally get through one of these (although the story itself wasn't finished; that will come later).I find it's better to set reasonable, achievable goals than to try to kill yourself. I'm inherently lazy so if I do set myself to do something small I might actually do it rather than just crap out on it. This is how I learned to lose weight as well as write
Planning works best for me as well, although there are times when things take an unplanned side track as characters get talking, the conversation flows, and several hundred unplanned words happen.
I'm scrambling this time, since I had a bunch of disconnected notes and a vague idea of the plot, but nothing really planned to keep me on track. I hadn't even decided for sure which story I wanted to do until November 1. Now I'm several thousand words behind.
I'm the only one holding myself back; but I disguise it as work, my kids, tiredness, etc. If I ever got out of my own way, I could accomplish an awful lot.
How's everyone progressing? I'm likely to hit the 25,000 word mark today.
Haven't done anything in the past couple of days 
. Darn real life. Might do a little tonight, but it's getting rather late.
. Darn real life. Might do a little tonight, but it's getting rather late.
Is anyone still doing this or am I the lone wolf now? 
I've definitely lost the energy I had at the beginning, but I'm still plodding along every day with the requisite 1667.
I hit 41,000 last night. I'm poised to finish on the 25th, though my book won't be done by then. If I keep going at my current pace and the book ends up about as long as I anticipate, I won't be done until early January.
Wow, I JUST found this thread. Um, why is it in TV/Media? I hardly ever come in here! Wasn't it in Misc in previous years?
I've been having an interesting time with Nano - I went in intending to work on multiple existing projects, because what I really need to work on is follow-through on existing works, not starting new ones! Though, most of my words so far have actually all gone to one story - a modern-day slice of life thing that I originally started back in 2008 during my first Nano attempt. These last couple nights, however, I've shifted focus to a fantasy story (also originally begun for Nano; the first 50k of that story were written in 2012).
My grand total as of tonight (the 21st, that is) is 42,206. Which is kind of exciting; I have NEVER been this far ahead before! Been tracking my daily progress with short (well, usually) posts on my blog, which is kind of fun because it allows me to look back and remember which days were good and which weren't for word count, heh.
My goal this time is to (contrary to how things usually go for me) keep working, on the fantasy story especially in the months following Nano, and maybe FINISH the damn thing sometime in 2015.
I hardly ever come in here! Wasn't it in Misc in previous years? I've been having an interesting time with Nano - I went in intending to work on multiple existing projects, because what I really need to work on is follow-through on existing works, not starting new ones! Though, most of my words so far have actually all gone to one story - a modern-day slice of life thing that I originally started back in 2008 during my first Nano attempt. These last couple nights, however, I've shifted focus to a fantasy story (also originally begun for Nano; the first 50k of that story were written in 2012).
My grand total as of tonight (the 21st, that is) is 42,206. Which is kind of exciting; I have NEVER been this far ahead before! Been tracking my daily progress with short (well, usually) posts on my blog, which is kind of fun because it allows me to look back and remember which days were good and which weren't for word count, heh.
My goal this time is to (contrary to how things usually go for me) keep working, on the fantasy story especially in the months following Nano, and maybe FINISH the damn thing sometime in 2015.
Glad to hear you're participating and I hope you keep it up! Yeah, this is a weird place for the thread...
Today's the day I wrote the last line of my second completed novel!!!
I'm semi co-writing it with a published author, so now my next step is to go back to add in the introduction scene of his characters (I skipped that scene originally worried I wouldn't get it right), and then send it off to him for his edit of it. I'm hoping this will actually get picked up by his publisher!
I'm semi co-writing it with a published author, so now my next step is to go back to add in the introduction scene of his characters (I skipped that scene originally worried I wouldn't get it right), and then send it off to him for his edit of it. I'm hoping this will actually get picked up by his publisher!
I "won" on Tuesday but my book is nowhere near done. Lots more to do.
Congrats, Mr. Light!
Congrats, Mr. Light!
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