I know I'm not the first one to get here, but I figure this may be my one and only chance near the head of the pack (the next week may go a lot slower - but then, one never knows).
Who's hit 5K words?
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"The past does not repeat itself, but sometimes it rhymes." -Samuel Clemens
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50,004 / 50,000
Nov 4, 2007 - 07 55
I'm over 5k. The session at Alternative Grounds on Friday put me there. So these writing sessions actually help! It's hard to do a decent Word War on your own.
50,611 / 50,000
Nov 4, 2007 - 08 43
I hit 5,000 yesterday.
One of my best friends is a marathoner. I have been there emotionally with her through a half and two fulls. If nothing else, she taught me about pacing and keep track of performance. 42 km is a long distance to keep running.
So I have - perhaps erroneously - figured out the 1,667 word/day pace and am trying to keep to it. We shall see how long it lasts. I have a requirement to visit people mid-november and this is freaking me out.
I also have an excel-based garmond-like ability to track at any given moment, the number of words done, words remaining (both daily and total) and various %s. It has become sort of stupid the amount of stats I have.
I think I am doing as much stats as words.
Is this what they call procrastination??
----------The RedParrot
50,000 words or taxidermy ...
89,288 / 50,000
Nov 4, 2007 - 08 50
I hit 5 000 on Friday, and then couldn't make the 1 667 quota yesterday (in part because I was at a party from 8-12:30 and that's my best writing time but also in part because I struggled for six hours to get 700 words out).
So, we'll see how it goes later when I'm duelling with assignments and everything else while still trying to get a decent number of words written everyday. I don't know that I have enough devotion to this storyline to actually make it through. ._.
55,647 / 50,000
Nov 4, 2007 - 09 08
hey there Maggie in TO here
----------as of this morning I'm at 11,479, more than 20% done whew!
of course I have a lot of events coming up in my life this month
and probably won't be able to keep up this pace,
but at least it gives me a head start
I'm sure I'll start having problems when I'm about 60% of the way through
of course, I have the bad habit of going through what I've already written first
instead of just plunging on where I left off
but I'm sure I'll be able to kick the habit eventually
maggie in TO
12,010 / 50,000
Nov 4, 2007 - 10 42
I think I might be 100 words past 5k :D After lagging behind the first two days, I finally am ahead C:
I must go and write my 1.6k for today. :P
----------"Nooo! I can't die yet! I only have 100 more words to write!!!"
-words of a dying NaNo participant
85,130 / 50,000
Nov 4, 2007 - 11 02
10k as of last night.
60,000 / 50,000
Nov 4, 2007 - 15 20
Woo Woo!
It's so nice to be on the pace because last year I was horribly behind target for the better part of the month :) I wrote 2700 yesterday to catch up for slacking off on Friday and ended the day 17 lovely words above 5K.
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Check out the current standings here!
51,673 / 50,000
Nov 4, 2007 - 19 08
Whoa, Maggie! Way to burn those pages. :D
I'm doing 2,000 a day because I may have to miss a few days later on. But, so far so good!
50,137 / 50,000
Nov 4, 2007 - 19 28
I am at 5400 and working toward my daily quota. After a few years of Nano, I have to say the trick is in getting the daily quota. I have actually done 5000 words in one day, but it is burnout the next day. I promised myself that this year I would sail past the 50K mark, because though I love being mom, I hate all the housework!
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Nano 2007 Hide and Seek
Nano 2004 Forget Me Not
38,729 / 50,000
Nov 4, 2007 - 20 12
Finally! Still a day behind the curve, though ...
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50,069 / 50,000
Nov 4, 2007 - 21 31
Hit 5k this weekend and kept right on going. Hopefully see you in the 10k thread in tomorrow or the next day!
42,326 / 50,000
Nov 5, 2007 - 21 50
I hit 5K very late on Friday evening; trying desperately to maintain 1667 words per day and as such have just finished writing at least 1200 words of crap. But I don't care because my internal editor has been fired for the next 25 days. I will achieve 50k this year.
I have to go to bed now - this working-for-a-living thing is cramping my midnight writing style - oh but I do so like the pay cheque.
G'night all,
----------SnippyB
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NaNo 2006: A Perfect Fit - 15,044
NaNo 2007: The Letters - 45,994
Screnzy 2008: Cuba Libre - The Musical (or Rum & Karaoke)
50,116 / 50,000
Nov 6, 2007 - 15 13
I passed 5000 yesterday, but I'm running behind schedule! Hopefully I'll catch up soon.
11,105 / 50,000
Nov 6, 2007 - 19 29
I got a late start, but have managed to cross the 5, 000 mark after 2 days. hopefully the whole endeavour will proceed as smoothly.
11,326 / 50,000
Nov 7, 2007 - 06 27
I just hit the mark last night, (was in middle of big move) but now I have a 4 days weekend coming up so will catch right up then.
52,597 / 50,000
Nov 7, 2007 - 09 53
Yay! I finally hit 5k :D:D
----------~ Live to write, write to live~
34,638 / 50,000
Nov 8, 2007 - 09 52
Still running behind, but there you are. I can still get there. >O
----------2004: Age of Blood - (Fantasy) - Completed
2005: The Captain and the Samurai - (Historical Fiction) - Failed Miserably
2006: Gently Dreamed Destiny - (Lesbian/Hist.Fic) - Completed
2007: ?????? - (???) - ???
15,241 / 50,000
Nov 9, 2007 - 19 40
Okay. Something must have gone wrong, because I'm -really- supposed to be further ahead than this. Ack!
Oh well...it's not too late to pull this out of the fire.
26,749 / 50,000
Nov 11, 2007 - 13 05
November 11th, and I just passed 5,000
Oh boy.
38,729 / 50,000
Nov 11, 2007 - 14 42
Without a doubt.
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ML for the greatest city on Earth, Toronto, Ontario!
Visit Monkey, Monster or Spaceman -- my online writing project!
115,292 / 50,000
Nov 11, 2007 - 15 03
Ah...you'll be fine!
You know, I have no idea how to pronounce your name. I think we were going through introductions at the Timothy's, and you didn't say your name. :) Unless I'm mistaking you for someone else...I forget everyone...
----------26,749 / 50,000
Nov 11, 2007 - 20 39
ELUMIR said........
You know, I have no idea how to pronounce your name. I think we were going through introductions at the Timothy's, and you didn't say your name. :) Unless I'm mistaking you for someone else...I forget everyone...
I think I said my name.... I was the one that said you don't look like your picture and you said that you would if you grinned, and then you grinned and I said, now I recognize u.
Or something close to that.
That version of my name is pronounced You-ee. My official real name is pronounced 'you weigh', but I think my friends abbrieviated it to Yuy some 5 or 6 years ago..... and I've just been using it everywhere now (except on the papers I hand in at the University).
Sorry if the quote tags looks funny, I improvised....
115,292 / 50,000
Nov 11, 2007 - 20 50
Nope, you didn't say your name, because as soon as I said mine, the introductions were stopped cold as we discussed how I didn't look like my picture. *laugh*
I'll stick with You-ee then. Although you-way seems easier to pronounce. :)
----------26,749 / 50,000
Nov 12, 2007 - 07 23
Lol, alright. You can say 'you-way', I'll respond either way. I also respond to Ren, as a handfull of people call me that too....
5,234 / 50,000
Nov 28, 2007 - 07 25
I figure that this is probably my only chance to post on one of these threads... so I might as well milk it, huh?
*****
There is silence for a moment before the orchestra starts to tune itself...
The lights dim, the orchestra returns to silence, and a dense fog pours out from under closed double doors, causing the multi-coloured light streaming through that small gap to break into beams...
The doors are thrown open! Blinding multi-coloured light shines out in every direction! The fog dissipates as Leo979 runs headlong up steps attached to a 50' scaffold!
He throws his arms in the air in Hiro-Nakamura-esque fashion and cries out to the world(or at least those that read this thread)...
"FIVE THOUSAND!!!"
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Why am I this dramatic when some of you wrote more than that before the first day was over? 'cause it's three times as much as I wrote last year. Huzzah!
I continue to cheer for those of you within striking distance of the big five-zero-zero-zero-zero. HUZZAH!!!
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"Acting is merely the art of keeping a large group
of people from coughing." - Sir Ralph Richardson
115,292 / 50,000
Nov 28, 2007 - 08 16
HUZZAH!
No worries Marty! I've joined the throngs of women who are endless in their pursuit to stalk your every waking and sleeping moment.
Dramatamize away!! YAY MARTY!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LrOawFUdFfU
----------38,729 / 50,000
Nov 28, 2007 - 08 18
You know, when I saw that someone had posted again in this thread ... I KNEW, without looking, that it was gonna be you.
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ML for the greatest city on Earth, Toronto, Ontario!
Visit Monkey, Monster or Spaceman -- my online writing project!