60 day/60k A Feb-Mar writing challenge?

whitedove — Fri, 13 Jan 2012 14:42:26 +1030

So I kind of missed the start signal for the 60 day/60k challenge and, considering that I am going to be moving from Savannah GA to Kansas City MO this month, I really can't start playing catch-up now. But I really want to start writing again once I'm settled in my new place, and as Feb and March are also a combined 60 days, I was thinking about trying the challenge then. Anyone else interested in joining me?

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whitedove — Sat, 14 Jan 2012 00:29:06 +1030

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aliaswriter — Sun, 15 Jan 2012 02:34:21 +1030

I will probably eventually do this. I need all the motivation I can get.

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jswwrites — Mon, 16 Jan 2012 08:39:49 +1030

I was thinking of doing this as well, so I'm in! I missed the Jan/Feb start, but we were on vacation the first 10 days anyway, and now I have a post-vacation cold (hate when that happens, like being back isn't bad enough!), so Feb 1 would be awesome for me.

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jswwrites — Mon, 16 Jan 2012 08:44:04 +1030

Oh, I guess I need a plot and stuff, right?? I was thinking of doing a sequel to my NaNo book, but I may just have an outline of that ready in case I actually publish the first one (rather than spend time writing the next one and then never publish either...). So. Hm. Plot. Characters. I have nothing at the moment!

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jswwrites — Tue, 17 Jan 2012 01:18:07 +1030

I may be a pantser this time! We'll see. I like to do adventure/treasure hunt kind of things which need some research, and which leaves me with (inadvertently) a loose outline. Even doing a couple of weeks of research in Oct, I did about 500 online searches during NaNo, used GoogleEarth, language translators... But we'll see. I'm sick at the moment and my brain isn't working very well, so it may just have to take care of itself!

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Rachlea — Thu, 19 Jan 2012 22:46:50 +1030

hhhmmm tempting but editing my nano novel may do a mid year one

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Ally Most — Fri, 20 Jan 2012 00:45:08 +1030

I am so in!

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MarthaBechtel — Fri, 20 Jan 2012 01:02:12 +1030

Does it have to be work on a novel, or can I count blog posts/script frenzy planning/serial stories/Camp NaNoWriMo planning/etc? I have a lot of things in the fire right now, but nothing big enough to dedicate 1,000k a day to. :( -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------

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Delyn — Fri, 20 Jan 2012 11:06:34 +1030

Okay, ya twisted my arm. I'm in. :-P Besides, I have to do something because my nano novel is with my readers (so I am not tempted to nag them. I mean it has been 3 whole days) and my inner editor is beating me about the head and shoulders. She wants me to work on the ms and doesn't listen when I tell her that I can't edit more until I get feedback. So, working on the second in the series might get her to shut up. Things to do: Buy more post-it notes. Outline book two: Remo's story Come up with a title Research Fashion concrete shoes for my inner editor and dump her in the gulf.

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Rokujo — Sat, 21 Jan 2012 05:52:44 +1030

I'm in! I completely failed at nano this year because I thought my husband was deploying. But he didn't! I actually got on to specifically check if there were "off season nanos".

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.the.blue.dinosaur. — Sun, 22 Jan 2012 03:48:16 +1030

Hmm, I think I'm in! I haven't been writing much (other than fanfiction, which is nice but I miss writing original things) and this would be good for me, I think.

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SaltBlockPolygon — Sun, 22 Jan 2012 11:44:58 +1030

Eee! My people! A story came to me about a week ago and I tried pushing it away. "I have to edit and finish my NaNo 11 project," I told it. It whimpered in the corner and curled up into a pathetic ball. Its eyes bore in to the back of my head as I worked away, giving me that slightly paranoid feeling. I turned to look at it critically again, its cute little plot idea had formed in to something with a little more substance and I became seduced. "All right, a little plotting and we'll see how it goes. No promises!" It excitedly joined me and we worked together for a few, blissful hours. I should have known. Now I'm hooked and will not be satisfied until we've banged out a few thousand... words. 60-day, 60k - it's on!

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JesiMarie — Sun, 22 Jan 2012 16:15:28 +1030

I'm in! I'm totally in! I need something to get me going on my sequel and this is perfect!

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Wragziez — Mon, 23 Jan 2012 11:07:26 +1030

I'm probably going to regret this but I'm in! Guess we'll be all posting about our progress here so all of y'all will be able to watch me lose whatever sanity I hoped I had left. I will most likely be doing just little one-shots every day in different fandoms. What will some of y'all be doing? Originals? Fanfiction? If so what fandom/s?

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D.F.T.B.A — Mon, 23 Jan 2012 11:28:52 +1030

I guess I'm in. The YA novel series I've been sitting for 5-10 years needs to be written at some point.

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Lyndie — Mon, 23 Jan 2012 12:18:47 +1030

I will if I can finish editing by NaNoWriMo book. It's a very slim chance, considering that all I've done is a spelling/grammar check.

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Syrina — Tue, 24 Jan 2012 06:13:33 +1030

I think I'm going to try. NaNo 2011 was a complete bust for me and I'd really like to finish the story. I really don't know if I'll be able to though. I'm in the middle of the interview process for a job that's looking pretty good so far, and on top of that trying to deal with some very intense personal stuff right now. On the other hand, I've been feeling incredibly out of control lately so maybe this will give me a little respite from the crazy.

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indeliblecello — Wed, 25 Jan 2012 14:53:50 +1030

This is looking awfully tempting ... though I won't be working on a single project. If I do take part, I just want to start writing 1K a day to get back into the swing of things.

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AdorkablyMe — Wed, 25 Jan 2012 17:11:41 +1030

I wanted to do the Jan Feb one but I am just not healed enough yet, a Feb March one I think I may be able to do, though I may loose a week in Feb because I am still not nearly up to par and having trouble concentrating. I need something to get me motivated to finish my novel and reach my dreams of some day being published!

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Angryman — Fri, 27 Jan 2012 10:12:50 +1030

I have fallen well behind in the Jan-Feb challenge, so I'll probably be joining you guys through March.

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whitedove — Fri, 27 Jan 2012 13:21:49 +1030

Only a few days left to get ready. I hope everyone has a plot in mind and their research well in hand. Or, at least enough caffeine stocked up to make up for it. ;)

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FlipFlyFall — Sun, 29 Jan 2012 15:36:34 +1030

I'm...uh...about 20k behind for the Jan/Feb one, so I may join you guys for Feb/March!

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lilly32261 — Mon, 30 Jan 2012 07:46:16 +1030

Hmm... I was going to say that there's no way I could write 10k a day, but I've just confirmed that I shouldn't attempt to do math when I'm tired. Anyway, sounds fun! (And I kind of forgot about the January/February one, so...) Provided life doesn't get in the way, I'll be joining you. :)

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ningenorgel — Mon, 30 Jan 2012 07:49:16 +1030

I'm in! Didn't finish nano last year. This is a nice second chance :)

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isethia — Tue, 31 Jan 2012 21:41:11 +1030

After taking a few days to think about it, I've decided to try this. I have a fanfic that I really need to work on.

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Horselover150 — Tue, 31 Jan 2012 22:15:29 +1030

I had to think about it, but I welcome the challenge. I already have the plot and story floating around my mind, so i guess that I will join you guys.I just hope that our move doesn't mess everything up. u.u

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whitedove — Tue, 31 Jan 2012 22:38:56 +1030

One day to go! Everyone ready for it?

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MarthaBechtel — Wed, 01 Feb 2012 00:03:40 +1030

I'm gearing up for it today by making a plan of what projects I want to cover in February. I'm being a bit of a rebel and counting blog posts, social media posts, sales copy, outlining, and actual prose. I've just got too much to work on right now to make it 100% prose. *sighs and pokes To-do list* But this challenge will work out well—I'm planning on doing Script Frenzy, June and August Camps, and NaNo-proper this year, so I need to start getting my wordcount up to speed! ^_^ ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Martha.net -- Unquiet Bones (Writing) -- Custom-Models.com (Model Horses) -- Perish Twice (Warcraft) ... because you can never have enough hobbies.

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Creative — Wed, 01 Feb 2012 02:09:19 +1030

I'm in! -dances- Got a story idea this morning and was thinking of just writing it myself, then I saw this! :D Has anyone created a tinychat for this? If not, http://tinychat.com/thelg

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luvinpadfoot — Wed, 01 Feb 2012 07:07:42 +1030

I'm totally up for this! I need to get back to writing every day, no matter how lazy I feel. It'll also give me the chance to finish up two WIPs and make some progress on a third, I hope. I'll be counting revision for the second WIP since that's currently my number one project. Yay for people still writing!

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jswwrites — Wed, 01 Feb 2012 07:17:31 +1030

I've got more to do before tomorrow morning, but finally the coins of my backstory dropped into place! Hallelujah! Since I am doing an adventure/thriller with a Middle Ages backstory which is the premise for the whole thing, that was pretty important to get a handle on. I've got to do some errands now, and then I'm going to sit down and write a plot summary for my daughter (college student), mostly to see if I can write it out and have it make sense. I spent about a week in Oct doing this for NaNo, and I've really only got 2 days for this, so it's not nearly as organized - but then, I have an extra month to write it, too. It would be great to have a chat room, if someone technical can do it. That would not be me!

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Taelia — Wed, 01 Feb 2012 07:42:14 +1030

Count me in, and the fact that we can jump between things is awesome. I have 2 stories, 1 Fanfic, and 1 other story I am literally making up as I go along.I already did a bit of work on my fanfic, and on the made up one...but none for the other 2 (which is odd considering I have pretty much everything planned out for the 2 stories and not as much for the Fanfic and the made up one)

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sherylgwin — Wed, 01 Feb 2012 09:25:01 +1030

Im in!

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kittymammas — Wed, 01 Feb 2012 09:32:47 +1030

Oh I'm in. I've been trying to finish my nano because I really want to use the create space offer and always ALWAYS find something else to do! I only have a few more scenes, get with it woman! So I think this is perfect for me because I've decided that March would be a good time to start my edits, if I can finish that is. Thanks for the motivation and support...I've missed you guys. And who said that the life a writer is a lonely one? Puh!

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audiii — Wed, 01 Feb 2012 09:35:28 +1030

I'm so going to do this. I miss NaNoWriMo and the stress, lol. Now I just need to whip up a plot before tomorrow..LOL wish me luck. xD

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kittymammas — Wed, 01 Feb 2012 09:42:30 +1030

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kittymammas — Wed, 01 Feb 2012 09:44:15 +1030

Also if anyone wants a writing buddy, friend me! I love me some buddies who are the same boat as me haha.

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lilly32261 — Wed, 01 Feb 2012 10:28:30 +1030

Hopefully I'll be able to get my WIP done. (The other day I hit the 90 page mark, and out of curiosity, I looked to see when I started on it. I've been working on it for a year and one week, exactly.)

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Creative — Wed, 01 Feb 2012 10:38:07 +1030

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medieval poptart — Wed, 01 Feb 2012 10:44:26 +1030

Well.... I'M IN! I have written maybe 6 or 7k words since November. Sad, right? I work so much better with a deadline. I'll probably be finishing the short story I started in December. It may turn into a novel, though. Who knows with these things? I also have another story bouncing around in my head. 5 hours to go....

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Horselover150 — Wed, 01 Feb 2012 10:58:53 +1030

Well, it's the first of February here, so I'm going to start on my story. :) Is there a certain set daily word goal? Or do we make one ourselves?

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Wragziez — Wed, 01 Feb 2012 11:20:33 +1030

There is not a specific word count but I'd imagine it'd be at least 1000 words a day given the 60day/60k part, but that's my opinion! Good luck on your first day everyone! It'll be Febuary 1st here in a little over 4 hours so I'm psyched and pumped! Now go on and get yourselves ready if you haven't already!

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AgentReyes — Wed, 01 Feb 2012 12:05:30 +1030

I'm in! Although I will probably be flying by the seat of my pants; I just discovered this challenge about an hour ago, and therefore I only have the rest of tonight to come up with a plot XD Oh well, I'm sure I can come up with something before 12AM, however vague it may be ;)

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A.P. Navis — Wed, 01 Feb 2012 12:22:18 +1030

Ok, I'm in, with all of 3 hours and 15 minutes to spare. I have written practically n.o.t.h.i.n.g since NaNo and I have to admit I don't like it. NaNo 2011 was my very first attempt at writing...anything...ever. My story petered out and I gave up by about day 23, but I learned something. I like writing and I want to keep doing it :-) I felt good about myself while I was doing it! So, I'm going for it! I'm determined that there was something good in my idea for NaNo, so if it's not too rebellious, for 60K in 60 Days I think I'll rewrite it. We're talking some serious plot changes a new POV. Who's with me? Let's do it!

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Creative — Wed, 01 Feb 2012 13:10:54 +1030

2 hours and 20 minutes for me. :D -excited- ------------------------- chatroom: http://tinychat.com/thelg

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Horselover150 — Wed, 01 Feb 2012 13:46:39 +1030

Let's see if this works. [link=http://www.TickerFactory.com/counter/wJyMMwM/] [image noborder]http://tickers.TickerFactory.com/ezt/t/wJyMMwM/counter.png[/image]

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Horselover150 — Wed, 01 Feb 2012 13:47:32 +1030

Let's see if either of these work. [url=http://www.TickerFactory.com/counter/wJyMMwM/] [img]http://tickers.TickerFactory.com/ezt/t/wJyMMwM/counter.png[/img] [/url]

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Creative — Wed, 01 Feb 2012 14:19:56 +1030

I'm probably going to be like my WC in November, updating that ticker ever 200 words or so. -dead- --------------------- chatroom: http://tinychat.com/thelg

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Wragziez — Wed, 01 Feb 2012 14:24:07 +1030

Yeah, I love that ticket! At first I didn't get how to make it, but now I know how to update on it. I'm hoping that if I use that, it will keep me motivated enough that I want to get to the end of it. I got it set to 1000 words for every day.

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Wragziez — Wed, 01 Feb 2012 14:57:05 +1030

30 MINUTES LEFT!!!! AHHHHH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! So excited!!! *huggles y'all* :)

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Angryman — Wed, 01 Feb 2012 18:05:31 +1030

I just realized how badly thrown out of my rhythm that power-outage put me. I haven't typed a thing on my story since mid-January. I'm probably really need the Feb-Mar run. Probably need it all the way to July, but I digress. Wait, no, what's that word I'm looking for... Procrastinate. Yeah, that's the word.

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D.F.T.B.A — Wed, 01 Feb 2012 19:15:02 +1030

Gah. It's nearly 5pm on Feb 1st where I am, and I have yet to write anything! Anyone care to give me a good kick in the butt?

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VannVicente — Wed, 01 Feb 2012 21:42:05 +1030

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Wragziez — Thu, 02 Feb 2012 00:03:19 +1030

Oh the things I do for writing is pure torture. I was going to rewatch this 2 episode anime, and it's my favorite too, but I'm torturing myself. So until I write 1000 words today, I'm not going to watch it. Oh the things you do for writing.

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A.P. Navis — Thu, 02 Feb 2012 01:36:52 +1030

Ok, I'm a bit technically challenged, but I'm gonna try this ticker thing. Here's hoping it works :) [url=http://www.TickerFactory.com/counter/w21oSsm/] [img]http://tickers.TickerFactory.com/ezt/t/w21oSsm/counter.png[/img] [/url]

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A.P. Navis — Thu, 02 Feb 2012 01:38:25 +1030

Anyone know of a nice progress widget for the Mac dashboard. I think I'll miss religiously updating my word count somewhere...

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Creative — Thu, 02 Feb 2012 01:49:34 +1030

o.o This is freaky. It's Feb 1 and I haven't started writing yet. Granted, it's only 10:20 in the morning, but usually I'm right at midnight. -gets to it- --------------------- chatroom: http://tinychat.com/thelg

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A.P. Navis — Thu, 02 Feb 2012 02:30:05 +1030

Here goes the other code >crossing fingers for success!<

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A.P. Navis — Thu, 02 Feb 2012 02:35:50 +1030

Hooray!! Ok Me, enough procrastinating, time for writing. I may need a flogging to get going today....

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jswwrites — Thu, 02 Feb 2012 04:24:55 +1030

I made the mistake of deciding to use a new writing program for this... and as with everything that's supposed to be "easy" I'm feeling like an idiot. I may write in Scrivener and then copy and paste into Storyist later, otherwise I'm not going to write anything beyond "Chapter 1" today! ugh... dumb. (If you're wondering why I decided to do something so... predictably bad, Storyist has a full iPad app that integrates with the laptop, and that would be very handy for me. But I should have done it at the beginning of Jan to get the hang of it, for sure!)

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sherylgwin — Thu, 02 Feb 2012 04:31:47 +1030

whoo! first day! ...and no words... and hardly any plot... and nowhere to start... yay!

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sherylgwin — Thu, 02 Feb 2012 04:34:05 +1030

imma do write or die on kamakaze mode... o.o wish me luck

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sherylgwin — Thu, 02 Feb 2012 05:01:12 +1030

407 words!

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libertybell — Thu, 02 Feb 2012 06:33:03 +1030

Oh, look at me, wandering in on the day that it starts -___- I suppose I'll try this, since I'm not working on editing my NaNo anyway (most of the time). I've got a couple of story ideas that I've been playing with (both of which tie into my NaNo xD) and my friend wants me to write a book with him (he's the idea man, I'm the writer). So it's not like I don't have any material. And the first two hardly need any world building. Just a few characters. *ramble ramble* Ahem. Sorry. Haha. So yes, I shall be joining you, my fellow NaNoers, in our off-season adventure! *slumps off to figure out ways to not lose interest halfway through*

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kittymammas — Thu, 02 Feb 2012 07:28:17 +1030

Day one is going smooth. Finally got back into my nano novel and got a scene written that I have been working on forever! Nearly 2k under my belt, not bad...but I'm gonna get back to it and see if I can do better!

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Horselover150 — Thu, 02 Feb 2012 09:47:34 +1030

I only have 820 words in my novel, but I have more that I need to transfer onto my computer from my notebook. u__u.

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lilly32261 — Thu, 02 Feb 2012 09:54:27 +1030

I have to decide which computer I want to write this on... I think I'll end up using notepad and starting a new file every day. Hopefully it'll work... :/ Ah, the perils of not having a main computer anymore. Other than that, this is going wonderfully! 921 words so far. :)

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lilly32261 — Thu, 02 Feb 2012 10:15:22 +1030

I would like to thank you, whitedove. This is a wonderful idea, and means that I probably won't be killing either of my computers in the next two months. (I still think it's stupid that the internet starts working as soon as I resign myself to writing.)

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jswwrites — Thu, 02 Feb 2012 10:45:14 +1030

1446 for today. Thank heavens I got into a groove on my second writing session. I hate to say it, but maybe exercise helped! :oP Hope everyone has had a good day! Keep going!!!!

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Sara Zee — Thu, 02 Feb 2012 10:51:38 +1030

Hi everyone! I was previously signed up for the Jan-Feb edition of 60k/60 days but since I wrote a grand total of zero words in January, I decided to screw it, jump threads, and start over. So here I am. :) I wrote 1870 words today and plan to write more tonight. Still, being unemployed, I have no excuse not to make my daily quota since I have more than enough free time on my hands to churn out 60,000 words. And hopefully some therapeutic noveling can help alleviate the stresses of job hunting! Good luck y'all!

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isethia — Thu, 02 Feb 2012 10:54:29 +1030

I'm guessing based on what other people are saying that we're supposed to check in daily with our progress. I did pretty good today, managing to get 1079 words, which is the best word count I've had all year. More importantly, since I'm trying to use this to finish a story, I've almost finished a chapter. Tomorrow will be more of a challenge, since I have class all morning, and will be spending all evening at the library. (And two hours driving two and from school.)

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Creative — Thu, 02 Feb 2012 11:03:00 +1030

I've only written about 400 words so far today, but I'm planning on writing more when I finish these role-play responses.(Since they've sitting anywhere from 1 month - 1 day, so I decided to go ahead and get them all done so I can just focus on this novel.) Also! I keep missing people in the chatroom. D: I'm basically always in there, but it doesn't make a sound when you sign in, only when you say something. So please, after you sign in say something to get my attention before you decide no ones there. :) ------------------------------ the chatroom: http://tinychat.com/thelg

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Horselover150 — Thu, 02 Feb 2012 12:36:03 +1030

I'm reposting my ticker because my other one is buried. XD

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A.P. Navis — Thu, 02 Feb 2012 13:51:29 +1030

Congrats on a great first day everyone! *Pats on the back and cookies for all* I did well today too, I actually exceeded the goal! 1626 words! I feel accomplished. Just nobody tell my boss that 500 of those were written while I was "working" :-D Gotta love a slow day at work to boost to those word counts! Now I sleep!

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Creative — Thu, 02 Feb 2012 15:31:13 +1030

12:01 Feb 2. Still 400 words. -Needs to get on it- ------------------------------ the chatroom: http://tinychat.com/thelg

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kittymammas — Thu, 02 Feb 2012 15:44:25 +1030

Okay I have never used a chat room...how do I do this?

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whitedove — Thu, 02 Feb 2012 16:18:12 +1030

Quarter to midnight and the 2nd of February. 2700 words written. Not a bad start if I may say so myself. :)

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Creative — Thu, 02 Feb 2012 16:57:07 +1030

Oh goodness. Now at 1:30 in the morning do I get muse...and I should be going to bed. -shot- ------------------------------ the chatroom: http://tinychat.com/thelg

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Creative — Thu, 02 Feb 2012 17:00:07 +1030

Reached my goal for the day, off to bed for me. :D

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Sunshine Cat — Thu, 02 Feb 2012 17:17:30 +1030

Okay, I'm so doing this one (missed out on the Jan + Feb challenge). Starting two days late, but that's hardly much to make up. Let's do this!

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Taelia — Thu, 02 Feb 2012 17:21:13 +1030

I had the 2 normal stories (The ones with everything figured out) in my head for almost 2 years, I just have been having trouble trying to get them onto paper...I am gonna need all the help I can get.

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AdorkablyMe — Thu, 02 Feb 2012 18:20:05 +1030

I think I may just have to wait until camp... I am not doing so hot post op and have been more ill than I like. This is making me sad because I really want to finish my novel and start the next!

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Wragziez — Thu, 02 Feb 2012 22:18:36 +1030

AHHHH!!!! Dang it, I fell asleep at 4 pm and now it's the next day almost 7 am... UGH!!!! I curse sleep right now. Okay, so I'm going to have to do 2000 words today. Okay, I can do this right? Really, I'm hoping I can because I usually procrastinate a lot and write very little.

Re: 60 day/60k A Feb-Mar writing challenge?

MarthaBechtel — Fri, 03 Feb 2012 00:20:37 +1030

Well yesterday was a wash… I got some stuff done, but most of the stuff I did was minor modification to sales copy and that doesn't count (at least not in my book). I'm looking for new words, not edited words. :p So, erm, yes—new goal for today! *grin* 1000k words = 100 words each on the following projects 1. View From the Molehill post on tracking goals with glass pebbles 2. Perish Twice post on Patch 4.3.2 for World of Warcraft 3. "The Wolves We Are" (overdue, arg) 4. "Three Tequila, Floor" (outline) 5. Virginia sales tax post (needs to be done today!!) 6. Unquiet Bones post on creating a non-coffeeshop writing space 7. "Building a Better Mouse" (outline) 8. Live From The Workbench post on the current WiP horses (overdue) 9. Saturday Story Prompts 10. Perish Twice leveling post (overdue) ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Martha.net -- Unquiet Bones (Writing) -- Custom-Models.com (Model Horses) -- Perish Twice (Warcraft) ... because you can never have enough hobbies.

Re: 60 day/60k A Feb-Mar writing challenge?

jswwrites — Fri, 03 Feb 2012 01:13:50 +1030

Good morning all! Looks like people are plowing ahead - awesome! I'm so glad to be writing again. Other than the fact that my (somewhat OCD) mother has fixated on a minor point in my plot summary and so is sending me dozens of email on art history so that I don't destroy the work of a Master, which "just isn't done..." (ahem, Mom, FICTION here...) I'm moving ahead. My husband is tied up this weekend with a high school blast from the past thing with his basketball team, so all I have to do is a few hours with my son's basketball stuff, so it's looking like smooth sailing through Sunday, anyway. So since Puxatawny Phil has said six more weeks of winter (uh...what winter Phil?), I'm hoping to be able to snuggle up with my trusty laptop and get a lot done! Happy writing, WriMos!

Re: 60 day/60k A Feb-Mar writing challenge?

kittymammas — Fri, 03 Feb 2012 01:49:51 +1030

Well I woke up late and was 30 mins late for work, my boss just laughed at me cause I'm NEVER late! But still it has thrown my whole morning out of whack. I'm hoping to get something written early in the day because today is family game night. Pizza, Soda, and my three favorite people in the world. But if not I can stay up a bit later and get the words in. I'm just stuck on a scene, it plays picture perfect in my head but will not come out into words. ""pulls hair out"" UGH! I hope everyone is doing great, I see lots of tickers! Here's to day two!!

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Creative — Fri, 03 Feb 2012 02:18:23 +1030

Onto day two, I have lots of schoolwork today so I'll probably get my writing done tonight. :D Hope everyone's doing well! --------------------------- the chatroom: http://tinychat.com/thelg (Remember to say something after signing in to get my attention!)

Re: 60 day/60k A Feb-Mar writing challenge?

kittymammas — Fri, 03 Feb 2012 05:40:04 +1030

Omg what is wrong with me today? I've barely written 500 words!! And once I'm home, in another few hours, I can't write till late. I swear I'm gonna have to ban myself from these forums LOL. I hope everyone else is doing better, if you are, or even if your not...kick me out until I've finished the scene!!

Re: 60 day/60k A Feb-Mar writing challenge?

Horselover150 — Fri, 03 Feb 2012 09:26:12 +1030

Hi all! Well, it's the morning of Feb 3rd over here in Japan, but don't expect my ticker to move forward because I have 5 semester exams to cram for and take before 5 P.M. Wish me luck!

Re: 60 day/60k A Feb-Mar writing challenge?

KaelynAngelfoot — Fri, 03 Feb 2012 10:00:48 +1030

Okay, I'm going to give this a shot, even though I'm working overtime every day and I have no idea which project I'm going to write on. There are several currently burning a hole in my brain and I need to get them out!

Re: 60 day/60k A Feb-Mar writing challenge?

jswwrites — Fri, 03 Feb 2012 10:22:58 +1030

1641 for today. I may get back to it after dinner... but maybe not! I may just have some tea and watch NCIS instead. :oD

Re: 60 day/60k A Feb-Mar writing challenge?

Wragziez — Fri, 03 Feb 2012 10:26:14 +1030

1084 words and need to get to at least 2000. I consider that good for me because that's a lot for me in one day. 2nd day of Febuary then another 1000 words every day. Hopefully I can do this without burning out.

Re: 60 day/60k A Feb-Mar writing challenge?

A.P. Navis — Fri, 03 Feb 2012 12:22:36 +1030

You can do it Wragziez! I advise much chocolate and caffeine to avoid burnouts :) And way to go everyone! Day 2/60 almost done (or already done for those in Japan) I succeeded in staying on par for the second day in a row, Go Me! *insert happy dance here* Currently at 2070 words and I think I'll can write for another hour before my brain starts to shut down. FYI: a 6 strait hour meeting at work is draining. Plus it squashed my on the clock writing time today. Keep at it WriMos!

Re: 60 day/60k A Feb-Mar writing challenge?

whitedove — Fri, 03 Feb 2012 13:28:36 +1030

Bad day. I can't write anything. I'm too tired to stay up any later trying to write. I guess this weekend will be research. Or maybe I will move on to one of my originals.

Re: 60 day/60k A Feb-Mar writing challenge?

lilly32261 — Fri, 03 Feb 2012 13:45:01 +1030

I'm glad I managed to get some extra words in yesterday, because I, too, appear to be incapable of writing today. I blame the wind. 431 words for tonight, and most of that was written on the way home from school. I think I'll try to get some more after I do my homework. (It is truly a sad day when I choose algebra over writing.)

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Sunshine Cat — Fri, 03 Feb 2012 14:08:19 +1030

Bad writing day, and bad day overall. The weather is terrible here, really sets a bad mood. Only got 600 today, and I still need to catch up for starting two days late. There's still time, but my motivation is dry already. I really do need word count graphs. Actually, that gives me an idea. Time to make a word count graph of my own on excel!

Re: 60 day/60k A Feb-Mar writing challenge?

Angryman — Fri, 03 Feb 2012 14:58:45 +1030

Well, it feels like the creative juices are starting to flow again in my body, so maybe I'll be able to stop procrastinating and finally get back to writing tonight.

Re: 60 day/60k A Feb-Mar writing challenge?

Sara Zee — Fri, 03 Feb 2012 15:42:14 +1030

Well, I hit 3020 today which isn't all that impressive really. :( I was definitely hoping to do more... Since I'm planning to have three painfully impacted wisdom teeth removed Monday, I've been chomping down on Vicodin like a fiend. Thankfully, it helps dull the pain, but it leaves my head all fuzzy, and I'm sure my prose is far from sparkling...

Re: 60 day/60k A Feb-Mar writing challenge?

Horselover150 — Fri, 03 Feb 2012 18:19:50 +1030

Hi all! I'm back from the jaws of Hades....Err, what I mean is that I have successfully completed all 5 of my exams! Now onto my writing!

Re: 60 day/60k A Feb-Mar writing challenge?

Horselover150 — Fri, 03 Feb 2012 19:53:21 +1030

Wow, I am still shocked that I was able to get almost 900 words written today, and it is only about 6:30 in the evening, so there is still hope!

Re: 60 day/60k A Feb-Mar writing challenge?

D.F.T.B.A — Fri, 03 Feb 2012 22:04:29 +1030

I didn't start writing until the 2nd (its almost the end of the 3rd here now!) and even then I didn't write much. Currently I've got 1200 words on the novel I started and I wrote 1400 words this morning in stream-of-consciousness, journal-y type stuff (I didn't know I had it in me! I've always hated journaling) Technically that reaches 2600 so I could write just 400 words more tonight to be back on track, but I'm not sure that I wan't to count my free-writing journal-y stuff towards my goal. I kind of wanted to focus on my novel, and I just don't seem to be able to write even 1k a day consistently. I've never been able to stick to any kind of writing schedule for more than 3 days in a row before burning myself out, and I've never completed NaNo because of it. I think maybe I'm starting too big in regards to my word count. So I think I might have to drop my goal down to 30k/60days. I guess I'll see how I go this weekend.

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Wragziez — Sat, 04 Feb 2012 02:40:01 +1030

Gah!!!! ;( I keep on procrastinating and I've only wrote a little over 1100 words! Need to get to 3000 words today. Someone please give me some motivation! Please?! :(

Re: 60 day/60k A Feb-Mar writing challenge?

Creative — Sat, 04 Feb 2012 09:51:10 +1030

I didn't write at all yesterday...and I'm just starting at 6:30pm now for today. Hopefully, I get some kind of inspiration and can write a lot today. :) ------------------------- the chatroom: http://tinychat.com/thelg

Re: 60 day/60k A Feb-Mar writing challenge?

jswwrites — Sat, 04 Feb 2012 10:25:23 +1030

1447 today, 4534 so far. My goal is 1500 a day, so I'm a whole 34 ahead of the game! yippee!! :o) I also spent several hours editing my NaNo novel, and will probably spend a couple more tonight, as my hubby is at a high school basketball team reunion thing. I'm hoping to get this in-depth edit done by the end of next week and start querying... yikes. (The current novel is a sequel.) Good luck everyone, and have a great Friday night!

Re: 60 day/60k A Feb-Mar writing challenge?

Horselover150 — Sat, 04 Feb 2012 10:48:14 +1030

Hey all! Saturday morning over here in Japan! I'm still amazed that I managed to get more than a thousand words done yesterday. O.O I thought that I wouldn't get anything done at all.

Re: 60 day/60k A Feb-Mar writing challenge?

Wragziez — Sat, 04 Feb 2012 12:54:15 +1030

Okay you guys. I'm sorry but I'm backing out. O_O :( I just, I usually like deadlines and similar things to it, but I just can't right now. I'm sorry for giving up. Nothing's going on right now to cause me to back out, I just don't want to right now. But now I know that I'm going to try to write at least a few hundred words per day. I wish everyone who's participating good luck for the rest of these months and I'll still be checking on here every hour to give everyone a good kicking when they need it! :)

Re: 60 day/60k A Feb-Mar writing challenge?

lilly32261 — Sat, 04 Feb 2012 12:55:13 +1030

Today was better, I managed to get 1,547 words, but my ticker disappeared so I don't know my total word count anymore. :( I'll open the other document later, I suppose.

Re: 60 day/60k A Feb-Mar writing challenge?

Horselover150 — Sat, 04 Feb 2012 15:43:24 +1030

Achoo! Sorry, that was just me sneezing from the dust that I have stirred up as I have been going though my stuff in preparation for our move. I would like to be writing, but I have to get this done sometime. :( It is ammazing how many things you find when you start going through our stuff. Old books....Japanese homework that I never finished. :P

Re: 60 day/60k A Feb-Mar writing challenge?

whitedove — Sat, 04 Feb 2012 15:52:28 +1030

So, it's 40 minutes until the 4th. I've written 1006 words for a total of 3706. I was hoping to write more tonight, but about the time I hit 1k, I just stopped feeling it. Oh well. This is a good spot to stop anyway. I need to do some research before I can go much further anyway. Well, it's research I already did, but didn't both to read. XP

Re: 60 day/60k A Feb-Mar writing challenge?

Seafarer — Sun, 05 Feb 2012 02:08:02 +1030

Joining 4 days late... that means, what, 4000 words to write today? -sigh- So starts the catch-up-playing fun... XD

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jswwrites — Sun, 05 Feb 2012 10:03:26 +1030

Done for the day - 1654, so 6388 total. I used to have a ticker... but I lost it. So I just have to do it the old fashioned way! Have a good night, y'all!

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Angryman — Sun, 05 Feb 2012 10:36:09 +1030

I'm feeling frustrated and stressed out. Which is good for my novels. My writing tends to be a stress relief for me.

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Sunshine Cat — Sun, 05 Feb 2012 12:40:31 +1030

I don't know what I was thinking doing this while moving house at the same time. Missed the whole day yesterday looking after my little brother and cleaning things out in my room, and only got 1700 words so far. Oh boy, I have got to stop complaining in this thread! Ignore the babble there, I love my novel and really should be writing right now while I have the chance. Good luck to everyone here!

Re: 60 day/60k A Feb-Mar writing challenge?

whitedove — Sun, 05 Feb 2012 16:33:10 +1030

It is now midnight. I have written 2613 words for a grand total of 6319! :) But it is midnight now, so I can just keep writing tonight! Here's to a higher word count tomorrow (which is already today)!

Re: 60 day/60k A Feb-Mar writing challenge?

Sunshine Cat — Sun, 05 Feb 2012 18:37:09 +1030

Okay, managed 1300 today, for a total of...3000. But hey, better than yesterday! I finished boxing most of the things in my room also, so I should be a bit less busy until the actual move, which is pretty sweet.

Re: 60 day/60k A Feb-Mar writing challenge?

whitedove — Sun, 05 Feb 2012 18:50:29 +1030

Got another 2613, for a total of 4618 since the sun went down, a total of 8324 since February started, and one short fanfiction finished. In a rough form anyway. Woot!

Re: 60 day/60k A Feb-Mar writing challenge?

jswwrites — Mon, 06 Feb 2012 07:00:29 +1030

2001 today, 8389 total. I have time to do more, but I'm going to work on editing the NaNo novel instead. Enjoy the Super Bowl (if you're watching!) - or at least enjoy some Super Bowl food. :o)

Re: 60 day/60k A Feb-Mar writing challenge?

kittymammas — Mon, 06 Feb 2012 07:07:08 +1030

Well I'm going to have a lot of catching up to do. We have just been dealing with my four year old daughter having asthma and we had to take an emergency trip Fri. Now we are just trying to get her regulated and back to normal. So I'm not going to start writing again until Monday. Glad everyone else is doing so well!!

Re: 60 day/60k A Feb-Mar writing challenge?

memoriesofwinter — Mon, 06 Feb 2012 08:03:02 +1030

This seems like a wonderful idea! Who cares if I'm a little bit behind schedule? I can catch up. ^^ I'm in!

Re: 60 day/60k A Feb-Mar writing challenge?

iamborg1of1 — Mon, 06 Feb 2012 11:04:02 +1030

I have to brag! I wrote 1828 words today. The most ever. But I want one of those thingys, a ticker someone called it.

Re: 60 day/60k A Feb-Mar writing challenge?

Horselover150 — Mon, 06 Feb 2012 11:16:15 +1030

I didn't update my ticker the last few days. but here it is again.

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A.P. Navis — Tue, 07 Feb 2012 01:00:42 +1030

Bad writing weekend for me! My current total is only about 3000 words. Looking for a little extra every day this week to catch up!! Hope everyone else had a better weekend. Happy Monday and day 6!!

Re: 60 day/60k A Feb-Mar writing challenge?

Nianne — Tue, 07 Feb 2012 03:16:33 +1030

For those needing a little motivation, check out this comic: http://www.jimchines.com/2011/04/comic-amusement/

Re: 60 day/60k A Feb-Mar writing challenge?

kittymammas — Tue, 07 Feb 2012 05:34:08 +1030

I hear ya A. P., it was a very bad weekend for writing for me as well. I wrote a whooping zero words! I had good reason though, a sick four year old who wanted mom 24/7, so I have forgiven myself. Hoping to get at least 2k in tonight after dinner, but between exercising and folding laundry it's still a slim chance. Hope everyone else is doing better than i am on this challenge!

Re: 60 day/60k A Feb-Mar writing challenge?

MarthaBechtel — Tue, 07 Feb 2012 05:38:06 +1030

I'm a few days late, but I'm finally get things written again! :D 2,222 words on The Wolves We Are, which finished up that serial story—only took me, err, 10 months? >.<;; Lots of blog posts in progress today as well as outlining the next serial story, so I might actually catch-up again this week. *crosses fingers* ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Martha.net -- Unquiet Bones (Writing) -- Custom-Models.com (Model Horses) -- Perish Twice (Warcraft) ... because you can never have enough hobbies.

Re: 60 day/60k A Feb-Mar writing challenge?

Ladypamela — Tue, 07 Feb 2012 10:02:15 +1030

I'm in! I had decided to do a Nano-type draft in March, but I can start now and join in the fun! I'm thinking more like 90-100k by March 31, so I'd better get writing! I already have the plot, I just need the kick! I like those tickers, I think I'll head on over and see what I can do!

Re: 60 day/60k A Feb-Mar writing challenge?

lilly32261 — Tue, 07 Feb 2012 12:21:03 +1030

Today was a good day. :) I managed to write a couple thousand and now my word count is 8000 something. Off to go make another ticker!

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KaelynAngelfoot — Tue, 07 Feb 2012 12:31:05 +1030

Making slow progress... 800+ words today. I know its not the 1000 but at least I'm working on it :)

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A.P. Navis — Tue, 07 Feb 2012 14:56:00 +1030

1410 words today for a grand total of 4458/60K! Gotta get back on par, but I'll get there :)

Re: 60 day/60k A Feb-Mar writing challenge?

lilly32261 — Tue, 07 Feb 2012 16:07:46 +1030

I seem to have found the magical button that turns my computer off. Now if only I knew where that magical button was so I could avoid touching it again. In other words, I just screwed myself over so freaking badly. I had my document sitting open on my computer, unsaved. Then my computer decided to turn off. *shakes head* I think I only lost a sentence or two, perhaps a bit of dialouge, because I'm certain that I saved yesterday's document multiple times because it had stuff I needed to look up in it, and I am ninety percent certain that I thought, "I'll leave this document in my email as a draft just in case something blows up in my face." Here's hoping I didn't do anything silly and asinine like deleting the draft that I saved that particular bit of story in.

Re: 60 day/60k A Feb-Mar writing challenge?

Red Queen — Tue, 07 Feb 2012 17:36:08 +1030

Ouch. That's nasty.... I don't know... I've already got a word count of roughly 5000 this months, so I'm not sure if I should still join... I mean, I'm only a thousand words behind (not counting today, it's just 8 am)...

Re: 60 day/60k A Feb-Mar writing challenge?

Sunshine Cat — Tue, 07 Feb 2012 19:28:44 +1030

Reporting in with my daily 1000. School has just started for me, but I shouldn't be too busy until later. Good writing to everyone!

Re: 60 day/60k A Feb-Mar writing challenge?

Ladypamela — Wed, 08 Feb 2012 04:10:02 +1030

It feels good to finally start something!

Re: 60 day/60k A Feb-Mar writing challenge?

jswwrites — Wed, 08 Feb 2012 09:38:23 +1030

1857 today, total of 12,016. And I'm starting to get in the groove, which is good!

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Sara Zee — Wed, 08 Feb 2012 14:28:04 +1030

Just checking in at 6498. I'm a little bit behind schedule, but since I had surgery yesterday, I can forgive myself. Onwards we go >>>

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lilly32261 — Wed, 08 Feb 2012 16:22:50 +1030

1,523 for the day. Now I can get some sleep. :)

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Horselover150 — Wed, 08 Feb 2012 21:54:37 +1030

Hey everyone! Now, I realize that this really has relatively little to do with my novel, but I passed the Level 3 Japanese Language Proficiency Test!! Whoop! Whoop! I am so excited!

Re: 60 day/60k A Feb-Mar writing challenge?

kittymammas — Thu, 09 Feb 2012 05:20:40 +1030

Okay life, where is your pause button so I can actually sit and think for a moment and possibly get some words down! I lost my ticker but I'm only at 4k for the month, lots to catch up on. I'm hoping for at least a good hour of writing time tonight...we will see though. Glad to see everyone (well mostly everyone...I feel your pain....) keeping up with the words we need to write. oh and @horselover, that is awesome to hear! And your word count looks great! Keep it up! @jswrites, ah you put me to shame, haha, but I'm so happy for you. I think that first 10k is the hardest as well. Okay well, back to work for me so hopefully I can clear my desk and write some today.

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Ladypamela — Thu, 09 Feb 2012 09:26:14 +1030

Off to a slow, disjointed start, but at least I'm writing every day!

Re: 60 day/60k A Feb-Mar writing challenge?

kittymammas — Thu, 09 Feb 2012 13:12:54 +1030

My new ticker since I'm currently about as slow as a dang turtle...okay off to writing!

Re: 60 day/60k A Feb-Mar writing challenge?

Horselover150 — Thu, 09 Feb 2012 13:49:55 +1030

Here's my ticker again, it got buried. u.u I am a few hundred words behind, but that's ok. :D

Re: 60 day/60k A Feb-Mar writing challenge?

kittymammas — Thu, 09 Feb 2012 14:21:15 +1030

Okay, got 1147 words tonight. I'm still behind but I'm going to go ahead and say I did good =) Got a scene I have been having some trouble with down so that's an accomplishment of its own. Night all.

Re: 60 day/60k A Feb-Mar writing challenge?

jswwrites — Fri, 10 Feb 2012 00:08:37 +1030

I finished editing my NaNo novel yesterday - so happy that's done! And (barely) got my goal for the new one done (2 whole words over). I was brain dead, but that's ok! [url=http://www.TickerFactory.com/counter/wmhlgqR/] [img]http://tickers.TickerFactory.com/ezt/t/wmhlgqR/counter.png[/img] [/url]

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kittymammas — Fri, 10 Feb 2012 00:55:55 +1030

Dang! You just finished editing your nano novel?? Your insanely productive for the average person. Okay where are you hiding your slave clones? And who cares if its just two words over at least your on point and that is something! I wrote a bit last night but unfortunately have to take my little one to the DR today, her asthma is really acting up and she is now in her danger zone despite all her medication. I really hope I don't end up in the ER today, wish me luck

Re: 60 day/60k A Feb-Mar writing challenge?

A.P. Navis — Fri, 10 Feb 2012 02:22:13 +1030

Aghhh! I have allowed myself to get REALLY distracted the last 2 days with other crafty type projects and now I'm quite behind on the writing. Bad girl! I'll be sending myself to the corner today (with my lap top of course! And coffee!). Anyone else need to join me in writer's time-out? Goal for the week, get caught up by Sunday night! I may have to banish myself from the internet until then, but hopefully I will have good things to report when I return...

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Creative — Fri, 10 Feb 2012 03:35:48 +1030

Oh wow. o.o Haven't been on this in a while. I may write this weekend when I get some time...

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Creative — Fri, 10 Feb 2012 03:36:53 +1030

By the way, the chatroom: http://tinychat.com/thelg Haven't been on that in a while either. :x

Re: 60 day/60k A Feb-Mar writing challenge?

jswwrites — Fri, 10 Feb 2012 09:30:42 +1030

Going to the movies with my son in a bit. I've been wanting to see a movie for two months but there's nothing showing that I really want to see. I love the Stephanie Plum books, so we're going to give "One for the Money" a shot, although I'm not too confident from the trailer. But... we'll see, and it'll be fun. Have a good night, y'all!

Re: 60 day/60k A Feb-Mar writing challenge?

Horselover150 — Fri, 10 Feb 2012 13:03:51 +1030

Well, I managed to get over the 10k goal. Yippee! But it's only 11:30 A.M. O.o so I'll probably write a lot more today. But that's ok, it helps to get ahead, that way I don't get all anxious and upset when I can't write for a few days. Btw, I won't be able to write very much, at least not update my ticker, on Feb 22-24 because we are getting our household goods packed out and the movers will be here. x__x

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lilly32261 — Fri, 10 Feb 2012 13:41:25 +1030

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kittymammas — Fri, 10 Feb 2012 14:49:00 +1030

I haven't written anything tonight but the day is yet to be over. On word to my word document!

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whitedove — Fri, 10 Feb 2012 15:41:21 +1030

Well, I only wrote 781 words today, but that is more than I have written for days, and I am still technically on schedule at 9105 (it's still the 9th here, for another fifty minutes at least). I would like to write some more, but I am low on energy and high on things to do in the morning. Even without work. *sigh*

Re: 60 day/60k A Feb-Mar writing challenge?

Red Queen — Fri, 10 Feb 2012 23:42:14 +1030

Okay guys, I'm officially in. Nothing motivates me like a good challenge^^ Counted everything I've written since Feb 1st, and turns out I'm actually a little ahead. Which isn't so bad, since I have a four-week internship ahead; 8 hours a days, five days a week, and no pay. How is that even legally possible? -.- Aaanyway, I love shiny things, so here's my shiny new ticker :)

Re: 60 day/60k A Feb-Mar writing challenge?

kittymammas — Sat, 11 Feb 2012 01:22:41 +1030

I only wrote about 300 words last and it wasn't in my novel but rather a good outline of the next scene. My daughter's getting worse and I'm looking for a second opinion on her today. I'm hoping to get a hold of her actual DR instead of another nurse practitioner who wants to treat her like any other kid with a cough. Her danger zone starts at 70 and yesterday she was at 75, now she is at 50! Waiting on a call from her DR, hope he calls me very soon or else she will most likely end up in the ER tonight. Grats on all y'alls words counts. Sorry I'm just on here stressing about my baby and not updating much on my ticker, Usually I'm not like this...hoping for things to settle down soon.

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jswwrites — Sat, 11 Feb 2012 09:03:09 +1030

Decided to take the day off. My brain (and the rest of me) is tired! My daughter is on her way home from college for the weekend, so I'm just going to enjoy having her home! Good writing, all!

Re: 60 day/60k A Feb-Mar writing challenge?

Horselover150 — Sat, 11 Feb 2012 22:33:43 +1030

Hey everyone! It's around 9 P.M. of the 11th of February here in Tokyo right now. It is amazing how quickly the month of February and the year of 2012 is flying. Sometimes I wish that I could grab time and say "Stop!" Ever felt this way before?

Re: 60 day/60k A Feb-Mar writing challenge?

Horselover150 — Sat, 11 Feb 2012 23:09:04 +1030

Well, I just wrote over a thousand words with the writtenkitten.net website. For me, it's not so much the pictures of the kittens as it is the fact that there is not much to distract me. No fonts to play with, no clip art to insert, just me, my keyboard, my novel, and a picture of a kitten. :P

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whitedove — Sun, 12 Feb 2012 03:55:01 +1030

Wow, the 11th is already finished over there? This dramatic time zone differences keep weirding me out. One hour I am so used to I don't even think about it any more, but it is only noon of the 11th here. And thank goodness too. I didn't write a single word yesterday (between trying to get my tags and title transferred to Missouri, and going down to the comic book shop to meet the local Magic the Gathering people (Yes, I am that big of a nerd) I really didn't have mush time for anything else). So I need to write 2k today to stay on track. After I go figure out what the heck is going on with my AT&T bill. Sometimes I hate being an adult. :(

Re: 60 day/60k A Feb-Mar writing challenge?

lilly32261 — Sun, 12 Feb 2012 07:56:16 +1030

The router died last night, so I managed to get a couple thousand written between yelling at the internet and trying my best not to have my computers duel to the death via being thrown at each other. That, and I finally figured out why my MMC got framed. :)

Re: 60 day/60k A Feb-Mar writing challenge?

kittymammas — Sun, 12 Feb 2012 08:52:36 +1030

Hey everyone, I'm sooo behind. I'm thinking about pulling myself out of this challenge with all that is going on with my little one I can't think of anything else but her care. We went to her actual Dr and she had an attack right there in his office. He said I was right to trust my instinct and call him when the other DR said she would be fine. He told me that her cough is all from her asthma not being controlled and had nothing to do with an kind of sickness. She is now on breathing treatments every four hours, a doubled dose of steroid and of course her inhaler. She is still in the caution zone but its better then the danger zone. Once she gets back up into the green I'll do my best to get back to upping the word count. Cheering you all on!

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Horselover150 — Sun, 12 Feb 2012 10:32:27 +1030

Well, I don't have time to update my ticker right now, but I will later. I just did two short word wars with a friend and I got 1289 words! Whoohoo!

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jswwrites — Sun, 12 Feb 2012 12:02:46 +1030

Long day - son's basketball, a baby shower, making cheesecake and dinner (you see the order of my priorities), and now writing. But my brain did agree to go along with the program, so I got my words in.

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memoriesofwinter — Sun, 12 Feb 2012 13:19:45 +1030

I just barely got 1,000 words in. My brain feels like it's about ready to die. I should have started writing again a long, long time ago.

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lilly32261 — Sun, 12 Feb 2012 13:41:15 +1030

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whitedove — Sun, 12 Feb 2012 15:59:31 +1030

484 words for a grand total of 9589. And the fact that I just accidentally posted that in the wrong thread should tell you why I am not writing any more tonight. Oh well. I don't have anything that I have to do tomorrow (at least not that I have thought of yet) so I should be able to spend the whole day think about writing. And hopefully a little time actually doing it ;). I haven't decided if I am going to count outlining in my word count. If I am, I'll get to go back and count a hand-written page or two from a few days ago. The boost might be nice. What do you guys think? Should I count outlining as working on the story?

Re: 60 day/60k A Feb-Mar writing challenge?

Angryman — Sun, 12 Feb 2012 20:51:17 +1030

Okay, everyone, I decided I'm going to call it quits on the writing challenge (at least for now). I'm not saying I'm done writing, far from it. However, I realize that my writing style goes from long stretches of writing followed by long stretches of, uh, not writing (in this case, that would be reading). I will check in, though, and see how everyone else is doing, and give encouragement and suggestions as needed. When I finish my book, I may jump back on my writing, so I may rejoin you guys later on. I may not meet the 60k challenge, but I'll see how far I can get.

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jswwrites — Mon, 13 Feb 2012 11:55:01 +1030

I had a BUSY day, didn't get started writing til 7pm. I'm almost glad the weekend is over - it was busier than my week, for sure!

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kittymammas — Mon, 13 Feb 2012 13:15:52 +1030

Thanks for all the prayers and well wishes and permisson to come and stress to you all. I have good and better news! The better news is that my little one has been doing pretty good and even made it into the green zone on her asthma, just barely above the line but way better then being in the red zone. And the good news is that I wrote!! YAY...I got a nice 1604 words down tonight. Might write some more later after everyone's in bed but at least I got a bit further on my goal.

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Sunshine Cat — Mon, 13 Feb 2012 13:48:07 +1030

Congrats, kittymammas, that's great news! As for what's going on in my life...I've kind of given up trying to catch up, I'm just going to do the challenge at my own pace. That is, 800 words a day. I guess it's not much different, but it certainly looks less intimidating. It's just not the same when you don't feel like you HAVE to do the daily word count (unlike NaNo, when you face shame for a year after if you fail xD)

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A.P. Navis — Mon, 13 Feb 2012 14:08:51 +1030

Well, my goal of catching up this weekend didn't go quite as planned. I did some writing, but as usual life and my laziness got in the way. I did get some done though, I'm up to 7273, so it's definitely still do-able! And I may still add some writing to it tonight. Hope everyone had a good weekend! And I'm so glad to hear your little one is doing better kittymammas!!! I know how scary asthma is, I've had it my whole life as well. Nothing is worse than the feeling of not being able to breathe...except possibly watching your child go through it! Sending happy thoughts your way :)

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whitedove — Mon, 13 Feb 2012 15:15:42 +1030

Wrote 3241 words today (only about five hundred of which were outline!) for a total of 13236! Not my best day ever and not quite what I was hoping for, but the best so far this month and I am back on track! Woot!

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finchgeam — Tue, 14 Feb 2012 00:55:42 +1030

[url=http://www.TickerFactory.com/counter/weZfkr9/] [img]http://tickers.TickerFactory.com/ezt/t/weZfkr9/counter.png[/img] [/url] I just started today ... o.O I've missed out on 13 days ... dam! had I only found this sooner *pulls up sleaves* Well.. gotta get moving...

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whitedove — Tue, 14 Feb 2012 13:51:45 +1030

1320 for a total of 14556! :) (That makes two days in a row. Wooh!)

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finchgeam — Tue, 14 Feb 2012 23:04:03 +1030

I wrote 1655 words yesterday o.O'' Actually I counted that I only have to write 1200 words a day to reach my goal o.O''' This is less stressful than NaNo.... especially since I'm actually just rewriting my NaNo from last year ...

Re: 60 day/60k A Feb-Mar writing challenge?

kittymammas — Wed, 15 Feb 2012 02:03:20 +1030

Nice going! Anything over 1k is such a great day I think. I only wrote 228 last night, but I'm okay with that. I had to do valentine's stuff and with two little girls this meant hours of stickers, glitter and candy...okay I admit...I had fun haha. I'm waiting to update my ticker until I finish the scene I started, hopefully tonight.. but it is Valentines and my husband said he actually made some plans! I about passed out, this will be the 2nd out of the nine years we've been together that he did something on Valentines so I'm pretty excited. Hope you all are having a great day, this week has been my best yet in quite sometime!

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jswwrites — Wed, 15 Feb 2012 02:18:15 +1030

No writing yesterday. I wasn't feeling well. Had some blood work done, so hope to get those back today. But at least I don't feel like my brain is disconnected from my body today, so that's a hopeful sign. I'm now behind, but if I can get 3000 done today I'll be on track (my goal is 1500 a day). In NaNo I could do that easily but without the adrenaline of November, we'll see! I have so much research to do, too... but my female MC was just kidnapped, so I should be able to ride that out awhile!

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jswwrites — Wed, 15 Feb 2012 11:02:38 +1030

I was hoping to get caught up today, but didn't happen. I did meet my one-day goal though, so I'm happy.

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kittymammas — Wed, 15 Feb 2012 13:27:32 +1030

Okay, after being showered with roses, sharing a romantic meal alone with my hubby and spoiling my girls with candy they dont need..I'm ready to write. I've been thinking about it all day which is odd for me so I'm hoping on a big word count. See you all in a bit.

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lilly32261 — Wed, 15 Feb 2012 13:59:33 +1030

I'm still trying to figure out if this stress thing is good or bad for my writing. I'm skipping days, but when I sit down and write, I don't get as distracted as easily. However, my FMC is now having severe mood swings, because I can't stand writing her as happy when I'm worried about testing and next week's experimental schedule (because taking away one of our lunches and feeding us an hour and a half later than usual is a good idea... not to mention the part where we're expected to share our lunch with half of the grade below us). At least it's a writing test and not the standardized ones. :/ Assuming I manage to get a decent amount of sleep tomorrow night I'll be fine. Other than the 2,000 character limit. (Once you hit 2,000 characters you can't add anything else unless you take stuff out.) I wish I had the test tomorrow instead of Thursday so I could get it done and over with. Then there's the part where I'm torn between not writing until after the test, and writing more. On one hand, writing more can't exactly help anything because writing this essay thingy will be worlds apart from writing fiction, but writing can't hurt. Admittedly, I've done pretty well on the practice proficiencies (great, and Google won't admit that's a word), but it's going to be different when it's the official one, and what if I get there and can't write this essay because I want to work on my novel instead? What then? I can't just write it on paper and hope for the best, because they're going to take all of our papers at the end, and and and.... Okay, end rant. I've run out of things to say, and I feel considerably better. :)

Re: 60 day/60k A Feb-Mar writing challenge?

kittymammas — Wed, 15 Feb 2012 15:00:22 +1030

okay, 1392 tonight. Not bad, not bad. I could have done more but I'm at a scene I think I need a bit more time to think through before I write it.

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whitedove — Wed, 15 Feb 2012 16:12:02 +1030

No words for me today. Went into work with 2 projects. Left with six. Had to have my front tires taken off and put back on because they were put on wrong when I got my brakes repaired Friday. Tried to buy groceries and had my card declined. I spent about an hour panicking before someone suggested I call the number on the back of the card (who'd a thunk it?) and they told me the machine I tried to charge through wasn't working and everything to do with my account was fine. And now I am only going to get four hours of sleep. Again. :( At least I was a little ahead, so I am not falling behind again. Yet.

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Sunshine Cat — Wed, 15 Feb 2012 18:49:50 +1030

That really sucks whitedove, I don't blame you. Still, the great thing about NaNo or any similar challenges is that it's a personal challenge! Sometimes you just don't have the time to write, and there isn't any time around it. In other news, I actually managed to catch up, despite a few distractions. I'm moving house in a few days, but everything should be ready and packed. So now I'm sitting at 15k, pretty happy.

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A.P. Navis — Fri, 17 Feb 2012 00:58:45 +1030

So, I made myself a little spreadsheet/graph to track my progress visually, 'cause I'm like that, and I have discovered a pattern. I write well for 2 days then write nothing the next 2, hmm I wonder why that is? As a result, I am very behind! I haven't even broken 10,000 yet. There are plenty of days left though, so I'm not giving up hope. 60K is still my goal, I just need to break my pattern. And even if I don't make it I am happy with what I have written and that's what it's all about right?

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kittymammas — Fri, 17 Feb 2012 09:51:34 +1030

Got 1200 words today, nothing yesterday, but I'm moving along slowly but surely. I just recently got a request to make alternate endings (since most people don't agree with my original one) and I got the other one..the happy one..down on paper today! I usually wouldn't take any requests (its my dang story) but she is the one who inspired me to try nano in the first place. She deserves her happy ending and I'm quite fond of the idea that it can be either or.

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lilly32261 — Fri, 17 Feb 2012 09:58:41 +1030

I'm probably not going to get anything written today unless I count my 1, 945 character writing proficiency. I don't have a clue how many words though... :/ Ugh. My brain is completely shot, and I don't want to go to piano, but my family is being loud and irritating and I can't deal with that right now. I think I'll get at least a three (meets standards) on the test though, so that's always good. Not as great as a 4 (exceeds standards) but I'll live.

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jswwrites — Fri, 17 Feb 2012 11:59:44 +1030

Just finished for the day. I really don't writing this late, my brain seems to be broken. But... I got it done, so if it's crap, it's crap! My son has a basketball tournament tomorrow, so no idea when/if I'll get to write. It depends on how they do. We'll see!

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Horselover150 — Fri, 17 Feb 2012 12:22:42 +1030

Wow, I just realized that I hadn't written or posted in a few days. O.o Unfortunately, it will be much of the same next week. Good luck everyone!

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A.P. Navis — Fri, 17 Feb 2012 13:44:48 +1030

Guess who finally crossed the 10K mark <

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Angryman — Fri, 17 Feb 2012 19:56:09 +1030

So, it's February 17th. ...It took me this long to get started writing in February? Well, at least I wrote a little bit. 538 words. Better than nothing. And before anyone asks, no, I haven't finished Snuff yet. I just felt like writing tonight after listening to my mp3 player.

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jswwrites — Sat, 18 Feb 2012 12:18:36 +1030

No writing today - just basketball! I did find out I'm anemic, hence the extreme tiredness, so hopeful that, once supplements kick in, I will have a lot more energy. No plans for the weekend, though... so looking forward to some good work!

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kittymammas — Sat, 18 Feb 2012 16:56:24 +1030

Well I'm getting sleepy so I'm off for the night. I got in 1064 words today so that was nice, and I hit 10k. I also figured out I have just four more scenes to write to be finished with my first draft. I'm excited!

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lilly32261 — Sun, 19 Feb 2012 16:50:31 +1030

Hit the 32k mark, or at least that's what my current word counter of choice claims. It's probably terrible, but I need to get this WIP done so I can move on with my life... Well, until it comes time to edit, that is. Now off to bed with me, before I murder my computer for not staying connected to the internet.

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jswwrites — Mon, 20 Feb 2012 05:01:01 +1030

Oh man, love when a plan comes together (esp when I didn't actually HAVE a plan!). Finally got my location research going today, and long story blah blah blah, but I'm going to be able to connect all my locations (even weird ones) with Greek mythology. Sweeeeeet! I haven't written yet (not counting the pages and pages of notes I've taken) but at least I know where I'm headed from here and why. Happy day!

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lilly32261 — Mon, 20 Feb 2012 11:43:45 +1030

I just fixed my gaping plot hole! :D Now I can happily continue and hopefully finish this novel before the end of the month! :)

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kittymammas — Mon, 20 Feb 2012 13:20:10 +1030

Well, It's been a long sad weekend for me! I only have four scenes left to finish my first draft and I planned on finishing this weekend...however yesterday night, about this time, my laptop crashed on me! It turns on but the screen is completely black?? I have techs at my work who will tell me whats wrong and I really hope I didn't lose my novel. Thankfully I have most of it in my email...but I also have at least 10k that isn't and it's really depressing, almost makes me want to give up. My loving husband tried to hook up everything to my laptop to show me its just the screen out and the hard drive and all my words are safe and sound but it didn't work. So he thinks its the video card. Thankfully he had his desk top he never uses in storage and he set it all up for me tonight. I'm really hoping though that my laptop is fixable. This probably sounds dumb but I have a bond with my laptop, I write the best on it and other computers just feel different. Anyways, so no word count update, but a very clean house. I clean when I'm upset, everything including the animals got my wrath today. I'm happy to see all the updated word counts!!

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finchgeam — Tue, 21 Feb 2012 02:01:40 +1030

I've been REALLY lazy o.O'' Done nothing for the past 4 days. Ok, that's not really true, I've been writing... a little on 750words.com but besides that nothing x.X

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kittymammas — Tue, 21 Feb 2012 06:50:10 +1030

Well the diagnosis is in. It's my video card and it will be better to buy a brand new laptop then try and replace it. Thankfully they pulled everything off of my old one and are holding it till I get a new one. I really loved my laptop and I'm pretty bummed out that she is a goner...but I suppose I will be able to fall in love again. No word count update, I've been trying to understand computer stats...I'm so lost. I've found a few, I really liked my dell but pretty much everyone has advised me not to get another. So I've been checking out HP...Hoping to write tonight but I'm dreading it on the desk top.

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Angryman — Tue, 21 Feb 2012 15:50:16 +1030

I forgot to mention that I am SO CLOSE to finishing Snuff. I almost attempted to finish it last night, but decided I didn't feel like trying to pull off an all-nighter. But I might have done it anyways, seeing how it was 5 in the morning when I did fall asleep. Anyhow, once I finish Snuff, I should be writing more. I've got about 80-90 pages left, so... Why am I still online?

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Nighttime.Breeze — Tue, 21 Feb 2012 20:42:39 +1030

Hi... uh, I just found the page and... well, can I still join? :D I'd really like some motivation/chats/writing buddies/butt kicking, mainly beacause I've planned to write 30K in March. That's exactly as much as all of you wanted to do, right?

Re: 60 day/60k A Feb-Mar writing challenge?

Angryman — Wed, 22 Feb 2012 11:11:09 +1030

Well, like I posted up above, I finished reading Snuff, so I should be able to get back to writing. I'm not expecting to get a whole lot written, but I'll see what I can do.

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jswwrites — Wed, 22 Feb 2012 11:57:43 +1030

Well, the ticker factory thing isn't working (keeps saying "session halted"), but I have 27,337. I'm fine for the 60k/60, but since my goal is 90k in 60, I'm about 4000 words behind. BUT... I'll make it up eventually! I've been on the iron supplements since Friday, so hoping to see an increase in energy this week or next, which will really help. Right now just getting through my regular day stuff is wiping me out and making me have to have a couple of hours of down time in the afternoon. When I get that time back, I hope I'm wise enough to use it for writing!

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Angryman — Wed, 22 Feb 2012 21:30:03 +1030

Well, after tonight, I'm now at a whopping 754 words. It would probably be more, but one of my FMCs is trying to find the right words. She's speechless, since it turns out that the frantic message left on her phone left by the MMC isn't some noisy hoax, and the MMC is now MIA. I want to write some more by jumping stories, but it's 3 in the morning, and for once, I actually have a place to be later today. And I'll have to be up by 8, which sucks, since I can't sleep at night hardly anymore.

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Nighttime.Breeze — Thu, 23 Feb 2012 03:31:06 +1030

First day and I'm already behind.... what a great start! :D But (thanks to writeordie.com) I will make it up this evening, at least I hope so. My MC, on the other hand, constantly bitches about me being "way to fast". He's kinda a lazy dude, who'd rather chill at his computer than being chased by some creepy japanese guys... poor MC, I'm not gonna listen to your advice any more! Does anyone else have these kind of problems/talks with his characters? Or am I finally going crazy?

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kittymammas — Thu, 23 Feb 2012 05:14:11 +1030

I really need to ban myself from the forums until I get some writing done. I'm so so behind!

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jswwrites — Thu, 23 Feb 2012 12:14:55 +1030

I just cannot get ticker factory to work for me anymore. Maybe it's a Safari thing, it just keeps saying Session Halted. So here's a different one (I hope!) 28854 / 90000 words. 32% done!

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whitedove — Thu, 23 Feb 2012 12:28:04 +1030

So, I decided to write 1750 words a day for the rest of the month so that I would be back on track on March 1st (rather than trying to catch up all at once) and I am off to a good start. Got 2088 of outlining (by which I mean ranting about my story in written form) for a new Grand Total of 17092. I went to the Starbucks in the local Barnes and Nobel to write after work, and I think it helped a lot. I was far away from all my other projects that keep demanding attention and distracting things like the internet (I'm not allowed to bring my laptop into work, so I had to write it all by hand, but that's okay). Though it did take a considerable amount of self control to not buy another book.

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kittymammas — Thu, 23 Feb 2012 15:14:12 +1030

Well thank you for the explanation about word wars. I set my timer for thirty minutes and got 520 words out of it! So thats 1405 words for the day, leaves me at 11813/60000. I think ill let myself relax now. Night guys!

Re: 60 day/60k A Feb-Mar writing challenge?

kittymammas — Fri, 24 Feb 2012 05:59:30 +1030

Just added in 728 words, I know I'm not going to catch up before the months over but at least the halfway point (15k) is a reachable goal.

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jswwrites — Fri, 24 Feb 2012 12:37:11 +1030

Ticker factory likes me today. yay! I had a good bit of energy yesterday, not so much today. I know it takes months to get over anemia, and I was so excited to feel more like myself that I'm sure I overdid. BUT, I did get my writing done, and had a good time at our Writers Group this morning. So that's enough!

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lilly32261 — Fri, 24 Feb 2012 12:50:53 +1030

So, after a couple days without writing (I know, I'm ahead, I shouldn't be worried, but it doesn't feel right to skip days) I sat down with my computer. I put on my writing hat, turned on my music, woke up the computer, and realized that I still had an insane number of tabs open, most of which are TV Tropes. ... And suddenly, going through those tabs seems much more important. *headdesk* Well, at least I can see the icons. It's better than last night, when I had sixty-some tabs open.

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Sunshine Cat — Fri, 24 Feb 2012 13:56:17 +1030

Well, haven't reported for a while, I think. Well, it seems like it's been a while. I hit 30k! The energy that was lacking at the start of my novel has built up and seems to be compensating for it's early failure now. I'm full of motivation, and have now settled down in my new house, typing in my new bedroom. Yay.

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whitedove — Sat, 25 Feb 2012 00:44:18 +1030

I only got 97 words yesterday, for a total of 18119 (putting me 385 words behind my catch-up schedule) but I should have a nice, relaxing, three-day weekend to catch up. :) Knock on wood.

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kittymammas — Sat, 25 Feb 2012 01:00:09 +1030

So altogether I got 949 words yesterday, not 1k but I'm okay with that. I changed my goal to be 45k instead of the 60k. I'm sure I could do it if I really needed to but my novel won't need much more and I really just want to focus on finishing her up. Hope every one's having a great Friday...about to snag me a breakfast burrito from the break room and then I suppose do some work ;)

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A.P. Navis — Sat, 25 Feb 2012 06:48:06 +1030

I fell off the writing bandwagon this week, too much other life stuff to do, blah! So I'm still woefully behind, but chugging along. Maybe I'll finally be able to get some writing in this weekend... Glad to see everyone is faring better than me though, way to go everyone!

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kittymammas — Sat, 25 Feb 2012 08:34:22 +1030

Just finished a very brutal scene. I feel the need to take a shower after that fiasco, but it gave me a wonderful 897 words and the first half to the main climax. I'm chugging along and almost to 15k...plan to be there tonight! Let me know what time on Sat "Nighttime Breeze", I'm gearing up for war =)

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Angryman — Sat, 25 Feb 2012 10:22:09 +1030

It's the attack of the plot bunny!!! I don't know why this old idea has been at the forefront of my mind recently, but it has. Simply put, it's all about the superheroes. I've just been imagining superheroes and supervillains in my area. So much potential there, but I need to come up with more superheroes, supervillains, and what I've been calling supercivs (civilians with superpowers. They don't fight/commit crimes with their powers). The best part about my area is that there is a community college and dam that I can use for part of the story.

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Angryman — Sat, 25 Feb 2012 21:06:30 +1030

Well, I got in 1058 words in tonight, so that brings me up to 1812. And my speechless FMC found the words to say. By the way, it's really hard to write a police debriefing while listening to Whiskey In Mind by Christian Kane (not familiar with the song? Look it up. It's good!)

Re: 60 day/60k A Feb-Mar writing challenge?

jswwrites — Mon, 27 Feb 2012 04:04:46 +1030

Hoping to cross 35k today. I have nothing to do, and I'm doing even that slowly! haha! If I was counting blog posts, I'd be well ahead, but I'm trying to keep this just the actual novel. If I suddenly add 10k words to my total, though, you'll know I caved.

Re: 60 day/60k A Feb-Mar writing challenge?

Sunshine Cat — Mon, 27 Feb 2012 05:26:24 +1030

Congrats to both of you and good luck with your goals. I wrote 1500 yesterday, but I have a feeling the "Week 3 blues" of NaNo will kick in at least a week after March starts, if not earlier. Eep. I'll do some planning to try counteract that.

Re: 60 day/60k A Feb-Mar writing challenge?

lilly32261 — Mon, 27 Feb 2012 11:30:47 +1030

Finished my WIP. Now I'm not sure where I'm going to get my words from. I guess I'll start including blog posts, Facebook updates, and emails.

Re: 60 day/60k A Feb-Mar writing challenge?

whitedove — Mon, 27 Feb 2012 15:31:00 +1030

Well, my attempt to catch up has officially failed. My long weekend, my best chance of finding the time to write, did not produce a single day's quota for catching up. But, I am not giving up entirely. I am simply going to take my own advice and cut back to a more reasonable goal. I hadn't known what my schedule would be like when I set this one after all: how many hours I would have to work, how much time maintaining an apartment that I'm actually living in, without any help, would take, any of it. So, from this day forward, I am going for 30k by the end of March, or 500 words a day, which puts me nearly two weeks ahead of schedule. Maybe I will make the 60k mark, but I will only be disappointed in myself if I don't make it to 30k. (You believe me right?)

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A.P. Navis — Tue, 28 Feb 2012 02:50:12 +1030

I'm with you whitedove. I was going to use the weekend for a little catch up time, I literally wrote ZERO words! Just knowing how behind I am and how impossible it is to catch up made me want to give up completely. I think a new goal is in order. I don't want to let myself off easy by quitting. 32K sounds like a good number to me. Based on my record so far this month it will still be a challenge (900-ish words a day), but hopefully a more achievable one for me. I may still require some butt kicking though!

Re: 60 day/60k A Feb-Mar writing challenge?

kittymammas — Tue, 28 Feb 2012 04:34:28 +1030

Wow, so many changed tickers! Did I start a trend? haha...I'm just playing guys, I know how it is. I didn't write a single word this weekend. I guess I'm going to have to get my pad and paper out tonight and get crackin. Can't wait for my laptop, I hate writing by hand so much, I'm spoiled. I saw someone had finished their work in progress and I must ask you, how did you do it? I just can't seem to write recently...hmm, I guess I just need to force the few paragraphs and hope the rest starts flowing. Good luck to the rest of you, One month down, one month to go, I hope I can pick things up!!

Re: 60 day/60k A Feb-Mar writing challenge?

littlewisp — Tue, 28 Feb 2012 06:45:50 +1030

Schnikey. I've read over 60k in research for my novel, does that count? >< Once I started, I realized just how utterly unprepared I was for it. On the upside, I've learned a ton about steppes, weather patterns and how landmass affects them, mobile cultures, and a bit about how resources motivated wars and political maneuvering BCE within Inner Eurasia. Which made setup to my story that much more intricate, but. . .I've got 12k written in setting, and about 2k written actual-story wise. Looks like I'm just going to have to do some march madness amount of words. . . . .if I'm satisfied with research in the next two days. On the bright side, I've come to realize that I *really* like history.

Re: 60 day/60k A Feb-Mar writing challenge?

Angryman — Tue, 28 Feb 2012 07:58:53 +1030

And now for something completely different: me in town. This is a bit of a mental recharge for me. Regrettably, I couldn't afford the game I was somewhat hoping to get, but it's still nice to get out of the house. And so, with this psychological recharge, I should be able to do a bit of writing when I get back home. Maybe enough to introduce the big baddies of my story.

Re: 60 day/60k A Feb-Mar writing challenge?

whitedove — Tue, 28 Feb 2012 15:11:45 +1030

Okay, after successfully writing 742 words today, I decided 30k was a little too low. I've written 20k in February, now my goal is to do that again. Only spaced out instead of in bursts. So, the official goal is now 40k by the end of March. Half way there!

Re: 60 day/60k A Feb-Mar writing challenge?

kittymammas — Wed, 29 Feb 2012 00:59:02 +1030

OMG I'm so frustrated! Both of my kids are sick and I feel like my little one with asthma just cant stay well for longer then two weeks! I'm so tired of going to the doctors, waiting on a call from him now. I think she just has the same cough my oldest girl has but with her having asthma, you just never know... I really don't enjoy taking off work, luckily I get paid still but missing a day gets me so behind on the paper work and I feel like I'm letting my boss down cause there's things that she taught only me to do. Ugh!! Why can't things just ever stay calm???? Anyways, on a brighter note, my new laptop should be here tomorrow! Crazy when its wasn't even supposed to ship until March 1st. ..thank goodness cause I'm not a hand writer Oh and last night I got 200 words written Okay, I feel better, thanks for letting me rant and rave

Re: 60 day/60k A Feb-Mar writing challenge?

Red Queen — Wed, 29 Feb 2012 04:20:02 +1030

Holy crap, guys, how on earth do you manage to write stuff when you have a 9-to-5 job, kids and a bunch of pets?! oO I have no idea what I will do if I ever have to get a regular job, let alone if I accidentally procreate... Anyway, thanks to boring news, I'm just a little behind:

Re: 60 day/60k A Feb-Mar writing challenge?

jswwrites — Wed, 29 Feb 2012 10:45:31 +1030

No internet for 2 days, but we're back up and running. I was unable to write yesterday because my MCs are going from Venice to a small Greek island I know nothing about and needed research. So TODAY I will break 35k. For sure. Which will be very happy! Y'all are all doing great -- keep it up!

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aliaswriter — Wed, 29 Feb 2012 11:35:06 +1030

Well, looks like my attempt at Jan-Feb was a big flop. Hopefully I can salvage this by the end of March.

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Sunshine Cat — Wed, 29 Feb 2012 14:21:44 +1030

Up to 35k now! I'm too lazy to get myself a ticker, however. I keep wasting my time watching anime...but it's so addicting. Should do my homework now *goes off*

Re: 60 day/60k A Feb-Mar writing challenge?

Red Queen — Wed, 29 Feb 2012 21:47:01 +1030

Homework is evil - I guess that's why I stopped doing it for the last few years of school... *walks away whistling* So, I'm all alone at the office, no more tasks for now, perfect time to write... so why am I here, posting vauable writing time away? Stop being such good company, will you?^^ ...anyone know how to convince nosy not-quite-coworkers that the fanfic I'm writing is actual work? (And no, it's not an actual job, I don't even get paid, so I don't exactly do much to get something to do here... just another seven days... seven days... uh-oh... seven days... *goes and hides in the kitchen, away from the phone*)

Re: 60 day/60k A Feb-Mar writing challenge?

Angryman — Wed, 29 Feb 2012 22:01:18 +1030

1812+610=more math than I feel like doing right now. Seriously, my word count is now 2422. I think. I'm pretty sure that my word total for tonight is 610. I jumped from one story to another, and I didn't add EVERYTHING from the first story, but I'm pretty sure that's what I ended up counting. Then again, I'm pretty sure I should have gone to bed half an hour ago.

Re: 60 day/60k A Feb-Mar writing challenge?

kittymammas — Thu, 01 Mar 2012 05:53:27 +1030

I just got my new laptop today! It is so nice! I brush my fingers over its keys and I can just feel that its going to be my key to finishing my nano 2011. I'd like to say that I'm going to write till my fingers fall off but unfortunately I am now too sick, thanks a lot kids, and I just want to curl up in bed and take a nap when I get off work.

Re: 60 day/60k A Feb-Mar writing challenge?

whitedove — Thu, 01 Mar 2012 13:14:03 +1030

Well, I was able to write 815 words today, more than passing my daily goal. It was just-- the wrong story. I wasn't able to finish a single word for the story I have been trying to get going again. I've been doing good, at least a few hundred words a day, but today I got nothing. :(

Re: 60 day/60k A Feb-Mar writing challenge?

Sunshine Cat — Fri, 02 Mar 2012 19:49:52 +1030

Wrote about 800 words today, then yarny just suddenly stopped working and wouldn't load! I hope it at least saved...it is supposed to auto-save. Still, I'm annoyed I can't finish this scene though.

Re: 60 day/60k A Feb-Mar writing challenge?

luvinpadfoot — Sat, 03 Mar 2012 06:06:24 +1030

I'm ridiculously behind, but I kept writing most days, even when it was only a hundred words or so. I just broke 11k and I'm hoping for 25k by the end of March. I was able to finish a WIP, though. That made me pretty happy. Congrats on all your word counts, no matter where you are!

Re: 60 day/60k A Feb-Mar writing challenge?

lilly32261 — Sat, 03 Mar 2012 11:47:56 +1030

I'm stuck. As in, I'm between stories and don't know what I should start now. I think I should probably just pick a few prompts and write, but I can't bring myself to. I've finished my series that I've been working on for a couple years, and the ideas have all left. I hope this passes soon. :(

Re: 60 day/60k A Feb-Mar writing challenge?

Angryman — Sat, 03 Mar 2012 21:49:41 +1030

Complex math in progress. Please hold. 656-191=265 386-67=319 319+265+2422=Uh... 319+265=584 42=Life, The Universe, And Everything 584+2422=3006 So I'm currently at 3006 words, with only 584 words tonight. I didn't work on any of my stories, but I figured writing out a character's profile, then interviewing him would count. What can I say, I really can't wait to write my superhero story *just* for Sticky Fingers. Would you believe me if I said he was a good guy?

Re: 60 day/60k A Feb-Mar writing challenge?

whitedove — Mon, 05 Mar 2012 02:39:09 +1030

So, I guess I must have gotten whatever bug was going around last Friday, because I did not write a single word for the first time since I adjusted my word goal. BUT, I just finished adding up the past couple of days' word counts, and it looks like I got a little bit ahead the past week, because I am still on track. I'm supposed to have 23035, and I have 23240. Woot! I was so worried about falling behind again already, especially with such a lower word count, but I'm just fine! That just makes me so freaking happy!

Re: 60 day/60k A Feb-Mar writing challenge?

jswwrites — Mon, 05 Mar 2012 12:02:08 +1030

Had a quiet weekend, and didn't end up writing yesterday, for no apparent reason except that it was 9pm before I thought about it! But since I solved my main plot dilemma I've been moving along pretty well, so I'm happy.

Re: 60 day/60k A Feb-Mar writing challenge?

whitedove — Mon, 05 Mar 2012 22:14:57 +1030

I guess I must have jinxed myself, because I ended up writing all of about one sentence yesterday. I guess that that is better than nothing, and it was nice to spend the day out with friends, but... I'M BEHIND AGAIN!!! Wah! I guess I had better shoot for 1200 words today. :(

Re: 60 day/60k A Feb-Mar writing challenge?

kittymammas — Tue, 06 Mar 2012 05:13:44 +1030

I'm still here! LOL, That cold just had a hold on me and didn't want to let go. Still have the cough and sore throat but doing way better. Unfortunately I have a root canal today...I don't think I'll be writing tonight. I did however write on Friday and got 1060 words in, completed a scene with a nice twist (almost finished and my book is still throwing surprises my way! Love it!) so now I'm at ....

Re: 60 day/60k A Feb-Mar writing challenge?

lilly32261 — Tue, 06 Mar 2012 09:37:16 +1030

Today was a good day. :) I'm pretty sure I got a high A on my algebra test (yeah, I need to finish it, but it was pretty easy and I actually worked through the problems instead of guessing) and I found a new plot to work on. :)

Re: 60 day/60k A Feb-Mar writing challenge?

Angryman — Tue, 06 Mar 2012 17:05:50 +1030

Regrettably, I know for a fact that I will not get any writing done tonight. I need to go to sleep here very soon, so I can get up and take my cat to the vet. She's a Himalayan, which means long, fine hair that mats up too easily, and will probably end up with a "lion cut." Sadly, the lion cut is pretty much the cat equivalent of a poodle cut.

Re: 60 day/60k A Feb-Mar writing challenge?

whitedove — Tue, 06 Mar 2012 22:21:21 +1030

Guess how of the 1200 words I needed got written last night? Nada. Zip. Zilch. It seemed like I had everything else in the world to do. I got a new battery in my truck, a ton of groceries, met a guy in a bar so we could work on a DnD campaign... Which, now we are going to have a bunch of different characters anyway, so that's kinds scrap. Here's to getting 1800 today!

Re: 60 day/60k A Feb-Mar writing challenge?

A.P. Navis — Wed, 07 Mar 2012 01:06:41 +1030

Hi everyone, I feel like I disappeared for a while, but I was finally able to write again! I got in a good 1200 words yesterday for a grand total of 12040. I'm getting there slowly. Sadly, it was not on my goal project, a rewrite of NaNo, but it was writing :) I got seriously infected by this other idea and just had to write some of it down. Questions: Is it really, truly awful to put something away for a while when it just isn't working? Is a guarantee that it will end up an unfinished project forever? Because I really like this idea, I'm in love with it actually! I just think, being my first novel, I'm not ready to write it they way I want to yet (I hope that makes any sense). Anyone else ever had that happen or have I gone mad? Ok, ramble on insecurity over now. Happy writing everyone!

Re: 60 day/60k A Feb-Mar writing challenge?

Angryman — Wed, 07 Mar 2012 19:53:08 +1030

Bad news: distraction hurdles ahead. Today, I got a new game, a new DVD, and a new book. The DVD is The Adventures Of Tintin (season one of the cartoon series), the book is Halo: The Flood (the definitive edition, perfect for a Halo nerd like me), and the game is Soul Calibur 5 (which, despite being a distraction, is good to have. Since one of my projects is a Soul Edge/ Soul Calibur fanfiction, I need to be up to date with the game series). I'll try not to let them distract me too much from my writing. Well, anymore than anything else does.

Re: 60 day/60k A Feb-Mar writing challenge?

kittymammas — Thu, 08 Mar 2012 08:52:04 +1030

So I have been having a pretty good week.. for one, my root canal went really well. I didn't feel a thing and didn't even have any pain when the numbing wore off. And another I've been writing quite a bit, 1,548 words just this week. And since Spring break is right around the corner, my girls will be with some family on Sat and so I'm planning a 10k day, which will more than likely finish off my nano 2011. I'm excited! Hope everyone is doing well!

Re: 60 day/60k A Feb-Mar writing challenge?

jswwrites — Thu, 08 Mar 2012 10:20:21 +1030

I've gotten about half my day's quota done - I'm kicking it up because I am apparently deranged and signed up for Script Frenzy. So if I want any time with a clear head, I need to get this one finished up by about March 23-25, somewhere in there. I've got the time... I've been waiting til after dinner to write ever since the challenge started, so if I just do some during the day, I can easily double my word count. Now, I've found this 2009 doc of the beginning of a novel that I totally forgot about, so I'm thinking Camp Nano? (**WHY am I doing this to myself!**) I'll be out of the country almost all of May, so I could do Camp NaNo in June and finish that novel (I've only done 3000 words or less, so that's only slightly rebel-ish, right?). I really do better with the deadlines and challenges... But thinking about it gives me a stomach cramp!

Re: 60 day/60k A Feb-Mar writing challenge?

whitedove — Thu, 08 Mar 2012 12:03:53 +1030

:( The week three (or rather week six) blues have set in. I have been meeting my word goals. I even got the 1800 to get caught up the other day, largely due to putting a word processing app called Werdsmyth on my iphone so that I can write during my breaks at work even though we aren't allowed to have personal computers (I do waaay better typing, even when it is arguably texting). But, it has all been one long train of thought rant about my story that I am calling an outline. And I am still completely lost about how I am going to get from the beginning to the end. So, you know, the entire story is missing. I am kind of thinking about moving on to another story and letting this one stew, but it has stewed for over a year now (this is my Nano2010) and I am not sure what story to move on to. The ones I am thinking about the most are all going to require extensive research that I don't have the time for. So, if I start one of those, unless I count notes, I am not going to be able to finish out the challenge. If I stay with it, I am kind of to the point that I need to do some world building, of the sketching maps and downloading recipes variety, so I still might not be able to finish out the month. And on top of all of this writerly angst, we've been overwhelmed at work so I kind of just want to lay my head down and fall asleep where I am, here on the living room floor. And things had been going so well for a week there! ini

Re: 60 day/60k A Feb-Mar writing challenge?

jswwrites — Fri, 09 Mar 2012 07:08:10 +1030

Hey all - are we sagging in the middle? Everybody still out there typing away? It's pretty quiet in this thread these days!

Re: 60 day/60k A Feb-Mar writing challenge?

kittymammas — Sun, 11 Mar 2012 10:14:35 +1030

OMG, really, can anything else possibly happen to me this month?? I was at work, chatting with a co worker just fine Friday morning and I then I just quit breathing!! I don't remember much after that, but I guess my blood surgar was a 53 and its supposed to be at least 100 and when it gets that low your body shuts down. So the paramedics told me I needed to get to the DR and get tested for Diabetes. SIgh...I really am hating this year...Needless to say I havent been able to do my 10k since I'm still having breathing problems (asthma is my list to test for on Monday morning) and I cant seem to concentrate that well. I'll get back to you and hopefully get this all figured out, Ive been eating lots of protein and I have a rescue inhaler just in case.

Re: 60 day/60k A Feb-Mar writing challenge?

Sunshine Cat — Sun, 11 Mar 2012 11:46:55 +1030

I've been hit with the week 3 blues as well. I recently hit 50k, so I should be safe, but I'm still writing less and less every day. I hope this ends soon. I've just been so busy with homework and studying for the tests which will soon be here that writing kinds of fades into the background on particularly busy days. Still, compared to a lot of people here my life is almost boringly slow and free. Kind of sad how I have nothing better to talk about... There does seem to be a lot less activity here. I hope people who might have gotten too busy or just gave up will come back after a while.

Re: 60 day/60k A Feb-Mar writing challenge?

Angryman — Sun, 11 Mar 2012 13:24:24 +1030

I am very disappointed. I've been waiting to get Soul Calibur 5, since I'm writing some fanfiction for it, but once I got it... I thought the fourth game wasn't that good, but this game was even worse. I was expecting a lot more from the story mode. At least I know that nothing is going to affect my story.

Re: 60 day/60k A Feb-Mar writing challenge?

whitedove — Sun, 11 Mar 2012 14:29:23 +1030

I haven't written for a couple of days now, since I had been pretty much getting home from work and going to bed. Today wasn't so bad though. I only had to go in to work for an hour, so I got to spend the rest of the day out in the sun. I found a living history museum about ten or fifteen minutes from where I live and then went and got my first library card. :) But, I've been thinking about my writing a lot. And I am starting to think that I am not really doing myself any favors by forcing myself to write. I mean, I've always been told that if you care about something, you will find the time to do it, and if you don't, you'll just find excuses (important things like family, school, and work don't count as excuses). In spite of everything, I have found time to read, to knit, to go to parks and watch movies. I never had to force myself to draw or paint or anything like that. So, why should I have to force myself to write? And am I actually doing myself any good by forcing myself to write? Or am I just trying to force myself to fit into a role that I think I want to be in? I wish I knew what I really want. :(

Re: 60 day/60k A Feb-Mar writing challenge?

Angryman — Mon, 12 Mar 2012 20:23:01 +1030

Time for some more late night math! Let's see, now... 408-67=341 710-191=519 519+341=860 860+3206=4066 So I am now at 4066 words (I double-checked with a calculator this time). Again, I didn't actually write anything as far as actual stories go, but since I was working on a character's profile and interview, I'm counting the words. It will be interesting to get this superhero story going. Maybe it will be this year's NaNo project?

Re: 60 day/60k A Feb-Mar writing challenge?

kittymammas — Tue, 13 Mar 2012 04:27:25 +1030

Well just got back from the Dr and she said that its bronchitis that settled into my chest. I got a breathing treatment, a shot, some steriod pills and an inhaler to use three times a day. I'm so happy because for the first time in three long days, I can breathe!! Also my blood work was just fine, no diabetes no low blood surgar. She said that more then likely the cold air upset the bronchitis which in turn constricted my air ways and made breathing very difficult. She said also that cutting off oxygen like that will drop your blood surgar, so thats why it was so low. She said I should be good in five days and if not than we are going to look into asthma. But I'm just so darn happy I can breathe!! The things we take for granted!! So This Sat I'm going to try again for a 10k day....Hopefully it will happen LOL.

Re: 60 day/60k A Feb-Mar writing challenge?

jswwrites — Tue, 13 Mar 2012 10:14:33 +1030

Holy crap, I just had an agent I queried Sat ask me for a full manuscript. This is my 2011 NaNo novel! I'm doing the sequel for this challenge... I'm a bit flustered.

Re: 60 day/60k A Feb-Mar writing challenge?

kittymammas — Wed, 14 Mar 2012 10:20:00 +1030

Well had another breathing attack today at work. Nothing is quite as embarassing then having to have your co workers pick you up off the floor. Again. But they took chest xrays this time and found pnumonia. So I got more meds and am hopefully on my way to recovery

Re: 60 day/60k A Feb-Mar writing challenge?

Angryman — Wed, 14 Mar 2012 20:37:19 +1030

Once again, it's time for Late Night Math! 562-191=371 319-67=252 371+252=623 623+4066=4689 So my word count is at 4689. Writing these character profiles helps, but since the concept of this superhero story of mine is supposed to be partially focused on the hostages, I need to write THEIR profiles. But I suppose it's I also need to know my superheroes as well... //asdfghjkl\1234567890//hacking... hacking... hacking... Hello everyone, this is Sticky Fingers, hacking my author's computer, therefore this post. Sure, he needs to know us heroes, but what he isn't telling you is that he's pretty much already knows everything he needs to about me, Fish Sticks, and Twiggy, the profiles he's completed. Why is he wasting his time writing OUR profiles? Yeah, it's flattering that he's taken care of mine first, but you would think he would do the smart thing and get to know the others that he DOESN'T know so well. Chew him out for it, and I'll punish him by stealing everything in his bank account. //End hack// Geez, that crazy Conman! First, their names are Shark Bite and Willow. Second, the jokes on Sticky Fingers: I don't have a bank account. Everything I need is right here in my wallet. ..... ..... .....Where's my wallet? ...STICKY!!!!!

Re: 60 day/60k A Feb-Mar writing challenge?

jswwrites — Thu, 15 Mar 2012 05:06:25 +1030

Crossed 60k! I'll have several hours this evening to write, but I got about 1000 in between basketball games today and got over that hump. woohoo!

Re: 60 day/60k A Feb-Mar writing challenge?

Ladypamela — Fri, 16 Mar 2012 03:24:54 +1030

Congrats, jswwrites!! You are an inspiration! I haven't made as much progress as I would have liked. I knew that Jan/Feb would be crazy, but it's the middle of March and I am just now getting back into really focusing on my writing! Time to get my butt back in the chair!

Re: 60 day/60k A Feb-Mar writing challenge?

jswwrites — Fri, 16 Mar 2012 07:09:56 +1030

Update on the agent (it was a Christian agent, hence the language comment, although there's not much language and it could very easily be edited out): Thanks very much for allowing me to take a look at your novel, The Throne of King Solomon. I have to say I'm extremely torn; you are such a good writer, but the story isn't something I believe is going to work right now, nor some of the language like the word "hell" used so often. Keep sending it out, but please keep me in mind for any other fiction you write. I'd like to keep my eye on you. :-) So a no-go, but still encouraging!

Re: 60 day/60k A Feb-Mar writing challenge?

lilly32261 — Fri, 16 Mar 2012 10:07:32 +1030

Hit 60k, give or take (three hundred of that is an estimate that includes emails and facebook comments.)

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Angryman — Fri, 16 Mar 2012 12:41:31 +1030

Well, talking to a friend last night, she became very interested in my superhero story idea. Or at least, in Sticky Fingers. Guess that means I need to seriously work on that story. But I still need to understand the characters more, not to mention all that the villains have planned out. Hmm.....

Re: 60 day/60k A Feb-Mar writing challenge?

Sunshine Cat — Sat, 17 Mar 2012 16:19:05 +1030

Strike of the plot bunnies! Well, my novel is nearing it's end, and I also just... Hit 60k! But now my novel is demanding a sequel. In fact, it would not be complete without a sequel. Guess I'm going to keep on writing. Maybe it can be my Camp NaNo project.

Re: 60 day/60k A Feb-Mar writing challenge?

Sunshine Cat — Tue, 20 Mar 2012 14:29:53 +1030

Cool jswwrites ^^ What happened to this thread? It seems to have died a little...did everyone just suddenly disappear?

Re: 60 day/60k A Feb-Mar writing challenge?

Angryman — Tue, 20 Mar 2012 17:28:23 +1030

I think people are getting the... what was it called? The "Week 3" blues? The point where people kind of slow down in their writing, lest they spontaneously combust. Which is very painful unless you are a fire demon or made out of asbestos.

Re: 60 day/60k A Feb-Mar writing challenge?

Angryman — Wed, 21 Mar 2012 19:36:44 +1030

A quick word count update: 386+254=640 640+4689=5329 So I'm now at 5329 words. The good news is that tonight's writing was actual work on a couple of stories. The bad news is that I'm starting to crash, so I have to call it a night.

Re: 60 day/60k A Feb-Mar writing challenge?

jswwrites — Thu, 22 Mar 2012 08:40:32 +1030

I have been out of the loop for awhile. Last week I was in VA at my son's basketball tournament, got back Sat pm, then Sunday was our anniversary. Monday and Tues I ran ragged catching up with everything I wasn't here to do last week. So I purposefully didn't write Sat-Mon, and did 1000 last night. Total is 67176. I'm a little out of steam on it, so I lowered my goal and am not trying to finish the novel by 3/31 anymore. Next month is fine! :o)

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kittymammas — Fri, 23 Mar 2012 04:12:51 +1030

Hey guys, I pretty much dropped out...haven't written in idk how long. My dr is looking into heart disease for me...still sick...good luck to everyone! Hopefully I'll be back on the nano forums soon

Re: 60 day/60k A Feb-Mar writing challenge?

Angryman — Fri, 23 Mar 2012 20:56:28 +1030

861+5329=6190 Well, I wrapped up that chapter. I went into that one unplanned, but it turned out to be very informative. Now I can start working towards the end, once I get Bashir back in this next chapter. No more delays. Granted, the next week in the story is going to go by fast. I'm a little psyched for it, just for the match ups I have for the big battles. It'll be a little sad when I do reach the end of this story, but at least I'll finally be able to start in on the sequel (or just get back to one of the other many stories I need to work on @_@).

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Wragziez — Sat, 24 Mar 2012 06:44:33 +1030

Hi you guys! Yeah... um, I've been dead lately writing wise and not talking in the threads as often as I used to and I'm sorry! It's just that I had trouble writing the way I wanted to, the words wouldn't flow as easily and it was a little strained to write for me. But now, FINALLY!!, I'm finally writing freely and loving it! So sorry for abandoning y'all and this challenge! But I will most likely definitely be doing Camp NaNoWriMo, and NaNoWriMo this year! Now I'm just trying to write daily, at least a few hundred words per. Hopefully I will succeed on that. Again, so sorry for abandoning y'all! I just couldn't write the way I wanted to, it was strained, and it annoyed me so I dropped out.:( So sorry my lovelies!

Re: 60 day/60k A Feb-Mar writing challenge?

Angryman — Thu, 29 Mar 2012 09:11:46 +1030

How's everyone doing? It's been five days since the last time anyone's updated here. I hope it's just because we're in the last few days of the challenge and everyone's been too busy writing to update.

Re: 60 day/60k A Feb-Mar writing challenge?

jswwrites — Sat, 31 Mar 2012 02:50:50 +1030

I got to almost 68k words so I stopped working on it and started planning for Script Frenzy. Really excited about my story for it! I hope everyone here enjoyed the 2 mos challenge - come on over to Screnzy! The forums aren't nearly as active, but I think the format will be fun.

Re: 60 day/60k A Feb-Mar writing challenge?

Angryman — Sat, 31 Mar 2012 09:16:48 +1030

Well, we're down to the last 2 days of this challenge. I've had fun with this, but I've been thinking: the leap year was great for the 60 days challenges, but on any other year, between the months of January, February and March, there is a grand total of 90 days. What if we did a writing challenge like that? I'm thinking it would be more of a "write as much as you can" thing, instead of a specific word limit to reach. Let me know what you think, and may the Muses be with you.

Re: 60 day/60k A Feb-Mar writing challenge?

jswwrites — Sun, 01 Apr 2012 00:53:35 +1030

I'm always up for a challenge. It helps me a lot to have the self-imposed accountability. I realize it's theoretically no different than just deciding to write on my own, but knowing there are others doing it, and making a public commitment, helps keep me on track. I'll be doing Screnzy in April, and probably both Camp NaNos. I've got a novel I was asked to write on spec which isn't really my genre, so having the Camp Nano forums to complain on will help me get a first draft knocked out. Then one I really WANT to do, so I'll probably do the August camp for that. And then we're almost back to November! Good luck between now and then!

Re: 60 day/60k A Feb-Mar writing challenge?

Angryman — Sun, 01 Apr 2012 15:53:15 +0930

Well, it's 11:20 here in the Pacific Northwest. The last 40 minutes of the challenge. Nope, I haven't written anything more. Still, it was fun to be part of this challenge, and I look forward to taking it on again in another four years. But again, I am curious for next year how many people would be interested in a 90 day challenge? I'm picturing it as a "write as much as you can" challenge with dares in it.

Re: 60 day/60k A Feb-Mar writing challenge?

A.P. Navis — Mon, 02 Apr 2012 23:18:42 +0930

Epic writing fail for me this Feb-Mar. I think my grand total hit about 18K, way short of the original goal of 60K, but I sure did enjoy it. I would love a 90 day challenge! I too need a public commitment, just knowing others are doing it too helps me want to keep at it. You guys are all so helpful and motivating! I don't think I'll participate in the script writing this April (I've got no clue how script writing works), but I think I will do the camp, maybe both. And jswwrites, do let us know when that book of yours gets published, I'd love to buy/read it! Happy writing everyone, I hope to see you all around the other forums :) A

Re: 60 day/60k A Feb-Mar writing challenge?

Horselover150 — Wed, 01 Feb 2012 10:13:45 +1030

Hey, is there someway that i can get that ticker for myself?

Re: 60 day/60k A Feb-Mar writing challenge?

whitedove — Mon, 16 Jan 2012 14:19:07 +1030

Well, 16 days to outline ain't bad. Though personally I enjoy flying by the seat of my pants. :)

Re: 60 day/60k A Feb-Mar writing challenge?

whitedove — Fri, 20 Jan 2012 01:20:57 +1030

That's more than fine with me. I have about four ideas (3 original and 1 fanfiction) vying for attention, so I am considering jumping between them from day to day, rather than focusing on one and neglecting the others. It can be so hard to focus on one project and do it justice when there are three more banging on the door.

Re: 60 day/60k A Feb-Mar writing challenge?

MarthaBechtel — Fri, 20 Jan 2012 02:48:49 +1030

Huzzah! :D *eyeballs her schedule* Actually this will work out pretty well, I've got three more 8k short stories I need to write before April as well as outlining for Script Frenzy and both Camps (not to mention the blog)—if I can't average 1k a day with this many projects to pick from then I'm gonna get murdered when it comes time to focus on a 'real' NaNo. ^_~;; *sheepish grin* -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------

Re: 60 day/60k A Feb-Mar writing challenge?

whitedove — Fri, 20 Jan 2012 03:23:04 +1030

... crud, I've got that short story too. :( I sure hope I can become a professional writer some day. It's the only way I am ever going to have time for all of this.

Re: 60 day/60k A Feb-Mar writing challenge?

MarthaBechtel — Fri, 20 Jan 2012 04:59:58 +1030

I had one month off a few years back (due to the end of college and job hunting) and I got absolutely nothing done—I think my Muses require a time-crunch in order to function properly. *mutter* Although I have to say I still have daydreams about the cabin in Maine and nothing to worry about but self-imposed deadlines! ;) -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------

Re: 60 day/60k A Feb-Mar writing challenge?

whitedove — Fri, 20 Jan 2012 05:35:32 +1030

Yeah. I guess that's true. After graduation when I was looking for a job, it got really hard to write or think of anything to write about. And now that I have so much going on, well, I now have a fifth novel to start doing research for. And you know what, I'd bet money that come November, I won't be able to think of one think that I will be interested in writing right then. If I let one of these stew until then, I'll get bored with it. But a cabin in Maine sounds so nice. *sigh*

Re: 60 day/60k A Feb-Mar writing challenge?

whitedove — Sat, 21 Jan 2012 06:38:52 +1030

That is a really good reason to skip Nanowrimo.

Re: 60 day/60k A Feb-Mar writing challenge?

JesiMarie — Sun, 22 Jan 2012 17:35:59 +1030

Re: 60 day/60k A Feb-Mar writing challenge?

whitedove — Mon, 23 Jan 2012 13:02:44 +1030

I was planning on starting with a fan-fiction (Hetalia) just to get me back in the habit of writing and to get some practice with straight up story telling (no character or world building to obsess over). Once I am used to my new job and can focus on writing again, I have a few originals clambering for attention. I wrote a loose draft of this fan-fic for Nanowrimo because I was in a rush and didn't have time for world building (I restarted on Day 14), but will be re-writing it from the top with a lot of plot changes. As in, it will have a plot this time. And a set time period. Maybe even an over-arching theme. Mercedes Lackey did recommend fan-fiction as a means to practice writing in her pep talk (2010?). What about you? You didn't name your fandoms.

Re: 60 day/60k A Feb-Mar writing challenge?

Wragziez — Mon, 23 Jan 2012 13:13:26 +1030

Hmm... interesting. I have yet to get interested in anything Hetalia but maybe in the future. Good luck with everything! I may be writing in Kuroshitsuji, Death Note, Doctor Who, Titanic(1997 movie), Durarara!!, Devil May Cry, Smallville, and a whole lot more that I can't think of right now. I also may try to write in anything related to the Marvel based movies I've seen. I have yet to read any comics. I don't know which ones I'll be writing in and I've only wrote in Kuroshitsuji and Death Note so writing in the other fandoms will be interesting and a new and welcoming experience!

Re: 60 day/60k A Feb-Mar writing challenge?

jswwrites — Wed, 25 Jan 2012 02:17:11 +1030

I'm going to do a sequel to my NaNo novel. If I can get my act together!

Re: 60 day/60k A Feb-Mar writing challenge?

Wragziez — Wed, 25 Jan 2012 07:11:45 +1030

Oooh! Good luck with that! :)

Re: 60 day/60k A Feb-Mar writing challenge?

Wragziez — Fri, 27 Jan 2012 15:48:01 +1030

I for one am psyched and ready! Even if I don't have ideas for one-shots every day(I plan to do one one shot(Short story) every day), I'll just let my fingers type to their content, it's how I've started most of my beginnings too. I just type an odd sentence that comes to my mind and voila!, the beginning of my fic! What will you be doing for it?

Re: 60 day/60k A Feb-Mar writing challenge?

Wragziez — Fri, 27 Jan 2012 16:01:11 +1030

Oops! I meant that I already know that you said you were maybe going to do a Hetalia fanfiction I believe, but will you be doing like multiple stories or a story for the whole 2 months?

Re: 60 day/60k A Feb-Mar writing challenge?

jswwrites — Sun, 29 Jan 2012 13:29:27 +1030

Ha... Joke, right? I had hoped to be ready by now, and I have a general idea, but I need to do some geographic and archeological research. Unfortunately for my planning, I have spent 4 days in my home town for my mom's 70th birthday, and I haven't been able to do much. I think Mon and Tues are going to be intense!

Re: 60 day/60k A Feb-Mar writing challenge?

whitedove — Sat, 28 Jan 2012 02:47:42 +1030

Well, I don't know how long this first story is going to be. The first pseudo-draft was a full 50k, though a lot of that will be left out, and the more research I do the bigger of a monster it becomes (yeah, history!). But, I am not 100% sure how I am going to connect all of the pieces into a functional whole yet. The idea is one of the characters relating different bits of his past, so it will more or less be a series of shorts being told inside an over-arching story. Maybe I'll just do a one-shot for each piece that I've got and rewrite them to interconnect in the editing process, if I still think they need it. That actually sounds like a lot of fun. To anyone out there who has not done fan-fiction but is considering it: DONT! It's a horrible monster that will drag you in and never let you escape! Sure it sounds great. Get a little practice. Have something you'll be comfortable putting online to get some feed-back, cause hey, you can't publish it anyway. But, it's a trap! (Or a tarp as the case may be).

Re: 60 day/60k A Feb-Mar writing challenge?

Wragziez — Sat, 28 Jan 2012 09:34:31 +1030

Oh wow! You've got a lot planned ahead for you then! Ah yes fanfiction. It is a lovely drug and one I will forever be caught in. YES!!! Febuary starting in a few days! Oh yeah!

Re: 60 day/60k A Feb-Mar writing challenge?

whitedove — Sun, 29 Jan 2012 15:57:28 +1030

Sleep is for the weak! (I say thirty minutes to midnight, surrounded by half unpacked boxes, two very long, unread reports, and a sad excuse for an outline. *Sigh*)

Re: 60 day/60k A Feb-Mar writing challenge?

whitedove — Sun, 29 Jan 2012 15:58:18 +1030

The more the merrier! We have no qualms about continuing unfinished projects here! At least, I don't.

Re: 60 day/60k A Feb-Mar writing challenge?

Angryman — Sun, 29 Jan 2012 16:11:31 +1030

I'll make you feel a little better: I'm about 25k behind (a large chunk of that is because of a power-outage).

Re: 60 day/60k A Feb-Mar writing challenge?

whitedove — Tue, 31 Jan 2012 22:38:21 +1030

Writing during a move is hard but not impossible. I had to do it during Nanowrimo and was able to pull through. You can do it!

Re: 60 day/60k A Feb-Mar writing challenge?

Horselover150 — Tue, 31 Jan 2012 22:43:16 +1030

Yeah, but were you moving overseas? From Japan to Nevada with a lot of traveling and driving in between?

Re: 60 day/60k A Feb-Mar writing challenge?

Wragziez — Tue, 31 Jan 2012 22:44:36 +1030

Hell yeah I'm ready! My heart is literally already racing and I/we still have a day left! :) Get your hands ready everyone, be it you are typing or writing, doing this for two months? Your hands will definitely be exhausted after this and the letters on your keyboard will be gone/smudged if they aren't already. And hand writers, you will fill so many notebooks and have stains all over your skin. Yep, definitely looking forward to this mini chaos.

Re: 60 day/60k A Feb-Mar writing challenge?

whitedove — Wed, 01 Feb 2012 12:14:49 +1030

No, but driving a truck a thousand miles while trying to keep up with someone who has no regard for speed limits or if the people following him can pass when he does, and go slow enough that the person in a van that sounds like the engine will fall out if it hits 70 (in a 75 zone and believe me on the interstate semis will all but push you off the road if you are only speeding by five or ten miles an hour) can keep up isn't exactly fun and games. And, believe me, I love to travel when someone else is driving. Doing the driving yourself sucks. It's physically and psychologically exhausting, by the time we stopped my eyes hurt too badly from watching the road to look at a computer screen and my hands hurt too badly from holding the wheel to type more than a few words. If you're moving from Japan, you can write on the plane. Or while one of your parents is driving. Or in the hotel when you aren't exhausted from having had to drive all day. On top of having had to just pack all of your belongings in under a week with about a two day's worth of any help at all. On top of already being depressed from having been laid off without a warning from the job that was supposed to jump start your actual life and make up for working to the point that you couldn't sleep or eat and didn't even have the motivation to watch tv instead of doing your homework for four years to get that engineering degree (I was even supposed to go on a business trip the next day). On top of being completely exhausted from having been traveling in and out of the country for work almost every week for four months! So don't give me that "mine's bigger" garbage and BE ENCOURAGED DAMMIT!

Re: 60 day/60k A Feb-Mar writing challenge?

Horselover150 — Tue, 31 Jan 2012 22:47:52 +1030

Yeah, I kind of feel important when I am writing my book, it doesn't matter if I am hand writing or typing it, it just makes me feel grown up. It makes me feel as if I am busy with things that I want to do, not just stuff that i have to do, like school.

Re: 60 day/60k A Feb-Mar writing challenge?

whitedove — Wed, 01 Feb 2012 10:41:18 +1030

Looks like Creative got it, two posts up. http://tinychat.com/thelg Saved me from trying to figure out how to do it. :)

Re: 60 day/60k A Feb-Mar writing challenge?

kittymammas — Wed, 01 Feb 2012 09:43:22 +1030

I'd wish you luck but um...you don't need it =)

Re: 60 day/60k A Feb-Mar writing challenge?

whitedove — Wed, 01 Feb 2012 10:45:28 +1030

Plot? Who needs a plot? ;P

Re: 60 day/60k A Feb-Mar writing challenge?

whitedove — Wed, 01 Feb 2012 13:07:50 +1030

Sure. Click on the ticker, it'll take you to the website it was made and can be updated on. Below the ticker will be a link "Create Your Own" or something like that. Select that and scroll down. Under the purple bar that says "Crafts/Hobbies" click "Object/Actions Counter" and follow the directions. :)

Re: 60 day/60k A Feb-Mar writing challenge?

jswwrites — Wed, 01 Feb 2012 11:34:43 +1030

Well it would be 1000 a day if you are aiming at 60,000 and can actually write all 60 days. I've got a few days in there with my son's end of season basketball tournaments, not to mention mental health days, where I know I won't write, so if I figure 55 days of writing for sure, out of those 60, that would be 1090 a day. I'd like, though, to write a whole sequel to my NaNo novel, and come in at about 90k, so I'm going to aim for 1500 a day. The first week I'll have to continue doing research, since I didn't give myself enough time this month for that. But after that, 1500 a day should be fine. NaNo is "technically" 1667 a day, but I did almost 89k in 23 writing days, so I know I can do 1500-2000 a day and be good. With your move, you might want to aim higher, so you can take off some days and still be on track. :o)

Re: 60 day/60k A Feb-Mar writing challenge?

Horselover150 — Wed, 01 Feb 2012 11:38:18 +1030

yeah, I'll aim for 1500 words a day O.O. It's a lot, but I know that i can do it. I managed to finish my Nano on time even though I started on November 17th. XD I know that there will be at least three days this month that I won't be able to write due to our household goods being pack out. :,(

Re: 60 day/60k A Feb-Mar writing challenge?

jswwrites — Wed, 01 Feb 2012 11:39:27 +1030

Wow, you rocked NaNo! Great job!!!

Re: 60 day/60k A Feb-Mar writing challenge?

Horselover150 — Wed, 01 Feb 2012 11:42:19 +1030

Thanks, it took a lot of effort and staying up till midnight with a pen and notebook writing under the covers with a light.

Re: 60 day/60k A Feb-Mar writing challenge?

Horselover150 — Wed, 01 Feb 2012 12:07:52 +1030

I'm sure that you'll be able to do it. :D

Re: 60 day/60k A Feb-Mar writing challenge?

Wragziez — Wed, 01 Feb 2012 12:20:44 +1030

You don't have to come up with a plot for a whole story if you don't want to. For example, I'm doing one shots every day.(Short stories) You can do that instead if you don't want to do a novel. The whole point of this is to write at least 60,000 words by the end of March. Either way, good luck to everyone who'll be doing this challenge!

Re: 60 day/60k A Feb-Mar writing challenge?

whitedove — Wed, 01 Feb 2012 12:20:34 +1030

By the way, with all of that going on, I was writing 3333 a day because I had started over half way through the month. The 50k I verified was just the last two weeks, which was while I was doing ALL of my packing and moving. I wrote a total of 71k last November, not counting a short story I finished that month. So, 1k should be well within your bounds.

Re: 60 day/60k A Feb-Mar writing challenge?

Horselover150 — Wed, 01 Feb 2012 13:14:27 +1030

Sorry, I didn't mean to get you stirred up. However, try to keep the culture shock, jet lag, pessimistic ad complaining younger brother, and complainig mother, not to mention leaving any friends and acquaintances behind on the other side of the world. I know what you're going to say, write to them, call them, e-mail them. I have done those things in some of our past 6 moves and I always ended up losing all of my friends because the chose to end the communication. I am not trying to make a sob story here. But other than that, I am not even going to try to get into it with you. I will now abstain from further posting on this subject as it will turn into an argument, I am sure.

Re: 60 day/60k A Feb-Mar writing challenge?

Horselover150 — Wed, 01 Feb 2012 13:10:41 +1030

I did something like that, too. I started on November 17th etc, etc, etc.

Re: 60 day/60k A Feb-Mar writing challenge?

Wragziez — Wed, 01 Feb 2012 12:27:37 +1030

Yay, we've corrupted another! :) I believe I'm in the same time zone as you, seeing as I have close to 3 hours left until Febuary 1st. Yeah, I too have been lacking and I haven't been writing as much as I would like but at least I've wrote about 5 stories since then and have 3 in progress! I used to maybe write one story every 6 months but because of NaNoWriMo I enjoy writing and love doing it! Plus, I have no more writers block like I used to because I was hardly able to write a beginning. About 3 hours left for me and some, Yay!!! :D

Re: 60 day/60k A Feb-Mar writing challenge?

whitedove — Wed, 01 Feb 2012 13:19:23 +1030

Yeah! I'm rewriting last November's Nano too. I may have won, but that manuscript is just bursting with fail. ;)

Re: 60 day/60k A Feb-Mar writing challenge?

kittymammas — Wed, 01 Feb 2012 13:04:45 +1030

Yay, three and a half hours left for me! I've got my nano2011 pulled up and ready to go! Good luck everyone, and if your lagging behind or feeling unmotivated just drop back in. I can already see so much support =)

Re: 60 day/60k A Feb-Mar writing challenge?

A.P. Navis — Wed, 01 Feb 2012 13:13:26 +1030

Let's here for the East coasters :) Five stories is good, at least you wrote. I wrote a creative non-fic short story, very short, like 1K, and I tried picking up my NaNo to edit, but it just needs to be taken out back, turned upside-down and shaken...vigorously, so complete rewrite it is!

Re: 60 day/60k A Feb-Mar writing challenge?

Wragziez — Wed, 01 Feb 2012 13:09:06 +1030

Yep, close to 2 hours and 30 minutes left for me! OH YEAH!!! :D Good luck to you! I know what you mean about the support, it seems everyone on here is so nice and just like on crazy, insane family of writers! I love you all! :)

Re: 60 day/60k A Feb-Mar writing challenge?

whitedove — Wed, 01 Feb 2012 13:31:27 +1030

I'm so jealous of all you people who get to wait up for midnight. I have to get up at five to get to work on time, and I've already under-slept... all week. I have to wait until after I get home, which will be some time around 5 PM at the earliest, I think. 20 more hours. :( Whine. Pout. Sulk.

Re: 60 day/60k A Feb-Mar writing challenge?

Horselover150 — Wed, 01 Feb 2012 13:39:32 +1030

Thanks! :D

Re: 60 day/60k A Feb-Mar writing challenge?

Wragziez — Wed, 01 Feb 2012 13:16:36 +1030

Oh yeah! Yep, that's my way at looking at what I've wrote. At least I've wrote something, something is better then nothing! O_o, good luck with that!

Re: 60 day/60k A Feb-Mar writing challenge?

whitedove — Wed, 01 Feb 2012 13:48:12 +1030

Okay. I know it sounds that way, but believe it or not the point was to be encouraging. I was able to get it done despite everything and you can do this. You have four times as long to write 1400 words more right? It just takes determination and a willingness to go without sleep (which might actually help with the jet lag ;>). And personally, I found writing really therapeutic. I felt better after writing, even if my hands hurt worse. I had to leave all of my friends behind too, you know.

Re: 60 day/60k A Feb-Mar writing challenge?

Wragziez — Wed, 01 Feb 2012 13:21:00 +1030

Good luck to you too then! :)

Re: 60 day/60k A Feb-Mar writing challenge?

kittymammas — Wed, 01 Feb 2012 13:23:25 +1030

Oh I know what you mean. My purple bar has no meaning. I didn't write a novel in a month, I pounded on my keyboard for hours and made no sense LOL. Here's to cleaning up the nano! And to us East coasters =) I'm hoping to finish by the end of Feb because I really want to try my hand at this pansting stuff, sounds so free and fun.

Re: 60 day/60k A Feb-Mar writing challenge?

Wragziez — Wed, 01 Feb 2012 13:26:40 +1030

Writing is free and fun! East coasters unite!!! :D Two hours left for me, yay! I think I'm going to watch Batman and the Dark Knight. Watched it yesterday and loved it, going to rewatch it again, it's just so addicting! But so are are these forums and you insane writers! :)

Re: 60 day/60k A Feb-Mar writing challenge?

Wragziez — Wed, 01 Feb 2012 13:28:41 +1030

Oops, mean Batman Begin! Christin Bale is awesome!

Re: 60 day/60k A Feb-Mar writing challenge?

kittymammas — Wed, 01 Feb 2012 13:29:49 +1030

Yes we are addicting and addicted haha. What I mean by free and fun on the pansting is without any outline or anything. I'm a planner so that's a new concept for me. That's a good movie btw

Re: 60 day/60k A Feb-Mar writing challenge?

Wragziez — Wed, 01 Feb 2012 13:31:22 +1030

Definitely one of the best Marvel based movies! Ah, so that's what you mean, I wish you fun in this crazy adventure here in NaNoWriMo! :-)

Re: 60 day/60k A Feb-Mar writing challenge?

whitedove — Wed, 01 Feb 2012 13:49:07 +1030

Ooo. Pretty.

Re: 60 day/60k A Feb-Mar writing challenge?

kittymammas — Wed, 01 Feb 2012 14:01:47 +1030

very nice! I like the tickers, I'm a visual person lol

Re: 60 day/60k A Feb-Mar writing challenge?

Horselover150 — Wed, 01 Feb 2012 13:50:44 +1030

Thanks!

Re: 60 day/60k A Feb-Mar writing challenge?

whitedove — Wed, 01 Feb 2012 14:05:21 +1030

Mine kind of makes me feel obliged to stay on top of things, since it is kind of the first thing anyone who opens this thread will see. You'll know if I start slacking. And I am hoping you will all be sticking around to the end of this thing. :)

Re: 60 day/60k A Feb-Mar writing challenge?

Horselover150 — Wed, 01 Feb 2012 14:07:00 +1030

I shall certainly do my best. :)

Re: 60 day/60k A Feb-Mar writing challenge?

kittymammas — Wed, 01 Feb 2012 14:15:24 +1030

I think I most likely will, I'm not sure how much my ticker will move but I will try to update it often. How do you do that anyway lol

Re: 60 day/60k A Feb-Mar writing challenge?

whitedove — Wed, 01 Feb 2012 14:18:16 +1030

I know, it's weird. Click on the ticker, select the link above the ticker "Edit/Update" I think it is. Then you have to go through all the steps again, but if you use the same password, most of your settings should still be there and it will update wherever you posted the ticker. I tried it and it worked like two weeks ago, so I hope it works now.

Re: 60 day/60k A Feb-Mar writing challenge?

Horselover150 — Wed, 01 Feb 2012 14:19:59 +1030

Yep, that's how you do it. I just updated mine. XD

Re: 60 day/60k A Feb-Mar writing challenge?

whitedove — Wed, 01 Feb 2012 14:24:08 +1030

It's just so fun watching the little "Words Left" number shrink, isn't it?

Re: 60 day/60k A Feb-Mar writing challenge?

whitedove — Wed, 01 Feb 2012 14:23:29 +1030

Well, if I had known you would do it, I wouldn't have bothered testing it. ;) But, yeah, it worked for me too.

Re: 60 day/60k A Feb-Mar writing challenge?

Horselover150 — Wed, 01 Feb 2012 14:27:02 +1030

But yours hasn't increased. (o)

Re: 60 day/60k A Feb-Mar writing challenge?

Wragziez — Wed, 01 Feb 2012 14:25:16 +1030

Yes, it definitely is! Oooh, a little more then a hour left for me!!!! YAAAAAHHHHHOOOOOOO!!!!!!! :)

Re: 60 day/60k A Feb-Mar writing challenge?

Horselover150 — Wed, 01 Feb 2012 14:25:41 +1030

It is exhilerating.

Re: 60 day/60k A Feb-Mar writing challenge?

Creative — Wed, 01 Feb 2012 14:25:53 +1030

Yup! I love it! --------------------- chatroom: http://tinychat.com/thelg

Re: 60 day/60k A Feb-Mar writing challenge?

whitedove — Wed, 01 Feb 2012 14:32:32 +1030

I changed it and then changed it back to 0. See, it's still 2 hours to midnight here. (I just moved to Missouri for my new job last week, so I'm not on the coast anymore. I miss the ocean already, but my new job is awesome!) I don't want to start the month off by cheating. Rebelling is one thing. But claiming words when I haven't even opened a file yet is another.

Re: 60 day/60k A Feb-Mar writing challenge?

Horselover150 — Wed, 01 Feb 2012 14:34:36 +1030

Ah, got it. I keep forgetting that not everyone is in February yet. XD

Re: 60 day/60k A Feb-Mar writing challenge?

whitedove — Wed, 01 Feb 2012 14:44:31 +1030

I know. It's so not fair. I really want to start writing, but if I stay up much later, I'm gonna have a hard time at work tomorrow (as I have been telling myself for the past hour). The funny part is that I know I'm going to have trouble when I actually start. I'm not even entirely sure where to start. But I really want to.

Re: 60 day/60k A Feb-Mar writing challenge?

Horselover150 — Wed, 01 Feb 2012 14:48:26 +1030

Yeah, I like to stay up late writing or watching romance movies like Pride and Prejudice when I know that I will regret that come morning. However, I think that if I stop posting, maybe you can ge to sleep because I won't be distracting you, right?

Re: 60 day/60k A Feb-Mar writing challenge?

whitedove — Wed, 01 Feb 2012 14:54:49 +1030

I don't know. A lot of other people have been posting too. Though this has become a bit of a dialog hasn't it? Okay! I'm going to bed now and I can stay up writing tomorrow night! (I write better late too. Can't seem to get started until the sun goes down.) Good night all! You have 18 hours to get ready for me to blow your word-counts out of the water! (More like I have 18 hours to figure out the beginning. Heh.)

Re: 60 day/60k A Feb-Mar writing challenge?

Wragziez — Wed, 01 Feb 2012 15:07:01 +1030

Nighty night! Hope you have/had a good sleep by the time you see this!

Re: 60 day/60k A Feb-Mar writing challenge?

Horselover150 — Wed, 01 Feb 2012 15:18:09 +1030

Wow, I can tell that you are extremely excited. Too bad it has already been February 1st for going on 14 hours already where I live. xD

Re: 60 day/60k A Feb-Mar writing challenge?

Wragziez — Wed, 01 Feb 2012 15:25:38 +1030

Awesome, where do you live? 5 minutes left! Time flies!

Re: 60 day/60k A Feb-Mar writing challenge?

Horselover150 — Wed, 01 Feb 2012 15:26:58 +1030

Japan--for now. We move in March/April.

Re: 60 day/60k A Feb-Mar writing challenge?

Wragziez — Wed, 01 Feb 2012 15:30:54 +1030

Interesting, my Dad is in Taiwan(I know Japan and Taiwan are both far away from each other.) right now for about another week or so, he was staying there for 3 weeks now he only has one week left. Been 20 years since he's last been there so glad he's having fun! ...FEBUARY 1ST!!!!! OH YEAH!!!! :D Going to start writing in a little while, so ecstatic and giddy right now!

Re: 60 day/60k A Feb-Mar writing challenge?

Horselover150 — Wed, 01 Feb 2012 15:34:44 +1030

I've visited Taiwan twice, it is really nice there, I'm glad that your Dad is having fun. Japan and Taiwan really aren't that far apart, it only takes about 2 to 3 hours to get there by flying. Happy February! Good luck with the start of your novel! XD

Re: 60 day/60k A Feb-Mar writing challenge?

Wragziez — Wed, 01 Feb 2012 15:42:54 +1030

Thanks, happy writing to you too! I'm not writing a novel, I'm just doing one-shots every day. That way I won't get tired of doing the same plot and it sounds easier to me. Will you be doing a novel I take it?

Re: 60 day/60k A Feb-Mar writing challenge?

Horselover150 — Wed, 01 Feb 2012 15:51:26 +1030

Yes, a novel about my experiences during and after the March 11, 2011 Japan earthquake. I was here in Japan when it hit, so I decided to write a novel about it.

Re: 60 day/60k A Feb-Mar writing challenge?

Wragziez — Wed, 01 Feb 2012 15:55:26 +1030

Oh I hope everyone in Japan is doing better. Hopefully, bigger disasters like that won't happen for a while. They'll happen eventually but can hope that it won't be for another years at least.

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Horselover150 — Wed, 01 Feb 2012 15:58:37 +1030

Yeah, we wish that were true, but there are stil ongoing problems with the damaged nuclear reactor which is still contaminating food and everything up north. Also, the scientists and geologists predict that there will be a minimum on an 8 something earthquake in one of four areas here in Japan soon. Then there is the other scary thing. Recently we have been having lots of little earthquakes near Mt.Fuji. These earthquakes have been small, but they have all been in pretty much the same area. So now we are worried that Fuji might erupt.

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Wragziez — Wed, 01 Feb 2012 16:02:32 +1030

Sh*t. I'm just glad that where I live is relatively small and doesn't ever have any natural disasters. The most we've got is a small tornado that only injured one person, killed none thankfully. We got lucky with natural disasters here. I hope all of y'all over at Japan will be relatively safe and better soon!

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Horselover150 — Wed, 01 Feb 2012 16:05:17 +1030

Thanks, I wish that were possible. Well, I ought to work on my novel and then study a little for me semester exams. Have a good February 1st and enjoy your short stories!

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Wragziez — Wed, 01 Feb 2012 16:13:35 +1030

Anything's possible! Well I believe it anyways. :) You have a fun-filled Febuary too and I hope you have fun writing your novel! Although I do feel slightly guilty about saying have fun when talking about the disasters in Japan though. Sorry if it sounds rude when I do say something on that topic.

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Horselover150 — Wed, 01 Feb 2012 18:12:49 +1030

Well, in the absence of the topic's creator, I will welcome you to our 60 in 60 for February and March. Enjoy!

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Wragziez — Wed, 01 Feb 2012 18:17:56 +1030

If you are doing this challenge, I and many others wish you good luck! I've got to get typing, already the 1st of Febuary for me! Yay!!! :) I know what you mean about procrastinating, I do it a lot unfortunately. :(

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whitedove — Wed, 01 Feb 2012 22:23:38 +1030

Welcome to the party!

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Wragziez — Wed, 01 Feb 2012 20:00:04 +1030

BY DEMAND OF ALL WRITERS, WRITE!!!! Think of how accomplished you'll feel! :) Huh, just what I needed too.

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whitedove — Wed, 01 Feb 2012 22:21:53 +1030

You've still got four hours (Is that right?) You can kick this things butt! Go! Go! Go! Write! Write! Write!

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VannVicente — Wed, 01 Feb 2012 21:55:14 +1030

I just noticed how weird the thing I'm writing is. My main character has no defined gender, he/she tells the story as if she/he actually writes it, and he/she has no name. I'm not sure if I'll divulge these kinds of details later on, but for now it's actually a pretty fun way to write.

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whitedove — Wed, 01 Feb 2012 22:20:54 +1030

Hmm. I read a story that was told as though the main character were dictating it to a scribe and it was pretty awesome. She kept fussing at the scribe and answering his questions, but he only wrote down exactly what she said and nothing else, so you figured out what he had said from her response. I thought it was a really cool format and would like to try it some time.

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A.P. Navis — Thu, 02 Feb 2012 01:37:09 +1030

Oh, fail!

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kittymammas — Thu, 02 Feb 2012 01:43:22 +1030

I though you could use the ticker for a mac..hmmm...anyways, maybe Google something. I know what you mean about updating your word count yay!

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kittymammas — Thu, 02 Feb 2012 01:48:37 +1030

Have you tried the second code? The HTML..that's the one that worked for me....everyone needs a ticker! pun intended =)

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jswwrites — Thu, 02 Feb 2012 02:03:30 +1030

During Nano I used the Stickies on my Mac. I kept on on my desktop, a running tally - every day I added my minimum new word count to the count I ended up with the day before as the GOAL, and then updated the ACTUAL. Here's a segment: 9: 3887 GOAL 37553 (37656) 10: 3972 GOAL 41,406 (41628) 11: 1961 GOAL 45,378 (43589) deficit 1789 12: 6483 GOAL 50,000! (50072) Day: actual number I wrote that day; Goal word count total, Actual word count total I'm going to do the same for this challenge, although I may add a ticker somewhere just so I see that growing word count!

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kittymammas — Thu, 02 Feb 2012 03:30:33 +1030

Yay! Glad it worked! Good luck on writing. Flogging, cup of coffee, ridiculous amounts of Mountain dew and Hersey's kisses...we all have our vices lol

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jswwrites — Thu, 02 Feb 2012 06:13:40 +1030

Went back to Scrivener, but I am not in "creative" mode, for sure. 420 words, plus (technically) I deleted the first 147 because it was not at all where I wanted to start. Hopefully I'll get more creative when I get back to it in a couple of hours... Praying for some word flow!!!

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Creative — Thu, 02 Feb 2012 06:11:36 +1030

Awesome! Certainly better than my big fat 0. :D

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sherylgwin — Thu, 02 Feb 2012 07:19:34 +1030

true. I hope i can make it. And good luck to you to! :D now im back to writing!

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whitedove — Thu, 02 Feb 2012 10:09:53 +1030

Man. It's five thirty and I haven't even started yet because I just got back from work. And I have paperwork I have to do tonight. Gah! Where was all of this a few weeks ago when I was bored and had nothing to do?!

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Horselover150 — Thu, 02 Feb 2012 10:14:55 +1030

It was waiting for you to undertake a writing challenge. Mwahaha! Just kidding, I've got my Semester exams in five subjects tomorrow, so I probably won't be writing much because I absolutely have to study and cram everything that I learned four months ago back into my weary head. XD

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lilly32261 — Thu, 02 Feb 2012 10:16:55 +1030

That's so true! As soon as you start a writing project like this, life sticks its tongue out and says, "Silly people, you think I'll let you do something like that?"

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whitedove — Thu, 02 Feb 2012 11:24:38 +1030

Thanks :) But you should thank anzoey. It was her idea to do it starting in January. I just, kind of, missed that. By like two weeks. :)

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Horselover150 — Thu, 02 Feb 2012 10:20:18 +1030

Yeah, that happens a lot. Last year I had a Japanese Language Proficiency test convieniently on December 4th. So while I was frantically trying to make up the two weeks of NaNo that missed because I didn't know it existed, I was also struggling to cram as many Japanese words and grammar into my head. XD ANd I don't even get the results of the test until mid-Feb! XP

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lilly32261 — Thu, 02 Feb 2012 10:24:25 +1030

That sounds just wonderful. XP November went surprisingly well for me, which makes me think that everything is going to blow up in my face this time around... Just in case, I shall back up my writing in three different places!

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jswwrites — Thu, 02 Feb 2012 10:47:04 +1030

oh - here's the chatroom for those of you who are new! We should probably make sure it's on every page as we go forward. http://tinychat.com/thelg

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jswwrites — Thu, 02 Feb 2012 10:53:24 +1030

welcome!! Congrats on the good day!!

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Horselover150 — Thu, 02 Feb 2012 11:02:02 +1030

Welcome and congratulations. Good luck with your writing and good luck with your job hunting. :)

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Sara Zee — Thu, 02 Feb 2012 11:02:37 +1030

Thanks, it's always nice to get off to a good start! And congrats on your 1446! Exercise always helps me too - running, especially, tends to mellow me out like nothing else.

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Sara Zee — Thu, 02 Feb 2012 11:15:35 +1030

Thanks, I'll definitely need the luck for both. :D

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Horselover150 — Thu, 02 Feb 2012 11:14:24 +1030

hey, I signed in and I'm on. ;)

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Creative — Thu, 02 Feb 2012 11:17:32 +1030

alright, sorry I got sidetracked, but back now! :) ------------------------------ the chatroom: http://tinychat.com/thelg

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lilly32261 — Thu, 02 Feb 2012 13:51:09 +1030

How did you get it to go from left to right? Mine goes from right to left and I have no clue why.

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Horselover150 — Thu, 02 Feb 2012 15:39:34 +1030

It could just be the ticker that you chose. I am not exactly sure why.

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Creative — Thu, 02 Feb 2012 15:51:50 +1030

It's pretty easy. (: Just sign in as a guest and everything else is pretty self-explained on the page.

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kittymammas — Thu, 02 Feb 2012 15:58:01 +1030

Yay I;m in!

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Horselover150 — Thu, 02 Feb 2012 17:14:56 +1030

Good for you! Keep writing!

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kittymammas — Fri, 03 Feb 2012 01:54:11 +1030

Yay another feline nano name!

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whitedove — Thu, 02 Feb 2012 21:52:37 +1030

Maybe you could try a smaller, less stressful goal? Like 200 a day or something? 1.2k/60 days hasn't got much of a ring to it, but at least you'll still be progressing, right? We will all still root for you just as hard.

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kittymammas — Fri, 03 Feb 2012 01:53:00 +1030

Or what if you just keep a journal about your thoughts and what not through your post op stage? Still writing and very therapeutic. Either way there is no minimum word count here, 1-1,000 words is all still a victory :)

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kittymammas — Fri, 03 Feb 2012 01:50:35 +1030

Oh I like the shark one.

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Wragziez — Fri, 03 Feb 2012 01:43:15 +1030

Good morning! Good luck to you and everyone else today! Have fun fellow writers! :)

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kittymammas — Fri, 03 Feb 2012 01:46:05 +1030

I think that is awesome that your mom is so into your story and the minor details. I just love that, you two must be so close!

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jswwrites — Fri, 03 Feb 2012 03:50:49 +1030

Actually we're not, but she wanted the plot summary so I sent it to her, and she fixated (as an artist) on the art history thing. It's pretty funny.

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Wragziez — Fri, 03 Feb 2012 02:04:16 +1030

I know what you mean. Even the simplest of things can throw you out of your schedule. Day two! Cheers to every one! :-)

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MarthaBechtel — Fri, 03 Feb 2012 07:17:12 +1030

[quote=kittymammas] Oh I like the shark one. [/quote] I was looking through them going: 'these are too cute and cuddly—OMG SHARK! :D' Hehehe ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Martha.net -- Unquiet Bones (Writing) -- Custom-Models.com (Model Horses) -- Perish Twice (Warcraft) ... because you can never have enough hobbies.

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Wragziez — Fri, 03 Feb 2012 03:03:48 +1030

Hope you're doing good too! I wish you good luck in schoolwork and hope it's done quick! I'm doing well, I've only done 400 word give or take because I missed yesterday but going to do 2000 words today. Try to anyways, I tend to procrastinate a lot. :)

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kittymammas — Fri, 03 Feb 2012 03:49:04 +1030

Pssh...2k of words, you got this! @ Creative, I'm glad your putting school work first, writing is important but should never be above your future and education, keep up the good work!!

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kittymammas — Fri, 03 Feb 2012 07:55:54 +1030

Well even though its bothersome for you at the time, at least you have some one who knows the true history of it. Thats always a plus, if you want it I guess.

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Wragziez — Fri, 03 Feb 2012 06:11:00 +1030

I know what you mean, I've had hours to write but yet I've only wrote close to 700 words. Yeah, these forums are really addicting! :) Write! It helps if you are on a site and you can watch your word count grow! If you want, wordcounter.net is working wonderfully for me and it's simple and easy too! Happy writing sweets!

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kittymammas — Fri, 03 Feb 2012 07:57:25 +1030

679 and my ideas are growing...

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kittymammas — Fri, 03 Feb 2012 08:21:01 +1030

LOL, I totally went for cute and cuddly, it was flowers and grass, and then I saw another one on the jan/feb challenge with the goldfish and I had to have it, I don't remember seeing the shark.

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Creative — Fri, 03 Feb 2012 09:37:02 +1030

Good luck! I'm sure you'll do great. =)

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kittymammas — Fri, 03 Feb 2012 09:40:18 +1030

I already sent you a nano mail but I thought I'd tell you here too! rock those exams my friend!!

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Horselover150 — Fri, 03 Feb 2012 14:59:22 +1030

Thanks guys, so far I have taken 4 of my exams and I have done pretty well on all of them except for Math. Math is not at all my forte. My last one is the most dreaded of all five: 11th grade Chemistry. :(

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Creative — Fri, 03 Feb 2012 10:11:45 +1030

:D Welcome! ----------------------- the chatroom: http://tinychat.com/thelg

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Horselover150 — Fri, 03 Feb 2012 14:57:51 +1030

It's not that sad, I remeber when I took Algebra, I actually had to force myself to do the dreaded stuff instead of do other stuff. I hated Algebra.

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whitedove — Fri, 03 Feb 2012 21:40:22 +1030

I blame my neighbor. She had her TV on so loud, I had to go to opposite end of the apartment from where she keeps it (against the wall in the front room), close the door, and put on headphones turned up so loud I started to give myself a headache to not hear her tv. She's mostly been quiet, so I didn't complain, but another night like that and I think I will. But, you know, being sleep deprived from being too excited or too nervous about my new job to sleep all week didn't help. ;) BTW, I loved my algebra class. But, uh, that is probably not the least reason I am now an engineer. I liked math right up to Diff Eque. Then it was starting to get a little too... abstract? Is that the word I want?

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lilly32261 — Sat, 04 Feb 2012 10:18:33 +1030

It just seems so pointless to me, and no one will explain to me why I have to learn it and how it is going to (realistically) get me far in life. Math is clearly not my forte, and I'm definitely not going to be an engineer or anything like that. They always give me vague answers, and I don't approve. Needless to say, I'd be failing if my dad wasn't willing to do my math for me when I decide I'm done with it. I'm probably gonna fail the standardized test, but I don't care anymore.

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whitedove — Fri, 03 Feb 2012 21:45:08 +1030

You can do it, without a doubt! You can do it, cool Sunshine Cat! Okay, that sounded more like a rhyme in my head, but I've been awake about 20 minutes. At least I think I got the the same number of syllables in both lines. Just imagine a cheerleader yelling that! With techni-colored pom poms!

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Angryman — Fri, 03 Feb 2012 18:15:35 +1030

Who knows what sort of inspiration you'll have while in a Vicodin-induced haze?

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Sara Zee — Sat, 04 Feb 2012 11:13:50 +1030

Lol, you might be on to something. Wasn't it Hemingway who said "Write drunk; edit sober."? He ended up doing alright for himself. :)

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Horselover150 — Fri, 03 Feb 2012 21:50:31 +1030

My dislike of Algebra probably stems from the fact that my Mom was able to get straight A's in it when she was in school but she can't even figure out how to solve a monomial now. My Dad who is a pilot is awesome in Math, but since he's in the Navy, he isn't home much and I wasn't able to ask him any questions about my problems. So I limped through Pre-Algebra, Algebra 1, ad Algebra 2 and I ended up with like a C+ in Algebra 2.

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whitedove — Sat, 04 Feb 2012 15:35:04 +1030

Wow. That sounds even worse now that I am awake. :( It's the thought that counts, right?

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Horselover150 — Fri, 03 Feb 2012 22:12:20 +1030

What I have been doing is adding any words that I write in posts like this one and I add any words that I write in school assignments. More than half of the almost 3,000 words on my widget come from such assignments and posts. So, if you do as I did, you would be adding 182 more words to your total. ;)

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whitedove — Sat, 04 Feb 2012 08:51:13 +1030

If, like me, you're goal is to write a story, rather than just write, I would say just set a lower goal for yourself. I decided that I liked the idea of doing 60k, rather than 90 or 120 or what have you, because 1k a day is enough less than what I know I am capable of to not be too awful stressful (unless I am trying to force something like I did yesterday and the day before: as soon as I stopped thinking of the story as a novel and started to think of it as a short, I suddenly figured out the opening that has been evading me every time I tried to outline since mid-January.) If it is outside of your comfort zone, set a lower goal and work towards that instead. You've got 1200 so far, so why not 400 words a day? That way, you are back on track, since starting out behind can be a horrible de-motivator. Your goal is more manageable. You're less likely to burn out. You can always raise your goal as you go. Say you decide to shoot for 20k by April, but you reach 20 before February is over, raise it to 30, if you reach 30, raise it to 40. It won't do you any good to try to force yourself to do more than you can. It'll just suck. Trust me.

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jswwrites — Sat, 04 Feb 2012 06:01:28 +1030

*kicks you in the behind* GET WITH THE PROGRAM!!! How's that?

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Wragziez — Sat, 04 Feb 2012 06:51:17 +1030

We'll see in a few hours if it's worked or not! :) Thank you for the motivation! :D I'll report back soon!

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Red Queen — Sat, 04 Feb 2012 08:43:26 +1030

How about that... I finish my short story and you get to 3000, or we both get roundhouse kicked by Chuck Norris?^^

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Wragziez — Sat, 04 Feb 2012 08:48:19 +1030

I don't know about you but I'm trying my hardest because I do NOT want to be kicked at all. :)

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Red Queen — Sat, 04 Feb 2012 10:43:25 +1030

Yes, first draft done, revising tomorrow morning, and off it goes to the guys in my writing class :)

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Horselover150 — Sat, 04 Feb 2012 10:23:08 +1030

Yeah, I got to that point, too. The bad part is that my Mom was a straight A student and she expects me to be one, too. It is so infuriating when I do my best, don't get an awesome grade, and then she's like "You need to stop playing so many video games!" and all that. I don't play many games, I'm usually on here! XD But yeah, if you aren't planning on being a pilot or an engineer, you probably won't need algebra.

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lilly32261 — Sat, 04 Feb 2012 12:49:24 +1030

My parents expect me to be a straight A student too, and it isn't difficult, except for in math. They were disappointed with me last year when I was a handful of points away from exceeding standards on the math standardized test. At that point I decided that if they didn't like it, that was their problem. We had a short, loud talk about it, but they seem to have forgotten that we reached the cliche "I love you for who you are, but this meets standards stuff isn't acceptable." (I told them that their standards weren't acceptable and won the conversation as far as I'm concerned.

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Wragziez — Sat, 04 Feb 2012 11:13:56 +1030

Congrats!*huggles you* More then I've managed to do! The point of this is to write at least 60,000 words correct? For this, I said I was going to do multiple one-shots. And I am, but not focusing on one at a time. I can't seem to focus and write long enough for just one one-shot so I'm doing multiple stories at once. Right now I'm doing a Durarara!!(Anime) and a Titanic(1997 movie) short story.

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Horselover150 — Sat, 04 Feb 2012 11:38:12 +1030

Good for you! As long as you get the 60k done by the end of March, there is no reason to feel guilty. ;)

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Wragziez — Sat, 04 Feb 2012 12:02:57 +1030

Yep, I won't feel guilty even if I don't do 1000 words a day but the reason I'm doing this is to build up to write close to 2000 words for Camp NaNoWriMo, both June, August, and November. Doing this as a practice. Even if I don't do 1000 words per day, I'm still going to try to at least write a few hundred words per day.

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whitedove — Sat, 04 Feb 2012 15:39:14 +1030

I always just liked math, though it was a problem when I was past the highest math my mom ever took and she could not help me with my homework any more. I just, I do math as much as I think about stories. I almost can't look at a series of numbers without trying to find mathematical relations between them. One of the problems I have with digital clocks. Though the 1 1 0 6 on the clock right now is stumping me.

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whitedove — Sat, 04 Feb 2012 13:57:26 +1030

Really? But you were so excited! I mean, you can set your word goal lower and keep at it. I have been encouraging people who cant or dont want to do 1k a day to do that. You could set a good example? If you really don't want to, you can always rejoin us. Just pick up where we are (or are supposed to be) and go from there. PS If you are just having trouble getting the words out, I've found that I always have a dry spell at the beginning of any writing schedule, but it gets easier if you just push through. This last November was really weird in that I didn't lose like a week to not writing at the beginning. I promise it gets easier if you keep at it. Sorry if I'm bugging you, but this makes me really sad for some reason. Day 3 and one of our really excited people is quitting? :(

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Angryman — Sat, 04 Feb 2012 15:04:03 +1030

Well, as long as you are still writing. And at least you'll still be hanging out here.

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whitedove — Sat, 04 Feb 2012 15:42:21 +1030

I've got a whiteboard calendar by my computer to write down my daily goals, how much I wrote each day, and my grand total. I use the white space off to one side to calculate how many words I have to do to be on track for the day, since it is rarely the same as my daily goal. I also put little magnetic stars on the days where I met or surpassed the total goal for the day.

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Wragziez — Sun, 05 Feb 2012 05:02:41 +1030

Yeah I know, I'm sad too. But I'm going to try to at least write 500 words per day. We'll see how well that works. Might not be 60,000 at the end of these two monthes but 30,000 is still something to be excited about! Thanks for the tip! Taking your advice and not doing 1,000 words per day but I'm at least going to try to write a few hundred words!

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lilly32261 — Sun, 05 Feb 2012 04:11:07 +1030

I hate learning new stuff because I can't do it fast enough for my liking. (I'm not a fan of 'practice makes perfect'.) I despised isolating x's and y's a few months ago and now I can almost do it in my head. There's a handful of things in it that I actually enjoy, but it seems that once I enjoy something we don't do it anymore. (Like multiplying two multiple-digit numbers) I guess what I really hate about it is how repetitive it gets on the homework. Like on the homework we had a couple days ago, the answers were the same for three or four problems in the row, the only difference being whether or not it was less than/greater than/equal to. And then they still expected us to graph it on a number line. *shakes head* Number lines are just about the only graphing I'm willing to do, and then they pull stuff like this.

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lilly32261 — Sun, 05 Feb 2012 04:14:27 +1030

Cool. :) I think I might end up doing that and write everything in my planner for school. (Hey, might as well put it to use, right?)

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whitedove — Sat, 04 Feb 2012 16:00:07 +1030

Everyone's tickers were making mine look so boring. So I changed it. :)

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Horselover150 — Sat, 04 Feb 2012 16:21:14 +1030

Everyone is always saying how they did all this research, but I have never done any research for any book that I wrote. (o) Is there anything wrong with that ? I feel so wrong not researching before I write.

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whitedove — Sat, 04 Feb 2012 16:41:13 +1030

I don't see anything wrong with it, depending on the genre and your previous knowledge of the subject matter. But, my story references a lot of historic events. So I have bee doing research on those events to 1. make sure I remembered everything right and 2. see what other people's opinions of those events are so that it is not a one sided argument. Especially since there is supposed to be a big debate between people with widely varying views on those events in the next scene, which kind of jump-starts the rest of the story.

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Creative — Sat, 04 Feb 2012 17:26:29 +1030

Not at all! Research is good, but not researching is perfectly fine! It all depends on what type of book you're writing, and besides, even if your book requires research, place holders work wonders. =)

Re: 60 day/60k A Feb-Mar writing challenge?

Angryman — Sat, 04 Feb 2012 18:05:55 +1030

I think most of it depends on what you are researching. But there is nothing wrong with throwing in a "ledger" into your story. This is something that I learned from watching the commentaries for Leverage: You can throw in false facts that seem believable into your story. On Leverage, they had something involving a ledger that wasn't true, but it was believable, so they just started using the word ledger to describe those false but believable facts. And if it makes you feel any better, I did some research on something AFTER I had put it in one of my stories.

Re: 60 day/60k A Feb-Mar writing challenge?

jswwrites — Sat, 04 Feb 2012 23:45:47 +1030

My stories have a historical backstory, and then the MCs visit a half dozen or so places looking for clues/treasure, etc. In my NaNo novel, they were in London, Lisbon, Cape Town, Mozambique, Zimbabwe, Kuwait and Iraq, and Goa, India. So I had to do a lot of research both for the backstory stuff, and then finding historic locations in those areas that fit my timeframe, what's there currently, etc. My current novel's backstory is in Venice from 1125-1550AD, and then the current story will take place in Venice, various Greek Islands that Venice owned in the Middle Ages, Cyprus, Syria and Jerusalem. So.... more research! I realized in Oct why people do fantasy... no research! But there are all kinds of other novels you could write that wouldn't require research, i.e. if it's set where you live, if it's a romance or chick lit or something like that. Even a mystery. So I wouldn't let not needing research worry you - I'd celebrate the extra time in your life!!!

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Red Queen — Sun, 05 Feb 2012 01:22:58 +1030

Don't let the fantasy label fool you - we do plenty of research :) There's traveling speed, flora and fauna research, medical stuff, how the hell a windmill works because one of the bad guys is gonna be squashed by a millstone... all the tiny little things everyone seems to think we just make up as we go... ;)

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jswwrites — Sun, 05 Feb 2012 02:35:46 +1030

*bows in apology* That's awesome! I liked the thread that answered those kinds of questions (like how to kill someone with a millstone), but after NaNo started I didn't have time to just peruse it. There are some great Q&As on there!

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whitedove — Sun, 05 Feb 2012 03:56:53 +1030

This is a good example of not needing to research what you know. I've done a lot of walking and hiking, so I have a pretty good sense of how long it takes to walk in different kinds of terrain, weather, moods (some days I just can't make myself walk quickly even if I have to get to the grocery store and back before dinner 0u^), but I know absolutely nothing about human anatomy from a medical perspective beyond what can be done with a basic first aid kit and how to call the hospital. Since I've never liked the "We can fix anything in two seconds" magic (I like writing low fantasy), having an idea of what a doctor would need to do, how fast an injury can heal on it's own, etc. is very important if any of my characters get sick or hurt. Plus, when characters get sick with an unknown disease, I like to base it off of actual diseases (Yay WebMD) to make sure the symptoms make sense together. I am "working" on one story where the MC is sickly from birth and my hope is to write his symptoms realistically enough that a real MD could read the book and be able to make a guess at what's wrong with him. From my experience with metallurgy I know that some things you would like to go together are frequently mutually exclusive (no I can't make a knife that never needs to be sharpened but is easy to sharpen when it does need it! The property that makes it hold an edge is the one that makes it hard to sharpen!) and I expect disease is the same way. If it has this symptom, it's not possible for it to have that symptom. And any story that has the excuse "Well I made it up so I can do whatever I want" tacked onto it is going to suck (based on the ones I've read or watched in movie form). If anything, I think a fantasy requires more research because there is so much that is being made up. You have to develop social structures that make sense (the chances of a matriarchy objecting to prostitution are slim). You have to have magic systems that make sense (that's nice, but where is that energy coming from?). You need histories that make sense (no rebellion has ever occurred when people were that comfortable). You can base it off of models, but then you need to make sure that model makes sense in context (okay, but why would everyone go to the effort of learning to read and write if none of them can afford reading material? in the real version, religion was motivating them, but you have everyone dependent on hometown witches rather than written documents!) But if you were writing about something real, you don't need to know WHY SOMETHING WOULD HAPPEN, just WHAT DID HAPPEN.

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Angryman — Sun, 05 Feb 2012 08:49:59 +1030

Just to throw everyone off balance, I'm writing a fantasy story. The thing I need to do research on for it is modern firearms. Yeah, you probably were thinking high fantasy. No, this is set in modern times, so it's urban fantasy.

Re: 60 day/60k A Feb-Mar writing challenge?

jswwrites — Sun, 05 Feb 2012 02:35:57 +1030

Good luck! At least it's the weekend!

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whitedove — Sun, 05 Feb 2012 05:53:21 +1030

There's no need to rush. We've still got most of two months, so you could just do an extra 100 words for the next 30 days or something. Don't want to burn yourself out from the start. :)

Re: 60 day/60k A Feb-Mar writing challenge?

whitedove — Sun, 05 Feb 2012 06:11:13 +1030

I don't mind doing a few problems that are similar but not identical. I am very detail oriented so anything that emphasizes subtle differences is mildly entertaining to me. But, I can't stand repetition either. The math class that I did the absolute worst in was 2nd grade math. You know, a whole year of addition, subtraction,and multiplying and dividing with only one multi-digit number, because we had to pass, I think it was five timed tests in each area before moving onto the next area. 5 addition, then 5 subtraction and so on. But it was the same test. Every time. I took the exact same addition tests like eight or nine times when I gotten addition down a year or two earlier. I was so bored I couldn't do it in the time allowed. But once I was put in the advanced program and could advance at a much faster rate, I did way better. I actually had to joint enroll at a university when I was a senior because my high school ran out of more advanced courses for me to take. There were only two of us eligible for the next level, so they didn't bother trying to set up another class, they just sent us to a state university across town.

Re: 60 day/60k A Feb-Mar writing challenge?

whitedove — Sun, 05 Feb 2012 05:54:46 +1030

Lol. :) I doodled in my agenda books. It kept all of my sketches in one place so I wouldn't want to keep an entire page of notes for one little sketch when it came time to clean out my book-bag.

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lilly32261 — Sun, 05 Feb 2012 13:45:54 +1030

I went through at the beginning of the year and wrote quotes and stuff in it, so I usually check it once a week because there's some amusing things in there. My friend and I filled a whole two pages with a smiley face war back in August. We only stopped because we ran out of room. (The teachers were not amused by that. They said that the planner is school property and we are not to doodle in it. Then they stopped checking them.)

Re: 60 day/60k A Feb-Mar writing challenge?

lilly32261 — Sun, 05 Feb 2012 13:42:00 +1030

In fifth grade our teacher made us take those timed tests every day. I know how you feel. :( She wasn't even trying to teach it to us, she just needed something to do for math and she didn't want to use the book. By the second quarter I could finish the addition, subtraction, and division ones in under two minutes because I memorized them. (I never learned my addition tables either. I just learned the order of the numbers on the sheet.) For the multiplication sheets I jumped around on the page, because I enjoyed multiplication. (Even now it's the only bit of math that I can do completely in my head, as long as the numbers aren't too large.) She didn't even give us multi-digit numbers. It was all 1-9. That was probably the year I did the worst in math. By the time February rolled around she decided that we needed to know more than how to add/subtract/multiply/divide to pass the standardized testing, so we had to cram. It was weird in sixth grade when we covered everything we would need to know by the end of the first semester, so we just reviewed.

Re: 60 day/60k A Feb-Mar writing challenge?

whitedove — Sun, 05 Feb 2012 12:40:29 +1030

I like urban fantasies, but just because it isn't set in the modern or a modern-like world doesn't make it high fantasy. Like I said, I like to write low fantasy which can be in either time frame.

Re: 60 day/60k A Feb-Mar writing challenge?

Horselover150 — Sun, 05 Feb 2012 10:42:49 +1030

Well I'm glad for your novel's sake. Is there anything in particular that is bugging you?

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Angryman — Sun, 05 Feb 2012 15:07:53 +1030

Sort of. I'm constantly taking care of my mother's critters, and we have such a crappy setup for everything, it takes its toll on me. It's the same thing day after day. Getting away and going into town once in awhile helps, but I don't have my driver's license, and I don't live close enough to just walk. And the worst part, I think, is that even when I am feeling extremely horrible, I STILL have to take care of them. It just bugs the heck out of me that I'm just about the only person in the family who takes care of them constantly.

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Horselover150 — Sun, 05 Feb 2012 22:31:29 +1030

I can understand what you are going through. though it isn't the same, I feel as I am constantly taking core of my younger brother(he is 16) and making sure that what he is supposed to be doing gets done. It annoys me, but I can't really do anything about it. :(

Re: 60 day/60k A Feb-Mar writing challenge?

whitedove — Sun, 05 Feb 2012 18:54:57 +1030

Whoops. Meant to write another 2005. Not 2613. That was my first number. In case any of you were wondering why my numbers didn't add up. Which you probably weren't. But, anyways. Nothing good happens after 2 am, and it's 20 after now. So, I think I'm done for the night.

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jswwrites — Mon, 06 Feb 2012 00:55:00 +1030

Awesome!!! I was hoping to get ahead this weekend, but I think it's not to be... I was looking at a long, rainy, writing Sunday afternoon. My family was looking at me doing Super Bowl food. I think I know who will win!

Re: 60 day/60k A Feb-Mar writing challenge?

Angryman — Mon, 06 Feb 2012 12:24:32 +1030

Well, at least you don't have to haul several pounds of hay and water to him.

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jswwrites — Mon, 06 Feb 2012 07:45:35 +1030

Oh sorry! Hope she's doing better! We just found out in Sept that my 15 year old has asthma. It's not severe, obviously, or we'd have known about it sooner, but I've sure learned a lot since then!

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kittymammas — Tue, 07 Feb 2012 05:30:20 +1030

Thank you. Yeah she has it pretty bad and we are looking into my oldest daughter having it as well. Better to know sooner then later. We had no idea my youngest had it until she had an attack, possibly the scariest moment of my life! But things are leveling out now, readjusted her medicine and hopefully back to normal. And back to writing! This book wont write itself =)

Re: 60 day/60k A Feb-Mar writing challenge?

whitedove — Mon, 06 Feb 2012 09:42:50 +1030

Yay! More people! Welcome aboard!

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Horselover150 — Mon, 06 Feb 2012 11:14:24 +1030

You can click n one of the tickers and you will be taken to the website where you can make one.

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Horselover150 — Mon, 06 Feb 2012 13:04:07 +1030

Is it a horse or a cow? I am thinking that she has a horse.

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Angryman — Mon, 06 Feb 2012 18:25:49 +1030

Two horses, fourteen alpacas, and an angora goat. All over the place. And I get the fun job of getting hay and water to all of them.

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Horselover150 — Mon, 06 Feb 2012 19:12:29 +1030

Aww, if I lived near you I'd gladly take care of the horses if I could ride them. I love horses!

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Angryman — Wed, 08 Feb 2012 19:43:52 +1030

It's a shame that you don't live near me. Actually, it's a shame NO ONE lives near me. Living as far out as I do has advantages, but I don't know if they outweigh the disadvantages.

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kittymammas — Tue, 07 Feb 2012 05:35:18 +1030

LOL that was great! And sometimes I feel that's what it would take to get this book written!

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Horselover150 — Tue, 07 Feb 2012 10:30:56 +1030

Heehee, that was good.

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Ladypamela — Tue, 07 Feb 2012 11:56:50 +1030

testing, testing...

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Horselover150 — Wed, 08 Feb 2012 09:54:06 +1030

Good for you! I have kinda been slacking. It was really cloudy and rainy yesterday and I just felt lazy, so I don't think that I got anything done.

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Ladypamela — Thu, 09 Feb 2012 00:13:49 +1030

Yeah, it takes me about 10k to really get the juices flowing on a novel. Good job!

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whitedove — Wed, 08 Feb 2012 13:02:52 +1030

Yeah. I didn't write a single word yesterday either. I worked an 11 hour shift and then felt bad when I got home, because, as it turns out, I'm allergic to one of the chemicals I got all over my hands yesterday. :( Feeling much better today, but still not sure what I'm going to write now that I finished that fan-fiction.

Re: 60 day/60k A Feb-Mar writing challenge?

Horselover150 — Wed, 08 Feb 2012 13:34:40 +1030

I'm sorry that you're allergic to your work, that would suck. Hmm, mabe you could try writing about a person that is allergic to something at work and turns into a monster because of the chemical. ;P

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whitedove — Wed, 08 Feb 2012 16:17:31 +1030

Lol :) Superpowers via allergies?

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Horselover150 — Wed, 08 Feb 2012 18:42:04 +1030

Ooh, I hope that you recover quickly.

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Horselover150 — Wed, 08 Feb 2012 18:41:43 +1030

Yeah, I think that would be an interesting twist, would it not? :P

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Sara Zee — Thu, 09 Feb 2012 09:32:23 +1030

I'm already feeling a whole lot better. Really, I'm just glad the surgery's over and done with. :) Congratulations on your test too - that's awesome!

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Ladypamela — Thu, 09 Feb 2012 00:12:48 +1030

Congrats, Horselover! That's not an easy language, I imagine.

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jswwrites — Thu, 09 Feb 2012 00:57:52 +1030

Excellent!!! Great job!

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Horselover150 — Thu, 09 Feb 2012 09:45:15 +1030

Thanks! I was so excited. :D

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Angryman — Thu, 09 Feb 2012 10:17:22 +1030

I'd say "Congratulations" in Japanese, but... Watashi no nihongo wa maa-maa desu.

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jswwrites — Thu, 09 Feb 2012 06:57:24 +1030

You can do it! Maybe the weekend will be kinder to you. :o) I'm actually aiming for 90k in the 60 days so I have a complete novel, so I'm a bit ahead using that goal, but not much. It's always good to have words in the bank, though - you never know when you'll have one that gets away from you (as you've learned!).

Re: 60 day/60k A Feb-Mar writing challenge?

whitedove — Thu, 09 Feb 2012 09:53:59 +1030

Your ticker ma'am. http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forum_comments/1105900 If that doesn't work, it is all the way at the bottom of page 2.

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kittymammas — Thu, 09 Feb 2012 13:03:36 +1030

Aww, you found it thanks so much!! I'm hoping to update it tonight. But if not at least I know where its at!

Re: 60 day/60k A Feb-Mar writing challenge?

Horselover150 — Thu, 09 Feb 2012 10:57:30 +1030

iie, jitsuwa anataga sugoidesu. You can just say Omedetogozaimasu. :D I can teach you more if you want.

Re: 60 day/60k A Feb-Mar writing challenge?

whitedove — Thu, 09 Feb 2012 13:40:38 +1030

Lol. Maybe I should change mine too. I feel like I jinxed myself with that butterfly counter. Claimed I was just fluttering through it, and... failed to write a word two days in a row and am not off to a good start tonight. Or any start for that matter. I was just so excited about having finished a story, getting ahead in the process. I'm not behind, yet, but I am really hoping to get some writing done tonight. If only I could be calm without being tired, alert without being hyper. I seriously think that I have two settings sometimes. Spastic and asleep.

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whitedove — Thu, 09 Feb 2012 13:47:22 +1030

Here we go. More of a "I wish I knew what all these ropes do" kind of a thing.

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kittymammas — Thu, 09 Feb 2012 13:50:45 +1030

"Like" LOL! I like your settings, I know exactly what you mean. As soon I take my shower and sit down I'm yawing and thinking about my pillow. At least your not behind. I'm writing some tonight, got everything done early so at least maybe 1k of writing for me! Oh and I like your new ticker, kind of gives you that free floating feeling when you look at it.

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kittymammas — Thu, 09 Feb 2012 13:54:18 +1030

Alright all these 8k+ tickers are making me jealous, off to keep writing!

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whitedove — Thu, 09 Feb 2012 22:48:53 +1030

Ah! It works even better than I expected! It looks like everything is going well, just floating along (since I'm not behind yet) but from this distance none of you can see me flailing around in a panic. I love hot air balloons. But, I'm scared of heights. At least any heights I think I can fall from, and a hot air balloon basket definitely qualifies. (I'm up to four days without writing a single word now, but I don't have to work tomorrow (knock on wood) so I should be able to stay up writing tonight.)

Re: 60 day/60k A Feb-Mar writing challenge?

Horselover150 — Thu, 09 Feb 2012 13:55:59 +1030

Darn! I was thinking that people were coming back on. I felt abandonded there for a little while. XD

Re: 60 day/60k A Feb-Mar writing challenge?

kittymammas — Thu, 09 Feb 2012 14:04:35 +1030

I'm still here! Your not abandoned. But also writing, and thankfully almost got 1k in...yay!

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Horselover150 — Thu, 09 Feb 2012 14:22:04 +1030

Good for you! I'll probably write some more this evening, but right now I need to bake some brownies(from scratch, of course!) and then I need to get ready for Japanese lesson.

Re: 60 day/60k A Feb-Mar writing challenge?

jswwrites — Fri, 10 Feb 2012 00:08:59 +1030

hmmm. that didn't work...

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jswwrites — Fri, 10 Feb 2012 00:10:19 +1030

Let's try this:

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Ladypamela — Fri, 10 Feb 2012 02:35:49 +1030

Best of luck with your little one. It always hurts when our kids are sick or injured. Sending get well thoughts!

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jswwrites — Fri, 10 Feb 2012 05:01:25 +1030

So sorry about your daughter. I know it's so scary when they can't breathe. My son was in the hospital 4 days in August with pneumonia, in Uganda (yeah, yikes). His O2 was 82% when they admitted him. It was really a bad night! I'm praying for her! And I wouldn't worry too much about writing - I couldn't have written much more than a text message when all that was happening (I did send about 200 of those to my husband, who was in the States, but I"m not sure they were coherent!).

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kittymammas — Fri, 10 Feb 2012 05:13:20 +1030

Thanks you guys. Thankfully she just has a bad cough and that's what has been causing her a bit of trouble in breathing, however they said they aren't comfortable with the results she has been getting with her current meds and so they decided to change all of them. She is still in her danger zone but there's not much we can do until her cough clears with the new steroid. We haven't had to be admitted into the hospital in a long time thank goodness. Four days is along time, the longest we have had to stay in was three. However it was for RSV, we didn't even she had asthma at the time, she was 1.

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Nianne — Fri, 10 Feb 2012 03:35:41 +1030

You are so brave! I should banish myself from the internet until I'm caught up, but I'm not sure I have the discipline.

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Nianne — Fri, 10 Feb 2012 05:18:31 +1030

Good luck!

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kittymammas — Fri, 10 Feb 2012 14:45:05 +1030

Thank you!

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Horselover150 — Fri, 10 Feb 2012 09:39:02 +1030

G'night! Enjoy the movie! :D

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Angryman — Fri, 10 Feb 2012 10:14:06 +1030

Did you go and see The Adventures Of Tintin? That was an excellent movie.

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kittymammas — Fri, 10 Feb 2012 11:00:27 +1030

Good for you, give your fingers and brain a break haha. We saw "cronicle" last week and it was just awful, they could have made it so much better then what it was. I'm looking forward to "the hunger games" though I've yet to read the book. I'm afraid to pick up a book, if I open one I won't write a word until I finish it.

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jswwrites — Fri, 10 Feb 2012 12:56:02 +1030

The Stephanie Plum books, btw, are SOOOOO much better than the movie. Very mediocre.

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jswwrites — Fri, 10 Feb 2012 12:55:28 +1030

We saw the preview for that tonight. My son really wants to see it, but I couldn't tell if I'd like it or not. I haven't read the books either... I don't like horror type stuff, and I'm only so-so on sci-fi/fantasy. Some I love, but not most. So... My kids will have to see it and tell me if I'd like it!

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Angryman — Fri, 10 Feb 2012 17:14:55 +1030

Sadly, that's how it normally is when books are turned into movies.

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kittymammas — Fri, 10 Feb 2012 14:48:08 +1030

WOOT! Passing the 10k always feels so great! Congrats! And good luck on your move, hope everything goes smoothly.

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jswwrites — Sat, 11 Feb 2012 00:06:16 +1030

Great job!!!

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lilly32261 — Fri, 10 Feb 2012 13:42:19 +1030

I love how it says "saved." Now I feel like I'm saving the words by writing them. :D

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Horselover150 — Fri, 10 Feb 2012 16:01:26 +1030

Well, as this isn't a real NaNo, I think that sleep is an extremely important task that you need to do. I order you to go to bed! You will have plenty of time to get caught up, because, after all, it's only the 9th/10th of February.

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jswwrites — Sat, 11 Feb 2012 00:07:01 +1030

You're right on schedule - celebrate!

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Angryman — Fri, 10 Feb 2012 17:16:24 +1030

Sleep is only important if you have to get up the next day.

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Horselover150 — Fri, 10 Feb 2012 18:10:59 +1030

Heehee, yeah. Unfortunately, everyone that I know(including myself) has to get up the next day. :P

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Angryman — Sat, 11 Feb 2012 10:34:45 +1030

Your ticker would make for a neat bracelet or choker. ...I can just see one of my FMCs with that...

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jswwrites — Sat, 11 Feb 2012 01:29:11 +1030

You definitely need to see another doctor. Is there a good urgent care you can go to? One of our ERs here is blessed with a pediatric asthma unit, which is great, but I know that's not available most places. Always go with your gut on your kids - I have 3 (25, 19 and 15) and there have been many times where I just said "something is not right and I'm not going away until you look at him/her!"

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Red Queen — Sat, 11 Feb 2012 02:02:32 +1030

I'm so sorry about that, that sounds awful. I had a skiing accident once; was unconscious for a while, and my mum told me how horrible this situation was for her... I really hope your daughter gets better soon. I'm not really the praying type, but the best of wishes for both of you!

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whitedove — Sat, 11 Feb 2012 02:39:07 +1030

Stress all you want. Don't even think about being sorry about it! I just wish there was something more I could do to help. I hate hearing about anyone being that ill, but especially a child. I've got all my fingers crossed for you two. Sending happy, healing thoughts your way.

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lilly32261 — Sat, 11 Feb 2012 04:39:44 +1030

Hope she gets better soon. :( Having asthma sucks.

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Angryman — Sun, 12 Feb 2012 12:15:36 +1030

Plenty of times. Mostly so I can get more sleep.

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lilly32261 — Sun, 12 Feb 2012 08:56:12 +1030

I'm keeping her in my prayers. I hope she gets better soon. (Those words seem so meaningless. It must be awful for all of you.)

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Horselover150 — Sun, 12 Feb 2012 09:35:17 +1030

Oh I'm so sorry, that would be terrifying. I hope she recovers from her attack soon, and I hope that she doesn't have any more serious attacks. I'll keep you guys in my prayers.

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jswwrites — Sun, 12 Feb 2012 11:01:16 +1030

I'm glad you went to the doctor and that she's doing better! Just set the writing aside for now, and when you can come back, pick it up and join us. If it's "only" 30,000 by the end of March, that's a LOT!

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whitedove — Sun, 12 Feb 2012 11:14:09 +1030

Writing isn't nearly as important as your family. But, until you have the time to get back on the band wagon, feel free to come by and stress at us any time you want. We are all looking forward to your baby's recovery and your return to our 1k/day, no matter how many days that might be, challenge. :)

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Angryman — Sun, 12 Feb 2012 12:17:20 +1030

Cheesecake: the ultimate writing snack!

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whitedove — Sun, 12 Feb 2012 16:01:10 +1030

Yay. It's amazing how hard it can be to get back into the swing of things after taking a break.

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Horselover150 — Sun, 12 Feb 2012 15:37:11 +1030

Wow! You're already at 20k! Good for you! ;)

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jswwrites — Mon, 13 Feb 2012 00:36:46 +1030

Great job!!!! I love crossing those numbers that end in 0's... haha! My weekend ended up way busier than I thought thanks to last minute visits by my daughter from college and another young friend from Uganda. Hoping to crank some words out this week, though!

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lilly32261 — Sun, 12 Feb 2012 15:42:18 +1030

Thanks! My family escaped today, and left me alone for several hours. :) Lots of uninterrupted writing time for me!

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Horselover150 — Sun, 12 Feb 2012 16:09:01 +1030

Yes, because it is part of the plannin section of the writing process. If you were in school, it wouldn't count, but since we're not in school, go ahead an dcount it! :) Also, I was wondering if anyone else just writes as it comes to them and doesn't plan and outline their book?

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lilly32261 — Sun, 12 Feb 2012 17:04:40 +1030

I'd count the outline, because it's part of the process, like Horeselover said. I never plan or outline, outside of the sleepy musings before I drift off/right after I wake up, which I promptly forget anyway. The exception is if it's for school and I have to have an outline as part of the grade. Speaking of outlines, we have writing proficiency this week. (I know, it'll be easy, but still. Eeek!)

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whitedove — Mon, 13 Feb 2012 06:19:10 +1030

I've tried just writing as it comes to me, and, well, that is kind of what my outlining is. I write in very horrible narration of the "They met. They went to the bar. It looked like this. So and so made a rude comment about it. MC got upset," kind so that I can write it all out as quickly as I am figuring it out. Then I can go back and fill in the details confident that I know where I am going with it and having already had a chance to fill in the "They are at A. Now they're at B, how did they get there?" gaping wholes. At least, it has worked in the past, so I am going to try it with this story and see where it gets me. Especially since I have wasted a considerable amount of time trying to figure out how we get to the excitement in this story already. (I've been coming back to this story regularly since the end of Nanowrimo 2010, when I wrote the first pseudo-draft and am yet to make much progress on it. Any progress. The words I've written this weekend are all the words I have written for it in a year and is it three months now? So I am hoping the detailed-outline/vague-draft will get me over whatever hurdle I keep tripping on and get this story going. (It worked for that fanfiction. I wasted over a month trying to figure out how to get started until I started outlining. Of course, the difference may be that I realized it was a short story and not a novel. This one is definitely a YA novel, though).

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whitedove — Mon, 13 Feb 2012 06:23:37 +1030

I might have to if I am ever going to finish this challenge. I wasted a lot of time trying to get ready for that first story back in January and... it didn't last as long as I was expecting. Now I'm a little unprepared to work on this one.

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jswwrites — Mon, 13 Feb 2012 00:37:55 +1030

Good luck! And do come check on us - you might get sucked back into the vortex, you never know!

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Angryman — Mon, 13 Feb 2012 15:34:30 +1030

You didn't honestly think I wouldn't check up on people? I'm rooting for you guys!

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whitedove — Mon, 13 Feb 2012 06:39:22 +1030

So, that outline from the other day added 406 words to my total, for a total of 9995 words. It's not much, but it's something. Let's see how much I can get done today.

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jswwrites — Mon, 13 Feb 2012 13:29:45 +1030

Soooo glad she's in the green zone! That's really great!!! The writing's great, too, but nothing is better than a child getting well. Wonderful news all around - thanks for sharing!

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whitedove — Mon, 13 Feb 2012 15:13:01 +1030

Yay! That's great! I'm so happy for you! It's great that she is doing so much better! Doesn't hurt my feelings that you're writing with us again, either. ;)

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Angryman — Mon, 13 Feb 2012 15:36:01 +1030

Good to hear! Now, hopefully, no more trips to the hospital for anything more than a general checkup.

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kittymammas — Mon, 13 Feb 2012 13:43:28 +1030

Yes I agree, she gave me quite the scare. The other night right after we got back from the DR she lost her breath and fell out of her chair. I tell you I about had a heart attack but I just stayed calm and gave her the breathing treatments and Sat and today she hasn't had any sort of attack. Thanks for all of you being here for me!

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jswwrites — Tue, 14 Feb 2012 01:33:11 +1030

Looks like a great day to me! Good job!

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kittymammas — Tue, 14 Feb 2012 01:59:59 +1030

That is an awesome day! wow! and your right on target! Congrats!

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kittymammas — Tue, 14 Feb 2012 01:59:11 +1030

Amen to that. I'm so sick of going to the Dr, it seems we have been there once a week since back in October! She is still doing good and and is now exactly where she needs to be on her breathing rates! Oh and I'm happy you got a pic up Angryman, looks good.

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finchgeam — Tue, 14 Feb 2012 00:57:00 +1030

Dam... my kingdom for a edit button!!!! I just started today ... o.O I've missed out on 13 days ... dam! had I only found this sooner *pulls up sleaves* Well.. gotta get moving...

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kittymammas — Tue, 14 Feb 2012 02:01:01 +1030

Welcome aboard. It's okay there are some of us, such as me, who have a lot of catching up to do as well. Happy you came in to join us!

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Nianne — Tue, 14 Feb 2012 07:10:27 +1030

No edit button. It's a metaphor for how you're not supposed to edit while drafting.

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whitedove — Tue, 14 Feb 2012 13:53:08 +1030

Welcome to the show! Glad to have you along! BTW: I've only actually written six days so far. ;) So maybe you're not that far behind?

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Angryman — Tue, 14 Feb 2012 08:50:26 +1030

Thanks! I tried to find a Grunt from the game Halo, but I wasn't finding any large enough that I liked, so I find the Noble Team symbol from the same series, and went with it.

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kittymammas — Tue, 14 Feb 2012 08:23:55 +1030

LOL, you have got to be kidding me! But I suppose this makes sense.

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Angryman — Tue, 14 Feb 2012 08:52:25 +1030

That... makes sense, actually. I still want an edit button, but at least it makes sense why the forums lack one. Well, Mr. Zuckerberg, what's your excuse?

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jswwrites — Wed, 15 Feb 2012 02:16:18 +1030

Glad you had a fun day - you needed one! And have fun tonight! We're going later in the week to avoid the crowds - I'm not much of one for crowds. :o)

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lilly32261 — Wed, 15 Feb 2012 09:55:53 +1030

Glad you're feeling better. :) I've never had to get blood work done, but it sounds like it sucks. :(

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Angryman — Wed, 15 Feb 2012 11:02:02 +1030

Only if your doctor is a vampire. Sorry, but the joke was there and demand that I make it.

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jswwrites — Wed, 15 Feb 2012 11:04:45 +1030

someone had to! haha!

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lilly32261 — Wed, 15 Feb 2012 11:37:19 +1030

Haha. XD My math teacher told us that the first time he had to get blood drawn, the person drawing the blood acted like Dracula and he passed out.

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kittymammas — Wed, 15 Feb 2012 13:25:52 +1030

Omg that's too funny!

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whitedove — Wed, 15 Feb 2012 16:14:25 +1030

Wow. Sounds like you had a really good Valentine's Day. That's awesome. I'm glad you had a nice day after all that stress.

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Angryman — Wed, 15 Feb 2012 18:05:38 +1030

Yikes! That's enough stress for you for today! In fact, that's enough stress to cover an entire week.

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kittymammas — Thu, 16 Feb 2012 00:59:33 +1030

Oh my! Well I sure hope today goes better for you white dove. I agree with Angry man, that is definitely enough stress for a week. Well please don't add writing into your stress levels today, its only a nano thread and its not like your reeeeally behind schedule. Sending well wishes your way-->

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jswwrites — Thu, 16 Feb 2012 12:06:36 +1030

wow, bad day! Get as much sleep as you can and don't worry about the writing. The words aren't going anywhere!

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jswwrites — Fri, 17 Feb 2012 01:30:40 +1030

Sometimes our brains need to recharge! But if you're not happy with the 2 on/2 off, at least you know about it and can try to trick yourself into working through it (since I tend to rebel against myself, trickery is always needed!). So maybe on the 2 normally "off" days you set a low goal, like 200 words. If that's what you write, that's 200 more than you had. And if you get on a roll and write more... well, that's awesome too! Or maybe you write something else on those days, like a blog or a poem or a song or something. An ad for ketchup? Just something different, that's still writing.

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Angryman — Fri, 17 Feb 2012 11:39:50 +1030

Honestly, I think that you have a great writing rhythm. You're consistent with your writing, able give yourself a break, then jump back to it.

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A.P. Navis — Fri, 17 Feb 2012 04:44:46 +1030

Great advice jswwrites! Trickery is a necessity for me as well (chocolate?!). Although I am most definitely not a poet, I like your idea of a smaller goal on my off days, ketchup ads might be fun too! I've been looking into copy writing/editing as a career change. It's my dream to get paid to stay at home and read or write (isn't it everyone's?), but I have no idea how to go about it. I think I'd need a time machine (or a lot of money) to go back to college and pick a different major. Sadly molecular biology doesn't exactly qualify me for writing jobs, just my current lab-rat status. Anybody else wish they had a time machine? I do and college was only a few years ago for me... Do any of you WriMo's out there make a living as a writer/editor or know how you'd go about something like that?

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kittymammas — Sat, 18 Feb 2012 00:35:45 +1030

Yeah you sound pretty tired..have fun at the games!

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kittymammas — Sat, 18 Feb 2012 00:36:08 +1030

We miss you! Hope the move and everything is turning out well.

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whitedove — Fri, 17 Feb 2012 15:18:53 +1030

Congratulations! Keep it up!

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kittymammas — Fri, 17 Feb 2012 15:55:23 +1030

Nice!!

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jswwrites — Sat, 18 Feb 2012 00:16:55 +1030

Great job!!!

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kittymammas — Sat, 18 Feb 2012 00:33:43 +1030

Well that's okay! I sometimes feel like letting go of my nano novel for a bit but then I hang on for dear life because if I let it go, I might not pick it back up. Music does it to me every time...happy Friday!

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Angryman — Sat, 18 Feb 2012 15:15:28 +1030

So you need more iron, right? I need to bottle the water at my house and start selling it as an iron supplement. You are not the first person I know that has this problem, and the well water at my house is so full of iron, you can pick it up with a magnet.

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lilly32261 — Sat, 18 Feb 2012 15:59:03 +1030

o.O Wow. The only interesting thing we've ever had in our water is quite a bit of arsenic. (Good thing we were using filters and drinking mostly bottled water at the time...)

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Angryman — Sat, 18 Feb 2012 18:08:34 +1030

Wow. How the blazes did you get arsenic in your water? I mean, the iron and minerals in my water, well that's just nature. Last I checked, though, arsenic is a processed product that is NOT naturally found in the water.

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lilly32261 — Sun, 19 Feb 2012 05:22:15 +1030

We were living in a little mining town at the time. If I remember correctly, it had something to do with the proximity of the mine.

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jswwrites — Sun, 19 Feb 2012 08:14:23 +1030

Arsenic is naturally occurring. Grazing animals can have traces of it... At our last house we had iron in the water, although we had a filter. Here we're on the city, so not an issue. But yes, taking hefty iron supplements and trying to figure out everything to eat to help, too. And cooking in my cast iron, which I love anyway. My son had anemia after a bout of pneumonia a few years ago, so I'm digging out my info on foods and such. At least I know why I'm so tired! That's a big plus!

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Angryman — Sun, 19 Feb 2012 17:02:37 +1030

Dial-up, high-speed, or satellite internet? I have satellite internet, and it tends to bump me off for no apparent reason.

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Red Queen — Sun, 19 Feb 2012 20:06:16 +1030

32k... part of me wants to cry now... the rest is wildly applauding you for that :D I manage to stay ahead just so, and only because I have to write a lot of articles at work. 19,203 words right now, and maybe, just maybe, this will be the first challenge I'll actually win...

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jswwrites — Mon, 20 Feb 2012 01:51:03 +1030

Great job! I'm going to try to hit 30k today, don't know if I'll make it or not... But I love crossing those big thresholds!

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lilly32261 — Mon, 20 Feb 2012 04:27:51 +1030

Wireless high-speed. I think it's a problem with my computer though, because the wired computer works fine and the Wii and my old computer don't have a problem staying connected. I need to call HP and see what they say, but I suspect they'll tell me I'm insane.

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kittymammas — Mon, 20 Feb 2012 13:21:04 +1030

Yeah I wanna cry too, ::hands tissue::

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Angryman — Mon, 20 Feb 2012 11:00:19 +1030

Well, hopefully it isn't anything major.

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lilly32261 — Mon, 20 Feb 2012 11:40:31 +1030

If it is, I'll just let dad have the computer and I'll go back to my netbook. I'm starting to think that I should avoid HP.

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kittymammas — Mon, 20 Feb 2012 13:20:35 +1030

Those moments are so great!

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Angryman — Mon, 20 Feb 2012 14:00:33 +1030

Ooh! Yeah, my sister's computer did that to her. Since her computer was so old, though, she just got a new laptop. It was probably better that she did get a new computer instead of paying almost as much to just to fix the old one.

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kittymammas — Mon, 20 Feb 2012 14:13:02 +1030

My laptop is about six years old, I got it for gaming and school work, world of warcraft, but now I use it for writing. I'm hoping I can at least get my files and pictures and all off of it if I need to buy a new one. If its the graphics card as my husband thinks, I'm guessing that to be a costly fix and so I'll buy a new one. The good news though is that I'm going through my emails and I'm finding pretty much all of my novel in bits and pieces. So I think I'm going to be okay on that account. I'm not fond of the desk top but beggars cant be choosers =)

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Angryman — Mon, 20 Feb 2012 17:00:16 +1030

Yep. I can't remember the last time I did anything on the desktop. As soon as we got satellite internet, I kind of gave up on the desktop. PC stands for Personal Computer, not Public Computer.

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Angryman — Tue, 21 Feb 2012 11:45:26 +1030

The two brands that I've hear everyone likes is HP and Toshiba. Just saying.

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whitedove — Tue, 21 Feb 2012 14:12:40 +1030

Personally, I swear by Mac. Just sayin'.

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jswwrites — Wed, 22 Feb 2012 02:17:21 +1030

Agreed!

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kittymammas — Tue, 21 Feb 2012 17:30:07 +1030

Hey thats great to hear!!! Is this the editing your working on? Oh and I got another dell xps...im just familar with it so why ruin a good thing? Im pretty excited now that ive ordered it.

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Angryman — Tue, 21 Feb 2012 19:37:20 +1030

Good for you! It's nice to have a computer to call your own again, isn't it? No, I'm not editing. I'm just reading Sir Terry Pratchett's latest book of the Discworld series. After I finish reading it, I'll get back to writing one of my many stories. In one story, I brought back a character that has only been in one scene so far, so I'm excited to have him appear again (he brings a lot of potential to the story). In the other story, FMC's brother has gone MIA, and new details are coming in on the case, i.e. a cryptic and frantic message left on the other FMC's cell phone: "'The legend of the Mohten Sugra is real! It-' BANG!-" And the message is cut off.

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kittymammas — Wed, 22 Feb 2012 00:46:12 +1030

Oh it will be so nice to have a laptop of my own again. I hate desk tops, I mean I work at one all day, which I don't mind, but laptops make me feel more myself. Oh so snuff is a book your reading, I'm sorry...I thought it might of been you nano! Silly me haha. Your story, or stories rather, sound interesting. I like the frantic cell message, those leave so many opportunities open. I'm going to try and write at least one of the scene I need to write on paper by hand. Just because my laptop crashed and burned, dosen't mean that I should!

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kittymammas — Wed, 22 Feb 2012 00:49:13 +1030

I don't think anyone here would have a problem with that! We all have different goals and just gather for the motivation, company and sometimes to gloat (you know who you are 30kers! haha). So come on in =)

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jswwrites — Wed, 22 Feb 2012 02:18:53 +1030

Come on in! Many of us have goals other than the 60k, but we're all using the same 60 days to accomplish them. So the more the merrier, I say!

Re: 60 day/60k A Feb-Mar writing challenge?

Angryman — Wed, 22 Feb 2012 11:09:14 +1030

You can only join if you know the password and the secret handshake. And no, I'm not going to tell you that the password is "Password Backwards," nor will I tell you that the secret handshake is actually a footshake. ...Wait... Well, I guess you're in.

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whitedove — Wed, 22 Feb 2012 11:59:03 +1030

Yay! More people! Welcome aboard!

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Angryman — Wed, 22 Feb 2012 11:06:15 +1030

Yes, the cell phone message is the last anyone hears from him. So the question is, is he alive or dead? There was a lot of blood on the ground where he was attacked. I know the answer. And I finished reading Snuff last night, so I should be able to get back ti writing again. Problem is, I have a plot bunny bugging me. Think of any superhero story (DC Comics, Marvel Comics, heck, even The Incredibles) and how there is always some sort of hostage situation. This plot bunny is about the hostages of supervillains. As of so far, I have 2 superheroes, 2 supervillains, and 2 hostages. I need more. Anyhow, have fun writing your scene.

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jswwrites — Wed, 22 Feb 2012 11:53:45 +1030

Go for it! Now your mind is free of the last story, and ready for your own!

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whitedove — Wed, 22 Feb 2012 14:42:57 +1030

Yeah. I'm about 6k behind right now. :( I just can't seem to get back into the pace of my story or focus enough to start the next one. I kind of have a mad mash-up of vague ideas that give me a terrible head-ache whenever I try to untangle them. I have so little time in the evenings for working on anything, too. It's just not going well for me. *sigh*

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kittymammas — Thu, 23 Feb 2012 05:14:04 +1030

Oh yes! I have had to have numeral conversations with my MMC, he is a stubborn, spoiled, awful man. But Now that I'm nearly done with the story, we have made some major compromises and seem to see eye to eye. And FMC is just as bad, she isn't an awful person but rather loves and cares for everyone and everything and will not give up on people. I had a few endings I was tossing around my head for a bit and then she stomped in and very clearly stated that there is only one ending and she will not let me write anything else but that. Well she is right, once you create a character they have their own traits and personalities and ways of doing things. But again we comprised and have a real ending (hers) and an alternate.

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Angryman — Thu, 23 Feb 2012 12:19:50 +1030

He's being chased by ninja, isn't he? Whys is it always ninja? Then again, it isn't ALWAYS ninja; some days it's Robo-Spartans.

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Nighttime.Breeze — Thu, 23 Feb 2012 06:48:56 +1030

Yep, me too. I just did lousy 255 words today... are you up for a short word war? But your character seems quite nice (the female one), what's her name?

Re: 60 day/60k A Feb-Mar writing challenge?

kittymammas — Thu, 23 Feb 2012 07:57:58 +1030

Well I'm glad I'm not the only one haha. I wrote about 885..but seeing as I'm only at I'm still quite behind on my goals. I have good reason though, My little one was pretty sick and then my computer crashed..lovely. Now don't laugh at me but I haven't a clue on what a "word war" even is... Oh and thank you! Her name is Serenity Knightsbridge, Sera for short and I feel bad for the things I've had to but her through in my story but her strength just amazes me. At first, with her caring personality, I really feared she would turn into..well a door mat, but she is nothing even close to that. In her ending, when she makes a very tough choice, she makes me respect her all that much more. I'm a proud author/creator haha

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jswwrites — Thu, 23 Feb 2012 11:33:13 +1030

That's awesome! I think it's great when things happen you don't expect. And the characters definitely take on a life of their own and you realize they would or wouldn't do certain things that you had planned. A word war is setting a timer for, say 20 min, and everyone starts at the same time and ends at the same time, and you see how many words you can write. During NaNo our regional chat room did a TON of them - it was great for getting the juices flowing! Sometimes I just set the timer on my phone and do one, just to try to get a lot down fast. It really works!

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whitedove — Thu, 23 Feb 2012 12:19:09 +1030

I totally read Serenity as Serendipity and wasted far too much time contemplating what kind of person would name their child Serendipity.

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Angryman — Thu, 23 Feb 2012 12:22:47 +1030

Yeah, I feel bad about the crap I've put some of my characters through. But it could be worse, I suppose; I could have put them through carp.

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kittymammas — Fri, 24 Feb 2012 00:44:09 +1030

Yes! I'm sure most, well all, of my non writing friends must think I'm crazy when I tell them that I'm having a hard time dealing with my character today. Or that she is being stubborn. They really do become people of their own once created and yes they won't do things that are against their beliefs or personality and you can not make them. It's like this invisible force, kind of like when you get that magnetic field and the magnets avoid one another. I love it though, it lets me know that I've done my job and did it well. Love the war war idea, its perfect for those short blocks of uninterrupted time to myself.

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jswwrites — Thu, 23 Feb 2012 12:15:14 +1030

well, no ticker. bummer.

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whitedove — Thu, 23 Feb 2012 12:33:32 +1030

I don't think it's Safari. It did it to me, too, and I'm not Firefox. Fortunately it didn't do it until the last page, so it updated where I've posted the ticker in the past (page 1, post 2 if anyone cares). Maybe you can copy and paste a ticker from an old post if it's letting you update?

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kittymammas — Thu, 23 Feb 2012 15:06:01 +1030

Lol!! Well sorry to waste your time.

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Nighttime.Breeze — Thu, 23 Feb 2012 23:57:03 +1030

Oh, my MC is gonna wonder what he'll still have to go through... I'm not gonna tell him yet, but he's REALLY gonna have a rough week. At the moment he's still a little bit whiny, but he's already made great progress (although not in a way I had expected). After the next few chapters we'll see what he's made of - hero or zero, you know? Well, I'm pretty bad at these word wars, so everyone else is problably gonna win... still, it's a lot of fun and words, so what about this evening? (Which would be in five hours for me, since I live in Europe) Does anyone want to compete?

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kittymammas — Thu, 23 Feb 2012 15:08:52 +1030

Woot! Good for you. I want to buy a book to read so bad...but promised myself I wouldnt untill I finish my book, otherwise it's never going to get done!

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whitedove — Thu, 23 Feb 2012 16:05:04 +1030

Managed to write a little more, making the night's total 3018, for a Grand Total of 18022. Now I'm only four days behind. ;)

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jswwrites — Thu, 23 Feb 2012 23:36:31 +1030

Great job! Sometimes getting away from our distractions his key!!

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whitedove — Thu, 23 Feb 2012 16:12:24 +1030

I just have a huge stack of unread books to get through before I should buy any more. I didn't want to get buried under unread books and half finished projects when I got started in my new place, but guess where I am right now. I've got a like three to-do lists hung up now, though, and I am going to get through all of them! No more new books until these are read! No new projects until these are finished! No new story until this draft is finished! (Anyone wanna place a bet on how far I'll actually get before caving?)

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jswwrites — Thu, 23 Feb 2012 23:37:26 +1030

Wow, great! Funny how that little timer puts the pressure on, even if no one is doing it with you!

Re: 60 day/60k A Feb-Mar writing challenge?

kittymammas — Fri, 24 Feb 2012 00:51:46 +1030

Great to hear!

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kittymammas — Fri, 24 Feb 2012 00:51:36 +1030

Oh c'mon, have a little more faith in your self. I love to do lists! And if you can just promise yourself to cross just one thing off each day or even every other day, that makes it a little less daunting. My to do list for March: Finish First draft Clean out closet Clean fridge (no its not gross, I'm just clean freak and its been a month since its had a good scrub) Take more pictures (I live 1500 miles from any of my family, haven't seen anyone in two years and they like the pictures) Exercise more--why is it so hard to get a routine going? Read a book (oh its been TOO long) Add to my savings (10% a check) And that's it. I have a bigger one for the year.

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kittymammas — Fri, 24 Feb 2012 00:59:46 +1030

Yes it worked rather well. And I hate writing by hand so I figured I'd never get it done, but I did! I get my new computer in March, however some family and my husband want me to play an old game we used to play, world of Warcraft, and I'm worry about the distraction from my book. So I simply told myself that I don't get to even log onto the game once until my entire first draft is done. This gives me two weeks! Expect either some large word counts...hopefully anyways. Well I'm going to try and get at least 1k tonight, but its family night so no guarantees.

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kittymammas — Fri, 24 Feb 2012 00:45:31 +1030

I'd love to but in five hours I'll still be at work. I'm in Texas.

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Nighttime.Breeze — Fri, 24 Feb 2012 02:47:09 +1030

What a shame : / Maybe we'll find a fitting time for both of us during the weekend...

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Angryman — Fri, 24 Feb 2012 11:55:56 +1030

Really? My to-do list for March is: Buy a gift for my sister's birthday Celebrate St. Patrick's Day by wearing a lot of green (including my Gaelic Storm shirt) and listening to Irish songs. Long list, isn't it? ;)

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Angryman — Fri, 24 Feb 2012 11:57:04 +1030

Well, if you play WoW, then set a timer and play for so long, then get back to your writing.

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kittymammas — Fri, 24 Feb 2012 05:16:05 +1030

Sounds like a great plan! Sat will be my best day, my daughter is turning 7 and we are having a BBQ to celebrate on Sunday. I can't wait! She has been asking for an iPod, I'm not sure she would really like it though so I got her the new Nintendo 3DS, the pink pearl one with the cat/dog game. She is going to scream haha.

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kittymammas — Sat, 25 Feb 2012 00:51:59 +1030

LOL! Im already done with your list. Switching "sister" to "daughter" and I don't have a "Gaelic storm shirt" but I do have lots of green to wear! That my "hopefully" to do list, really doubt I'll get all of it done...except my novel, that is going to be finished!

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kittymammas — Sat, 25 Feb 2012 00:53:15 +1030

I'm not worried about playing WOW too much, I'm just worried about having something to do other then write. But I'm not going to play until I'm done. It's made a few of my friends and family unhappy but oh well, my book is to important to me to just let it die down into nothing.

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kittymammas — Sat, 25 Feb 2012 00:55:51 +1030

I bet your glad the move is over, I loathe moving...too much too much to clean, too much to throw away, too much to pack...too much too unpack.. Glad to see you back, congrats on the halfway point!!

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kittymammas — Sat, 25 Feb 2012 11:12:41 +1030

Sounds very interesting. I love super heros and villians! Take it and roll with it

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Angryman — Sat, 25 Feb 2012 14:02:03 +1030

The best part of this for me is that it gives a story to some of the various superheroes I've come up with for X-Men and others (but mostly X-Men).

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whitedove — Mon, 27 Feb 2012 15:32:51 +1030

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Angryman — Mon, 27 Feb 2012 17:18:00 +1030

Yeah, that's one of the things I don't like about writing with a deadline: too many things can change between now and the deadline, making it impossible to meet the wordcount.

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lilly32261 — Tue, 28 Feb 2012 09:09:15 +1030

When I got stuck, I wrote the ending and stuff started to fall into place. Other than that, it's me having nothing better to do with my life.

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whitedove — Tue, 28 Feb 2012 11:08:25 +1030

I've started making it a regular trip to go to my local Barnes and Nobel to write. A cup of smoothie. A back table. And somewhere other than my apartment! Exactly what I need to write!

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Angryman — Tue, 28 Feb 2012 17:49:04 +1030

I do all of my writing at home, but since I'm home so often, it gets frustrating just being here. Today was just a nice get-out-of-the-house trip into town. I just wish I had some cash to spend, especially seeing how my sister's birthday is Saturday and I don't have a present for her yet. Well, at least I got out of the house, and it felt a lot like spring out there, so that helped lift my spirits.

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whitedove — Tue, 28 Feb 2012 22:24:43 +1030

That comes to about 607 words a day, unless my math is failing. I can do 600 words a day.

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whitedove — Tue, 28 Feb 2012 22:24:01 +1030

I used to/normally write at home, but I think I was getting a bit of cabin fever. I was anxious and fidgety, which made it really hard to work. Then there's that pile of other things to do to distract me here. I have no internet, no chores, no knitting, and no books I need to read there. But my apartment! Sheesh! It's just full of things I like. ;)

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Angryman — Wed, 29 Feb 2012 09:35:36 +1030

I know of a few places where I live that would make for great writing spots, but again, I have to get out of the house to do so, and that doesn't happen that often.

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Angryman — Wed, 29 Feb 2012 09:40:59 +1030

I'm with you. I'm never really needed anywhere during the day, and since I can't sleep at night, I just do my writing then so no one can interrupt me. If I had a job... well, I'd get paid, and I could get the game I need to get back to my fanfiction. But then I would have to find the time to write. Unless it was a part time job... Sorry, my thoughts are rambling. Must be the weather: snowing lightly, then harder, then lightly, then harder, then lightly... STOP RAMBLING!!! I think I'm still tired.

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kittymammas — Thu, 01 Mar 2012 05:50:55 +1030

Trust me, after you have a kid, you can multitask just about anything lol. I'm the complete opposite, I tried the stay at home mom bit and although I really enjoyed the time I had with my girls, I just felt lazy and unproductive. It was to the point where I was cleaning the bottle right after my baby used it lol...my house was insanely clean, did you know you can vacuum shower curtains?? I'm a creature of habit and I need the structure of the 8-5 job. I always find time to write, not that I always use it though.

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jswwrites — Wed, 29 Feb 2012 13:17:14 +1030

Got a late start because of a late dinner (and because I messed around all day and didn't write then), but I did get 1568 done, and crossed 35k, so I'm happy. AND solved a major plot issue in my current scene, so tomorrow will go faster. All in all, not bad.

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jswwrites — Wed, 29 Feb 2012 12:26:09 +1030

Just scoot on over to this forum, and welcome! We are all trying for different goals, not all (or even most) are going for 60k exactly. But we're all using the same time frame, so we're happy to have you! :0D

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Angryman — Wed, 29 Feb 2012 17:31:38 +1030

It sounds like you're doing what I did. Good to see you here.

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Angryman — Wed, 29 Feb 2012 17:31:03 +1030

Yay for resolved plot issues!

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kittymammas — Thu, 01 Mar 2012 05:51:12 +1030

Woot! 35k! nice!

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jswwrites — Thu, 01 Mar 2012 10:10:42 +1030

Sadly we had to have one of our two dogs put down today, and I think I am just going to go to bed. It's been a long, sad, teary day, and I think ending it sooner rather than later is the best plan!

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Angryman — Wed, 29 Feb 2012 17:32:55 +1030

Curse you, homework!!! Stealing time away from someone who could be using it for something useful, like writing or watching anime!

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Angryman — Wed, 29 Feb 2012 21:56:07 +1030

What is this not-job of yours? If I know what it is, I might be able to come up with the most believable BS for your coworker-esque person.

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Red Queen — Thu, 01 Mar 2012 00:41:49 +1030

It's an internship I have to do, or else I won't get my degree. Lousy laws... I "work" for some local press, they do a couple monthly magazines and some books from local authors, mostly non-fiction. Right now, I'm supposed to find "funny news" on the internet and summarise them. Which I have done already before lunch. So I'm reading online newspapers, adding a sentence or two to my novel and waiting für the staff meeting in about an hour. Oh yes, my life is SO exciting right now...

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Red Queen — Thu, 01 Mar 2012 00:43:41 +1030

Sleep is totally overrated :) I *should* have slept more than a few hours tonight, but then again, a girls' night out is so much more fun...

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Angryman — Thu, 01 Mar 2012 10:51:27 +1030

Yay! The occasional night out is definitely worth the lack of sleep.

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Sunshine Cat — Thu, 01 Mar 2012 06:02:10 +1030

Ahh, I love the feel of a new keyboard, especially a laptop one. I hope you get better soon, writing while sick is horrible. I caught a fever during last year's Camp NaNo in August, I swear I was killing myself just to get the daily word count out! But if you are sick, you should just curl up in bed and take a nap like you want to. Sleep is good for fighting sickness.

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jswwrites — Thu, 01 Mar 2012 10:11:13 +1030

Have a nice hot cup of tea, watch some tv, and go to bed. Tomorrow is another day! Get well soon!

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kittymammas — Fri, 02 Mar 2012 05:14:35 +1030

Thanks guys, I did just that. I headed home, took a hot shower, had dinner some tea and benadryl and passed out lol. I still felt pretty bad this morning so I bought some antioxidant tea and zyrtec and it seems to be working out great. Everyone says I still sound horrible but I actually feel great lol. My husband said he knew I really wasn't feeling well when I just dropped my computer off in the corner and didn't even take it out of the box. I'm so excited to write on it, but tonight I have a meeting and so basically I'm at work from 8am till 9pm so I don''t think I'll get a chance to =( Oh and my girls are better too, still coughing but not as much. Thanks for all the well wishes =) Love you guys!

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Angryman — Thu, 01 Mar 2012 10:48:43 +1030

:( I really sorry to hear about your dog.

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kittymammas — Thu, 01 Mar 2012 12:08:03 +1030

Oh no, my thoughts are with you :(

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jswwrites — Thu, 01 Mar 2012 11:18:19 +1030

Thanks. It's been a really hard day around here. Watching NCIS until I think I can sleep... Not a day for creativity or a lot of thinking.

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jswwrites — Fri, 02 Mar 2012 08:01:43 +1030

Glad you're doing better! I think the crazy weather this winter/spring is throwing everyone for a loop. hope you get to play with your new computer soon - at least the weekend is right around the corner.

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jswwrites — Sat, 03 Mar 2012 08:48:21 +1030

Congrats on finishing a WIP! That's awesome!!

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whitedove — Sun, 04 Mar 2012 03:23:35 +1030

Transitions between projects do seem to be the most difficult. But, don't worry. It will pass. :)

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whitedove — Sun, 04 Mar 2012 03:21:27 +1030

Um, 656-191=465, not 265. (656-191)+(386-67)+2422=3206 You are currently at 3206 words, assuming all of your numbers were accurate.

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whitedove — Sun, 04 Mar 2012 03:39:52 +1030

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8wHDn8LDks8 :)

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Angryman — Sun, 04 Mar 2012 12:38:19 +1030

It was late when I did the math. I know what happened, though. Since I wasn't using a calculator (which, to be honest, would have been the safer thing to do), I had to do the math in my head. I haven't had to use much math in over a year, so that didn't help. Anyhow, I was thinking "Okay, I can just turn the 1 into a 2 since I'm subtracting" and I put down 2 where I was typing at. Did I mention that I suck at math?

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whitedove — Sun, 04 Mar 2012 13:12:03 +1030

Happens to the best of us. And liking math has nothing to do with it. I know engineers whose arithmetic I've had to correct before. :)

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Angryman — Sun, 04 Mar 2012 18:53:19 +1030

Well, at least it's been corrected. Thanks.

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Angryman — Mon, 05 Mar 2012 10:52:55 +1030

It's nice to be ahead of schedule, isn't it?

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Angryman — Tue, 06 Mar 2012 05:51:46 +1030

If it makes you feel any better, you don't have to write using your teeth. ;)

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kittymammas — Wed, 07 Mar 2012 03:59:02 +1030

LOL, yes that makes me feel better =)

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Sunshine Cat — Tue, 06 Mar 2012 14:18:23 +1030

Nice. My day was okay. We didn't do any work in English, since the website we were supposed to be going on wasn't working. But I just spent the time writing. It's not my main project, so I won't count it in as my word count, but it did remind me how fun writing was, when you weren't worrying about the large number of holes in your plot and the amount of words you had to write.

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lilly32261 — Wed, 07 Mar 2012 00:46:26 +1030

I'm hoping that we'll get back into writing as a class after the CRTs. We had one assignment at the beginning of the year, and then the rest of the writing that we've done was practice writing proficiencies. Now that we've actually taken that test, all we're doing is stuff for the CRT (which isn't exactly fun. I think I'm going to puke if I have to write another constructed response)

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kittymammas — Wed, 07 Mar 2012 04:05:03 +1030

I have done this. My very first idea for an actual book is the one I am working on now for my nano 2011. I started it three years ago and then decided I was no where near ready to make it what I wanted it to be. I stuck it on the back burner and wrote other stuff and came back and read through it a few times. I think I only had about 18k of it written. Well when I was interested in nano I knew that it would be this idea I wanted to write...and boy did it change. It started as ...well this is the best description I've come up with...quoted from Dear Not Yet Completed Novel Dear NYCN, You know I love you. I know its been a rough and rocky road, but just look at how far we have come! You started as a small island of dream dwellers and grew into a majestic world of elementals, kings, queens, gods and war. When you began I had the vaguest idea of the plot and now we have so many threads we could knit a sweater! I know I have neglected your chapters when I swore to myself I would finish them, but you have to remember all the compromises I have made; I let the love story unravel the way you wanted it, I let there be a villain you felt passionate about and most importantly I'm giving you the ending you deserve. It is because I love you that I wanted to take a little extra time to finish. I needed to pin down that ending and looky here, now we have it perfected. I know you have seen more progress lately and I owe it all to the Feb/Mar challenge. You deserve so much more then what you have and I intend to make you shine like the beauty you are, I just need time. Be patient with me so I may make you great! -always- kittymammas

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whitedove — Wed, 07 Mar 2012 10:17:29 +1030

Okay, this is a tough question to answer, even though people ask it all the time on here. First of all: no, it dos not automatically mean that you'll never finish it. Heck, if you wanted to (and can keep them straight in your head) you could alternate between them. I am actually currently working on a story that got put on the back burner, and, well, it took a lot of effort to get going again, and I am only outlining and researching right now, but the ball is rolling again. HOWEVER, I also had a story that I worked on for a very long time, that I decided to wait until I was ready to write it the way it deserved to be written, and, well, it's been collecting dust (literally) for at least four years now. If you wait until you feel ready, you will never write it, because you will never think your writing is as good as you want. You may be fantastic, but you will always see your own flaws. Every artist does. Finally, consider how much you love it. If you really love this story, you will want to continue it. But, if you always love the newest idea just a little bit more (at least for as long as it is the shiny new idea) then you will always have something keeping you from working on it. So, really, the answer is unique not only to the writer, but to the story. If you're confident that you will come back to it, then feel free to let it rest for a while; a little stewing can go a long way. If you are genuinely concerned that you'll never get back around to it, you might want to just write an outline or a bunch of notes for the new story and finish this one before moving on.

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Angryman — Wed, 07 Mar 2012 11:53:33 +1030

Sometimes, a project needs to stew. You'd be surprised how much I've written after letting a concept stew for awhile, as compared to when I tried to rush through it.

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jswwrites — Thu, 08 Mar 2012 10:15:45 +1030

Today I was looking for something in my word docs that I'd started a couple of years ago, and I'm thinking about doing it for Script Frenzy. I couldn't find it, but I did find the beginning of a novel that I started in 2009 that I had TOTALLY forgotten about. And it's pretty good! It's only about 3,000 words, so just the very beginning, but I like the MCs, dialogue is great, I can't believe I actually wrote 1st person because normally I hate that but it comes across as entertaining. So you never know - I must not have liked it at the time, because not only didn't I work on it, I completely put it out of my mind!

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Sunshine Cat — Wed, 07 Mar 2012 16:41:14 +1030

Just to add my opinion to the mix, I think it's perfectly fine to file away a project, as long as you're sure you will be able to return to it. Taking time away from a project can refresh your mind and give you the ability to return to it with new eyes, but it can also mean that you might never go back to it and that it'll just rot in your hard-drive forever. If you think that you truly care about this story and you're not just looking for an excuse to get away from it...sure. It does sound like you love it, so I'm sure you'd return to it. I'd go for it. I've been busy, since I have two internals and one science internal in two days, so I didn't read the above posts and didn't get that much done in word count either today. But it should be back to normal soon... ...what am I even doing on this forum? *scampers off*

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Angryman — Wed, 07 Mar 2012 19:55:28 +1030

I know some of you are going to chew me out for getting so many distractions, so let me get the ball rolling: You twit! You should be burned at the stake for it! ...Wait, do we do that Wrimos that buy distractions or only to the witches that weigh the same as a duck?

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whitedove — Thu, 08 Mar 2012 12:12:01 +1030

Well, I guess that depends entirely on whether or not Wrimos are made out of wood.

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jswwrites — Thu, 08 Mar 2012 10:13:28 +1030

excellent on all counts!

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jswwrites — Thu, 08 Mar 2012 12:53:15 +1030

sorry about all that... the word count is good, and at least you're working on it. If you have been doing all that outlining and can't' fill it in, it might be time to just set it aside for awhile, or else just start writing. On Script Frenzy they have one of those plot generator things - maybe go there and just add in whatever it says and see where it takes you. And sometimes you just need to lay your head down and rest. :o)

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kittymammas — Fri, 09 Mar 2012 07:50:35 +1030

Haha, yeah you must be deranged, I'm going to have to agree! You need at least a bit to get a clear mind one would think, but hey if you can handle it, then why not fill up your plate? I'm still here and typing away, just in fact figured out something that just blows my mind at the end of my story...I'm so excited to write more on it soon. I typed up 890 words on my lunch break and so now my grand total is.... Getting more and more excited to know that I'm almost finished and more and more nervous about the editing part as well. I hope everyone else is doing well...its almost spring break! Oh FYI, you will hear plenty from me on sat, my 10k day!!

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Angryman — Fri, 09 Mar 2012 07:53:05 +1030

I know what you mean. Only about 5 or 6 of us have been commenting here recently. You want to assume the best, that they're to busy writing to post on the thread, but you have the feeling that you're wrong. The Jan+Feb Challenge thread did the same thing.

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whitedove — Fri, 09 Mar 2012 09:53:49 +1030

Well. People always drop out of these things for different reasons. I'm kind of considering it, too. Just because they've been pushing us so hard at work, I can't think any more. Tomorrow was supposed to be my day off, but I have to go in anyway. The head metallurgist has to go in at 3:30 in the morning. We might even need to have people working over the weekend. :( It's just that none of our data makes any kind of sense.

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lilly32261 — Fri, 09 Mar 2012 12:17:37 +1030

I'm still here. I've just gone back to lurking. I'm almost done and I was thinking about adding another 10k to my goal, but decided not to since my computer has been uncooperative the past couple days. Other than that, I've been writing, but not as much as before (I've been watching LP's and such so I don't feel left out of the conversations at school... Smiling and nodding will only get me so far.)

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Angryman — Sun, 11 Mar 2012 13:16:14 +1030

I hope you don't have Diabetes. My grandmother has it, so I know what a pain it is.

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whitedove — Sun, 11 Mar 2012 14:18:06 +1030

I hope you feel better soon. I fainted from low blood sugar one time, nothing so bad as not breathing, but it pretty much sucked all around. Still, it could just be the result of not eating right, which I expect you haven't been with all of the stress you've been under. I really hope it's nothing.

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kittymammas — Mon, 12 Mar 2012 06:10:49 +1030

Actually no my eating habits have not changed at all. The paramedics were stumped at my blood surgar that low when I just had breakfast which was one of those pigs in a blanket (6g of protein) and I was drinking a mountain dew?? They really just couldn't believe it. I just try to keep my mind off it all until I get all my results back but latley the simplest things put me out of breath, like yesterday I was folding clothes and talking to my husband and almost had to use the rescue inhaler, I couldn't finish my sentence with out taking a few deep breaths. I'm so embarassed to go back to work, I don't remember to much but I remember screaming any chance I could that I needed help and I couldnt breathe....sigh, I really hope my life will just aclm down, this had been the worst year omg.

Re: 60 day/60k A Feb-Mar writing challenge?

Angryman — Sun, 11 Mar 2012 17:01:39 +1030

I think we need to force ourselves to write, but we also need to allow ourselves breaks. Sometimes, that is what our stories really need; time to rest and allow our thoughts to stew, giving us new ideas for the stories.

Re: 60 day/60k A Feb-Mar writing challenge?

jswwrites — Tue, 13 Mar 2012 09:01:15 +1030

Very often creative people go through times when they have to force themselves to do creative things. Your more important question is do you actually want to be a writer? Having writers block doesn't make that a definite "no", as every writer goes through it. The good thing about writing is that you can always do it. If you decide it's not for you now, there's nothing that says you can't start again later on (I'm almost 47... you've got plenty of time!).

Re: 60 day/60k A Feb-Mar writing challenge?

whitedove — Mon, 12 Mar 2012 04:08:58 +1030

But why do we need to force ourselves? Do you have to force yourself to do anything else that you want to do? Have you ever had to say, okay, I really want to finish Soul Caliber 5, so I am going to play one level (or however it's broken up in Soul Caliber) a day until I beat it, come dirty laundry or sleep deprivation?

Re: 60 day/60k A Feb-Mar writing challenge?

Angryman — Mon, 12 Mar 2012 10:43:46 +1030

I have a lot that I have to force myself to do, mostly because I'm that lazy. I've even had to force myself to kill time by playing video games (don't ask). Even as I type, I have to force myself to write this response through the distraction of my sister talking as she messes around with Soul Calibur's character creation. But we force ourselves in order to get things done. I have spent the past 12 minutes trying to type this. Trust me, THAT'S forcing myself!

Re: 60 day/60k A Feb-Mar writing challenge?

jswwrites — Tue, 13 Mar 2012 08:55:53 +1030

So sorry!! Hope the docs can get it all figured out soon.

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whitedove — Mon, 12 Mar 2012 11:38:23 +1030

Okay. That made me laugh. :)

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Angryman — Mon, 12 Mar 2012 14:33:27 +1030

Glad that I could do so. :D

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Angryman — Tue, 13 Mar 2012 04:41:54 +1030

Glad to here you'll be alright. Ironically, as I type this, the TV is showing an ad for Breath Right strips. Yeah, THAT will take care of someone's bronchitis (full power to sarcasm engines).

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jswwrites — Tue, 13 Mar 2012 09:01:54 +1030

Great news!!! Glad you're feeling better!

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kittymammas — Tue, 13 Mar 2012 11:14:53 +1030

Thanks guys! I do feel so much better, my hip hurts, that needle was huge, but its so worth it!

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kittymammas — Tue, 13 Mar 2012 11:14:08 +1030

OMG OMG...I'm so excited for you so I know you must be excited. I didn't even know you were querying! Congrats! That is so great to hear and some major motivation for the rest of us!!

Re: 60 day/60k A Feb-Mar writing challenge?

Angryman — Tue, 13 Mar 2012 13:59:23 +1030

Yay!!!! That's all I can say! Yay!!!

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Sunshine Cat — Tue, 13 Mar 2012 15:20:48 +1030

Oh wow, congratulations! I'm so happy for you, this is amazing! I'm feeling motivated now, even if I don't intend to publish. Going to go write my word count ;D

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A.P. Navis — Wed, 14 Mar 2012 00:13:31 +1030

Wow, that's super exciting!! I'm so happy for you and it really boosts my motivation to think that a novel can be written, edited, and sent out in just a few months! I'm amazed. I gotta get moving! My 2012 goal is to submit something, somewhere by the end of the year. I write much slower than you I'm sure, but you give me hope :)

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jswwrites — Wed, 14 Mar 2012 08:49:47 +1030

Thanks all! I emailed her the full, and she confirmed receipt today. So we'll see! Even if she doesn't work out, it was really encouraging, esp here in the doldrums of this sequel (it's not dull, it's just that it's the middle... and the middle is just not the beginning or the end, I guess!). I'm actually out of town this week in VA at my son's basketball tournament (should have a LOT of down time to write). But I will check in.... I'm motivated to get this sequel finished now, too! haha!

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Sunshine Cat — Tue, 13 Mar 2012 18:28:10 +1030

Reporting in with 1800 words for tonight! That inspiration must have really done some good for me.

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jswwrites — Wed, 14 Mar 2012 10:56:57 +1030

Oh gosh, get well soon! My son was in the hospital for 4 days last Aug (in Uganda!) with pneumonia... Take care of yourself!

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Angryman — Wed, 14 Mar 2012 11:53:49 +1030

No more problems after this! Hopefully they found everything that's wrong. A speedy recovery to you.

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Sunshine Cat — Wed, 14 Mar 2012 13:54:13 +1030

Oh, that really sucks. I hope you get better soon...you have my sympathy ^^

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Sunshine Cat — Thu, 15 Mar 2012 14:37:48 +1030

Woo, congratulations for hitting 60k! I've just hit 56k and I can see the ending line. I think these kinds of 1000 a day challenges are much better for me than NaNo, actually. It's the right balance of stress.

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lilly32261 — Thu, 15 Mar 2012 23:39:31 +1030

That's awesome! Congrats :)

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jswwrites — Fri, 16 Mar 2012 11:12:56 +1030

Great!! Are you done, or you going til the end of March?

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Ladypamela — Fri, 16 Mar 2012 13:19:29 +1030

Yay for reaching a goal!

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lilly32261 — Fri, 16 Mar 2012 23:35:06 +1030

I'm done for now. I need to start plotting for Screnzy. :) I'll still lurk in here though.

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Angryman — Sat, 17 Mar 2012 12:42:54 +1030

Gosh darn it! Sticky Fingers is now demanding his own story, and I can't think of any reason why not. Yet another plot bunny strikes from behind.

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jswwrites — Mon, 19 Mar 2012 05:23:45 +1030

awesome!!!! I'm working on a sequel now, but then I'm retiring these characters (unless I sell them and it's a big hit! haha!)

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Angryman — Fri, 23 Mar 2012 07:05:44 +1030

I hope you get better soon.

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jswwrites — Fri, 23 Mar 2012 10:48:16 +1030

Hope they figure it out and you feel better soon! Keep us posted!

Re: 60 day/60k A Feb-Mar writing challenge?

Angryman — Sat, 24 Mar 2012 08:26:10 +1030

Things happen. You can't always write.

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Wragziez — Sat, 24 Mar 2012 08:39:25 +1030

Unfortunately. But I really have no excuse other then the fact that my writing wasn't flowing as I would have liked.:)

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Angryman — Sat, 24 Mar 2012 13:05:22 +1030

That happens, too. You hit a bit of a wall, sometimes it's best to rest for a bit before pushing your way through it.

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Wragziez — Sat, 24 Mar 2012 13:18:41 +1030

Yep, and it actually worked! So happy about my writings now! Not that I wasn't before but they're so much better now in my opinion!:)

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Angryman — Sat, 24 Mar 2012 17:29:17 +1030