Crabby Presents - Guilt : this time its personal! http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/reaching-50-000/threads/16072 crabhooves Even more personal than it was the other times around of course! For those new to this guilt/hate/envy-fest that is now entering its fourth year, I welcome you, one and all! I want you to imagine circus music in the background while you read this post, something frenetic and fast paced. Now where was I, ah yes. Starting in 2008, a lowly crab, a humble but exceedingly handsome crab got an idea. Everyone likes to talk about positive reinforcement and we can all look forward to those charming emails routinely pepping us up, but for the jaded souls among us (and there are many - we are writers after all!) that just isn't enough, we need a little something extra to get us through November. That something extra is guilt, abuse, gratuitous sadism and so much more, whatever you can pull out of your hats and throw at each other, as long as it gets results. So let's have at it ladies and gentlemen, let's guilt each other into success in 2011. See someones word count not moving? Someone making excuses? Kick their ass into gear and watch it shoot back up and then get back to working on your own or risk the same abuse. Now let's introduce ourselves shall we? It'd be the height of impropriety to jeer at people we haven't even said hello to yet! This is going to be fun :) Mon, 31 Oct 2011 04:51:55 -0800 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/reaching-50-000/threads/16072?page=1#forum_thread_comment_319469 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/reaching-50-000/threads/16072?page=1#forum_thread_comment_319469 crabhooves Not even 400 words at the midnight launch! This is why I need to be guilted into progress, how's everybody else doing so far? I'm sure I'll get another 1200 done before the days end...probably, maybe... Mon, 31 Oct 2011 18:02:37 -0800 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/reaching-50-000/threads/16072?page=1#forum_thread_comment_338593 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/reaching-50-000/threads/16072?page=1#forum_thread_comment_338593 Solunar Bwahahah. 400 words only? It's already 11am into November 1st here and I haven't written anything, but I'll be sure to get 3k by the time tonight is finished with. Be prepared to eat your shorts, crabby! Mon, 31 Oct 2011 19:24:27 -0800 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/reaching-50-000/threads/16072?page=1#forum_thread_comment_340423 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/reaching-50-000/threads/16072?page=1#forum_thread_comment_340423 thatollie I'll be at 1667 in the next half an hour. It's 4a.m. here in Englandshire. Mon, 31 Oct 2011 19:27:58 -0800 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/reaching-50-000/threads/16072?page=1#forum_thread_comment_340493 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/reaching-50-000/threads/16072?page=1#forum_thread_comment_340493 crabhooves Solunar....my nemesis...... I suppose it was too much to hope that you'd lost your arms in a freak boating accident since last year*. This year I shall refrain from all boasting all promises of your imminent defeat and instead work quietly and humbly behind the scenes to bring you down while saving my jeers and taunts until the very end... Ah who am I kidding, I can't do it. You're going to lose Solunar, three times is four too many for you to triumph, it will end in 2011! In fact it's already ending, you're behind me, get used to it because you'll spend a lot of time there this year. Stay confident though - pride goeth before the fall and you have a hell of a lot of pride!! Ollie darling, splendid to see you back again this year! :D All of the old hands are coming out of the woodwork, I love it. It's almost half an hour, have you hit the magic number? *This is why you should never underpay mercenaries, you really do get what you paid for Mon, 31 Oct 2011 19:47:28 -0800 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/reaching-50-000/threads/16072?page=1#forum_thread_comment_340928 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/reaching-50-000/threads/16072?page=1#forum_thread_comment_340928 thatollie 1674 and I made a mistake, I meant that it would be 4a.m. after the half hour. Which means now. Mon, 31 Oct 2011 19:55:09 -0800 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/reaching-50-000/threads/16072?page=1#forum_thread_comment_341125 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/reaching-50-000/threads/16072?page=1#forum_thread_comment_341125 tajavioletta Crabhooves! Solunar! Ahhh, I'm home. I was hoping I'd have this thread to turn to for my daily dose of self-esteem beating and sadistic flailing! It's 12:17 here, and I'm already at 220 words...bwahahahaa! Prepare to be lapped, slowpokes! Mon, 31 Oct 2011 20:15:14 -0800 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/reaching-50-000/threads/16072?page=1#forum_thread_comment_341490 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/reaching-50-000/threads/16072?page=1#forum_thread_comment_341490 thatollie [quote=tajavioletta] Crabhooves! Solunar! Ahhh, I'm home. I was hoping I'd have this thread to turn to for my daily dose of self-esteem beating and sadistic flailing! It's 12:17 here, and I'm already at 220 words...bwahahahaa! Prepare to be lapped, slowpokes! [/quote] I'm here too, y'know. And I'm the first to set mark. Mon, 31 Oct 2011 20:17:58 -0800 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/reaching-50-000/threads/16072?page=1#forum_thread_comment_341533 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/reaching-50-000/threads/16072?page=1#forum_thread_comment_341533 Solunar thatollie, taja! WOOT! Exciting, everyone is gathering.... to be beaten by me. MWAHAHAAHA. Probably not in the near future though. Still planning out a few characters before I really start. It's like fixing up all the gears and bolts in the engine to get a fast start. Mercenaries? I thought they were fresh novices at the killing business. I disposed of them post-haste with daggers. My fingers have gotten pretty fast with all the repeated years of beating you, crabby. Mon, 31 Oct 2011 20:19:52 -0800 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/reaching-50-000/threads/16072?page=1#forum_thread_comment_341564 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/reaching-50-000/threads/16072?page=1#forum_thread_comment_341564 tajavioletta Thatollie! Let the embarrassingly incomplete greetings begin! Mon, 31 Oct 2011 20:28:10 -0800 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/reaching-50-000/threads/16072?page=1#forum_thread_comment_341700 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/reaching-50-000/threads/16072?page=1#forum_thread_comment_341700 crabhooves Taja, welcome back!!! Totally agree Solunar, it -is- exciting to see everyone gathering to beat you. Repeated years? Oh you really have to drive the point home, arghh, repeated, you could have left that word off! It's weird that you haven't started yet though, I was so anxious about it, I had to start at midnight and I barely had any planning done, didn't feel the best. Ok once I'm done with study for today (next half hour) i should be good to go, anybody know what the deal with the word counts is? Are they not showing up on the new forums? I had to change my time zone before it'd let me update mine, they must have lost some of the old settings. Mon, 31 Oct 2011 20:29:11 -0800 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/reaching-50-000/threads/16072?page=1#forum_thread_comment_341720 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/reaching-50-000/threads/16072?page=1#forum_thread_comment_341720 AliceUnrequited Oooh! Hooray! I'm so glad this thread is back. I love watching the rivalries and wishing I were good enough to participate. Mon, 31 Oct 2011 20:44:00 -0800 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/reaching-50-000/threads/16072?page=1#forum_thread_comment_342020 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/reaching-50-000/threads/16072?page=1#forum_thread_comment_342020 thatollie crabs, taja's in yankland and she's nearly overtaken you. Hey Alice. How'd you start? Mon, 31 Oct 2011 21:06:54 -0800 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/reaching-50-000/threads/16072?page=1#forum_thread_comment_342486 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/reaching-50-000/threads/16072?page=1#forum_thread_comment_342486 Nessabutterfly I'm good with guilt. I'm in Seattle, so I still have 2 hours to look over my outline (I wrote it 2 months ago and haven't touched it since). Of course, I'm being guilted out of my bed by my tired husband who just wants to go to sleep. Hmm.... where to write, where to write?? Mon, 31 Oct 2011 21:13:02 -0800 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/reaching-50-000/threads/16072?page=1#forum_thread_comment_342587 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/reaching-50-000/threads/16072?page=1#forum_thread_comment_342587 crabhooves Alice darling, this thread is for people who are -not- good, otherwise why would I be here? :D So really anybody is good enough to participate, unless you're actually good in which case you really don't need it. As of this moment I'm formally inducting you - what's your wordcount soldier??? Nessa you take your pimp hand and you slap your husband and tell him you'll write where you damn well want to and he'll be grateful for the opportunity to listen to the tap tap tap of the keys. Alternatively in a different universe where you care about silly things like your marriage and your husbands feelings bla bla bla you go to the quietest room of the house where you'll be the least distracted. Mon, 31 Oct 2011 21:23:48 -0800 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/reaching-50-000/threads/16072?page=1#forum_thread_comment_342815 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/reaching-50-000/threads/16072?page=1#forum_thread_comment_342815 reading-obsession 700 words in, and it's 11am here! I need tons of that guilt. Keep blackmailing me and shoving me forward, will you? I'm giving myself some of the Halloween candy for every 1,667 words I write today. Should work pretty well, since I haven't eaten a bit since I stocked up. Mon, 31 Oct 2011 21:25:10 -0800 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/reaching-50-000/threads/16072?page=1#forum_thread_comment_342849 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/reaching-50-000/threads/16072?page=1#forum_thread_comment_342849 thatollie Crabs is obviously ignoring my comment about taja overtaking him. He's also ignoring the fact that I'm at 2k. Mon, 31 Oct 2011 21:27:16 -0800 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/reaching-50-000/threads/16072?page=1#forum_thread_comment_342885 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/reaching-50-000/threads/16072?page=1#forum_thread_comment_342885 crabhooves Maybe it was a tactical ignore, sort of like a tactical retreat except this ends with me beating both you and taja in a surprise overtaking! Mon, 31 Oct 2011 21:37:03 -0800 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/reaching-50-000/threads/16072?page=1#forum_thread_comment_343098 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/reaching-50-000/threads/16072?page=1#forum_thread_comment_343098 thatollie Yes, I figured you might try something like that. What time is it in Aussianland? Mon, 31 Oct 2011 21:38:08 -0800 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/reaching-50-000/threads/16072?page=1#forum_thread_comment_343124 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/reaching-50-000/threads/16072?page=1#forum_thread_comment_343124 Solunar 1741, slowpokes! I did it all in 45 minutes, mwhahaha, and the day is still young. Off to shower and then returning to the attack again. Repeatedly. Hey Alice! Welcome back! :D Nessa&gt; your novel is asking why it's so hungry... so hungry.. it feels so empty. Why aren't you feeding it? Reading &gt; I'm eating the rainbow cake in your avatar if you don't keep writing. Mon, 31 Oct 2011 21:47:11 -0800 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/reaching-50-000/threads/16072?page=1#forum_thread_comment_343311 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/reaching-50-000/threads/16072?page=1#forum_thread_comment_343311 tajavioletta Crabby, your twisted logic delights me. Mon, 31 Oct 2011 21:49:56 -0800 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/reaching-50-000/threads/16072?page=1#forum_thread_comment_343376 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/reaching-50-000/threads/16072?page=1#forum_thread_comment_343376 thatollie It seems I need to kick it up another notch. Back later with more wordage. Mon, 31 Oct 2011 21:56:24 -0800 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/reaching-50-000/threads/16072?page=2#forum_thread_comment_343510 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/reaching-50-000/threads/16072?page=2#forum_thread_comment_343510 tajavioletta 1,114 words already! I'm gonna write frantically while normal people sleep, so everyone else can wake up to a nice, steaming cup of fail. Yum! Mon, 31 Oct 2011 22:31:38 -0800 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/reaching-50-000/threads/16072?page=2#forum_thread_comment_344248 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/reaching-50-000/threads/16072?page=2#forum_thread_comment_344248 crabhooves It delights me too taja. By the way we won't be sleeping while you write, Sol lives in Singapore and I live in Sydney, we'll be writing while you sleep. Ollie don't you live in Australia yourself?? It's nearly 6pm. I got totally ambushed, I was just settling down for a writing session and a friend decided to get into a long and emotionally draining argument with me, phah! Whatevaaa, crabs always land on their feet. Mon, 31 Oct 2011 22:58:11 -0800 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/reaching-50-000/threads/16072?page=2#forum_thread_comment_344766 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/reaching-50-000/threads/16072?page=2#forum_thread_comment_344766 thatollie Nope, I'm from England. Means I been nanoing for nine less hours than you. I'm at 2.5k Mon, 31 Oct 2011 23:02:32 -0800 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/reaching-50-000/threads/16072?page=2#forum_thread_comment_344851 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/reaching-50-000/threads/16072?page=2#forum_thread_comment_344851 crabhooves 2430 in an hour - now I'm sitting pretty at 2785. Oh yeh baby. Where's everyone else at? Tue, 01 Nov 2011 00:08:09 -0800 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/reaching-50-000/threads/16072?page=2#forum_thread_comment_345797 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/reaching-50-000/threads/16072?page=2#forum_thread_comment_345797 Mysterious Shoe Oh, yes! I'm so glad this thread is back again. Exactly what I need. I just wrote 822 words in my first hour -- simply won't do. Guilt away. Tue, 01 Nov 2011 00:10:32 -0800 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/reaching-50-000/threads/16072?page=2#forum_thread_comment_345824 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/reaching-50-000/threads/16072?page=2#forum_thread_comment_345824 thatollie I am at 3,000 and you're too close for comfort. Oh and Crabby, I made another little mistake. I've actually been nanoing for eleven fewer hours than you. My bad. Tue, 01 Nov 2011 00:15:21 -0800 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/reaching-50-000/threads/16072?page=2#forum_thread_comment_345908 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/reaching-50-000/threads/16072?page=2#forum_thread_comment_345908 tajavioletta I'm at 3,038...sitting in a 24-hour Starbucks in Foggy Bottom, DC, surrounded by other die-hard NaNo-ers. My coffee is almost empty. That is a problem. NEED MORE WRITING JUICE. Tue, 01 Nov 2011 01:00:18 -0800 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/reaching-50-000/threads/16072?page=2#forum_thread_comment_346511 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/reaching-50-000/threads/16072?page=2#forum_thread_comment_346511 edonil2 Well, I might as well join in on this...spent the last month trying to write without anything but positive reinforcement, and got only 25k done. Maybe I need some guilt...and competition. I'm writing during deadtime at work, and I've only managed 647 words. :/ Ugh, I hate these scenes. So necessary, but so annoying...But I'll be done it by the time I go to bed today, and then I'll be back tomorrow and kick all yer butts with a much more exciting scene! Provided the muse doesn't abandon me for my boasting, lol. Tue, 01 Nov 2011 01:07:07 -0800 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/reaching-50-000/threads/16072?page=2#forum_thread_comment_346609 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/reaching-50-000/threads/16072?page=2#forum_thread_comment_346609 thatollie That's me up to 3,427. It's time to stop taking it easy. Tue, 01 Nov 2011 01:09:45 -0800 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/reaching-50-000/threads/16072?page=2#forum_thread_comment_346635 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/reaching-50-000/threads/16072?page=2#forum_thread_comment_346635 reading-obsession Solunar: NO! That is MY cake! I will write xD Tue, 01 Nov 2011 01:43:16 -0800 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/reaching-50-000/threads/16072?page=2#forum_thread_comment_347115 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/reaching-50-000/threads/16072?page=2#forum_thread_comment_347115 crabhooves Well well well, guess I'm sitting pretty at 4038. How does that feel ollie, solunar? Not to mention you Taja, I foresee a terrible foe in you. Mmm yes, I think this is the surprise overtaking I mentioned - my tactical ignore paid off! Welcome back mysterious shoe, so glad you're with us again ^_^ Welcome to the hate games Edonil, positive reinforcement is as deeply overrated as negative reinforcement is underrated. Welcome to you too r-o! How's that candy tasting? I wonder if nessa went to sleep, or maybe I scared her away (and by I, I of course mean Solunar). Who knows... Tue, 01 Nov 2011 03:17:12 -0800 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/reaching-50-000/threads/16072?page=2#forum_thread_comment_348581 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/reaching-50-000/threads/16072?page=2#forum_thread_comment_348581 catcrunchies Dammit, I feel guilted just LOOKING at this thread. Lagging at 1664 after 11 hours. Whyyyyyyy do I have to do stuff that isn't NaNo? (on the other hand, I nearly squealed with delight when I saw this thread up. It made me win last year, so here's hoping it'll do it this year too &lt;3) Tue, 01 Nov 2011 03:23:04 -0800 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/reaching-50-000/threads/16072?page=2#forum_thread_comment_348671 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/reaching-50-000/threads/16072?page=2#forum_thread_comment_348671 reading-obsession Pretty good, since I'm gonna be getting a second helping soon. ;) And damn. I've gotta catch up with you, so I can gloat too! Time to continue writing... *rubs hands together in anticipation* Tue, 01 Nov 2011 03:23:10 -0800 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/reaching-50-000/threads/16072?page=2#forum_thread_comment_348673 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/reaching-50-000/threads/16072?page=2#forum_thread_comment_348673 AliceUnrequited I'm still under my first 1000 words, but I'll be ahead of you all by the time my Russian class begins in an hour and twenty minutes. If not, shame on me. Tue, 01 Nov 2011 05:39:58 -0800 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/reaching-50-000/threads/16072?page=2#forum_thread_comment_351485 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/reaching-50-000/threads/16072?page=2#forum_thread_comment_351485 BloodRoseAngel Oh hey guys 8D I was wondering where this thread was. I wrote 10k in a day because of you crazy people last year xD Right now I'm on 3523 words and have been writing for about three hours. THIS IS NOT GOOD ENOUGH. D8&lt; Tue, 01 Nov 2011 05:52:47 -0800 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/reaching-50-000/threads/16072?page=2#forum_thread_comment_351813 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/reaching-50-000/threads/16072?page=2#forum_thread_comment_351813 P-3a Needs more words. Needs far more words. Slow start, BUT TO BE FAIR I did this last year as well. Tue, 01 Nov 2011 06:20:30 -0800 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/reaching-50-000/threads/16072?page=2#forum_thread_comment_352460 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/reaching-50-000/threads/16072?page=2#forum_thread_comment_352460 P-3a 3,754 and climbing. Must get to the end of chapter 3 at least before first aid training tonight. x_x Tue, 01 Nov 2011 08:01:18 -0800 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/reaching-50-000/threads/16072?page=2#forum_thread_comment_354746 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/reaching-50-000/threads/16072?page=2#forum_thread_comment_354746 BloodRoseAngel Woo 5k! I can tell I'm totally out of practice. My back only started to hurt on my 10k day partway through the month last year. Now I've got backache on the first day. x_x Tue, 01 Nov 2011 08:09:17 -0800 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/reaching-50-000/threads/16072?page=2#forum_thread_comment_354921 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/reaching-50-000/threads/16072?page=2#forum_thread_comment_354921 Solunar 4052 for the count today, maggots! Heading to bed soon. There's a nice steaming cup of fail with your name on it, taja! Welcome back, Mysterious Shoe, catcrunchies, BloodRoseAngel and P-3a! Let's all party and enjoy a crab barbecue! Drag your muse kicking and screaming to an electric chair and lock them in. No freedom until they cough up the goods, edonil. *bites into reading's cake* Mwahahahah. Tue, 01 Nov 2011 09:06:49 -0800 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/reaching-50-000/threads/16072?page=2#forum_thread_comment_356214 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/reaching-50-000/threads/16072?page=2#forum_thread_comment_356214 P-3a Yeah, but I'm 200 words ahead of you. Tue, 01 Nov 2011 09:11:06 -0800 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/reaching-50-000/threads/16072?page=2#forum_thread_comment_356295 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/reaching-50-000/threads/16072?page=2#forum_thread_comment_356295 Solunar Psh. Wait until tomorrow. It's time for bed now! Tue, 01 Nov 2011 09:20:21 -0800 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/reaching-50-000/threads/16072?page=2#forum_thread_comment_356469 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/reaching-50-000/threads/16072?page=2#forum_thread_comment_356469 P-3a I have to go out between 7pm and ~10pm GMT, then my full intent is for 7 hours of sleep (2am-9am GMT) and resume writing after that. We'll see what your target is when you wake up, shall we? :] Tue, 01 Nov 2011 09:27:59 -0800 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/reaching-50-000/threads/16072?page=2#forum_thread_comment_356638 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/reaching-50-000/threads/16072?page=2#forum_thread_comment_356638 thatollie Right, I'm across 4k as well. I'm going to go get some dinner. Man, the site is acting screwy. Tue, 01 Nov 2011 09:52:36 -0800 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/reaching-50-000/threads/16072?page=2#forum_thread_comment_356912 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/reaching-50-000/threads/16072?page=2#forum_thread_comment_356912 P-3a Just breached 5k. Need to go get dressed (yes, it's 6:30pm and I'm still in my PJs...) and do hygiene things before FA training tonight. Will resume writing when I get home. Probably. Tue, 01 Nov 2011 10:27:52 -0800 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/reaching-50-000/threads/16072?page=3#forum_thread_comment_357735 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/reaching-50-000/threads/16072?page=3#forum_thread_comment_357735 catcrunchies You'd better write. You know what'll happen if you don't. *waves stick threateningly* Tue, 01 Nov 2011 11:00:15 -0800 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/reaching-50-000/threads/16072?page=3#forum_thread_comment_358874 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/reaching-50-000/threads/16072?page=3#forum_thread_comment_358874 thatollie We can't be beaten by P-3a, their hair looks like wings. It'd be humiliating. Tue, 01 Nov 2011 11:52:30 -0800 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/reaching-50-000/threads/16072?page=3#forum_thread_comment_360136 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/reaching-50-000/threads/16072?page=3#forum_thread_comment_360136 BloodRoseAngel Ah me and P-3a are at on even ground, since we're also in the same timezone, haha XD Better get my wordcount going again, I had a break to be lazy and eat dinner and watch DVDs. xD Tue, 01 Nov 2011 12:15:12 -0800 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/reaching-50-000/threads/16072?page=3#forum_thread_comment_361007 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/reaching-50-000/threads/16072?page=3#forum_thread_comment_361007 thatollie So, there's someone else to keep up with. Oh well, I can handle it. Tue, 01 Nov 2011 12:27:32 -0800 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/reaching-50-000/threads/16072?page=3#forum_thread_comment_361549 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/reaching-50-000/threads/16072?page=3#forum_thread_comment_361549 catcrunchies Ah, fellow Brits and their ahead-ness. I'm not that fussed. I've had a full day of lectures and meetings, so 2k's not too bad. Only another thousand, then I've reached my word goal and I can bask in the sunlight of my brief success~ Tue, 01 Nov 2011 12:30:01 -0800 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/reaching-50-000/threads/16072?page=3#forum_thread_comment_361657 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/reaching-50-000/threads/16072?page=3#forum_thread_comment_361657 P-3a Back from first aid now (triangular bandages and roller bandages, whee). Just need to get back into my groove now. Who knows, maybe I can hit 7k before bed tonight. Maybe even 8. (But probably 6. Let's set my expectations low so I can exceed them and comment on how easy it was. *firm nod*) Tue, 01 Nov 2011 14:06:04 -0800 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/reaching-50-000/threads/16072?page=3#forum_thread_comment_365010 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/reaching-50-000/threads/16072?page=3#forum_thread_comment_365010 tajavioletta catcrunchies! BloodRoseAngel! P-3a! I'm drinking my own cup of fail now, does that please you all? I hardly had the energy to stagger home from Starbucks this morning, after only reaching 3,188. But I'm awake and gunning, now. No one can come between me and 8K. Tue, 01 Nov 2011 14:15:42 -0800 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/reaching-50-000/threads/16072?page=3#forum_thread_comment_365403 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/reaching-50-000/threads/16072?page=3#forum_thread_comment_365403 thatollie Wel, well, Miss Winghead, don't be so modest. Tue, 01 Nov 2011 14:21:18 -0800 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/reaching-50-000/threads/16072?page=3#forum_thread_comment_365628 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/reaching-50-000/threads/16072?page=3#forum_thread_comment_365628 catcrunchies I want to scorn you so hard you burst into flames! But you have more words than me. So I guess... I'll just throw kittens at you until you write more! Tue, 01 Nov 2011 14:23:29 -0800 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/reaching-50-000/threads/16072?page=3#forum_thread_comment_365724 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/reaching-50-000/threads/16072?page=3#forum_thread_comment_365724 P-3a 6k. Look at me go! Tue, 01 Nov 2011 14:37:05 -0800 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/reaching-50-000/threads/16072?page=3#forum_thread_comment_366268 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/reaching-50-000/threads/16072?page=3#forum_thread_comment_366268 AliceUnrequited Just now hit 3k, which is still 2k shy of my goal for today. But I will not be defeated, because defeat is painful. Tue, 01 Nov 2011 15:02:14 -0800 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/reaching-50-000/threads/16072?page=3#forum_thread_comment_367130 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/reaching-50-000/threads/16072?page=3#forum_thread_comment_367130 catcrunchies I'm such a loser, everyone's SO ahead of me XD only 500 to go by midnight! I will not let myself down more! Tue, 01 Nov 2011 15:07:42 -0800 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/reaching-50-000/threads/16072?page=3#forum_thread_comment_367323 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/reaching-50-000/threads/16072?page=3#forum_thread_comment_367323 BloodRoseAngel I just hit 6042 and my brain broke. I literally have NO IDEA what to put in this bit. o_o Tue, 01 Nov 2011 15:12:18 -0800 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/reaching-50-000/threads/16072?page=3#forum_thread_comment_367475 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/reaching-50-000/threads/16072?page=3#forum_thread_comment_367475 MollyShort Well hello there all, I'm molly, and this looks like just my type of thread. Guilt is my number one motivator so I can see me spending a lot of time here with you all. This is my first year doing NaNoWriMo, so I'm hoping for a good one. Tue, 01 Nov 2011 15:16:46 -0800 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/reaching-50-000/threads/16072?page=3#forum_thread_comment_367617 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/reaching-50-000/threads/16072?page=3#forum_thread_comment_367617 catcrunchies Greetings, Molly! Good luck on your first NaNo ^^ Tue, 01 Nov 2011 15:21:17 -0800 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/reaching-50-000/threads/16072?page=3#forum_thread_comment_367750 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/reaching-50-000/threads/16072?page=3#forum_thread_comment_367750 thatollie Finally hit 5K. Whew that feels good. Tue, 01 Nov 2011 15:25:06 -0800 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/reaching-50-000/threads/16072?page=3#forum_thread_comment_367877 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/reaching-50-000/threads/16072?page=3#forum_thread_comment_367877 P-3a 7k. :))))))) Tbh I am just relieved to have pulled ahead of BloodRoseAngel xD And welcome, Molly! Tue, 01 Nov 2011 15:26:44 -0800 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/reaching-50-000/threads/16072?page=3#forum_thread_comment_367927 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/reaching-50-000/threads/16072?page=3#forum_thread_comment_367927 MollyShort Aha thank you :) Those are some big numbers, and I thought 2000 was going to be difficult. But it seems as if once you get the rythme going, as long as you don't break it, dishing out a few hundred words is no problem. I'm hoping I'll be able to pull off big numbers like that a day. Tue, 01 Nov 2011 15:31:51 -0800 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/reaching-50-000/threads/16072?page=3#forum_thread_comment_368118 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/reaching-50-000/threads/16072?page=3#forum_thread_comment_368118 carino Everyone has so many words! I'm stuck at, like...900 D: D: If I can't function TODAY, I have no idea what I'm going to be like by the end of the month! Tue, 01 Nov 2011 15:44:18 -0800 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/reaching-50-000/threads/16072?page=3#forum_thread_comment_368586 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/reaching-50-000/threads/16072?page=3#forum_thread_comment_368586 P-3a I think I'm going to call it a day at 7k though. We'll see how I feel after novelling fuel (toast with high-calorie spreads on it). Tue, 01 Nov 2011 15:45:46 -0800 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/reaching-50-000/threads/16072?page=3#forum_thread_comment_368638 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/reaching-50-000/threads/16072?page=3#forum_thread_comment_368638 P-3a Nonsense! Didn't you read Lindsey's pep talk? Sometimes starting is the hardest part. (I know I sleepwalked through my opening. Openings are always my weakest parts.) You'll never get a higher word count if you don't work through a little pain for it! How could you let your novel down by taking a bad start as indications of things to come? :( Tue, 01 Nov 2011 15:52:12 -0800 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/reaching-50-000/threads/16072?page=3#forum_thread_comment_368837 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/reaching-50-000/threads/16072?page=3#forum_thread_comment_368837 P-3a Yeah, it's all about the rhythm. I find Write Or Die (google it if you're not already familiar) helps bully me into finding mine. 800 words in 15 minutes? Yes please. Tue, 01 Nov 2011 15:54:23 -0800 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/reaching-50-000/threads/16072?page=3#forum_thread_comment_368896 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/reaching-50-000/threads/16072?page=3#forum_thread_comment_368896 Jaymore I... I think I'll be the timid racer at the end of the line that really isn't all that competitive. I'll complete the race before the whole stadium closes, but my competition will have lapped me at least ten times over by then... I'm a lover, not a fighter. &gt;.&gt; Tue, 01 Nov 2011 15:57:47 -0800 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/reaching-50-000/threads/16072?page=3#forum_thread_comment_369014 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/reaching-50-000/threads/16072?page=3#forum_thread_comment_369014 Jaymore Oh, but I think I'm at about 1700. I'm handwriting it, so it's confusing. I counted it out to be about 370 per page, which I rounded down to 300, and I have about 5 and a half pages, so about 1700, right? Tue, 01 Nov 2011 16:00:09 -0800 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/reaching-50-000/threads/16072?page=3#forum_thread_comment_369104 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/reaching-50-000/threads/16072?page=3#forum_thread_comment_369104 catcrunchies I hit my 3k goal. Booyah :P Now, I still have to finish an essay and presentation before I can do tomorrows 3k. Damn you, life &gt;_&gt; Tue, 01 Nov 2011 16:06:44 -0800 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/reaching-50-000/threads/16072?page=3#forum_thread_comment_369319 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/reaching-50-000/threads/16072?page=3#forum_thread_comment_369319 Princess Waffles I'm not going to make it. I get distracted and I have no idea what I'm going to write. I should have planned this in advance. Tue, 01 Nov 2011 16:12:08 -0800 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/reaching-50-000/threads/16072?page=3#forum_thread_comment_369493 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/reaching-50-000/threads/16072?page=3#forum_thread_comment_369493 catcrunchies oh HELL no! Listen up, Princess, you are going to do this! Planning is for wimps! Grab your pen/keyboard/quill and start writing. Who cares what you write? Tue, 01 Nov 2011 16:16:41 -0800 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/reaching-50-000/threads/16072?page=3#forum_thread_comment_369643 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/reaching-50-000/threads/16072?page=3#forum_thread_comment_369643 BloodRoseAngel Aha! Back from the plot doctoring threads with a collection of new ideas! &gt;8D Let's try and hit 7k before I go to bed. I'm trying to keep an even pace with P-3a. XD Tue, 01 Nov 2011 16:21:12 -0800 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/reaching-50-000/threads/16072?page=4#forum_thread_comment_369792 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/reaching-50-000/threads/16072?page=4#forum_thread_comment_369792 MollyShort I wrote my first four pages by hand because my laptop wasn't working before I typed them up and I averaged about 360 words per page so that sounds pretty acurate! And psh, planning is for the more organized, just get going, you don't have to start from the beginning, just start writing the first idea that pops into your head and away you go! Just because the first few days are gonna be rocky doesn't mean you can give up on your novel, come on now! Don't let yourself or your future characters down, they deserve a chance to live! Tue, 01 Nov 2011 16:22:02 -0800 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/reaching-50-000/threads/16072?page=4#forum_thread_comment_369827 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/reaching-50-000/threads/16072?page=4#forum_thread_comment_369827 Solunar Hello Molly, carino, Jaymore, Waffles! Woah, rounding down from 370 to 300 is EXTREME, Jaymore. Definitely 1700. Though I think it wouldn't be wrong to have it at 350 either. You should count random 5 lines and take the average and then times it by the number of lines per page. That might be more accurate Or actually, rounding to 350 per page might be better. Alright, another 4k day for me I think! Tue, 01 Nov 2011 16:57:40 -0800 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/reaching-50-000/threads/16072?page=4#forum_thread_comment_371168 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/reaching-50-000/threads/16072?page=4#forum_thread_comment_371168 RakkiFox Oh dear. If October and today were any indication, it's going to be one of *those* Novembers. Planning was a last minute flailing of pens and notebooks in the middle of an overwhelming press of people. Today, I played co-host to a young semi-cousin who wants to be involved in horses like my folks. Family commitments are the death of word counts. So here I am, sketchy plots in hand and not a word to be seen after 18 hours of Day One. This thread got me through last year and I'm depending on you all again. Please, browbeat me into production! Tue, 01 Nov 2011 17:11:28 -0800 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/reaching-50-000/threads/16072?page=4#forum_thread_comment_371635 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/reaching-50-000/threads/16072?page=4#forum_thread_comment_371635 thatollie Rakki, enthusiasm is better than planning. Tue, 01 Nov 2011 17:15:45 -0800 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/reaching-50-000/threads/16072?page=4#forum_thread_comment_371793 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/reaching-50-000/threads/16072?page=4#forum_thread_comment_371793 MollyShort No words in 18 hours? That's ok, you still have six hours to go so make them count! Who cares about the sketchy plots, just get the story going and you can worry about all of that stuff later on! You'll probably end up changing your min a million times anyways :) Tue, 01 Nov 2011 17:19:12 -0800 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/reaching-50-000/threads/16072?page=4#forum_thread_comment_371899 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/reaching-50-000/threads/16072?page=4#forum_thread_comment_371899 thatollie Even the best first drafts need a rewrite. Tue, 01 Nov 2011 17:46:38 -0800 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/reaching-50-000/threads/16072?page=4#forum_thread_comment_372912 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/reaching-50-000/threads/16072?page=4#forum_thread_comment_372912 monquito 2 more hours left in my Nov. 1 and I'm only at 1175. Need at least 600 more before bed to stay on target. :\ Tue, 01 Nov 2011 18:01:27 -0800 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/reaching-50-000/threads/16072?page=4#forum_thread_comment_373416 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/reaching-50-000/threads/16072?page=4#forum_thread_comment_373416 midnghtjade83 Heeeeelllllloooooooo children! Crabby, Sol, Thatollie and everyone else both old...so, so old...and new. I swear to God I'm going to start writing as soon as I finish this post. My first forum post of the year. I'm am super serial business you guys. Tue, 01 Nov 2011 18:11:59 -0800 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/reaching-50-000/threads/16072?page=4#forum_thread_comment_373767 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/reaching-50-000/threads/16072?page=4#forum_thread_comment_373767 thatollie Come on Jade, you're losing to crabby. Get some words down. In other news, I am working towards a day two total. Someone must have forgot to tell crabs that nano lasts past the first day. Tue, 01 Nov 2011 18:15:51 -0800 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/reaching-50-000/threads/16072?page=4#forum_thread_comment_373880 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/reaching-50-000/threads/16072?page=4#forum_thread_comment_373880 MollyShort 400 more words and I'll have hit 3000, the final sprint for the day. Tue, 01 Nov 2011 18:25:26 -0800 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/reaching-50-000/threads/16072?page=4#forum_thread_comment_374207 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/reaching-50-000/threads/16072?page=4#forum_thread_comment_374207 thatollie Don't forget to insult the crab, crabby can't write unless people are hurling insults in their direction. Tue, 01 Nov 2011 18:29:29 -0800 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/reaching-50-000/threads/16072?page=4#forum_thread_comment_374333 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/reaching-50-000/threads/16072?page=4#forum_thread_comment_374333 Shahrizai Reading this thread has kept me up and going all day, but somehow producing words is like wringing blood out of stones. That is to say, I have totally sucked today and am under 2k (but have hit my absolute minimum requirement, at least). Two and a half hours left but I have to write lesson plans in that time, too, so pile on the guilt and it will at least motivate me tomorrow. Tue, 01 Nov 2011 18:41:42 -0800 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/reaching-50-000/threads/16072?page=4#forum_thread_comment_374745 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/reaching-50-000/threads/16072?page=4#forum_thread_comment_374745 Asukababy It's almost midnight EST and I've got NOTHING. NOTHING I tell you so guilt me good because I'm off to a lazy start! Tue, 01 Nov 2011 18:43:58 -0800 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/reaching-50-000/threads/16072?page=4#forum_thread_comment_374803 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/reaching-50-000/threads/16072?page=4#forum_thread_comment_374803 thatollie Get to work, both of you. Asuka, write some right now. I expect you to write at least 850 in this session. Guy who's name I can't pronounce, you have to blast through those lesson plans to teach the kiddies. Am I making myself clear? Tue, 01 Nov 2011 18:52:36 -0800 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/reaching-50-000/threads/16072?page=4#forum_thread_comment_375078 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/reaching-50-000/threads/16072?page=4#forum_thread_comment_375078 DervishJ Thank god for this thread; I had completely forgotten about it after skipping NaNo last year. I don't remember if I actually participated before, but I definitely lurked! You all are actually doing pretty well, better than me! I'm simultaneously bored and intimidated by my story, and I've handwritten only four pages. I'm scared to do an actual wordcount. To make matters worse, this year I wanted to do the reverse NaNo, where you write 3346 words on the first day, then decreasing amounts from there. It's 10 pm; I have to go to bed at midnight because I have a dr.'s appointment tomorrow morning. That's two more hours of writing time, but it's like pulling teeth over here. Jade, it's been 30 minutes. Have you written anything yet? Wanna race? (I'm going to regret this...) Tue, 01 Nov 2011 18:58:01 -0800 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/reaching-50-000/threads/16072?page=4#forum_thread_comment_375292 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/reaching-50-000/threads/16072?page=4#forum_thread_comment_375292 midnghtjade83 I'm 286 words in Dervish. It's 10:00pm here. Going until at least 11pm. See you at the finish line sucker. Tue, 01 Nov 2011 19:08:10 -0800 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/reaching-50-000/threads/16072?page=4#forum_thread_comment_375629 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/reaching-50-000/threads/16072?page=4#forum_thread_comment_375629 Solunar Welcome back Rakki and jade! Hello Shahrizai and... I think I remember Aaukababy from last year! Lol. Hello Dervish. Now, I'll have to say good bye to all of you because you're all eating my dust. I'm at 5352 words now and it's 11.13am here. I think I must have accidentally stomped on Crabby yesterday. Today, I'm going to have a stomping party on all of your incompleted, unstarted novels. Like this guy: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vE7x0WLz7SY Tue, 01 Nov 2011 19:16:45 -0800 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/reaching-50-000/threads/16072?page=4#forum_thread_comment_375967 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/reaching-50-000/threads/16072?page=4#forum_thread_comment_375967 thatollie I have 5808, and that's enough for now. Bye. Tue, 01 Nov 2011 19:25:16 -0800 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/reaching-50-000/threads/16072?page=4#forum_thread_comment_376252 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/reaching-50-000/threads/16072?page=4#forum_thread_comment_376252 midnghtjade83 Hey Dervish, I'm at 1203 words for the night so far. Gonna stop to make noms but then it's onward! How'd you do? Tue, 01 Nov 2011 20:06:15 -0800 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/reaching-50-000/threads/16072?page=4#forum_thread_comment_377729 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/reaching-50-000/threads/16072?page=4#forum_thread_comment_377729 Mysterious Shoe I ain't sleeping 'til I pass crabby. 1700 to go! Tue, 01 Nov 2011 23:29:28 -0800 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/reaching-50-000/threads/16072?page=4#forum_thread_comment_382051 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/reaching-50-000/threads/16072?page=4#forum_thread_comment_382051 Solunar the tide is rising a crab scuttles by tempura is good Wed, 02 Nov 2011 00:19:29 -0800 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/reaching-50-000/threads/16072?page=4#forum_thread_comment_382823 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/reaching-50-000/threads/16072?page=4#forum_thread_comment_382823 crabhooves So many people to respond to, so much guilt to dole out, I love it. I was kind of afraid nobody would post this year. Massive post incoming, scroll down if you're easily bored for your personal shoutout :D Solunar!. You only beat me by 14 words last night, a pox on your sleeping habits! Too bad you've fallen behind again, so sad, I'm weeping for you. Catcrunchies, welcome back! I hope you win again this year. I expect another this-thread-inspired squeal the time you win. Did you post last year? I have such a bad memory for names, plus I may or may not have hid from this thread in guilt last year (which reminds me, you know its happening if I havent posted that day and people will need to yell and cajole and threaten). Good job r-o and alice, but there's still so much work to do, you two need to get a buffer going!! Bloodrose, so awesome to see you guilting yourself and then I go back and check and you've doubled your word count since your first post :D P-3a, welcome! *gasp* you've already surpassed me, I feel so horrible :( Must write more! Oh and would this high calorie spread be peanut butter by any chance? If so you're my kind of person :D Ollie, as of time of writing I'm only 400 words behind you, so lush, I'm going to flatten you by the time I go to bed, you'll be eating my sand. Taja, BE ASHAMED!!! Only 3k? How dare you even show your face around here. I WAS ROOTING FOR YOU WE WERE ALL ROOTING FOR YOU HOW DARE YOU!! LEARN SOMETHING FROM THIS!!!!! (taken from an amazing freakout by Tyra Banks XD I wish I had the clip handy) Molly, welcome to the hate games, you'll fit in well here ^_^ I want to see you hit 6k by the end of the next day though, you need a good buffer - and we will all hold you accountable if you fail at this. Jaymore - welcome, but...lawdy lawdy lawdy give me strength. You think you can come here and stand up in front of all of us with a 1700 word count??? You think you can get away with that????? You may not be a competitor, but I'll make you one, it's hard not to be a fast runner when you have a whip at your back and the same thing happens with crab claws and ears. Do you know how easily a crab can tear off your goddamn. ear? You won't want to find out. WRITE Princess waffles, ugh, I want to see you triple your word count by the next time I look. Just write shit, it doesn't matter what you write, its about quantity not quality, if you cant think of what to write then have a rhinoceros fall out of the sky onto your characters and then see how they react to it. Same thing to you carino! Welcome back Rakki, your family needs to know their place. If their place doesn't involve sacrificing EVERYTHING (including each other) to help your word count then thats no family worth having. Mysterious shoe, LOL. That is all. Honey I can't even see you I'm so far ahead of you, you think you can pass this crab? I don't think so. I'll hamstring your legs as you pass, but I doubt you'll even get that far. JADE! *squeals in delight* you're here, you're here! Welcome back, the gang is all together, although I feel like we're missing one other person. That word count is looking atrocious though, you could have bought me a better greeting present, this is paltry. Monquito. Do better. That is all. Words to live by. Shahrizai, I love you for being the first to use the blood out of a stone phrase, but I hate you for your word count. Why do you disappoint me so? Don't you love me? Asuka....why are you doing this to me, making me feel so good, making me look at your word count and think fuck yeh i'm awesome by comparison. Do you WANT ME to feel good about myself? I sure as fuck don't - that shit ain't natural, so I want you to set aside an hour and a half and put all distractions to the side and write write write. Surprise me, I want to be surprised and see your word count shooting up, unless you want me to feel good about myself AND be right about you being a lazy writer? -Nobody- wants that. Dervish, welcome out of the (possible?) lurker closet, you'll do well here. I'm thinking we should have a word war, thread wide, I don't think we've had one before. Not today, too lazy. I wish I got word count credit for this post! Wed, 02 Nov 2011 02:04:27 -0800 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/reaching-50-000/threads/16072?page=4#forum_thread_comment_384160 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/reaching-50-000/threads/16072?page=4#forum_thread_comment_384160 Solunar That's because I haven't update my count yet. ͠ʘ_͠ʘ Read it and weep, crabby. By the way, I just found out from my bunch of Skype nanoers that the createspace offer this time has FIVE proof copies. Not one, not two. FIVE. Wed, 02 Nov 2011 02:12:33 -0800 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/reaching-50-000/threads/16072?page=4#forum_thread_comment_384285 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/reaching-50-000/threads/16072?page=4#forum_thread_comment_384285 crabhooves I'm only weeping tears of laughter, you think you can top me with 400 words? Thats nothing, I wrote 400 words while I was laughing at your presumption. Thats awesome, although I can't imagine what I'd do with the other four, it's so atrocious that I really don't want it to see the light of day! Wed, 02 Nov 2011 02:16:25 -0800 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/reaching-50-000/threads/16072?page=5#forum_thread_comment_384341 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/reaching-50-000/threads/16072?page=5#forum_thread_comment_384341 edonil2 Well, I got 3k done...not thrilled with it. Hoping the muse gives me the next scene to write so I can keep going and get in at least another 500... Wed, 02 Nov 2011 02:25:47 -0800 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/reaching-50-000/threads/16072?page=5#forum_thread_comment_384489 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/reaching-50-000/threads/16072?page=5#forum_thread_comment_384489 Solunar Have another few hundred words, tempura soft shell crab. Why not edit after November? That is, if you can even have enough writing material to sustain a novel. I know your style crabby. You start out strong and die out like a shooting star. Wed, 02 Nov 2011 02:26:15 -0800 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/reaching-50-000/threads/16072?page=5#forum_thread_comment_384498 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/reaching-50-000/threads/16072?page=5#forum_thread_comment_384498 crabhooves Honey honey, maybe that might have happened once or twice (ok twice) but it's not like I've never finished. It's just that I get worse each year, hahaha. But it's ok, this year I'm really passionate about my story and I have a real use for it. Also please don't use the T word in my presence, to think of the massacre of my brethren for that wretched dish. I can still hear the screaming *tear* Come on edonil, you can do it! I want to see you topping Solunars word count. This must happen. Wed, 02 Nov 2011 02:30:19 -0800 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/reaching-50-000/threads/16072?page=5#forum_thread_comment_384554 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/reaching-50-000/threads/16072?page=5#forum_thread_comment_384554 BloodRoseAngel I'll reach 10k today. I swear it! I just need to go into town to pick up some stuff for work first. =_= If I haven't got 10k by this evening UK time, someone kick me. xD Wed, 02 Nov 2011 02:43:29 -0800 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/reaching-50-000/threads/16072?page=5#forum_thread_comment_384757 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/reaching-50-000/threads/16072?page=5#forum_thread_comment_384757 BloodRoseAngel I heard they'll only do that if you actually agree to publish your novel with them. =/ Wed, 02 Nov 2011 02:45:19 -0800 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/reaching-50-000/threads/16072?page=4#forum_thread_comment_384784 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/reaching-50-000/threads/16072?page=4#forum_thread_comment_384784 BloodRoseAngel Thanks for the encouragement! X3 Wed, 02 Nov 2011 02:45:36 -0800 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/reaching-50-000/threads/16072?page=4#forum_thread_comment_384792 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/reaching-50-000/threads/16072?page=4#forum_thread_comment_384792 catcrunchies I did post here last year. I think I might have gloated a bit (a lot) over my wordcount at you :P This year, I'm just going to be a NaNo-snail compared to you lot. Damn uni &gt;8U Wed, 02 Nov 2011 03:02:44 -0800 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/reaching-50-000/threads/16072?page=4#forum_thread_comment_385068 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/reaching-50-000/threads/16072?page=4#forum_thread_comment_385068 midnghtjade83 Oh snap, what's this Snazzy nesting reply button that shows who you're talking to? NaNo, you fancy girl you! Almost 1800 words in less than two hours when you forgot it was November until halfway through November 1st is the best present you're getting Crabs! I swear by my pretty little bonnet, I will end you this weekend. Wed, 02 Nov 2011 03:12:47 -0800 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/reaching-50-000/threads/16072?page=4#forum_thread_comment_385223 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/reaching-50-000/threads/16072?page=4#forum_thread_comment_385223 midnghtjade83 That's what he said? Wed, 02 Nov 2011 03:15:10 -0800 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/reaching-50-000/threads/16072?page=5#forum_thread_comment_385258 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/reaching-50-000/threads/16072?page=5#forum_thread_comment_385258 crabhooves Thats kind homoerotic, I love it! Wed, 02 Nov 2011 03:18:31 -0800 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/reaching-50-000/threads/16072?page=5#forum_thread_comment_385313 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/reaching-50-000/threads/16072?page=5#forum_thread_comment_385313 meganarmstrong Yesterday it took me all day to trudge through 1700 words, and then I see ya'lls thread and all I can think is "oh no". And I haven't even started today yet! I find my biggest problem to be is silencing my inner critic that wants me to stop what I'm doing and revise the line I just wrote instead of continuing to write. &gt;.&lt; He needs to wait until the end of NaNoWriMo to appear! How do you guys do it? I mean, wow! Wed, 02 Nov 2011 03:28:28 -0800 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/reaching-50-000/threads/16072?page=5#forum_thread_comment_385475 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/reaching-50-000/threads/16072?page=5#forum_thread_comment_385475 midnghtjade83 Okay, kids are on the bus so my ass is going back to bed. BUT I'm keeping my NaNo open all day at work to write down snippets as they come to me. Also, guys...guys!? How are you supposed to properly shame me when the word count bar isn't below our names in the forum?!?!?! Wed, 02 Nov 2011 03:33:55 -0800 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/reaching-50-000/threads/16072?page=5#forum_thread_comment_385563 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/reaching-50-000/threads/16072?page=5#forum_thread_comment_385563 reading-obsession Goal set for today. Get at least 6K done, hopefully I'll reach 7-8K though. Time to write! Wed, 02 Nov 2011 04:01:32 -0800 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/reaching-50-000/threads/16072?page=5#forum_thread_comment_386013 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/reaching-50-000/threads/16072?page=5#forum_thread_comment_386013 Solunar jade &gt; The short story is: I don't need a word counter to know I've my words than you. I think the word counter will return once the site has lesser people visiting it, which is all the people lacking in willpower dropping like crabby did the past two years. I think none of the old-timers in this thread are convinced crabby will stick around. That's just how he rolls. Hey edonil, 3k is good as long as you sustain it the whole month. Don't drop it like a tempura crab. Angel&gt; Really? I went to take a look at the site and it said the ISBN is optional, which makes me believe that we don't have to stick with them. Not too sure. I was trying to read through the site for the copyright but couldn't find it. meganarmstrong &gt; I killed my inner critic, took a shat on him and buried him in a nailed up coffin ten feet under before filling the hole with concrete. There is no inner critic this month. Only you and your novel. For a more concrete tip, do a word war and if your novel feels like it headed in the wrong direction, don't delete your words. Colour that part a lighter colour and carry on. This cuts the critic's feet out from under him. Wed, 02 Nov 2011 04:01:40 -0800 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/reaching-50-000/threads/16072?page=5#forum_thread_comment_386016 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/reaching-50-000/threads/16072?page=5#forum_thread_comment_386016 Solunar Here's the smackdown for the next 4 hours. 1k an hour for 10k by the time midnight rolls for me. I need a buffer for the next two weekends. 10 000 words. I CHALLENGE ALL OF YOU HERE, BROTHERS AND SISTERS, TO 4K IN THE NEXT FOUR HOURS. Wed, 02 Nov 2011 04:06:50 -0800 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/reaching-50-000/threads/16072?page=5#forum_thread_comment_386119 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/reaching-50-000/threads/16072?page=5#forum_thread_comment_386119 P-3a [quote=crabhooves]P-3a, welcome! *gasp* you've already surpassed me, I feel so horrible :( Must write more! Oh and would this high calorie spread be peanut butter by any chance? If so you're my kind of person :D[/quote] I was here last year ;) And you bet! Yes, peanut butter, sometimes either with honey or jam. :)) Wed, 02 Nov 2011 04:27:40 -0800 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/reaching-50-000/threads/16072?page=4#forum_thread_comment_386490 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/reaching-50-000/threads/16072?page=4#forum_thread_comment_386490 crabhooves Ahh I wish I could join you, but alas it's almost midnight here. I guess I'll see in the morning whether you've been successful or not. Sound advice on the inner critic Sol, I'll add to it and say that its a habit you must get into, you cant break it, you cant give into that critic even once or the house of cards comes crashing down, but every time you ignore it it gets a little bit easier the next time. Wed, 02 Nov 2011 04:31:47 -0800 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/reaching-50-000/threads/16072?page=5#forum_thread_comment_386564 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/reaching-50-000/threads/16072?page=5#forum_thread_comment_386564 Solunar 1/4 succesful now. Have a good sleep! Wed, 02 Nov 2011 04:55:12 -0800 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/reaching-50-000/threads/16072?page=5#forum_thread_comment_387003 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/reaching-50-000/threads/16072?page=5#forum_thread_comment_387003 Solunar And my spelling is going and there's no edit button. This is what it means to ignore your inner critic- not double checking your novel words or posts. Wed, 02 Nov 2011 04:56:09 -0800 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/reaching-50-000/threads/16072?page=5#forum_thread_comment_387027 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/reaching-50-000/threads/16072?page=5#forum_thread_comment_387027 reading-obsession Solunar, I probably won't be successful in beating you, but GAME ON! (3 hours instead of 4, though. Sorry! It's a little late.) Wed, 02 Nov 2011 05:13:30 -0800 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/reaching-50-000/threads/16072?page=5#forum_thread_comment_387364 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/reaching-50-000/threads/16072?page=5#forum_thread_comment_387364 crabhooves I will, especially consideringI just wrote 1.5k in half an hour while it took you an hour to write 1k (twice as long for only two thirds the result, oh dear! Ah that's my lullaby baby. R-O I hope to see you get 3k in those 3 hours, I honestly would encourage Solunar if I thought there was any chance she wouldn't do it, but sadly we don't live in that world :P Happy writing everyone! Wed, 02 Nov 2011 05:16:28 -0800 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/reaching-50-000/threads/16072?page=5#forum_thread_comment_387421 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/reaching-50-000/threads/16072?page=5#forum_thread_comment_387421 P-3a I haven't done any writing yet today - heading out for an hour or so... when I get back I will be aiming for 10k at least. Wed, 02 Nov 2011 05:27:27 -0800 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/reaching-50-000/threads/16072?page=5#forum_thread_comment_387660 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/reaching-50-000/threads/16072?page=5#forum_thread_comment_387660 AliceUnrequited I'll do it in three hours. I've only go that long until class. And then after class I'll write some more. By day's end I will have at least 11k. Wed, 02 Nov 2011 05:33:39 -0800 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/reaching-50-000/threads/16072?page=5#forum_thread_comment_387792 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/reaching-50-000/threads/16072?page=5#forum_thread_comment_387792 P-3a Oh I injured my left index finger last night on a bandage clip. It's just a little cut but the plaster means I can't bend my finger. BUT I CAN WORK AROUND IT. Wed, 02 Nov 2011 05:52:57 -0800 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/reaching-50-000/threads/16072?page=5#forum_thread_comment_388278 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/reaching-50-000/threads/16072?page=5#forum_thread_comment_388278 reading-obsession P-3a, that's the spirit xD Oh gosh, I need to keep writing. Anyone have tips on how to block out that pesky little INNER EDITOR? xP Wed, 02 Nov 2011 06:06:00 -0800 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/reaching-50-000/threads/16072?page=5#forum_thread_comment_388587 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/reaching-50-000/threads/16072?page=5#forum_thread_comment_388587 Solunar Bring it. A little behind now because I was resting my arm. but i will hit 10k before bed. Might not make it within the next 2 hours though, which was the time limit i set. Wed, 02 Nov 2011 06:07:22 -0800 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/reaching-50-000/threads/16072?page=5#forum_thread_comment_388619 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/reaching-50-000/threads/16072?page=5#forum_thread_comment_388619 Solunar Owch. Makes me wish we had better voice to text recognition software. Wed, 02 Nov 2011 06:08:19 -0800 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/reaching-50-000/threads/16072?page=5#forum_thread_comment_388647 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/reaching-50-000/threads/16072?page=5#forum_thread_comment_388647 AliceUnrequited Change the text you're typing to white. Turn off spellcheck. The words no longer exist in your vision and you won't be able to see your spelling mistakes. Wed, 02 Nov 2011 06:36:46 -0800 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/reaching-50-000/threads/16072?page=5#forum_thread_comment_389376 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/reaching-50-000/threads/16072?page=5#forum_thread_comment_389376 reading-obsession Haha, nice ideas! (: Spellcheck is already off, but I'l pass on the white text untl I'm a bit more desperate. My keybord is acting all weird right now, and it keeps missing letters. I'm afraid that if I don't just reread a sentence atleast once, I won't be able to understand it at all t the end of Noveember. Gosh, I need to get m sisters off te other lptop. This one is so screwy. (And yes, I left all the typos in, just for you to se how terrible this keyboard is. :P) Wed, 02 Nov 2011 06:45:54 -0800 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/reaching-50-000/threads/16072?page=5#forum_thread_comment_389608 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/reaching-50-000/threads/16072?page=5#forum_thread_comment_389608 DervishJ Thanks for the welcome, Crabby! Jade, the site was down last night, but I doubled my wordcount . . . to a measly 1600 words. I have a dr.'s appointment and then I have to wash dishes, but after that I'll have peace and quiet for a few hours. I may even try writing on the computer! It's quicker, even though I have trouble going with the flow. How do you guys keep from staring at a blank screen? When I'm writing on paper I feel like my fingers can't keep up with my thoughts, but it's the reverse when I type. Wed, 02 Nov 2011 07:17:00 -0800 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/reaching-50-000/threads/16072?page=5#forum_thread_comment_390439 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/reaching-50-000/threads/16072?page=5#forum_thread_comment_390439 AliceUnrequited If I'm not writing fast enough for my tastes, I use Write or Die. Set a time limit and write until it's over on the strictest settings. I'd use Electric Shock Mode, but I don't think all the kinks have been worked out of it yet. I'll also paste something into the file if the page is totally blank, just so the blankness isn't so daunting. Delete the page-filler later, and voila! Wed, 02 Nov 2011 07:32:49 -0800 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/reaching-50-000/threads/16072?page=5#forum_thread_comment_390868 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/reaching-50-000/threads/16072?page=5#forum_thread_comment_390868 P-3a My finger is effectively splinted (the cut is on the first knuckle, so the plaster means I can't bend it at all). Mostly it just means I need to be careful with my typos, because I keep missing the letters my index finger goes for. I just looked at my buddy list and two (TWO) people have pulled ahead of me. REGARDLESS OF MY FINGER, THIS SHALL NOT DO. Let the typos stand (and make it potentially unintelligible) or correct them (which will slow me down)? Wed, 02 Nov 2011 07:49:19 -0800 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/reaching-50-000/threads/16072?page=5#forum_thread_comment_391353 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/reaching-50-000/threads/16072?page=5#forum_thread_comment_391353 Solunar YES! BY THE SKIN OF MY TEETH AND BY THE GRACE OF THE KEYBOARD I have hit 10,000 words. Read 'em and weep. To be honest, it was a little weird the first two nanos typing on a keyboard, but I've gotten used to it by now and erh, by daily writing as well. Just keep going at it and soon the key board will be much faster. I have been thinking of switching to dvorak though. Heard its less strenuous than qwerty. Wed, 02 Nov 2011 07:59:18 -0800 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/reaching-50-000/threads/16072?page=5#forum_thread_comment_391640 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/reaching-50-000/threads/16072?page=5#forum_thread_comment_391640 BloodRoseAngel I burnt my hand on a teapot today. xD But it's OK! I'm gonna hit that 10k. I WILL. Wed, 02 Nov 2011 08:46:14 -0800 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/reaching-50-000/threads/16072?page=5#forum_thread_comment_393007 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/reaching-50-000/threads/16072?page=5#forum_thread_comment_393007 P-3a Ha! I pulled ahead of Crabby again! Now to overtake Solunar before my midnight... Wed, 02 Nov 2011 09:33:24 -0800 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/reaching-50-000/threads/16072?page=5#forum_thread_comment_394396 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/reaching-50-000/threads/16072?page=5#forum_thread_comment_394396 P-3a And then there was the "this is rubbish what's the point this will never be a serviceable story", which inexplicably arrived 10 days earlier than it was supposed to. Suddenly 10k seems very far away. I've been dragging my feet at a hundred words an hour for the last few hours now. ¬¬ Wed, 02 Nov 2011 10:56:10 -0800 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/reaching-50-000/threads/16072?page=5#forum_thread_comment_396972 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/reaching-50-000/threads/16072?page=5#forum_thread_comment_396972 GothiqueSukkubus Back for the 3rd year in a row! I know I won't be catching up to you crazy 10k by the end of today people, but I'm hoping to strike 5k by midnight. I just wrote 1400 words in 30 minutes, so it shouldn't be an issue. Waiting on stupid iTunes to finish updating so my tune-age is returned. &gt;.&lt;;; I can usually hammer out about 3k in an hour of dedicated and uninterrupted writing. After only having 681 at midnight last night, I was worried, but tripling that in half an hour makes me hopeful. I'll be here for my buttkicking when I start to slack off in a few days! Love you all, and this thread! Good for a laugh to keep me going, always. &lt;3 Wed, 02 Nov 2011 10:58:07 -0800 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/reaching-50-000/threads/16072?page=5#forum_thread_comment_397024 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/reaching-50-000/threads/16072?page=5#forum_thread_comment_397024 thatollie You know, we used to have these things called CDs that you actually put in the computer and it would play the music. You could get on straight away if you had some of those. Wed, 02 Nov 2011 11:50:31 -0800 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/reaching-50-000/threads/16072?page=5#forum_thread_comment_398752 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/reaching-50-000/threads/16072?page=5#forum_thread_comment_398752 Shahrizai Between the three class that I teach and the one class that I attend (which starts in five minutes), I've managed to haul myself up over 2k, finally. But within the next three hours, I'll get home and have most of the rest of the night to write until my eyes won't focus (and then possibly write some more). What should my goal be for the night? 8k? 10k? *12*k? Wed, 02 Nov 2011 11:57:11 -0800 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/reaching-50-000/threads/16072?page=5#forum_thread_comment_399004 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/reaching-50-000/threads/16072?page=5#forum_thread_comment_399004 thatollie Set a minimum and a maximum. Hit the low and then the rest is gravy. Wed, 02 Nov 2011 12:03:27 -0800 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/reaching-50-000/threads/16072?page=6#forum_thread_comment_399221 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/reaching-50-000/threads/16072?page=6#forum_thread_comment_399221 BloodRoseAngel Better speed up then, you look like you're trailing a little behind me there. ;) Wed, 02 Nov 2011 14:07:51 -0800 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/reaching-50-000/threads/16072?page=5#forum_thread_comment_403400 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/reaching-50-000/threads/16072?page=5#forum_thread_comment_403400 catcrunchies I so want to take the 1k an hour challenge, but I've got to work on a presentation. It's 10pm and I've only just been able to sit down. Damn work, damn wordcount. WHY in the name of paperbacks did I decide that organising fundraisers in NOVEMBER was a good idea? Wed, 02 Nov 2011 14:08:41 -0800 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/reaching-50-000/threads/16072?page=6#forum_thread_comment_403415 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/reaching-50-000/threads/16072?page=6#forum_thread_comment_403415 thatollie because you're insane. Wed, 02 Nov 2011 14:40:22 -0800 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/reaching-50-000/threads/16072?page=6#forum_thread_comment_404601 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/reaching-50-000/threads/16072?page=6#forum_thread_comment_404601 catcrunchies True. Sad, but true. I'm going to do it though. I've got the whoooooole day tomorrow and I'm going to be using it to write! If anyone sees moany posts about work from me, shame me! Wed, 02 Nov 2011 14:44:49 -0800 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/reaching-50-000/threads/16072?page=6#forum_thread_comment_404779 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/reaching-50-000/threads/16072?page=6#forum_thread_comment_404779 thatollie That means I already owe you like four really insulting posts about how silly you are to have a job. Wed, 02 Nov 2011 14:54:14 -0800 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/reaching-50-000/threads/16072?page=6#forum_thread_comment_405102 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/reaching-50-000/threads/16072?page=6#forum_thread_comment_405102 BloodRoseAngel Why are you organising fundraisers? o_o Wed, 02 Nov 2011 14:59:27 -0800 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/reaching-50-000/threads/16072?page=6#forum_thread_comment_405319 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/reaching-50-000/threads/16072?page=6#forum_thread_comment_405319 BloodRoseAngel I have a job too, but I'm currently on holiday. :D And even when I'm not on holiday, I only work a paltry nine hours a week. Good for NaNo, not so fantastic for the bank balance, but hey. xD Wed, 02 Nov 2011 15:00:10 -0800 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/reaching-50-000/threads/16072?page=6#forum_thread_comment_405337 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/reaching-50-000/threads/16072?page=6#forum_thread_comment_405337 P-3a I just found an old favourite videogame. This may not bode well. Wed, 02 Nov 2011 15:11:36 -0800 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/reaching-50-000/threads/16072?page=6#forum_thread_comment_405807 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/reaching-50-000/threads/16072?page=6#forum_thread_comment_405807 thatollie What game? Wed, 02 Nov 2011 15:12:17 -0800 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/reaching-50-000/threads/16072?page=6#forum_thread_comment_405837 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/reaching-50-000/threads/16072?page=6#forum_thread_comment_405837 thatollie There's this game I really like, it's called "overtake crabby" Hey, I just played it and won. Wed, 02 Nov 2011 15:34:56 -0800 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/reaching-50-000/threads/16072?page=6#forum_thread_comment_406683 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/reaching-50-000/threads/16072?page=6#forum_thread_comment_406683 crabhooves Oh how delicious, ollie is only 6 words ahead of me! I love that Im keeping ahead of him this year. p-3a, what game? I think we all deserve the right to know! Oh and I had the opposite epiphany to you last night, I started out thinking wtf this is horrible, no structure, no point but I got a really good idea for a framing device last night and now it's all flowing smoothly. catcrunchies, ugh. The whole day off huh? Well I better be feeling really nervous by the end of tommorrow as you're lapping my word count, because right now I'm just not feeling it. ollie the minimum and the maximum thing is really good advice, I have a bad habit (very mitigated this year) of setting lofty goals and then quitting halfway, I imagine i'd write longer if I saw it as bonus words. I'm definitely a sprinter, not a marathon runner :P Shahrizai, double ewe tee eff mate, you said your goal could be as low as 8k or as high as 12k, but I only see you with 3? Whats the deal? Why have you disappointed me so? Welcome back Gothique :D Good to see that the thread is working for you. Dervish muddying up that blank screen with your awesome words is just practice like anything else, you just don't let yourself get into the habit of staring at it, you write something, anything, whether its good or bad. Wed, 02 Nov 2011 15:45:30 -0800 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/reaching-50-000/threads/16072?page=6#forum_thread_comment_407081 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/reaching-50-000/threads/16072?page=6#forum_thread_comment_407081 crabhooves btw ollie you just lost that game. Solunar, grats on 10k!! Wed, 02 Nov 2011 15:53:06 -0800 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/reaching-50-000/threads/16072?page=6#forum_thread_comment_407335 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/reaching-50-000/threads/16072?page=6#forum_thread_comment_407335 catcrunchies I'm treasurer/secretary for the uni History Society and we're fundraising for Children in Need. Wed, 02 Nov 2011 15:56:19 -0800 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/reaching-50-000/threads/16072?page=6#forum_thread_comment_407455 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/reaching-50-000/threads/16072?page=6#forum_thread_comment_407455 MollyShort Hit the 2k mark for today, and reached just over 5k words, feeling pretty good and now I'll be able to read some of the books I have sitting on my shelf with a nice cup of hot chocolate. Wed, 02 Nov 2011 15:57:04 -0800 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/reaching-50-000/threads/16072?page=6#forum_thread_comment_407493 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/reaching-50-000/threads/16072?page=6#forum_thread_comment_407493 catcrunchies Haha, I don't even have a job! It's all uni work :P Wed, 02 Nov 2011 16:00:03 -0800 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/reaching-50-000/threads/16072?page=6#forum_thread_comment_407599 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/reaching-50-000/threads/16072?page=6#forum_thread_comment_407599 thatollie Oh look, I won again. 8K baby!! And I still have eleven more hours in day 3 than you do. I'm going to beat you down. Wed, 02 Nov 2011 16:08:15 -0800 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/reaching-50-000/threads/16072?page=6#forum_thread_comment_407887 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/reaching-50-000/threads/16072?page=6#forum_thread_comment_407887 Byakuren I started a day late because I forgot :c. and it's late here.. If I stay up I'll be sleeping in my classes. And that isn't a good idea. I'll have to put effort into it tomorrow. (Or just give up -inb4shot-) Wed, 02 Nov 2011 16:08:16 -0800 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/reaching-50-000/threads/16072?page=6#forum_thread_comment_407888 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/reaching-50-000/threads/16072?page=6#forum_thread_comment_407888 BloodRoseAngel I've found a gorgeous pair of earrings I want so badly. If I hit 50k by day 10 like I did last year, I'll let myself buy them. If not, no earrings. This is going to be fun X'D I want to reach 10k before I sleep tonight, but my characters aren't particularly willing to have a conversation like they're meant to be doing right now. I need to just find something for them to talk about then move onto the next scene, I know what's going on in that. XD Wed, 02 Nov 2011 16:13:01 -0800 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/reaching-50-000/threads/16072?page=6#forum_thread_comment_408086 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/reaching-50-000/threads/16072?page=6#forum_thread_comment_408086 thatollie BloodRoseAngel, I can suggest some dialogue. Random lines "I'll pretend I didn't see the wire." "Eleven, there were eleven of them." "I'll give you this strawberry if you promise to keep it a secret." "Let's go get tacos." Wed, 02 Nov 2011 16:18:56 -0800 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/reaching-50-000/threads/16072?page=6#forum_thread_comment_408310 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/reaching-50-000/threads/16072?page=6#forum_thread_comment_408310 BloodRoseAngel “Oh, what a surprise. Casey’s slobbing.” His wife stuck her tongue out at him as she sat up to adjust the pile of cushions she had amassed at one end of the sofa. “And I suspect you’ve been sprinting around the office all day, have you? Your backside hasn’t touched that office chair once.” “Actually, you are surprisingly close. I did do a lot of running about... or walking at an increased pace, at least. My printer broke so I had to do all my printing on another floor.” Casey raised an eyebrow. “How many flights of stairs did you traverse, dear husband?” “Eleven. There were eleven of them.” There's one :D I'm trying to figure out how to fit in another. Perhaps, since his wife is about to suggest they go out for dinner and he's not keen on the idea, he can suggest tacos. XD Wed, 02 Nov 2011 16:31:14 -0800 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/reaching-50-000/threads/16072?page=6#forum_thread_comment_408757 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/reaching-50-000/threads/16072?page=6#forum_thread_comment_408757 thatollie I love it. I can't wait for the strawberry line. Wed, 02 Nov 2011 16:38:14 -0800 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/reaching-50-000/threads/16072?page=6#forum_thread_comment_409055 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/reaching-50-000/threads/16072?page=6#forum_thread_comment_409055 BloodRoseAngel “Alright, just for you. When and where are we going?” “Seven-thirty at the Grange. It’s a pretty posh place so we better smarten ourselves up a bit.” Rikani looked down at his white shirt and black trousers with mock indignation. “I always look smart and well-groomed.” “Yes, dear. So I shouldn’t tell them about your comfort jumper? That hideous sack with holes in that you wear when I’m not in the house to tell you how much like a tramp you look?” “It’s not a comfort jumper, it’s a comfortable jumper. And I do recall you stealing it several times recently to wear to bed when it’s cold, so you can’t talk.” Casey paused, then made a grab for an ornament on the small table beside the sofa and held it in front of him with an expression of utmost seriousness. “I’ll give you this strawberry if you promise to keep it a secret.” “I’ll treasure it.” Rikani grinned and leant forward to kiss her hair fondly. “You’re bonkers, you know that? Completely insane.” There we go xD I also sort of did the tacos thing but changed it to a takeaway. X3 Thanks for the prompts, I needed some conversations between these two to get used to writing about their relationship - and have learnt that Casey is really quite mad! XD Wed, 02 Nov 2011 16:54:52 -0800 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/reaching-50-000/threads/16072?page=6#forum_thread_comment_409710 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/reaching-50-000/threads/16072?page=6#forum_thread_comment_409710 thatollie Crabby isn't even trying to post a big total, that's no fun. I'm going to be so far ahead later it won't even be a contest anymore. Wed, 02 Nov 2011 17:02:53 -0800 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/reaching-50-000/threads/16072?page=6#forum_thread_comment_410029 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/reaching-50-000/threads/16072?page=6#forum_thread_comment_410029 BloodRoseAngel 10k! :D Now I shall sleep. XD I've got an exciting scene to write tomorrow that will kick the story into action (I don't think that's even a phrase, but it's 1.17am and I'm sleepy X'D). Another 5k tomorrow, I hope! X3 Wed, 02 Nov 2011 17:17:27 -0800 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/reaching-50-000/threads/16072?page=6#forum_thread_comment_410540 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/reaching-50-000/threads/16072?page=6#forum_thread_comment_410540 thatollie Finally, someone posting big. I'm gunning to join the 10K club. Wed, 02 Nov 2011 17:23:29 -0800 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/reaching-50-000/threads/16072?page=6#forum_thread_comment_410759 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/reaching-50-000/threads/16072?page=6#forum_thread_comment_410759 crabhooves Hah ollie, chillax brother, I'm only just beginning now, had to get ready. Im thinking we should write each other cameos in our stories, I wonder how I could work ollie in, I've already got a good idea for Solunar ^_^ It should be pretty easy to work a random crab in - but please not into cooking! What about you bloodrose, how would you like to appear in medieval fantasy? Wed, 02 Nov 2011 17:25:19 -0800 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/reaching-50-000/threads/16072?page=6#forum_thread_comment_410816 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/reaching-50-000/threads/16072?page=6#forum_thread_comment_410816 thatollie I guess I could work you into surreal estate, but The Bridge is too good for crabaloaves. I'm nearly at 9K, see you there if you dare. Wed, 02 Nov 2011 17:34:04 -0800 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/reaching-50-000/threads/16072?page=6#forum_thread_comment_411150 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/reaching-50-000/threads/16072?page=6#forum_thread_comment_411150 BloodRoseAngel Haha, I'm all for appearing in a medieval fantasy if you want me there XD What infos do you need? ;) Wed, 02 Nov 2011 17:44:59 -0800 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/reaching-50-000/threads/16072?page=6#forum_thread_comment_411557 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/reaching-50-000/threads/16072?page=6#forum_thread_comment_411557 thatollie Whatever you do, don't tell him your shoe size. Wed, 02 Nov 2011 17:49:52 -0800 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/reaching-50-000/threads/16072?page=7#forum_thread_comment_411745 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/reaching-50-000/threads/16072?page=7#forum_thread_comment_411745 crabhooves It doesn't have to be a big thing, maybe a random crab scuttles by as they're having a heated conversation and nobody notices the bizarre things they're doing. I don't know bloodrose, hmm, what do you love most about yourself or your "persona", I'd have to change the name, bloodrose would be a bit incongruous :P I could just blur it, Vludroes, although that sounds pretty masculine. Right now I'm working on a great gathering of a particular (unnamed, im too much of a perfectionist to pick a name) race where they relive their past through magical recreations, educating their young and reminding the old, any general story you'd like told? How about you olli? How would you like to appear? :D Anybody else? Wed, 02 Nov 2011 17:52:20 -0800 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/reaching-50-000/threads/16072?page=7#forum_thread_comment_411827 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/reaching-50-000/threads/16072?page=7#forum_thread_comment_411827 BloodRoseAngel Haha, my real name's Rebecca so you can use that if you like. Or Daisy, my middle name. Or alternately my surname, Blackwell, have the whole lot! =P My surname's very very old, so it would be fine for medieval times xD My persona...Most people just know me for art. I don't know if that could be incorporated in any way. Some sort of theme of creativity? I don't have any particular 'story' I'd like told, haha. XD I don't mind. :D I wonder if I can fit a crab in my story anywhere... it's about androids. o_o Wed, 02 Nov 2011 18:03:00 -0800 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/reaching-50-000/threads/16072?page=7#forum_thread_comment_412183 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/reaching-50-000/threads/16072?page=7#forum_thread_comment_412183 thatollie I guess you could use me as the storyteller of the gathering, after all we both know I'm a great storyteller. I've already told 9K of story this November. Wed, 02 Nov 2011 18:07:30 -0800 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/reaching-50-000/threads/16072?page=7#forum_thread_comment_412327 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/reaching-50-000/threads/16072?page=7#forum_thread_comment_412327 Shahrizai Past 4k, and liking this cameo idea - my story has all kinds of places I could tuck a crab (that might or might not involve tenpura...). I've got another couple hours to work tonight, so it's looking like 8k is going to be the minimum goal. Also most of y'all are fairly far ahead of me; hooray timezones. Question (this is my first year, so apologies if this is a dumb question) is it kosher/polite to add people as writing buddies just so I can see your wordcount bars in my writing buddies window and use it to guilt myself? Or is that rude? Wed, 02 Nov 2011 18:08:16 -0800 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/reaching-50-000/threads/16072?page=7#forum_thread_comment_412355 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/reaching-50-000/threads/16072?page=7#forum_thread_comment_412355 AliceUnrequited I've overtaken you, Crabby, and I'm going after Ollie and P-3a next. Wed, 02 Nov 2011 18:11:49 -0800 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/reaching-50-000/threads/16072?page=7#forum_thread_comment_412468 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/reaching-50-000/threads/16072?page=7#forum_thread_comment_412468 Solunar Morning everyone! Hey rainbow cake, did you hit your goal? Otherwise I'll use a knife to cut your cousin, strawberry cake Welcome back Gothique! I was wondering where you were. 3k an hour... just the sound of it makes my fingers ache. Hm, I wonder what end goal Shahrizai chose. Maybe even 13k &gt;:D Be careful not to burn out too early on though! catcrunchies! Your novel is in need of your donation too. Worrrrdddssss, giveee meee worrrrrdssss.... YES, play that video game P-3a! Play it even with your splintered finger and make it worse. Mwahahahahah. Byakuren - spread out the missed 1667 over the rest of the days. Or make it up on a weekend. Don't cram it all into one day if your schedule doesn't allow. Or, you know, you could just GIVE UP 27 TIMES FOR THE REST OF THE MONTH. Because you'll be FAILING each and every day you don't write, instead of just missing one. Angel... Hmmmmmm 50k by day 10. Sounds tempting to do... Perhaps I should accompany you. I think I can do it. But it might need some planning ahead since I won't be free a few days. HM. A crab robot that eats dirt off the floor sounds really cool, by the way. This is how crabby will appear in my novel: http://i.imgur.com/CPiq9.jpg And.... Solunar enters the ring! I think I'll go for 4k today since my arm hurts. But I MIGHT try 5k since I really want to finish all the books up by Nov. Wed, 02 Nov 2011 18:13:39 -0800 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/reaching-50-000/threads/16072?page=7#forum_thread_comment_412538 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/reaching-50-000/threads/16072?page=7#forum_thread_comment_412538 thatollie Crabloaves gets his cameo = = = = = Just then a crabhooves scuttled across the mud. “What the heck is that?” Dan asked. “I have no idea,” said Morton, “it kinda looks like a really unappetising crab.” “Why does it have hooves?” “Maybe the bridge is change reality or something,” said Morton, “it could’ve had the decency to make something worth looking at though.” Wed, 02 Nov 2011 18:25:22 -0800 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/reaching-50-000/threads/16072?page=7#forum_thread_comment_412919 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/reaching-50-000/threads/16072?page=7#forum_thread_comment_412919 P-3a Uh. A sim that lets you adopt digital cats and play with them and feed them and take them on trips to the beach... ...yeah I wish I was more badass too. Wed, 02 Nov 2011 19:05:43 -0800 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/reaching-50-000/threads/16072?page=6#forum_thread_comment_414345 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/reaching-50-000/threads/16072?page=6#forum_thread_comment_414345 eternalcow I HAVE BEEN LOOKING FOR THIS THREAD ALL DAY! I am so glad to have finally found you guys. I was planning not to participate this year but I have gotten sucked in. I am at least half-expecting to fail, so I'm going to need plenty of abuse. ;) Is anyone else annoyed that our wordcount meters don't show on posts anymore? How am I going to feel the jealousy/triumph of comparing and contrasting with everybody?! I should be backreading a little so I know what's going on in the thread but what I REALLY should be doing is more writing, so it'll have to wait. Happy NaNo, everybody! Wed, 02 Nov 2011 19:06:22 -0800 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/reaching-50-000/threads/16072?page=7#forum_thread_comment_414373 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/reaching-50-000/threads/16072?page=7#forum_thread_comment_414373 thatollie Cowie, how many words do you have? Wed, 02 Nov 2011 19:19:43 -0800 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/reaching-50-000/threads/16072?page=7#forum_thread_comment_414840 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/reaching-50-000/threads/16072?page=7#forum_thread_comment_414840 eternalcow Just broke 4100 - not bad when I've had two full workdays. :) I've got tomorrow and Friday off, though, so I'll have to try and pull MUCH further ahead... Wed, 02 Nov 2011 19:38:46 -0800 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/reaching-50-000/threads/16072?page=7#forum_thread_comment_415514 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/reaching-50-000/threads/16072?page=7#forum_thread_comment_415514 crabhooves And now Crabhooves enters the ring Guess I just accidentally wrote another 3.2k words and am now beating both ollie and Solunar AND bloodrose. That was a lot to do in an hour, time to rest (oh noes I'll be vulnerable!). What's it like back there guys?? :D Wed, 02 Nov 2011 19:39:14 -0800 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/reaching-50-000/threads/16072?page=7#forum_thread_comment_415532 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/reaching-50-000/threads/16072?page=7#forum_thread_comment_415532 thatollie Finally, a decent total to try to beat. So that's 5K for the day crabby. I can manage that again. Wed, 02 Nov 2011 19:49:49 -0800 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/reaching-50-000/threads/16072?page=7#forum_thread_comment_415851 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/reaching-50-000/threads/16072?page=7#forum_thread_comment_415851 crabhooves Oh and welcome back cow!! You know you can just nanomail me on the 1st to get the link each year, I thought about sending out a mass nanomail to my buddies but its cluttered with a lot of people from the first year who dont write anymore. Sharizai - there's nothing taboo about adding people so you can see their word counts - that's really what it's for. I'm not having intimate tete-a-tetes (LOVE THAT WORD) with everyone I've added and I imagine everyone else is the same. Ollie that cameo was sublime, I thank you! I'm thinking of how to write you in, the problem is that each storyteller is different, so I'll have to pick a specific story for you. Good luck trying to beat me, I'm far from done for the day but glad I'm giving you a challenge :D Wed, 02 Nov 2011 19:55:32 -0800 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/reaching-50-000/threads/16072?page=7#forum_thread_comment_416021 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/reaching-50-000/threads/16072?page=7#forum_thread_comment_416021 thatollie You're no challenge overall, but trying to beat you every single day seems like a decent challenge. Wed, 02 Nov 2011 20:01:48 -0800 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/reaching-50-000/threads/16072?page=7#forum_thread_comment_416235 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/reaching-50-000/threads/16072?page=7#forum_thread_comment_416235 eternalcow Yeah, if I was thinking at all I would've just nanomailed you, Crabby. This is what I get for trying to do stuff at work when my brain is fried...Ah well! I'm here now! :D Wed, 02 Nov 2011 20:06:06 -0800 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/reaching-50-000/threads/16072?page=7#forum_thread_comment_416387 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/reaching-50-000/threads/16072?page=7#forum_thread_comment_416387 midnghtjade83 Good God, you guys. How are cranking out these huge numbers? I'm struggling to just make the bare minimum to hit 50k. It's like you don't have jobs, or kids, or laundry...or you have a machine that freezes time, thus allowing you to CHEAT. It's the last one isn't it? ISN'T IT? -_- Wed, 02 Nov 2011 20:37:29 -0800 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/reaching-50-000/threads/16072?page=7#forum_thread_comment_417275 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/reaching-50-000/threads/16072?page=7#forum_thread_comment_417275 thatollie I have tons of candy. Wed, 02 Nov 2011 20:58:55 -0800 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/reaching-50-000/threads/16072?page=7#forum_thread_comment_417862 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/reaching-50-000/threads/16072?page=7#forum_thread_comment_417862 Shahrizai Bah, I got roped into grocery shopping and then cooking and only got to 6100. But my entire day tomorrow is free, so that shall be quite the make up day. Lay on the guilt, guys, that I chose companionship and food over writing. I'm an embarrassment to the whole community x.x Wed, 02 Nov 2011 21:01:16 -0800 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/reaching-50-000/threads/16072?page=7#forum_thread_comment_417923 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/reaching-50-000/threads/16072?page=7#forum_thread_comment_417923 thatollie You are an embarrassment to your country and I don't even know what country that is. Wed, 02 Nov 2011 21:17:04 -0800 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/reaching-50-000/threads/16072?page=7#forum_thread_comment_418305 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/reaching-50-000/threads/16072?page=7#forum_thread_comment_418305 crabhooves Still behind Ollie? I must say I don't think much of your performance today. Shahrizai you'd better do soo much better tommorrow - are you still writing today? Also jade, nah, I just write very very quickly is all :D No time freezer for me. Wed, 02 Nov 2011 21:18:26 -0800 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/reaching-50-000/threads/16072?page=7#forum_thread_comment_418332 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/reaching-50-000/threads/16072?page=7#forum_thread_comment_418332 midnghtjade83 Don't worry Shah. I chose feeding my kids/doing my job over writing. I'm a disgrace as well. ::hangs head in shame:: Wed, 02 Nov 2011 21:32:29 -0800 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/reaching-50-000/threads/16072?page=7#forum_thread_comment_418661 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/reaching-50-000/threads/16072?page=7#forum_thread_comment_418661 thatollie crabby keeps forgetting that I'm in Englandshire. I have a whole eleven hours more than you left today. Eleven, there are eleven of them. Wed, 02 Nov 2011 21:40:39 -0800 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/reaching-50-000/threads/16072?page=7#forum_thread_comment_418860 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/reaching-50-000/threads/16072?page=7#forum_thread_comment_418860 Solunar Welcome back cow!! I was wondering where you were. Hehe, yeah... no kids, no job. Just school. I cooked a lot yesterday though. And I think I have to exercise today since it's finally stopped raining in the afternoon for now. I'm feeling quite good. I think I might try 5k. The thought of finishing three novels in a month is spurring me on. Wed, 02 Nov 2011 22:41:26 -0800 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/reaching-50-000/threads/16072?page=7#forum_thread_comment_420057 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/reaching-50-000/threads/16072?page=7#forum_thread_comment_420057 crabhooves lawdy. guess i can't slack off tonight then. Wed, 02 Nov 2011 23:24:47 -0800 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/reaching-50-000/threads/16072?page=8#forum_thread_comment_420678 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/reaching-50-000/threads/16072?page=8#forum_thread_comment_420678 tajavioletta Hi, everybody! Feeling sadistic? Please pile on the shame--I've only barely cracked 3500. *flails sadly* Wed, 02 Nov 2011 23:36:47 -0800 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/reaching-50-000/threads/16072?page=8#forum_thread_comment_420825 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/reaching-50-000/threads/16072?page=8#forum_thread_comment_420825 Solunar taja &gt; tsk tsk tsk. only 3500. What a pity. Eat my dust. I bet you couldn't catch up to me even if there were TWO of you. Thu, 03 Nov 2011 00:44:30 -0800 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/reaching-50-000/threads/16072?page=8#forum_thread_comment_421614 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/reaching-50-000/threads/16072?page=8#forum_thread_comment_421614 crabhooves Hahahaha, well taunted Sol, tip of the hat to you. Taja, I'm literally ashamed of you, why do you continue to fail me like this, do you hate me? Do you hate everyone in this thread?? Why haven't you shown us better results?? Thu, 03 Nov 2011 01:03:52 -0800 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/reaching-50-000/threads/16072?page=8#forum_thread_comment_421816 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/reaching-50-000/threads/16072?page=8#forum_thread_comment_421816 Solunar What about you? Dropping a word bomb at the end? Okay, breaking a while. Attending to my neglected rps before I finish the remaining 1.4k word. Actually... that's pretty easy to reach by the end of tonight. Might have to up the ante. Thu, 03 Nov 2011 01:44:05 -0800 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/reaching-50-000/threads/16072?page=8#forum_thread_comment_422267 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/reaching-50-000/threads/16072?page=8#forum_thread_comment_422267 crabhooves The answer is yes Solunar ^-^ check my word count now. I think ollie might have to reconsider me "not being a challenge now". Ah now time to relax with a piping hot glass of sand and sea water before my next binge. What's this about neglected rps? Maybe while you're doing that I should go do a bit of 3D, i've got a prison cell that's being sorely neglected. Thu, 03 Nov 2011 02:35:11 -0800 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/reaching-50-000/threads/16072?page=8#forum_thread_comment_422841 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/reaching-50-000/threads/16072?page=8#forum_thread_comment_422841 crabhooves By the way let us not forget that I wrote more words in that hour than taja has in 3 whole days. How does that make you feel about yourself taja? No really, I want to know :D And then I want you to take that feeling and write until it fades - which should take a long, long, long time. Thu, 03 Nov 2011 02:36:47 -0800 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/reaching-50-000/threads/16072?page=8#forum_thread_comment_422861 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/reaching-50-000/threads/16072?page=8#forum_thread_comment_422861 Solunar *glares at Crabby's wordcount* You're really on a roll this year, huh? But that's okay. If I remember, you were beating me in the beginning of last year and then you got fried as the month progressed. Lazy crab. Stopping at my goal wordcount. Thu, 03 Nov 2011 02:41:21 -0800 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/reaching-50-000/threads/16072?page=8#forum_thread_comment_422925 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/reaching-50-000/threads/16072?page=8#forum_thread_comment_422925 reading-obsession Screw homework, and screw my grades. I'm determined to catch up with you sprinters! Thu, 03 Nov 2011 02:51:51 -0800 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/reaching-50-000/threads/16072?page=8#forum_thread_comment_423037 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/reaching-50-000/threads/16072?page=8#forum_thread_comment_423037 BloodRoseAngel 11k. 4k more today and I'm on target. It's only 11am, let's see if I can do it. XD My characters are currently in a restaurant. Now, I wonder what they should be eating... ;) Thu, 03 Nov 2011 03:02:03 -0800 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/reaching-50-000/threads/16072?page=8#forum_thread_comment_423168 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/reaching-50-000/threads/16072?page=8#forum_thread_comment_423168 BloodRoseAngel ASDFGHJKL crabby when did that happen. NO. You're not beating me. *types furiously* Thu, 03 Nov 2011 03:02:52 -0800 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/reaching-50-000/threads/16072?page=8#forum_thread_comment_423178 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/reaching-50-000/threads/16072?page=8#forum_thread_comment_423178 crabhooves Oh sol, you make me so happy, you and the egg man (mad props to anybody who gets that quote) I love to see you in genuine distress, you can see the edges of your skepticism being burned off, bit by bit, you start to wonder...maybe i'm wrong, maybe crab won't "burn out like a shooting star, cause thats how he rolls" and then you say no, no it can't be true. I'll have to justify my belief, but the excuses will get worse and worse over time until you realize the truth....and it will destroy you. I can't remember last years word count race, but I think you got ahead of me in the first few days (although its only the 3d i feel like its the 12th considering how much i've written) and I had no chance of catching up. I only wrote 20k last year and I'm already 3/4 of the way in only a quarter of the time. Relax, it'll be different this year, you will lose :) You've tasted victory three too many times. Oh and tell me about these rps! Thu, 03 Nov 2011 03:03:43 -0800 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/reaching-50-000/threads/16072?page=8#forum_thread_comment_423190 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/reaching-50-000/threads/16072?page=8#forum_thread_comment_423190 Solunar Catch me if you can, rainbow cake! Going to adjourn a while for dinner then return. egg man = Dr Robotnik? Not too sure, crabby. Nah, I'm still confident you won't last through the month, even if you do win early. You were never one for followthrough. Shhh, the rps can't be talked about in a general public sphere. Lol. Maybe if you last through the month I'll divulge the secret. Thu, 03 Nov 2011 03:17:45 -0800 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/reaching-50-000/threads/16072?page=8#forum_thread_comment_423368 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/reaching-50-000/threads/16072?page=8#forum_thread_comment_423368 midnghtjade83 Morning guys. Or afternoon or evening depending. I know my word count looks pitiful small when compared to certain others, but the guilt IS working. I stayed up until 2am, dead set against sleeping until I'd at least passed 3,334 (Day 2 minimum). Finally ended the chapter that was killing me so here's hoping for smooth words tonight! Thu, 03 Nov 2011 03:18:27 -0800 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/reaching-50-000/threads/16072?page=8#forum_thread_comment_423384 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/reaching-50-000/threads/16072?page=8#forum_thread_comment_423384 BloodRoseAngel This is totally random guys but LOOK AT MY NOVEL COVER &lt;3 <a href="http://portfolio2011.pheeena.co.cc/post/12262263192/wired" rel="nofollow">Wired</a> The amazing ir0nna made it for me 8'D That's motivated me to continue! XD Thu, 03 Nov 2011 03:23:22 -0800 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/reaching-50-000/threads/16072?page=8#forum_thread_comment_423440 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/reaching-50-000/threads/16072?page=8#forum_thread_comment_423440 crabhooves Far more sinister and perverted than the egg man. Honestly if I finish early I'll probably just start editing and rewriting it, there will be followthrough but it won't up my word count I don't really want this to be a huge hulking novel, just some light reading to pique peoples interest in certain other things So finding out about the super secret rps is a possible reward for finishing? Game onn! Jade, you're a disgrace, pull your socks up and look at yourself. You better blow my mind when I wake up tommorrow and look at your word count. . Ive written 5 times as much as you. Rose - honestly it feels great, I thought ah nah there's no way I can keep up with her (while simultaneously believing I will beat Solunar who's proved a faster writer so far - I know the cognitive dissonance is disturbing) and now it's like aww yeh. How's everybody else going? There's been quite a few that haven't checked in, maybe they're hiding. maybe they're lurking and too afraid to post and get the crap beaten out of them with their shoddy word counts. Who can tell, but come on come all. I'll even let Solu have the first kick, since she's proven such an amazing motivator, here... *Reverently hands Solunar the traditional Australian gigantic boot* Thu, 03 Nov 2011 03:30:35 -0800 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/reaching-50-000/threads/16072?page=8#forum_thread_comment_423524 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/reaching-50-000/threads/16072?page=8#forum_thread_comment_423524 crabhooves Love it, :D Thu, 03 Nov 2011 03:31:22 -0800 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/reaching-50-000/threads/16072?page=8#forum_thread_comment_423538 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/reaching-50-000/threads/16072?page=8#forum_thread_comment_423538 catcrunchies Up and at it! I'm going for 4500 today. Oh yeah. And I've already cameoed three of you people in a wonderfully unflattering way. "If Jake wasn’t going to spend the evening with him, there were other people he could try. A few clicks had him looking at Skype and an incredibly long list of hook-ups that he’d earnestly promised to keep in touch with. Thatollie, Solunar, crabhooves… who the heck was crabhooves?" Now, where to put the others... ho hum~ Thu, 03 Nov 2011 03:38:54 -0800 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/reaching-50-000/threads/16072?page=8#forum_thread_comment_423644 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/reaching-50-000/threads/16072?page=8#forum_thread_comment_423644 Solunar Oh wow, awesome awesome book cover Angel. That's a damn big motivation. Glad you could get the minimum, Jade. Looks like you nearly killed yourself doing it. Don't be crab-like, go above and beyond what you can do when you have the time! Type/write on the toilet! Hmmm, no idea who else is an egg man. *gives crab a big kick on the hiney* I still have a few rps to write before I return to my novels, but rest assured I AM a faster writer than you and I'll prove it again. Oh eyw. Jake's buddy didn't even make it into my random hook-up Skype list. The condom I had was too small for him so we just slept and I had him make me egg's Benedict in the morning as penance. Thu, 03 Nov 2011 04:02:07 -0800 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/reaching-50-000/threads/16072?page=8#forum_thread_comment_423970 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/reaching-50-000/threads/16072?page=8#forum_thread_comment_423970 Solunar What am I typing? TOO BIG. I meant TOO BIG. Sigh. Let this be a testament to how fried my brain is from nano and rping at the same time since I can't shamefully edit. Thu, 03 Nov 2011 04:04:32 -0800 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/reaching-50-000/threads/16072?page=8#forum_thread_comment_423998 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/reaching-50-000/threads/16072?page=8#forum_thread_comment_423998 catcrunchies OMG, now I'm crying with laughter XD this is not conducive to good novelling! Thu, 03 Nov 2011 04:31:39 -0800 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/reaching-50-000/threads/16072?page=8#forum_thread_comment_424409 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/reaching-50-000/threads/16072?page=8#forum_thread_comment_424409 Solunar You evil person, look what you made me type. I'm going to make a balloon condom and let out the air in your room so it pooooots and zooms everywhere. Thu, 03 Nov 2011 04:35:09 -0800 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/reaching-50-000/threads/16072?page=8#forum_thread_comment_424463 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/reaching-50-000/threads/16072?page=8#forum_thread_comment_424463 P-3a A good sleep has done nothing to motivate me, so I am still sat at 8k with no idea where to go next. Thu, 03 Nov 2011 05:10:29 -0800 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/reaching-50-000/threads/16072?page=8#forum_thread_comment_425129 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/reaching-50-000/threads/16072?page=8#forum_thread_comment_425129 Solunar It is genius that sneaks onto out paper when we aren't fully awake yet. What are you stuck at? Maybe we can ping ideas around. Thu, 03 Nov 2011 05:20:12 -0800 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/reaching-50-000/threads/16072?page=8#forum_thread_comment_425326 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/reaching-50-000/threads/16072?page=8#forum_thread_comment_425326 Byakuren -yawns morning- I'm behind and all of you guys so far ahead is making me jealous :c Crack those whips, it's time for me to write. Also, I'd love some ideas of lands (fantasy-style) that I could include in my story. So far I have a stormy path, a broken down village, and a city filled to the brim with sunlight and cherry blossoms (because the weather is bipolar due to the corruption of the sanity state or something) ...Seriously, what am I writing again? Thu, 03 Nov 2011 05:34:07 -0800 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/reaching-50-000/threads/16072?page=8#forum_thread_comment_425585 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/reaching-50-000/threads/16072?page=8#forum_thread_comment_425585 AliceUnrequited Morning everyone! Four hours of sleep means I'm exhausted and worried about making word count goals. I'm sitting rather comfortably at 8.5k right now, but I think I'd like to be at 10k before I go to class in an hour and a half. Can I do it? Maybe. I've got cameos planned for several of you. I need to make a list so I can keep track. But when I get them written, I'll drop them off here for your enjoyment, I promise. Thu, 03 Nov 2011 05:38:10 -0800 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/reaching-50-000/threads/16072?page=8#forum_thread_comment_425639 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/reaching-50-000/threads/16072?page=8#forum_thread_comment_425639 P-3a This http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/plot-doctoring/threads/20405 is mostly what I'm stuck with. I'm planning as I go and it occured to me that my secondary MC wants her storyline paying attention to but I don't know how much to give her. Thu, 03 Nov 2011 05:41:40 -0800 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/reaching-50-000/threads/16072?page=8#forum_thread_comment_425709 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/reaching-50-000/threads/16072?page=8#forum_thread_comment_425709 reading-obsession Morning, you two! (: OH SHIT. I have one word to describe what's happening to me right now, something that I think most of you despise. :L Uninspiration. D: *Evil music plays in the background* Sigh. I guess I'll just write the first thing that comes to mind (yes, no exceptions to that man with a sombrero who's dancing in the middle of a fight.) until I find something that makes some sense. Then I'll just continue. I AM DETERMINED TO REACH 9K AT THE MINIMUM BY TODAY! And hopefully, even 10K. :3 Thu, 03 Nov 2011 05:42:48 -0800 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/reaching-50-000/threads/16072?page=8#forum_thread_comment_425727 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/reaching-50-000/threads/16072?page=8#forum_thread_comment_425727 Byakuren Thanks! And have you tried the mad lib idea? Like, let's say you're characters are traveling in the a forest. Then just think: What could happen? They ____ into a(n) [or the, their, etc.] ____ They run into a pack of angry wolves. They bump into an abandoned mine. They look into the mystery of the missing sketches of their map. That's usually what I do, but who knows.. I bet someone has better ways of thinking up stuff ;w;. Anyways, I'm on a roll now. I start typing and I can't stop (well, I can stop to talk to you lovely folks of course!) Don't stop me! Get the whips! http://bit.ly/ve1Wuz Thu, 03 Nov 2011 05:50:15 -0800 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/reaching-50-000/threads/16072?page=8#forum_thread_comment_425868 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/reaching-50-000/threads/16072?page=8#forum_thread_comment_425868 Solunar YES YOU CAN! Do it. If you want, I'll challenge you to a 1k word war NOW. Thu, 03 Nov 2011 05:50:32 -0800 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/reaching-50-000/threads/16072?page=8#forum_thread_comment_425873 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/reaching-50-000/threads/16072?page=8#forum_thread_comment_425873 Solunar Morning! Good to see you again :) Hmmmmm, I always did like a food land. Could eat as much as I want. The pavement will be tempura crabs and the trees will be tempura'd oyster mushrooms. People always have sweet lands, but not salty lands. I like salt! Thu, 03 Nov 2011 05:52:32 -0800 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/reaching-50-000/threads/16072?page=8#forum_thread_comment_425914 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/reaching-50-000/threads/16072?page=8#forum_thread_comment_425914 Solunar Do it, do it! Hit the ten k! Have a monster called Tenka drop in and storm around like godzilla. He could be one foot tall, or like a mountain. Mwahahahahahahah. Thu, 03 Nov 2011 05:53:45 -0800 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/reaching-50-000/threads/16072?page=8#forum_thread_comment_425945 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/reaching-50-000/threads/16072?page=8#forum_thread_comment_425945 Byakuren Thanks, you too c: (ohnoi'mgonnabeguiltedhard) ...Oh my god yes. Salty foods are amazing. And salted pretzel roads +w+ and french fry houses! AND THE KING WEARS A CROWN OF... UHM... A CROWN OF PIZZA. Thu, 03 Nov 2011 05:55:24 -0800 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/reaching-50-000/threads/16072?page=8#forum_thread_comment_425973 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/reaching-50-000/threads/16072?page=8#forum_thread_comment_425973 reading-obsession ... I might actually use that. o.O It would add some humor to the novel too xD I'll make this formidable, dramatic entrance for Tenka... And then a man who's 4 feet tall shows up and challenges my FMC to a fight. Heck, I can even throw in some jokes! WOOHOO! You got me inspired! Now, I'm looking forward to writing that scene so much that I'll have to write some more xD Thu, 03 Nov 2011 05:57:59 -0800 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/reaching-50-000/threads/16072?page=8#forum_thread_comment_426044 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/reaching-50-000/threads/16072?page=8#forum_thread_comment_426044 Byakuren I hope you're going to show that scene to us xD GO GO! -throws in a corner with just your computer and a bunch of ideas scribbled on the walls- Thu, 03 Nov 2011 05:59:51 -0800 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/reaching-50-000/threads/16072?page=8#forum_thread_comment_426080 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/reaching-50-000/threads/16072?page=8#forum_thread_comment_426080 reading-obsession I'll try that! And yes, of course. What do you think you're doing on the forums? *stern face* You should be writing! Now GO! GET OUT OF MY SIGHT! I want to see at least 3K written down by today. Or I shall bring in the bulls. Thu, 03 Nov 2011 06:00:38 -0800 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/reaching-50-000/threads/16072?page=8#forum_thread_comment_426096 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/reaching-50-000/threads/16072?page=8#forum_thread_comment_426096 reading-obsession Oh, It would be my honor to xD O.O YES! I must write! Oh, and do me a favor. Give me the silent treatment if I come on again and start posting over here. Otherwise, I'll never get writing xP Thu, 03 Nov 2011 06:02:54 -0800 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/reaching-50-000/threads/16072?page=8#forum_thread_comment_426153 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/reaching-50-000/threads/16072?page=8#forum_thread_comment_426153 Byakuren Not that it had mattered to the knight, her focus was to the task at hand. Getting to the castle and training this child to be able to restore sanity. Day the day the lands turned out worse as the days went by. Normal fields would be littered and changed into plastic grass and rocky trees. Towns would be transformed from wooden abodes to food decor nightmares. FRENCH FRY HOUSES. THEY NOW EXIST. Also, who is this "reading-obsession" you speak of? There is none of that name in this chat. 0:3 (Good luck to you, see ya later~) Thu, 03 Nov 2011 06:05:10 -0800 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/reaching-50-000/threads/16072?page=8#forum_thread_comment_426210 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/reaching-50-000/threads/16072?page=8#forum_thread_comment_426210 AliceUnrequited You're on. Thu, 03 Nov 2011 06:24:48 -0800 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/reaching-50-000/threads/16072?page=8#forum_thread_comment_426729 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/reaching-50-000/threads/16072?page=8#forum_thread_comment_426729 eternalcow Taja, Byakuren - you two should be ashamed of yourselves. Your wordcounts are less than mine, and mine is PATHETIC. Never fear, though, I'm coming back in a big, bad way today and tomorrow. Catcrunchies, you are just barely ahead of me, and I'm about to close that gap. Bet you I end up way ahead of you before the end of the day. Thu, 03 Nov 2011 06:32:23 -0800 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/reaching-50-000/threads/16072?page=9#forum_thread_comment_426906 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/reaching-50-000/threads/16072?page=9#forum_thread_comment_426906 Solunar I think I did it? Not sure... There might be a hundred more words to go. Thu, 03 Nov 2011 06:41:26 -0800 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/reaching-50-000/threads/16072?page=8#forum_thread_comment_427112 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/reaching-50-000/threads/16072?page=8#forum_thread_comment_427112 Solunar I could eat your houses, yes I could. With a nice garlic chili sauce. Mmm. Thu, 03 Nov 2011 06:42:01 -0800 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/reaching-50-000/threads/16072?page=8#forum_thread_comment_427131 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/reaching-50-000/threads/16072?page=8#forum_thread_comment_427131 AliceUnrequited I did. Not quite 10k, but I've got class in 15 minutes. o.0 Don't wanna go. It's a terrible, evil class with an angry Fulbright who thinks we should all be native Russian speakers. Thu, 03 Nov 2011 06:44:49 -0800 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/reaching-50-000/threads/16072?page=8#forum_thread_comment_427196 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/reaching-50-000/threads/16072?page=8#forum_thread_comment_427196 Solunar Mmm, bratwurst. Have fun in class! Or rather, try to survive in class! I'll concede this win to you then. Thu, 03 Nov 2011 06:47:16 -0800 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/reaching-50-000/threads/16072?page=8#forum_thread_comment_427263 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/reaching-50-000/threads/16072?page=8#forum_thread_comment_427263 reading-obsession Hmm. It seems that Byakuren is the only person my age around here xD Anyways, i seem to have gotten caught up in the midst of eating my dinner. (DON'T KILL ME! It was too tempting to resist. I mean, how often do you get dinner that has chips?) Thu, 03 Nov 2011 06:56:09 -0800 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/reaching-50-000/threads/16072?page=9#forum_thread_comment_427455 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/reaching-50-000/threads/16072?page=9#forum_thread_comment_427455 Byakuren Harhar, thank you for that guilt trip cow. However I just updated my word count. I've hit my 2k mark! -feels proud- I usually can't keep writing one story but I managed it. Since I needed some music to listen to I also arranged some playlists for you guys to listen to as well: http://bit.ly/uHjyAR Enjoy ^~^ And reading-obsesssion, being young only makes you 20% cooler. -highfive- Now get back to writing -kick- Thu, 03 Nov 2011 07:29:51 -0800 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/reaching-50-000/threads/16072?page=9#forum_thread_comment_428294 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/reaching-50-000/threads/16072?page=9#forum_thread_comment_428294 Solunar Rainbow cake &gt; Chips!? You and Byakuren are conspiring to make my mouth water. What sorcery is this? OKAY! Done for the day at 15k. All the juice has been bled out of me. No more words to write. Need to recoup. A character in my main novel just... screwed up things with his best friend. Another one is at a tiring scene which I'm tempted to skip. The third is stuck in the middle of training. All at a knotty part. Need time to think. Thu, 03 Nov 2011 07:33:54 -0800 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/reaching-50-000/threads/16072?page=9#forum_thread_comment_428394 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/reaching-50-000/threads/16072?page=9#forum_thread_comment_428394 eternalcow Good job hitting 2k! Now get back to work, you're not even where you needed to be YESTERDAY yet. If you can do this at age 14, who knows what you'll be able to accomplish at my ancient age of 26. :P Thu, 03 Nov 2011 07:46:50 -0800 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/reaching-50-000/threads/16072?page=9#forum_thread_comment_428725 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/reaching-50-000/threads/16072?page=9#forum_thread_comment_428725 Byakuren I'm a weird 14 year old, huh? People say I'm the coolest chick ever. 8D And I'm writing, I'm writing! Just poking in this thread everytime I need a minute to think. Thu, 03 Nov 2011 07:50:16 -0800 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/reaching-50-000/threads/16072?page=9#forum_thread_comment_428805 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/reaching-50-000/threads/16072?page=9#forum_thread_comment_428805 catcrunchies You are ON =] Thu, 03 Nov 2011 08:13:23 -0800 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/reaching-50-000/threads/16072?page=9#forum_thread_comment_429403 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/reaching-50-000/threads/16072?page=9#forum_thread_comment_429403 eternalcow Prepare your palate for a fine meal of my dust. :P Thu, 03 Nov 2011 08:20:26 -0800 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/reaching-50-000/threads/16072?page=9#forum_thread_comment_429586 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/reaching-50-000/threads/16072?page=9#forum_thread_comment_429586 eternalcow THINK?! Thinking is for the weak! This is NaNo, what you need is to write. Thu, 03 Nov 2011 08:21:24 -0800 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/reaching-50-000/threads/16072?page=9#forum_thread_comment_429610 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/reaching-50-000/threads/16072?page=9#forum_thread_comment_429610 BloodRoseAngel I'm totally confused, the stats counter says I've written 4000 words today, but I wrote 5000 yesterday and the first day, and I'm on 13k now. That means I've written 3000 words today. My brain just exploded. x___x Either way, I want to reach 15k today! ... after dinner. Roast dinner. MMMM. &lt;3 Someone kick me if I'm not on 15k by midnight UK time, 'kay? ;) Thu, 03 Nov 2011 08:51:57 -0800 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/reaching-50-000/threads/16072?page=9#forum_thread_comment_430399 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/reaching-50-000/threads/16072?page=9#forum_thread_comment_430399 catcrunchies Hm, cow dust. Not the best catfood ever. Must. Write. More. D: Thu, 03 Nov 2011 09:03:43 -0800 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/reaching-50-000/threads/16072?page=9#forum_thread_comment_430717 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/reaching-50-000/threads/16072?page=9#forum_thread_comment_430717 Byakuren RAWRG, I'm nearing 3k words (aka the minimum you people gave me ;3;) but I have to do school work... I SHALL ATTEMPT TO MULTI-TASK THIS LIKE A BOSS Thu, 03 Nov 2011 09:16:06 -0800 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/reaching-50-000/threads/16072?page=9#forum_thread_comment_431056 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/reaching-50-000/threads/16072?page=9#forum_thread_comment_431056 DervishJ ::sigh:: I feel like Eeyore over here. Thanks for prodding me out of the shadows, Crabhooves. I need to get my two main characters to the King's progress, but they need to be chosen to go, and they only have one night in which to impress their dinner companions with their intelligence and cool-headedness. I hate dinner conversation and hidden tests, and I'm about ready to have the village invaded by marauding crabs from the river. Although I guess those would be crawdads. ANYway, I'm completely overthinking my scene, and I wrote a grand total of 250 words yesterday. I need to at least write 2000 today if I want to catch up. Thu, 03 Nov 2011 09:22:06 -0800 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/reaching-50-000/threads/16072?page=9#forum_thread_comment_431230 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/reaching-50-000/threads/16072?page=9#forum_thread_comment_431230 tajavioletta Alright, my vicious little friends. Thanks for the consistent kicks to the hinder! After a blazingly overachieving start last year (8K on day one), I've felt lost and turned around at the beginning of this NaNo. But it's my FIFTH, for fuck's sake, and I love my story! I am NOT going to let myself be publicly left behind like this. It's 1:37pm where I am, and I'm at 3,516 words. By midnight tonight--ten hours from now--I will have at least reached 10K. Prepare to have your shame-kittens hurled right back at you! Thu, 03 Nov 2011 09:39:55 -0800 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/reaching-50-000/threads/16072?page=9#forum_thread_comment_431747 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/reaching-50-000/threads/16072?page=9#forum_thread_comment_431747 Byakuren Nooo! Not shame kittens! -pelted- Thu, 03 Nov 2011 09:43:06 -0800 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/reaching-50-000/threads/16072?page=9#forum_thread_comment_431821 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/reaching-50-000/threads/16072?page=9#forum_thread_comment_431821 Solunar Argh. Just had another look at the createspace offer and it's 5 finished books. Geez. I'm not too sure I want to sign my rights away just like that yet. Feeling a bit deflated now. x_X But I will finish these three by the end of the month! Thu, 03 Nov 2011 10:05:22 -0800 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/reaching-50-000/threads/16072?page=9#forum_thread_comment_432391 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/reaching-50-000/threads/16072?page=9#forum_thread_comment_432391 Shahrizai It counts days starting at midnight, right? Maybe you were writing past midnight last night/this morning? I mean I wasn't in your novel watching the progress or anything, so it's not like I'd know :P Thu, 03 Nov 2011 10:07:59 -0800 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/reaching-50-000/threads/16072?page=9#forum_thread_comment_432475 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/reaching-50-000/threads/16072?page=9#forum_thread_comment_432475 Solunar Braiiiins... Need braaains to think. Thu, 03 Nov 2011 10:10:08 -0800 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/reaching-50-000/threads/16072?page=9#forum_thread_comment_432542 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/reaching-50-000/threads/16072?page=9#forum_thread_comment_432542 catcrunchies I'm not trusting the new createspace offer this year. It looks weird and unnatural &gt;_&gt; Thu, 03 Nov 2011 11:06:17 -0800 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/reaching-50-000/threads/16072?page=9#forum_thread_comment_434064 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/reaching-50-000/threads/16072?page=9#forum_thread_comment_434064 GothiqueSukkubus Seeing as how I just moved, it's a bit difficult when everything's still in boxes. When you own upwards of 500 of them, it's much easier to turn on iTunes, which has all of my albums saved in digital format. =P Thu, 03 Nov 2011 11:16:22 -0800 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/reaching-50-000/threads/16072?page=5#forum_thread_comment_434352 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/reaching-50-000/threads/16072?page=5#forum_thread_comment_434352 GothiqueSukkubus What's the offer this year? I didn't see anything about it in the forum. Thu, 03 Nov 2011 11:22:06 -0800 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/reaching-50-000/threads/16072?page=9#forum_thread_comment_434515 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/reaching-50-000/threads/16072?page=9#forum_thread_comment_434515 Byakuren -newb- What's Createspace? Thu, 03 Nov 2011 11:23:30 -0800 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/reaching-50-000/threads/16072?page=9#forum_thread_comment_434564 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/reaching-50-000/threads/16072?page=9#forum_thread_comment_434564 eternalcow I just baked bread instead of writing. What the hell? Okay, it was super-easy bread that only took 20 minutes and now I'll have it for the next week or so to munch on, but honestly. This is ridiculous. I have to do another 2K before I'm allowed to shower. *Resolve Face* Thu, 03 Nov 2011 11:48:57 -0800 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/reaching-50-000/threads/16072?page=9#forum_thread_comment_435368 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/reaching-50-000/threads/16072?page=9#forum_thread_comment_435368 thatollie Oh man, I really need to catch up. I hate saying this but crabby did super awesome while I was gone. Thu, 03 Nov 2011 12:11:37 -0800 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/reaching-50-000/threads/16072?page=9#forum_thread_comment_436107 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/reaching-50-000/threads/16072?page=9#forum_thread_comment_436107 chaostearktisune Oh man this might be just the thing I need. I don't really have many Word Buddies and such right now and I'm kind of floundering and getting distracted. (LIKE RIGHT NOW ARHG ). How's everyone going? : o Thu, 03 Nov 2011 12:39:59 -0800 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/reaching-50-000/threads/16072?page=9#forum_thread_comment_436974 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/reaching-50-000/threads/16072?page=9#forum_thread_comment_436974 Byakuren I'm feeling good.. I made a comeback and wrote over 3k words today. I'm almost near 4k, the goal was 5k for today but I started a day late. But this is good. If I can do 3k or more a day I'll be doing great. Thanks for the guilt trips, my friends. But now I need to relax, my eyes are tired from looking at a computer screen all day. Harhar... Thu, 03 Nov 2011 12:40:43 -0800 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/reaching-50-000/threads/16072?page=9#forum_thread_comment_437002 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/reaching-50-000/threads/16072?page=9#forum_thread_comment_437002 chaostearktisune Oh wow, 3K words...! O______O Man you are like a writing machineeeeeee. I think I've only written like 891 words today. Thu, 03 Nov 2011 12:46:02 -0800 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/reaching-50-000/threads/16072?page=9#forum_thread_comment_437182 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/reaching-50-000/threads/16072?page=9#forum_thread_comment_437182 catcrunchies So, I'm ahead of you now, moocow. Awesomes to me ^^ Thu, 03 Nov 2011 12:58:35 -0800 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/reaching-50-000/threads/16072?page=9#forum_thread_comment_437650 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/reaching-50-000/threads/16072?page=9#forum_thread_comment_437650 P-3a I keep stalling and playing with my pretend kitties instead of writing. I'd put pretend kitties into story but that is not currently an option UNLESS I want those pretend kitties to be ground into mincemeat by magical gear room, and I DO NOT WANT THAT. Thu, 03 Nov 2011 13:32:59 -0800 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/reaching-50-000/threads/16072?page=9#forum_thread_comment_438870 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/reaching-50-000/threads/16072?page=9#forum_thread_comment_438870 thatollie [quote=P-3a] I keep stalling and playing with my pretend kitties instead of writing. I'd put pretend kitties into story but that is not currently an option UNLESS I want those pretend kitties to be ground into mincemeat by magical gear room, and I DO NOT WANT THAT. [/quote] Well, at least I'm in front of somebody. Thu, 03 Nov 2011 13:40:43 -0800 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/reaching-50-000/threads/16072?page=9#forum_thread_comment_439132 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/reaching-50-000/threads/16072?page=9#forum_thread_comment_439132 P-3a I just reached a low point in my writing abilities, too. I thought my "s/he said" and my "they walked for [amount of time] until were bad; I just started a paragraph with "Suddenly". Thu, 03 Nov 2011 13:49:30 -0800 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/reaching-50-000/threads/16072?page=9#forum_thread_comment_439421 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/reaching-50-000/threads/16072?page=9#forum_thread_comment_439421 thatollie I'm going to get to 15K before midnight. I'm sure of it. Thu, 03 Nov 2011 13:52:58 -0800 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/reaching-50-000/threads/16072?page=9#forum_thread_comment_439551 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/reaching-50-000/threads/16072?page=9#forum_thread_comment_439551 BloodRoseAngel Createspace is a self-publishing company that have offered every year so far to give a free proof copy of your novel to those who win, but this year the offer seems to only be on if you agree to publish your book with them... ._. I don't trust it. Thu, 03 Nov 2011 14:07:43 -0800 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/reaching-50-000/threads/16072?page=9#forum_thread_comment_440057 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/reaching-50-000/threads/16072?page=9#forum_thread_comment_440057 BloodRoseAngel I don't trust it either... but if they don't do the offer, I'm just going to buy one proof copy from them, if that's possible X3 Several other people said they'd do it too. I ordered extra ones last time and they cost £14 each including delivery, but my book was huge and fat, haha, so I think it will be less this time so it shouldn't be that much. Thu, 03 Nov 2011 14:18:16 -0800 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/reaching-50-000/threads/16072?page=9#forum_thread_comment_440402 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/reaching-50-000/threads/16072?page=9#forum_thread_comment_440402 P-3a Meh, feckit. 11,100 words is as far as I'm going to get tonight. Thu, 03 Nov 2011 15:28:08 -0800 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/reaching-50-000/threads/16072?page=9#forum_thread_comment_442770 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/reaching-50-000/threads/16072?page=9#forum_thread_comment_442770 BloodRoseAngel I said I'd be on 15k by midnight, but I only just passed 14k because I've spent the last half hour mopping up the floor because our house has developed a leak. xD I'll try and write a bit more now, just won't reach 15k by midnight. Thu, 03 Nov 2011 15:53:12 -0800 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/reaching-50-000/threads/16072?page=10#forum_thread_comment_443594 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/reaching-50-000/threads/16072?page=10#forum_thread_comment_443594 thatollie It's midnight and . . .14895. 105 words short of making it. Oh well, at least I hit 7K for the day. Thu, 03 Nov 2011 16:03:19 -0800 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/reaching-50-000/threads/16072?page=10#forum_thread_comment_443941 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/reaching-50-000/threads/16072?page=10#forum_thread_comment_443941 AliceUnrequited I'm so far behind. T_T Got hit with a really bad spell of vertigo earlier today. Knocked me off my feet completely. Haven't even made it to 10k yet, and I wanted tomorrow to be a 10k day since it's my day off. Oh well. Thu, 03 Nov 2011 17:11:34 -0800 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/reaching-50-000/threads/16072?page=10#forum_thread_comment_445938 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/reaching-50-000/threads/16072?page=10#forum_thread_comment_445938 reading-obsession Well, I wanted to reach 9K yesterday, and I only managed to get to 8.5K, so you're not the only guilty lagger D: Chuck it. Today, I will give myself a scarier punishment if I don't sit down, shut up and write. Thu, 03 Nov 2011 17:26:17 -0800 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/reaching-50-000/threads/16072?page=10#forum_thread_comment_446387 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/reaching-50-000/threads/16072?page=10#forum_thread_comment_446387 reading-obsession Yup, we're the awesome young ones. *hi-fives* and GAHHH D': Just went on a guilt trip because of those last two words. I admit that instead of writing, I may have finished all my homework (which has been piling up, thanks to my procrastination.) Thu, 03 Nov 2011 17:28:52 -0800 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/reaching-50-000/threads/16072?page=9#forum_thread_comment_446475 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/reaching-50-000/threads/16072?page=9#forum_thread_comment_446475 reading-obsession Hmm. If its sorcery, it's mouth-watering and makes you power hungry. ;) Did I mention that I'm retrying the '500 words, pop in a chocolate' idea? Thu, 03 Nov 2011 17:30:55 -0800 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/reaching-50-000/threads/16072?page=9#forum_thread_comment_446524 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/reaching-50-000/threads/16072?page=9#forum_thread_comment_446524 Shahrizai I'm apparently coming down with some flavor of flu or flu-like symptoms, courtesy of how The Writing Gods Hate Me And Want Me To Suffer o.- So I wound up going through and adjusting my goals in a direction that allowed for things like spontaneous naps from high fevers - goal for the day is 10k, and I've got about three and half hours left. Can totally happen. Thu, 03 Nov 2011 17:32:33 -0800 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/reaching-50-000/threads/16072?page=10#forum_thread_comment_446567 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/reaching-50-000/threads/16072?page=10#forum_thread_comment_446567 reading-obsession Powerful quote, that was. I think I'll stick it somewhere along with the other NaNo quotes I have. :3 Thu, 03 Nov 2011 17:32:48 -0800 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/reaching-50-000/threads/16072?page=9#forum_thread_comment_446576 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/reaching-50-000/threads/16072?page=9#forum_thread_comment_446576 reading-obsession I don't think many people do. I don't, either. Thu, 03 Nov 2011 17:33:54 -0800 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/reaching-50-000/threads/16072?page=9#forum_thread_comment_446616 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/reaching-50-000/threads/16072?page=9#forum_thread_comment_446616 eternalcow You must have posted this before I updated...7700 darling. Mwahaha! :P Thu, 03 Nov 2011 18:05:18 -0800 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/reaching-50-000/threads/16072?page=9#forum_thread_comment_447571 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/reaching-50-000/threads/16072?page=9#forum_thread_comment_447571 eternalcow Why thank ya. ;) Thu, 03 Nov 2011 18:06:09 -0800 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/reaching-50-000/threads/16072?page=9#forum_thread_comment_447601 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/reaching-50-000/threads/16072?page=9#forum_thread_comment_447601 Solunar Gothique&gt; The offers are here: http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/offers There's a more in-depth discussion here: http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/off-topic/threads/4667 Hey chaos! Nice to meet you. :) Whelp, another new day! Should I set it at 5k again? My hand feels less strained compared to yesterday since I spread the writing out. I might try it. Thu, 03 Nov 2011 18:43:11 -0800 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/reaching-50-000/threads/16072?page=10#forum_thread_comment_448709 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/reaching-50-000/threads/16072?page=10#forum_thread_comment_448709 GothiqueSukkubus Thanks, Solunar! Thu, 03 Nov 2011 20:04:19 -0800 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/reaching-50-000/threads/16072?page=10#forum_thread_comment_451097 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/reaching-50-000/threads/16072?page=10#forum_thread_comment_451097 Solunar We can write if we want to We can leave your friends behind 'Cause your friends don't dance and if they don't dance Well I get seventeen K. Thu, 03 Nov 2011 21:31:25 -0800 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/reaching-50-000/threads/16072?page=10#forum_thread_comment_453110 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/reaching-50-000/threads/16072?page=10#forum_thread_comment_453110 Solunar Sigh... what is wrong with my proofreading skills today? Write! Not dance. Or if you want to dance while you write, hmmmm... Thu, 03 Nov 2011 21:32:16 -0800 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/reaching-50-000/threads/16072?page=10#forum_thread_comment_453126 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/reaching-50-000/threads/16072?page=10#forum_thread_comment_453126 reading-obsession xD now THAT is an idea that probaly hasn't been tried yet. Fri, 04 Nov 2011 02:28:23 -0800 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/reaching-50-000/threads/16072?page=10#forum_thread_comment_456776 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/reaching-50-000/threads/16072?page=10#forum_thread_comment_456776 Beael Hello all lazy and not-so-lazy writers. My first nano and I'm suspecting that guilt is the best way to get me working. I'm at a bit over 13k, but I keep putting writing up in favor of fawning over Darren Criss. He might be awesome (so awesome) but this is no way of doing it! I'll have to reach at least (hopefully more) 15k today since I won't be able to write a thing on Sunday. Fri, 04 Nov 2011 03:04:22 -0800 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/reaching-50-000/threads/16072?page=10#forum_thread_comment_457149 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/reaching-50-000/threads/16072?page=10#forum_thread_comment_457149 akanksha52 I have just about 5,000 words and it's already day 4. I need a LOT of guilt. Help!! Fri, 04 Nov 2011 03:47:25 -0800 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/reaching-50-000/threads/16072?page=10#forum_thread_comment_457624 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/reaching-50-000/threads/16072?page=10#forum_thread_comment_457624 Beael Firstly, what are you doing on the forum? Shame on you! Secondly, think about all the sad words that have still not been written down. Imagine how sad they must be, all alone in your head without knowing whom they should pair up with. Poor them. And poor Dakota! Don't you think he deserve some action? Have you even introduced Talia to the story yet? I hope you have. If not, do it. Now. Oh, and if you lost something when you saw this post (*cough*thegame*cough*) you have to write at least 500 extra words for doing so. Fri, 04 Nov 2011 03:52:04 -0800 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/reaching-50-000/threads/16072?page=10#forum_thread_comment_457688 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/reaching-50-000/threads/16072?page=10#forum_thread_comment_457688 reading-obsession TSK. Now, what are you doing on this forum? (What do you mean, I told you about it?) GET WRITING! For every brother you have, write 250 words. For every TV you have at home, write 200 words. For every iPad you have, write 500 words. For every arm-wrestle you did today, write 100 words. For every letter in your username, write 50 words. For every year that you've NaNoed, write 500 words. AND. For every friend you have in real life who's NaNoing, write 250 words ;) That totals upto... 3K. (Oh yes. I am a creepy stalker. &gt;:D ) And do not talk to me until you have reached this wordcount. Yes. That includes phone calls. -.- Fri, 04 Nov 2011 04:18:14 -0800 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/reaching-50-000/threads/16072?page=10#forum_thread_comment_458038 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/reaching-50-000/threads/16072?page=10#forum_thread_comment_458038 BloodRoseAngel Back from food shopping! Now lunch, then I'mma write like crazy. xD I want 5k today!! Fri, 04 Nov 2011 04:41:47 -0800 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/reaching-50-000/threads/16072?page=10#forum_thread_comment_458382 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/reaching-50-000/threads/16072?page=10#forum_thread_comment_458382 crabhooves Ahhhh, today was a good day. Did shit all until 9pm (on nano at least and we all know that time not spent on nano is no time at all!) then I'm like fuck it, I ain't dissapearing. So I did 6.5k in about two hours (by the way thats more than SEVERAL people posting in this thread have done all month) and now I'm sitting lush at 22k. I think this is the only time I've ever beaten everybody in one of these threads, feels amazing. Love being 5k ahead of solunar, ahahahaha, poor thing. How was everybody elses day? Wasn't someone going to get the whole day off and spend it writing, was it taja? Did you deliver? Oh and ollie - I think you'll find it quite a challenge to beat me today ^_^ Fri, 04 Nov 2011 04:51:58 -0800 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/reaching-50-000/threads/16072?page=10#forum_thread_comment_458527 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/reaching-50-000/threads/16072?page=10#forum_thread_comment_458527 Asukababy I missed 6 pages!!! 6! What the heck! I'm at 1490 and completely disgusted with myself. You need to guilt me into catching up TODAY that word count is unacceptable even to myself. Fri, 04 Nov 2011 05:20:59 -0800 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/reaching-50-000/threads/16072?page=10#forum_thread_comment_458994 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/reaching-50-000/threads/16072?page=10#forum_thread_comment_458994 crabhooves Asukaaaaaaa. Do what I do - at your word count you can't afford to write freeform, you need to set strict limits for yourself. How fast can you write in 5 minutes? 100 words? 200 words? 50? Well that's ok, pick a number, say it's 50 and there's 12 lots of 5 minutes in an hour, so we do 50 times 12 and get 600. Say to yourself starting at 1:05pm im going to have 50 and 1:10pm im going to have 100 and 1:15pm im going to have 150 and then by the time the hour is done you've got 600. It's a terrific motivator and I'm sure you'll find you can write a lot more than 50 in 5 minutes. Go for the structure and remember...if I haven't already gone over my quota of smug self satisfaction for the day (oh whatever I totally have but i'm doing it for the cause, for guilt and envy and a green progress bar!!), remember that Solunar did three times your months word count today and I wrote your wordcount nearly five times over. Just today. How does that make you feel? You can't let me feel this good - it's actually against the law in every country signatory to the UN declaration of Human Rights, so get that god damn word count up or you'll feel those claws on you, eating away at your extremities. And more seriously...you need to catch up now, you cant let another day go past, there's a tipping point that you can't recover from and you're getting dangerously close to it. Triple your word count or accept that you've lost this year. Fri, 04 Nov 2011 05:26:56 -0800 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/reaching-50-000/threads/16072?page=10#forum_thread_comment_459101 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/reaching-50-000/threads/16072?page=10#forum_thread_comment_459101 Asukababy That's a good idea! I will do it right now! *runs away feeling guilty but motivated* Fri, 04 Nov 2011 05:33:33 -0800 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/reaching-50-000/threads/16072?page=10#forum_thread_comment_459214 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/reaching-50-000/threads/16072?page=10#forum_thread_comment_459214 Solunar I WANT TO PULVERISE YOU INTO A CRABCAKE MUSH. URGH. DAMN IT. There's only 2 hours left here, so I can't beat your 22k count. BUT I WILL BE CONSISTENT AND DO 5k weekend even if it kills me. HNGH. Fri, 04 Nov 2011 06:11:38 -0800 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/reaching-50-000/threads/16072?page=10#forum_thread_comment_459968 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/reaching-50-000/threads/16072?page=10#forum_thread_comment_459968 crabhooves Hahahaha, so so so happy right now - is this how you felt the last 3 years? Maybe only the last two years, I feel like our rivalry hadn't blossomed until the second year, when you knew you could really abuse me and I woldn't get all offended. Were you wrong today Solunar? I didn't post until midnight, I bet you thought, ah yeh this is the beginning of the decline, crabby is disappearing, but no - such was not my fate. I don't know what your plan is if I do 5k weekends as well - maybe you'll have to do a 10k weekend? Hah, good luck with that. I don't think I've ever seen you really frustrated before, is this your losing voice Sol? Tra la la la la Fri, 04 Nov 2011 06:19:58 -0800 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/reaching-50-000/threads/16072?page=10#forum_thread_comment_460141 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/reaching-50-000/threads/16072?page=10#forum_thread_comment_460141 crabhooves In the meantime we need to talk about fantasy cartography and world building when I wake up in the morning, I've been thinking about it a lot and the writing gave me more ideas for it than I thought it would. Fri, 04 Nov 2011 06:23:46 -0800 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/reaching-50-000/threads/16072?page=10#forum_thread_comment_460220 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/reaching-50-000/threads/16072?page=10#forum_thread_comment_460220 Solunar My losing voice? Are you SURE, crabby? Listen closely. This is my POWER-UP voice. I'm enraged you've overshot me. And just because I said I won't be able to hit 22k in the next two hours doesn't mean I'm letting you have a win over me. Watch me smash your puny wordcount over the weekend. I'll make you cry back into your crab hole. Fri, 04 Nov 2011 06:32:05 -0800 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/reaching-50-000/threads/16072?page=10#forum_thread_comment_460407 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/reaching-50-000/threads/16072?page=10#forum_thread_comment_460407 Byakuren -yawns- Good morning crazy guilt folks. -pokes her head out of a pile of shame kittens- OH- I'M BEHIND -JUMPS TO STORY- Fri, 04 Nov 2011 07:21:46 -0800 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/reaching-50-000/threads/16072?page=10#forum_thread_comment_461456 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/reaching-50-000/threads/16072?page=10#forum_thread_comment_461456 GothiqueSukkubus Did 857 in 18 minutes! Not a bad start! Now to shower, and do at least 4k more by the end of today. &lt;3 Shouldn't be too bad. If I do a few more 750 in 15 minute sprints, I should be set. But you can give me some abuse to tell me how much I suck for being nearly 4k behind for the day. XD Fri, 04 Nov 2011 07:41:41 -0800 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/reaching-50-000/threads/16072?page=10#forum_thread_comment_461928 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/reaching-50-000/threads/16072?page=10#forum_thread_comment_461928 reading-obsession <strong> You think you all feel guilty? Check my guilt out. </strong> It's been an entire day. yes, 24 hours. 24 HOURS WITHOUT A SINGLE WORD WRITTEN INTO MY NOVEL. Do you know how terrible that feels? It feels ridiculously painful to think that my novel is lagging just because i got my WiFi back and running on my iPhone (the source of distraction.) So. <em> Try and guilt me into writing at least 2K words by the end of today (Which is in 3 hours). Consider it a challenge. Somewhat similar to the one you're taking now, since its just as much as a problem. :3 </em> Fri, 04 Nov 2011 08:08:16 -0800 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/reaching-50-000/threads/16072?page=10#forum_thread_comment_462489 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/reaching-50-000/threads/16072?page=10#forum_thread_comment_462489 reading-obsession Gothique, you little procrastinator! Only at 3K? That was the goal for day 2! You better keep writing, young lady. You see that 4K? It's the key to giant piece of the most delicious, mouth-watering things you've ever laid eyes on. It's lying right in front of you, high up on that staircase of a word-count. You've got to build up your words to build a staircase to get to it. but there's a catch. If you don't grab that key by the end of today, everything will turn into a gooey, hideous substance. (i.e, the wrath that you will face from this forum.) In short, <em>GO WRITE!</em> Fri, 04 Nov 2011 08:15:31 -0800 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/reaching-50-000/threads/16072?page=10#forum_thread_comment_462684 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/reaching-50-000/threads/16072?page=10#forum_thread_comment_462684 reading-obsession Hey, Bya! I see that you have completed yesterday's expected wordcount. :D (Sadly, that's more than i can say for today's wordcount. Which is, unfortunately, 0.) NOW. GO GET WRITING BEFORE I GO GOBBLE UP ALL YOUR FRENCH FRY HOUSES. &gt;:( Fri, 04 Nov 2011 08:20:51 -0800 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/reaching-50-000/threads/16072?page=10#forum_thread_comment_462813 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/reaching-50-000/threads/16072?page=10#forum_thread_comment_462813 eternalcow You must be kidding me! Yesterday, you have twice my wordcount. In just a day I'm TWO THOUSAND WORDS AHEAD OF YOU. This is pathetic; you could have continued to beat the pants off me if you'd tried! Now you're going to have to struggle to catch up. Looks like you've got about two and a half hours left. Get cracking! Fri, 04 Nov 2011 08:44:24 -0800 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/reaching-50-000/threads/16072?page=10#forum_thread_comment_463358 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/reaching-50-000/threads/16072?page=10#forum_thread_comment_463358 Solunar You think you have distractions? Try having an ipad2 with tiny tower and tiny chef and all the free GAMES! It's been hard limiting my playtime. Not to mention all the anime I usually watch. I want to see your word counter hit 10k by the time I wake up tomorrow or you'll have to tell us all a deep, dark childhood secret that nobody else knows. And it will be embarrassing. You know which one. Yes, that's the one I was referring to. Fri, 04 Nov 2011 08:47:50 -0800 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/reaching-50-000/threads/16072?page=10#forum_thread_comment_463423 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/reaching-50-000/threads/16072?page=10#forum_thread_comment_463423 Solunar I would give you abuse if I thought there was any hope that you would hit 5k by the end of today. Sadly, your word count is so small it flies under my radar. Fri, 04 Nov 2011 08:48:56 -0800 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/reaching-50-000/threads/16072?page=10#forum_thread_comment_463448 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/reaching-50-000/threads/16072?page=10#forum_thread_comment_463448 Solunar For every hour you don't hit 5k, a kitten gets drowned in the shame. Fri, 04 Nov 2011 08:49:51 -0800 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/reaching-50-000/threads/16072?page=10#forum_thread_comment_463467 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/reaching-50-000/threads/16072?page=10#forum_thread_comment_463467 AliceUnrequited I have the whole day off and will probably spend it writing, but it's going to be interesting. Slept all morning trying to make the vertigo go away. It didn't work. So now I've lost 21 hours to sleep. 0.o From 4pm yesterday to almost 1pm today. I still can't walk very well, but I can sit up, which is awesome news for writing. Just got to prop myself up on some pillows and type away. Gonna hit 20k today. I have to. Day-long field trip tomorrow won't leave me much time for writing. Reading-obsession: Remove every non-essential (calender, phone book, etc. are essential) app from your iphone. All of them. They can return in December. Right now, you need to write. You're not too far behind me. You could overtake me while I'm stumbling around my apartment trying not to hit my head. So why are you playing around on your phone? Go write. Fri, 04 Nov 2011 08:50:45 -0800 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/reaching-50-000/threads/16072?page=10#forum_thread_comment_463486 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/reaching-50-000/threads/16072?page=10#forum_thread_comment_463486 reading-obsession GOODNESS, NO! xO Not THAT one! I'm at 9K, I'm at 9K! 1,000 more to go and I can escape that misery. Don't worry, I shall get it done. *saltues* Unless I fall asleep on the laptop. In that case, I AM KEEPING ALL THE WORDS I MAKE! ;D And trust me. Wattpad and HsH and MK and Scoops and Diner Dash 2 are plenty distracting. Luckily, I've controlled myself enough to delete a few of them. AND MY PRECIOUS TV SHOWS. xO All my friends keep ramblingabout the latest episode of this or how this character did that in the new episode and how funny that was. AGHH! xO Fri, 04 Nov 2011 09:07:33 -0800 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/reaching-50-000/threads/16072?page=10#forum_thread_comment_463836 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/reaching-50-000/threads/16072?page=10#forum_thread_comment_463836 reading-obsession Ho hum. Would Facebook be considered non-essential? (please be essential, please be essential.) And chatting apps? :3 Fri, 04 Nov 2011 09:08:23 -0800 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/reaching-50-000/threads/16072?page=10#forum_thread_comment_463853 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/reaching-50-000/threads/16072?page=10#forum_thread_comment_463853 reading-obsession ... GOODNESS. I got upto 9K with that inspiration alone. THANK YOU! Now for bypassing that wordcount of yours. *evil laugh* Fri, 04 Nov 2011 09:09:15 -0800 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/reaching-50-000/threads/16072?page=10#forum_thread_comment_463875 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/reaching-50-000/threads/16072?page=10#forum_thread_comment_463875 reading-obsession OHOHOHOHOHOH AND. I have a day-long field trip tomorrow too. xO Fri, 04 Nov 2011 09:10:47 -0800 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/reaching-50-000/threads/16072?page=10#forum_thread_comment_463902 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/reaching-50-000/threads/16072?page=10#forum_thread_comment_463902 P-3a I've tidied and cleaned the kitchen, done the dishwasher and the clothes-washing, hoovered every room in the house, sponged down most of the upholstery, fed &amp; walked &amp; played with the dog, fed the guinea pig and the fish, fed &amp; played with the imaginary cats and fed the imaginary fish, and prepared my meal for later (rice/sweetcorn/turkey escalope). I've written 0 words. Fri, 04 Nov 2011 09:12:42 -0800 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/reaching-50-000/threads/16072?page=10#forum_thread_comment_463939 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/reaching-50-000/threads/16072?page=10#forum_thread_comment_463939 thatollie I will win, I will win, I will win! Fri, 04 Nov 2011 09:18:48 -0800 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/reaching-50-000/threads/16072?page=11#forum_thread_comment_464069 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/reaching-50-000/threads/16072?page=11#forum_thread_comment_464069 reading-obsession <strong>PROCRASTINATION? IS THAT PROCRASTINATION I SEE? :O</strong> I will not tolerate this. You will write RIGHT NOW. Or die of shame that you'd rather play with imaginary cats than write a novel. WRITE WRITE WRITE. i want to see a minimum of 13K by today. <em>You hear that? 13K. </em> I was in your position an hour ago. Tell you what: I'm gonna go past your word count, and then make you feel guilty. (Because honestly, it's tough to guilt someone into writing when you're behind. :P ) Fri, 04 Nov 2011 09:22:49 -0800 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/reaching-50-000/threads/16072?page=10#forum_thread_comment_464150 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/reaching-50-000/threads/16072?page=10#forum_thread_comment_464150 AliceUnrequited Facebook is non-essential. You will survive without it. I'd list the whole phone as non-essential, but having something for emergency phone calls is always nice, and since I'd lose my own head without my phone calendar, the calendar app gets a pass too. And is your field trip Geology-related? Fri, 04 Nov 2011 09:22:51 -0800 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/reaching-50-000/threads/16072?page=10#forum_thread_comment_464151 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/reaching-50-000/threads/16072?page=10#forum_thread_comment_464151 Beael Well, I've cooked dinner for my whole family, as well as lunch, not to mention that I have emptied and filled the dishwasher TWICE and made some coffee for my aunt and her husband. Apart from that, I've written over 5k words in a language that's not even my mother tounge. Today. That makes a total of almost 17k for me. I better see you catch up with it or at least do as reading-obsession says, write 'til 13k by today. At least. Fri, 04 Nov 2011 09:32:06 -0800 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/reaching-50-000/threads/16072?page=10#forum_thread_comment_464383 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/reaching-50-000/threads/16072?page=10#forum_thread_comment_464383 reading-obsession Aww, damn. :P Well, technically speaking... Actually, nevermind xD Nope. I'm guessing yours is? Fri, 04 Nov 2011 09:33:04 -0800 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/reaching-50-000/threads/16072?page=10#forum_thread_comment_464409 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/reaching-50-000/threads/16072?page=10#forum_thread_comment_464409 P-3a To be fair to myself, most of these jobs were jobs my mother has been procrastinating for months and months, so they took longer than they should have done, on account of accumulated muck. Especially cleaning the kitchen and sponging the upholstery, and the washing of the bedding. Partner is coming to help me look after the house so we needed extra bedsheets, but I found out my dad has been using the spare ones so they needed washing, and so did my sister's because she's coming home soon and I know my mum won't do it. Hoovering also took longer than it should have because our dog is convinced that the hoover is a threat and I'm home alone so I had to keep stopping to deal with her instead. Ended up shutting her in the understair cupboard and putting earmuffs on to take the edge off her barking - I have AS and her bark is at exactly the correct volume and pitch to overload my hearing, and that plus the noise from the hoover is unbearable. I tend to lose my temper with people who keep making loud noise after I ask them, then tell them, to stop - but I know I can't do that to the dog 'cos, hell, she doesn't know, does she? Ahh, house-sitting for parents... Can't top the language barrier though. To be honest, hats off to you. I tried to learn French for 10 years (started age 5, quit age 15) and I can barely manage to ask someone in French what time of day it is, let alone write a novel in French. Fri, 04 Nov 2011 09:52:45 -0800 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/reaching-50-000/threads/16072?page=10#forum_thread_comment_464868 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/reaching-50-000/threads/16072?page=10#forum_thread_comment_464868 P-3a 13k I can... probably do only I don't know where my book is going next. xD I need to stop letting the television distract me, put some loud music on and work out how the hell Andrew is going to react to finding his sister in the one place he did not expect to find her. Fri, 04 Nov 2011 09:55:08 -0800 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/reaching-50-000/threads/16072?page=10#forum_thread_comment_464915 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/reaching-50-000/threads/16072?page=10#forum_thread_comment_464915 Beael Omr, now I feel so evil. Well, you're soon at 13k and I'm certain you will be able to do it! Fri, 04 Nov 2011 10:08:45 -0800 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/reaching-50-000/threads/16072?page=10#forum_thread_comment_465222 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/reaching-50-000/threads/16072?page=10#forum_thread_comment_465222 reading-obsession Switch off that goddamn TV. xP Yeah, I can tell that you haven't. GO DO IT! Hmm. How about... he freaks out and (depending on where she is) yells at her or takes her away from the place... Fri, 04 Nov 2011 10:09:36 -0800 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/reaching-50-000/threads/16072?page=10#forum_thread_comment_465243 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/reaching-50-000/threads/16072?page=10#forum_thread_comment_465243 reading-obsession Yes, yes you will! :D Fri, 04 Nov 2011 10:10:06 -0800 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/reaching-50-000/threads/16072?page=11#forum_thread_comment_465252 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/reaching-50-000/threads/16072?page=11#forum_thread_comment_465252 AliceUnrequited Yep. An early-morning trek across an island that probably has a pretty rough path, just to look at rocks and try not to fall and kill myself. :D Fri, 04 Nov 2011 10:10:33 -0800 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/reaching-50-000/threads/16072?page=10#forum_thread_comment_465265 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/reaching-50-000/threads/16072?page=10#forum_thread_comment_465265 reading-obsession Hmm. 9,916 words. Hopefully that's satisfying enough for Solunar, so I don't have to spill any embarassing memories :O I think I'll keep on writing on my phone too after getting off the laptop. See, Alice? Useful! ;) Fri, 04 Nov 2011 10:18:25 -0800 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/reaching-50-000/threads/16072?page=11#forum_thread_comment_465432 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/reaching-50-000/threads/16072?page=11#forum_thread_comment_465432 reading-obsession Aww, joy :D I've always wanted to be able to do that! Well, let's hope you at least get inspired by the scenery, or a certain person, or rock, or something xD Have fun! (: <em>Oh, and try not to die. That would be bad for your word count progress ;) </em> Fri, 04 Nov 2011 10:21:01 -0800 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/reaching-50-000/threads/16072?page=10#forum_thread_comment_465490 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/reaching-50-000/threads/16072?page=10#forum_thread_comment_465490 thatollie I received my first ever short story rejection today. Someone really should taunt me. Fri, 04 Nov 2011 10:24:27 -0800 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/reaching-50-000/threads/16072?page=11#forum_thread_comment_465585 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/reaching-50-000/threads/16072?page=11#forum_thread_comment_465585 P-3a I've forbidden myself from cooking dinner until I've hit 13k, and I've forbidden myself from going to sleep until I've hit at least 15k. How's that? xD Fri, 04 Nov 2011 10:52:26 -0800 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/reaching-50-000/threads/16072?page=11#forum_thread_comment_466279 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/reaching-50-000/threads/16072?page=11#forum_thread_comment_466279 thatollie Forbidden fruit tastes all the sweeter or something. Fri, 04 Nov 2011 10:57:10 -0800 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/reaching-50-000/threads/16072?page=11#forum_thread_comment_466418 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/reaching-50-000/threads/16072?page=11#forum_thread_comment_466418 BloodRoseAngel I'm slowing down, people, I'm slowing down!! D: Only 1200 words written today, food shopping and going to post ebay stuff is no excuse because I wrote more on a day when I spent a good few hours in town. 'At this rate you will finish on November 13' is not good enough. D8&lt; Someone kick me. Fri, 04 Nov 2011 10:57:12 -0800 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/reaching-50-000/threads/16072?page=11#forum_thread_comment_466420 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/reaching-50-000/threads/16072?page=11#forum_thread_comment_466420 P-3a It's true. Hit 12k and my hunger is continually attempting to distract me. I SHALL REFUSE MY BODILY FUNCTIONS THEIR SATISFACTION UNTIL I HAVE MY 13k. Fri, 04 Nov 2011 11:10:17 -0800 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/reaching-50-000/threads/16072?page=11#forum_thread_comment_466774 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/reaching-50-000/threads/16072?page=11#forum_thread_comment_466774 P-3a HAH. Dinner time. Fri, 04 Nov 2011 11:49:11 -0800 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/reaching-50-000/threads/16072?page=11#forum_thread_comment_467798 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/reaching-50-000/threads/16072?page=11#forum_thread_comment_467798 P-3a ...and then I nearly burnt the kitchen down. NOT MY DAY Fri, 04 Nov 2011 12:18:06 -0800 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/reaching-50-000/threads/16072?page=11#forum_thread_comment_468583 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/reaching-50-000/threads/16072?page=11#forum_thread_comment_468583 RakkiFox I'm writing by hand this year because my wrists are made of garbage. I have accepted that I must lower my standards a bit on how much and how quickly I can write in a day. But this? This is total crap. I'm not even <em>trying</em>. I've spent four hours doing exactly nothing at all on the internet. I'm sick of whining about my word deficit and doing nothing to fix it. So I am calling myself out--feel free to join in. My goal is to get to the minimum daily target by the end of today. That's 2k and change from where I am. This is a tiny, pathetic goal, but it will be more than I've managed the past three days, so it's a start. I will return in triumph tonight or face blistering shame. Fri, 04 Nov 2011 13:16:54 -0800 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/reaching-50-000/threads/16072?page=11#forum_thread_comment_470386 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/reaching-50-000/threads/16072?page=11#forum_thread_comment_470386 Talaria Well hi there! I believe in tough love too :) So first off, I need some tough love. I couldn't say 'no' to some friends last night, so I missed any opportunity to write. Now I'm even farther behind than I thought I'd be. Tonight I have to drive 2 hours, stay at a friends, then tomorrow I have appointments until 4pm and driving 2 hours back home. My best writing hours are at night, but not when I'm tired! I'm gonna try and use a speech-to-text application for the driving, because if I don't make those 4 hours productive, I'll feel like a real quitter. Now. @RakkiFox, Either use my idea of speech-to-text, or get some ice bags! You wanted to do this, so do it. @BloodRoseAngel, Kick - Jab - Sneer &gt;_&gt; You better get writing! It sounds like you have all the free time the rest of us are looking for! If you waste your free time, you're not only wasting it for you, but for all others who wish they had the time to spare! @P-3a, Don't starve yourself for word count glory... might I suggest liquefying that food? Here, take a straw... Now give me your worst &lt;3! Fri, 04 Nov 2011 14:04:15 -0800 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/reaching-50-000/threads/16072?page=11#forum_thread_comment_471895 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/reaching-50-000/threads/16072?page=11#forum_thread_comment_471895 thatollie You really want my worst. Okay . . . Everyone you've just taunted is a lot further than you are. Fri, 04 Nov 2011 14:31:46 -0800 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/reaching-50-000/threads/16072?page=11#forum_thread_comment_472722 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/reaching-50-000/threads/16072?page=11#forum_thread_comment_472722 BloodRoseAngel You make a good point, but on Monday I'm back at work so I better write while I can! xD *gets back to novel* Fri, 04 Nov 2011 14:42:02 -0800 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/reaching-50-000/threads/16072?page=11#forum_thread_comment_473041 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/reaching-50-000/threads/16072?page=11#forum_thread_comment_473041 GothiqueSukkubus You can do it, Rakki! I've gotta do 2k and some change to hit the minimum for today, as well. I just wrote 1326 in 30 minutes, so if I have another 30 min sprint at 1500, and one more 15 at 750, I'll be set and a bit ahead. We can do it! Fri, 04 Nov 2011 15:15:35 -0800 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/reaching-50-000/threads/16072?page=11#forum_thread_comment_473969 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/reaching-50-000/threads/16072?page=11#forum_thread_comment_473969 crabhooves Hey ollie, whats the weather like down there? You know at 17k, so low. Do you intend to beat me today? Everyone, Im thinking we should have a word war today, maybe, say 15 minutes of frenzied writing and see who can write the most? I reckon it could start 3 hours from now, but lemme know what you all are thinking. I need some good motivation today, this is traditionally where I start to falter, even though Im not feelin it this year, it could happen. Fri, 04 Nov 2011 16:00:15 -0800 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/reaching-50-000/threads/16072?page=11#forum_thread_comment_474920 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/reaching-50-000/threads/16072?page=11#forum_thread_comment_474920 BloodRoseAngel 3 hours from now I will be asleep since it'll be 3AM X'D Fri, 04 Nov 2011 16:03:22 -0800 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/reaching-50-000/threads/16072?page=11#forum_thread_comment_475024 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/reaching-50-000/threads/16072?page=11#forum_thread_comment_475024 GothiqueSukkubus We could do a 15 in 25, at the :30. &lt;3 Fri, 04 Nov 2011 16:05:39 -0800 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/reaching-50-000/threads/16072?page=11#forum_thread_comment_475085 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/reaching-50-000/threads/16072?page=11#forum_thread_comment_475085 BloodRoseAngel A what what now? Sorry, I think my brain is shutting down XD; Fri, 04 Nov 2011 16:06:41 -0800 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/reaching-50-000/threads/16072?page=11#forum_thread_comment_475118 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/reaching-50-000/threads/16072?page=11#forum_thread_comment_475118 GothiqueSukkubus A 15 minute word war/sprint when the clock hits the half hour. Fri, 04 Nov 2011 16:08:25 -0800 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/reaching-50-000/threads/16072?page=11#forum_thread_comment_475167 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/reaching-50-000/threads/16072?page=11#forum_thread_comment_475167 BloodRoseAngel Oh I see :D Yeah, that sounds good! Fri, 04 Nov 2011 16:09:05 -0800 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/reaching-50-000/threads/16072?page=11#forum_thread_comment_475183 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/reaching-50-000/threads/16072?page=11#forum_thread_comment_475183 GothiqueSukkubus 15 minute word war/sprint coming up in 10 minutes! Post your starting word count just before it hits! Fri, 04 Nov 2011 16:21:00 -0800 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/reaching-50-000/threads/16072?page=11#forum_thread_comment_475499 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/reaching-50-000/threads/16072?page=11#forum_thread_comment_475499 BloodRoseAngel Three minutes to go but I'm being lazy for a sec and not going to do any more til 12.30 so my starting wordcount is 17,495 :D Fri, 04 Nov 2011 16:27:24 -0800 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/reaching-50-000/threads/16072?page=11#forum_thread_comment_475675 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/reaching-50-000/threads/16072?page=11#forum_thread_comment_475675 GothiqueSukkubus Starting count 5678! Fri, 04 Nov 2011 16:28:55 -0800 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/reaching-50-000/threads/16072?page=11#forum_thread_comment_475710 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/reaching-50-000/threads/16072?page=11#forum_thread_comment_475710 GothiqueSukkubus 5917 &amp; epic hand cramp... But almost there! Fri, 04 Nov 2011 16:40:51 -0800 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/reaching-50-000/threads/16072?page=11#forum_thread_comment_476014 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/reaching-50-000/threads/16072?page=11#forum_thread_comment_476014 BloodRoseAngel OK, it's 12.45 here so I'm done X3 I'm on 18,216 now, so that's... 721 words. I don't know whether to be pleased with that or not, haha, I've never done a word sprint before. X3 Fri, 04 Nov 2011 16:45:16 -0800 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/reaching-50-000/threads/16072?page=11#forum_thread_comment_476129 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/reaching-50-000/threads/16072?page=11#forum_thread_comment_476129 DervishJ I missed the word sprint because I banished myself from the computer since I couldn't force myself to just write. It took about three hours, but I hand-wrote 1800 words and I'm now caught up to where I should have been yesterday. I have to write 1300 more to catch up with today's minimum word count, and my left hand is killing me. At least I'm more interested in what I'm writing now, but I seriously can't type because I lose focus every 10 minutes. Crabhooves, wow, you're doing great this year! Talaria, how's it going? Try to fit in some word sprints or something whenever you have a spare 20 minutes. You were beating me by 500 words when you posted last, but I've passed you now! Fri, 04 Nov 2011 17:42:37 -0800 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/reaching-50-000/threads/16072?page=11#forum_thread_comment_477120 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/reaching-50-000/threads/16072?page=11#forum_thread_comment_477120 P-3a I lied to myself. I started to cook dinner at about 7:30, and did not get to eat until well past 9 o'clock. It's a bit of a long story, but you can read it here if you really want to. http://p-3a.deviantart.com/journal/Oven-267252735 I can't even put it in my story because they're in the middle of the Dreamlands faffing about with a tank in a swamp and I don't know much about tanks /or/ swamps and I wish Erin would stop trying to get Andrew to faff about with tanks in swamps because he's quite fond of tanks but he hates swamps. I need to get up at 9 tomorrow to feed and walk the dog; I am now exhausted and wish to sleep, word count be damned. zzz zzz zzz Fri, 04 Nov 2011 18:10:23 -0800 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/reaching-50-000/threads/16072?page=11#forum_thread_comment_477936 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/reaching-50-000/threads/16072?page=11#forum_thread_comment_477936 GothiqueSukkubus W00t! hit 7102! Above par, and beat my personal goal of 7k for the day! If I can hit 10 tomorrow, I'll be enough ahead to not be sweating. &lt;3 Fri, 04 Nov 2011 18:15:21 -0800 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/reaching-50-000/threads/16072?page=11#forum_thread_comment_478083 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/reaching-50-000/threads/16072?page=11#forum_thread_comment_478083 TheWitchingWell I need guilt. o.o I need lots and lots of shame and guilt and but kicking. and words! I need more words! and my sexytime playlist! URG!!! Guilt me? :&lt; Fri, 04 Nov 2011 18:38:00 -0800 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/reaching-50-000/threads/16072?page=11#forum_thread_comment_478835 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/reaching-50-000/threads/16072?page=11#forum_thread_comment_478835 Solunar Congratulations! Or that's what I would say if I didn't find your wordcount so laughably small. Mine would squash yours like an elephant squashes squash. Fri, 04 Nov 2011 18:56:00 -0800 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/reaching-50-000/threads/16072?page=11#forum_thread_comment_479465 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/reaching-50-000/threads/16072?page=11#forum_thread_comment_479465 Solunar Only 4k? You're really behind, you know that? No sexytime playlist until you hit 5k! Then you can put it on and finish another 1k. Fri, 04 Nov 2011 18:56:56 -0800 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/reaching-50-000/threads/16072?page=11#forum_thread_comment_479492 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/reaching-50-000/threads/16072?page=11#forum_thread_comment_479492 Solunar Hey rainbow cake! You're not at 10k. Wheres the shameful secret? I see crabby mention a word war. Interesting. Are you around? In any case, it's on to writing. I have a full day today and not much time to spare. I MIGHT be heading out to Malaysia tomorrow and next week too. *burps bacon breath into P-3a's face* Mmm, I just had delicious bacon. Fri, 04 Nov 2011 18:59:06 -0800 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/reaching-50-000/threads/16072?page=11#forum_thread_comment_479560 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/reaching-50-000/threads/16072?page=11#forum_thread_comment_479560 TheWitchingWell Okaaaaaay *shuffles off typing some nonsense about nonsensical things* Fri, 04 Nov 2011 19:07:24 -0800 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/reaching-50-000/threads/16072?page=11#forum_thread_comment_479846 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/reaching-50-000/threads/16072?page=11#forum_thread_comment_479846 crabhooves Yeh I'm around Sol, feelin kinda lethargic though. What are you interested in? Maybe a short spring, like ten minutes. I love how you say you're going to Malaysia and it feels like you're going to fly to this place and its going to be all awesome when in reality you're probably just going to hop in your car and drive for an hour and you'll be there. Fri, 04 Nov 2011 19:36:41 -0800 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/reaching-50-000/threads/16072?page=11#forum_thread_comment_480735 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/reaching-50-000/threads/16072?page=11#forum_thread_comment_480735 crabhooves Oh and ASUKA - I'm so, so ashamed of you, why have you not written, why are you doing this to us. GET YOUR ASS BACK IN HERE AND EXPLAIN YOURSELF Fri, 04 Nov 2011 19:37:25 -0800 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/reaching-50-000/threads/16072?page=12#forum_thread_comment_480755 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/reaching-50-000/threads/16072?page=12#forum_thread_comment_480755 Solunar [quote=crabhooves] Yeh I'm around Sol, feelin kinda lethargic though. What are you interested in? Maybe a short spring, like ten minutes. I love how you say you're going to Malaysia and it feels like you're going to fly to this place and its going to be all awesome when in reality you're probably just going to hop in your car and drive for an hour and you'll be there. [/quote] Lol! No driving. I don't own nor do I wish to own a car. The public transport here is too good. And I've calculated, even taking a taxi every day is cheaper. Don't have to pay COE, gas prices, ERP. Not to mention the price of the car depreciates. We're going to hop into a bus and train and make it to the checkpoint before hopping out and taking a cab on the other side to our hotel. Or we could fly if it's further in. Sometimes it's even cheaper to fly. Sure, I can do a short sprint! Mwahahahaha. My wordcount is supersonic now. Fri, 04 Nov 2011 20:02:10 -0800 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/reaching-50-000/threads/16072?page=12#forum_thread_comment_481476 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/reaching-50-000/threads/16072?page=12#forum_thread_comment_481476 Solunar Going at :10, will probably go to :30, though I'll be nice and make a mark to only count the words until :20 for you. Fri, 04 Nov 2011 20:07:15 -0800 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/reaching-50-000/threads/16072?page=12#forum_thread_comment_481593 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/reaching-50-000/threads/16072?page=12#forum_thread_comment_481593 crabhooves sorry sol I was napping. I am so not feeling it today, I need some food. There's an eggplant and potato curry with my name on it, maybe once I've got some food in me I'll be up for it, when are you leaving for Malaysia? Fri, 04 Nov 2011 20:30:46 -0800 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/reaching-50-000/threads/16072?page=12#forum_thread_comment_482255 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/reaching-50-000/threads/16072?page=12#forum_thread_comment_482255 Solunar 390, crabby. Bwahahah. Not too sure. Might or might not be going this week, Sunday. It's just a one day trip in and the out. Next week is confirmed though, with a hotel as well. Fri, 04 Nov 2011 20:31:43 -0800 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/reaching-50-000/threads/16072?page=12#forum_thread_comment_482275 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/reaching-50-000/threads/16072?page=12#forum_thread_comment_482275 RainbowFishie 5019 words &gt;:) Eat that, suckars! Fri, 04 Nov 2011 20:37:09 -0800 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/reaching-50-000/threads/16072?page=12#forum_thread_comment_482411 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/reaching-50-000/threads/16072?page=12#forum_thread_comment_482411 crabhooves Oh ollie I found some real gems of yours in a certain other thread that is eerily similar to this one and has been running for a year less than we have. Telling them that a crab was your motivation and you're trying to beat it every day and they had no idea who the crab is and end up deciding it's them, hahaha. Anyway I really want to talk about world building, Sol I really love the quotes on your bio, especially the one about realism, that's what I think about when I'm designing new races, I think of humans as the baseline, good at a lot but masters of nothing because the other races tend to highly exaggerate certain human characteristics. I have such a passion for world building and especially creating new fantasy races (although its kind of nervous because im an unyielding perfectionist) and I'm always searching for that way to make them a little bit better. I don't know if you've been writing in the same world every year (this one is a fresh one for me, it's been a new one each year but I'm sticking with this one more or less permanently). But whats your philosophy on race building? Semi-separate to that question, do you go for the tried and true (dwarf-elf-orc trifecta) or create new ones or are humans the only sentient race? Inquiring minds want to know :D Fri, 04 Nov 2011 20:49:53 -0800 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/reaching-50-000/threads/16072?page=12#forum_thread_comment_482719 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/reaching-50-000/threads/16072?page=12#forum_thread_comment_482719 Mew Knightley I am currently so not even in need of a guilt trip to keep up my word count, but I do feel bad about bragging about my word count around friends who are in the 1000-6000 range. I kind of hope my bragging will subconsciously guilt-trip them. I want them to make it, I really do &lt;3 Fri, 04 Nov 2011 21:00:35 -0800 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/reaching-50-000/threads/16072?page=12#forum_thread_comment_482968 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/reaching-50-000/threads/16072?page=12#forum_thread_comment_482968 Solunar I would eat it, but 5k barely causes me a burp at the end. Fri, 04 Nov 2011 22:03:06 -0800 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/reaching-50-000/threads/16072?page=12#forum_thread_comment_484207 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/reaching-50-000/threads/16072?page=12#forum_thread_comment_484207 Solunar Brag to them! DO IT! But do it face to face with a smile and a knowing look in your eyes. Give them the impression that you know what you're doing is douchy, but you're doing it in the effort to spur them on. Or if it's done through twitter, im, do it this way: "Hah, I bet you can't beat me. My 22k wordcount is so awesome and magnificent, your puny one doesn't even cast a shadow 'cos I overpower yours. Want to word war? I bet you can't even beat me within the next ten minutes." When you exaggerate, people tend to find what you're saying so outrageous that it's unbelievable. It's usually on a subconscious level and they might not really know why they find it so funny though. So, they try to find out your true intentions. As long as you're well-meaning, the message should come out clear. Fri, 04 Nov 2011 22:08:31 -0800 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/reaching-50-000/threads/16072?page=12#forum_thread_comment_484312 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/reaching-50-000/threads/16072?page=12#forum_thread_comment_484312 Solunar Hm. I've been writing in a new world every nano. I find it fun to build a whole new place from the ground up. Until last year, I didn't attempt to create a new race. Maybe I should chart what I've been doing so far. First year of nano I took it as a fun exercise in writing. Remember the map I drew? Let me see... It's around here.. Ah hah! http://i298.photobucket.com/albums/mm280/solunar88/Originals/081101.jpg I knew I liked fantasy then, so I just wanted to write a story where they were traveling around this world I created. If I remember, the MC was called Rilant and he had a large family. The father was the head of a tribe and his sons ventured out in groups all over the place to do quests and encounter bad guys, etc. It was the first novel I wrote and I had a lot of fun with it. Second year I still took nano as a fun exercise. This year, I didn't have a plot I wanted to do again, so *ahem* I wrote a smutty, smutty piece about gay vampires. I think I tried to have a semblance of a plot, but the lack of a strong one made it fizzle out. Third year was when I took Nano more seriously. In the intervening eleven months, I discovered the genre that I really liked above all. Urban fantasy. It allows me to have magical elements along with some science fiction to predict how modern tech will go. This year I decided to go back to my asian roots, so I researched on animal spirits. I wanted a place where we could meet as many of the races as possible, so the setting was The Blue Moon Bar. This was when I realised making races was actually really fun! What I did was go on wiki or other sites and read up on myths, then I would give the animals in them a bit of a shake and put them in human bodies. The myths associated with them I turned into "tasks" the bartenders at the bar had to accomplish. For example, one of the earliest characters was Fynn, a flute fox spirit. He was called up by blowing of a flute which the MC got from doing another request. He knew other fox spirit who had one of his nine tails missing after a night of drunken debauchery, so he was trying to locate it. Stuff like that. Since it was pretty fun, for Camp Nano July, I wanted to see if I could make a whole race by themselves. So, I started thinking about what-ifs? Most what-ifs? belong to the science fiction genre, but it can be easily adapted to a fantasy race. Science Fiction entertains various questions like what if there was life after death? What if there wasn't? What if we all had three arms instead of two? What if we could breathe in space? etc. Death fascinates me a lot. How we aren't certain of when we will die. So, this year my novel is based on that question. And not just that question. I extrapolated this this question into another. What if we could transfer the amount of years we have left on this earth to another? So, my new race was born. They have that ability, while the half-humans and half-Dranu have the ability to access your DNA and read the amount of years you have left. My characters don't usually look too different from humans because I find it more entertaining to have the reader imagine that this could be possible. There really could exist a race of this sort in the past, even now or in the future when we evolve enough. This suspension of skepticism into imagination for what might be possible for us as humankind is the most entertaining of all. Fri, 04 Nov 2011 22:34:17 -0800 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/reaching-50-000/threads/16072?page=12#forum_thread_comment_484778 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/reaching-50-000/threads/16072?page=12#forum_thread_comment_484778 RakkiFox YES! With fifteen minutes left to my day, I have reached my goal. I am officially back on track not to fail horribly. That, rather sadly, was all I really wanted. NaNo is nothing if not a time for creativity, so I figured out a new way of typing that leaves my wrists mostly okay. My left is feeling a bit wonky, but a little ice will help that. Typing isn't really a long-term option for me, but it was worth it to be able to word binge and get caught up. Fri, 04 Nov 2011 22:46:42 -0800 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/reaching-50-000/threads/16072?page=12#forum_thread_comment_484980 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/reaching-50-000/threads/16072?page=12#forum_thread_comment_484980 crabhooves Sooo done for the night! I need a drink, or maybe three. Bye all! Sat, 05 Nov 2011 03:14:26 -0800 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/reaching-50-000/threads/16072?page=12#forum_thread_comment_487494 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/reaching-50-000/threads/16072?page=12#forum_thread_comment_487494 BloodRoseAngel Ohoho, just passed 20k and it's only 11.30 am~ I'mma catching up on you crabby &gt;:D Trying to make up for my pathetic 2200 words yesterday or whatever it was, I don't know but it was annoying. xD Sat, 05 Nov 2011 03:32:03 -0800 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/reaching-50-000/threads/16072?page=12#forum_thread_comment_487676 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/reaching-50-000/threads/16072?page=12#forum_thread_comment_487676 reading-obsession Back from my excursion! Time to get writing, now. *Sigh* I really should limit how much youtube videos I watch per day. For instance, I just spent an hour watching Harry Potter vs. Twilight ones (even though I know its pointless to do so) and Harry Potter in 99 seconds. I even put in a time limiter-app on Google Chrome to limit myself! Sadly, I can easily remove a blocked site -.- Anyone know an app that WON'T- on any circumstances- let you unblock a site (but let's you on for a certain ammount of time. I need a change in my train of thoughts sometimes, to get my novel ideas reflowing. *pun intended*) Sat, 05 Nov 2011 05:47:30 -0800 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/reaching-50-000/threads/16072?page=12#forum_thread_comment_489372 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/reaching-50-000/threads/16072?page=12#forum_thread_comment_489372 reading-obsession Wrote 1.8K so far today, in a little more than half an hour. Bless you, word wars. Anyone got an idea as to what my aim should be for today? (Just a fact: "Today" ends in 3 hours.) Sat, 05 Nov 2011 07:18:38 -0800 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/reaching-50-000/threads/16072?page=12#forum_thread_comment_490956 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/reaching-50-000/threads/16072?page=12#forum_thread_comment_490956 BloodRoseAngel 3k more! &gt;:D Sat, 05 Nov 2011 07:31:04 -0800 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/reaching-50-000/threads/16072?page=12#forum_thread_comment_491203 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/reaching-50-000/threads/16072?page=12#forum_thread_comment_491203 BloodRoseAngel Oh I see :o Sat, 05 Nov 2011 07:45:46 -0800 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/reaching-50-000/threads/16072?page=6#forum_thread_comment_491489 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/reaching-50-000/threads/16072?page=6#forum_thread_comment_491489 reading-obsession You evil girl. Well, this is going to take some effort. I'm sleep-deprived. Sat, 05 Nov 2011 07:47:10 -0800 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/reaching-50-000/threads/16072?page=12#forum_thread_comment_491519 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/reaching-50-000/threads/16072?page=12#forum_thread_comment_491519 BloodRoseAngel You can doooo ittttt *nudge nudge nudge* Sat, 05 Nov 2011 07:48:19 -0800 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/reaching-50-000/threads/16072?page=12#forum_thread_comment_491541 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/reaching-50-000/threads/16072?page=12#forum_thread_comment_491541 BloodRoseAngel I ate it. I'm still very, very hungry. Sat, 05 Nov 2011 07:51:32 -0800 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/reaching-50-000/threads/16072?page=12#forum_thread_comment_491604 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/reaching-50-000/threads/16072?page=12#forum_thread_comment_491604 reading-obsession *cowering in terror* I might not finish 3K by today. But. I WILL GET 15K by tomorrow (I'm following the reverse NaNoing principle somewhat, so that's my goal.) Sat, 05 Nov 2011 07:52:23 -0800 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/reaching-50-000/threads/16072?page=12#forum_thread_comment_491619 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/reaching-50-000/threads/16072?page=12#forum_thread_comment_491619 DervishJ Reverse NaNo is awesome! After you get some sleep you'll feel better - I expect to see that 15K tomorrow! I stayed up until 2 am, but I caught up. Handwriting 20 pages is killer, though, and I am more motivated to type today. Must. Not. Fall. Behind. Again. Sat, 05 Nov 2011 08:05:22 -0800 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/reaching-50-000/threads/16072?page=12#forum_thread_comment_491873 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/reaching-50-000/threads/16072?page=12#forum_thread_comment_491873 catcrunchies 1 out of 4 assignments is out of the way. Now I somehow need to motivate myself enough to write my words for today and start assignment #2... I'm not feeling excited about this &gt;_&gt; Sat, 05 Nov 2011 08:08:23 -0800 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/reaching-50-000/threads/16072?page=12#forum_thread_comment_491937 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/reaching-50-000/threads/16072?page=12#forum_thread_comment_491937 GothiqueSukkubus Considering I hadn't touched my story for 6 months, being on par is good enough for me. I'm not one of you insane 100k'ers. =P So laugh while you can, Solunar! Because my wordcount may be mouse-sized, but we all learned from cartoons that elephants fear mice. ...or something. XD Sat, 05 Nov 2011 08:20:22 -0800 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/reaching-50-000/threads/16072?page=11#forum_thread_comment_492190 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/reaching-50-000/threads/16072?page=11#forum_thread_comment_492190 reading-obsession Yes, yes. *sigh* If I don't get to 15K, everyone is allowed to make me feel like I just helped Satan in some dastardly plan. Make me feel ultra-guilty so that i stay up writing, until I get to 15K. :P Sat, 05 Nov 2011 08:20:28 -0800 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/reaching-50-000/threads/16072?page=12#forum_thread_comment_492193 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/reaching-50-000/threads/16072?page=12#forum_thread_comment_492193 GothiqueSukkubus Good job, Rakki! Keep it up! Sat, 05 Nov 2011 08:26:07 -0800 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/reaching-50-000/threads/16072?page=12#forum_thread_comment_492314 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/reaching-50-000/threads/16072?page=12#forum_thread_comment_492314 reading-obsession Hey, crunchies! I've barely written anything for two days. Did you know that? Yesterday, I wrote maybe 1,000 words tops. And today, I'm forced to catch up, and I've written 2.3K. I have 700 words to go before I can gloat to RoseAngel. But you managed to write almost the exact same amount of words that I did yesterday, that is, 1K. So, I need you to write. Write more than you expected that you could. You'll be surprised. Use 10, 15 or 30-minute word wars. They help significantly, and I've found that I, along with quite a few other writers, tend to write quicker and better when it's done in short bursts. Basically, you've been doing NaNo longer than I have, and you're older (hence more experienced), but I have a bigger wordcount? Tsk. You need to write. Catch me if you can! Need something new to add to your plot? it's actually rather easy to start writing a new twist to the novel, once you get an idea in your head. Put in an interesting twist, one which no reader will ever expect, because its so unexpected. Kill off the main love interest. Make Gabriel discover something new, which he wants to tell James about, but gets kidnapped before he can do so. Get James arrested, and have the prosecutor be someone completely unexpected. Do the unexpected! Trust me, it works wonders. Sat, 05 Nov 2011 08:36:35 -0800 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/reaching-50-000/threads/16072?page=12#forum_thread_comment_492517 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/reaching-50-000/threads/16072?page=12#forum_thread_comment_492517 reading-obsession I went to a food fest today and almost stuffed myself. I came back, feeling slightly hungry still, and ate that too. ...I'm still hungry. Sat, 05 Nov 2011 08:38:04 -0800 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/reaching-50-000/threads/16072?page=12#forum_thread_comment_492556 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/reaching-50-000/threads/16072?page=12#forum_thread_comment_492556 reading-obsession Sol. 3 NOVELS?! xO How are you managing that? Sat, 05 Nov 2011 08:39:52 -0800 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/reaching-50-000/threads/16072?page=12#forum_thread_comment_492587 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/reaching-50-000/threads/16072?page=12#forum_thread_comment_492587 catcrunchies I'll be hitting WoD later to make it to par. I may just thrown in an unexpected sex scene. That always helps with the words XD Sat, 05 Nov 2011 08:45:15 -0800 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/reaching-50-000/threads/16072?page=12#forum_thread_comment_492684 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/reaching-50-000/threads/16072?page=12#forum_thread_comment_492684 reading-obsession OH YESSSSSSS. &gt;:D ROSE, TAKE THAT! I managed 3K today. :3 And I'm aiming for 4 ;) Sat, 05 Nov 2011 09:19:02 -0800 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/reaching-50-000/threads/16072?page=12#forum_thread_comment_493566 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/reaching-50-000/threads/16072?page=12#forum_thread_comment_493566 Solunar Erh, haha. It's actually a lot easier writing 3 novels with about 1k+ of words per day compared to 1 novel with 5k. I think it's because I'm used to handling up to 40 rps at once at my busiest. They're all separate stories and have a different main character/world/conflict, so when I get stuck or bored with one I just switch and concentrate on the other. It's been really smooth sailing so far. I'm surprised I can keep up my 5k/day pace. Used to have to struggle just for 4k on one novel. I think I should update each novel's word count: Main novel - Descent of the Dragons: 11221 Camp July edit - Dome of the Dranu: 5213 Secondary novel - Eternity Ring: 8584 So, it's working out pretty good so far. I think you owe me something, right? &gt;:) Sat, 05 Nov 2011 09:19:30 -0800 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/reaching-50-000/threads/16072?page=12#forum_thread_comment_493577 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/reaching-50-000/threads/16072?page=12#forum_thread_comment_493577 reading-obsession Ooh, I used to roleplay xD I might try that out in a few years. you know, if I ever win. (Then again, if I don't win, I'll probably get killed by everyone on this forum for getting distracted and not focussing on my novel. Am I right or am I right?) *Pointedly ignores the last part* I got to 12.5K today. and that was just in the last two hours. Cut me some slack! Sat, 05 Nov 2011 09:24:06 -0800 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/reaching-50-000/threads/16072?page=12#forum_thread_comment_493688 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/reaching-50-000/threads/16072?page=12#forum_thread_comment_493688 reading-obsession managed to get to 13k ** for 14** Gosh. How my keyboard manages to erase all that stumps even me. Sat, 05 Nov 2011 10:31:14 -0800 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/reaching-50-000/threads/16072?page=12#forum_thread_comment_495313 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/reaching-50-000/threads/16072?page=12#forum_thread_comment_495313 RainbowFishie If I don't manage to reach 10k by the end of today, feel free to torture me in the most gruesome way possible Sat, 05 Nov 2011 12:12:36 -0800 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/reaching-50-000/threads/16072?page=12#forum_thread_comment_497921 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/reaching-50-000/threads/16072?page=12#forum_thread_comment_497921 Scribe Azai I could really use a good arse kicking right about now. Started off this morning shooting for 7k; it's now a bit after 4pm, and I haven't even made it past 3k, and I still have to pack for a four day trip where I won't get a chance to do much writing because there will family and things. ...I need more tea. Sat, 05 Nov 2011 12:13:20 -0800 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/reaching-50-000/threads/16072?page=12#forum_thread_comment_497940 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/reaching-50-000/threads/16072?page=12#forum_thread_comment_497940 RainbowFishie You haven't made it past 3k? That's just sad. C'mon, Scribe, you know you can do better than that! Brew a bunch of tea, retreat into your room, lock the door, and write until you crash from exhaustion. And no procrastinating! Because if you procrastinate, we'll find out &gt;:) Sat, 05 Nov 2011 12:34:59 -0800 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/reaching-50-000/threads/16072?page=12#forum_thread_comment_498505 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/reaching-50-000/threads/16072?page=12#forum_thread_comment_498505 eternalcow Haha I'm doing a lot of that this year. Sat, 05 Nov 2011 13:45:36 -0800 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/reaching-50-000/threads/16072?page=12#forum_thread_comment_500569 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/reaching-50-000/threads/16072?page=12#forum_thread_comment_500569 thatollie We should all be writing. I should definitely be writing. Sat, 05 Nov 2011 14:01:12 -0800 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/reaching-50-000/threads/16072?page=12#forum_thread_comment_500975 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/reaching-50-000/threads/16072?page=12#forum_thread_comment_500975 RainbowFishie 2k in 1 hour! I dare you to try and beat that &gt;:) Sat, 05 Nov 2011 14:41:33 -0800 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/reaching-50-000/threads/16072?page=12#forum_thread_comment_502121 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/reaching-50-000/threads/16072?page=12#forum_thread_comment_502121 BloodRoseAngel My villain character is not making it easy for me to write about him. He won't even give me his bloody name. &gt;:( *throws keyboard at him* I'll just write about someone else for now. 23k by midnight! XD Sat, 05 Nov 2011 14:53:19 -0800 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/reaching-50-000/threads/16072?page=12#forum_thread_comment_502521 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/reaching-50-000/threads/16072?page=12#forum_thread_comment_502521 Scribe Azai Impressive. [Challenge accepted.] Sat, 05 Nov 2011 14:54:38 -0800 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/reaching-50-000/threads/16072?page=12#forum_thread_comment_502565 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/reaching-50-000/threads/16072?page=12#forum_thread_comment_502565 BloodRoseAngel I have never, ever been able to use WoD. XD Even in NaNo, I have to stop to think in between sentences. I know it's a big NaNo-no-no, but I've been doing OK so far xD I just had WoD, it makes me panic and I hate panicking, so I either throw a strop and close it, or throw a strop and write 'blah' over and over til it's done. Either way, it involves me throwing a strop. =P Sat, 05 Nov 2011 14:56:17 -0800 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/reaching-50-000/threads/16072?page=12#forum_thread_comment_502597 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/reaching-50-000/threads/16072?page=12#forum_thread_comment_502597 BloodRoseAngel *hate WoD, not had it XD Sat, 05 Nov 2011 14:56:33 -0800 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/reaching-50-000/threads/16072?page=12#forum_thread_comment_502607 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/reaching-50-000/threads/16072?page=12#forum_thread_comment_502607 Serendipitist I'll try. I want to get to 10k by tonight. Sat, 05 Nov 2011 15:04:24 -0800 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/reaching-50-000/threads/16072?page=12#forum_thread_comment_502841 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/reaching-50-000/threads/16072?page=12#forum_thread_comment_502841 BloodRoseAngel Made it by eight minutes! XD Sat, 05 Nov 2011 15:52:15 -0800 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/reaching-50-000/threads/16072?page=12#forum_thread_comment_504207 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/reaching-50-000/threads/16072?page=12#forum_thread_comment_504207 thatollie Well, get on with it then. Sat, 05 Nov 2011 15:53:04 -0800 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/reaching-50-000/threads/16072?page=12#forum_thread_comment_504237 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/reaching-50-000/threads/16072?page=12#forum_thread_comment_504237 Scribe Azai Yes, I know, it is rather sad. Right, I am armed with tea, have locked myself out of my room** and am now camped out downstairs next to the piano. Bit past 8pm, and only 3k left to write. **there are books in my room, brand new, unread books in my room, calling my name. Must resist reading them. Sat, 05 Nov 2011 16:15:13 -0800 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/reaching-50-000/threads/16072?page=12#forum_thread_comment_504870 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/reaching-50-000/threads/16072?page=12#forum_thread_comment_504870 thatollie I'm going to write randomness for some character development. Sat, 05 Nov 2011 16:41:41 -0800 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/reaching-50-000/threads/16072?page=12#forum_thread_comment_505579 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/reaching-50-000/threads/16072?page=12#forum_thread_comment_505579 Scribe Azai 7k today, 27k in total - I made it. *collapses in exhaustion* Sat, 05 Nov 2011 18:45:51 -0800 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/reaching-50-000/threads/16072?page=12#forum_thread_comment_509219 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/reaching-50-000/threads/16072?page=12#forum_thread_comment_509219 Solunar Alright, I'm busy running outside today. Anyone that wants to overtake me or even just try to catch up with me should use the next nine or ten hours wisely. Sat, 05 Nov 2011 20:56:42 -0800 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/reaching-50-000/threads/16072?page=12#forum_thread_comment_512734 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/reaching-50-000/threads/16072?page=12#forum_thread_comment_512734 crabhooves Thats a tantalizing opportunity, hmmm should I take it and lap you, or should I consider it a reprieve and do some of the many things I've put off since nano began. Only time and word counts will see. Whats everyone up to tonight? Any particular nano plans? Sat, 05 Nov 2011 22:01:22 -0800 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/reaching-50-000/threads/16072?page=13#forum_thread_comment_514123 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/reaching-50-000/threads/16072?page=13#forum_thread_comment_514123 RakkiFox I'm feeling good today, so I was thinking of staying up to watch my clocks roll back for daylight savings time. I get my kicks in little ways, okay? It's just an excuse to stay up too late and write the whole time. I'm Pacific Time, so I've got two and a half hours to go. And while I'm feeling so very good, let me just give a little shout-out to catcrunchies and Gothique, two of the only people lagging more than I am. What's up with that, kids? It was sweet of you to keep me company in these single digit shallows, but really, don't hold back on my account any longer. I, for one, am moving on to bigger and better things. 10k, here I come! Sat, 05 Nov 2011 22:26:08 -0800 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/reaching-50-000/threads/16072?page=13#forum_thread_comment_514587 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/reaching-50-000/threads/16072?page=13#forum_thread_comment_514587 reading-obsession SAME HERE! xO WoD is standable, but I just can't stop myself from stopping to think over a sentence. Oddly, it actually helps me write better. Sat, 05 Nov 2011 22:45:40 -0800 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/reaching-50-000/threads/16072?page=12#forum_thread_comment_514930 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/reaching-50-000/threads/16072?page=12#forum_thread_comment_514930 DervishJ Hooray for daylight saving time: I finished Saturday's wordcount, and it's only 1 am Sunday morning. Off to sleep and start fresh tomorrow. Sat, 05 Nov 2011 23:02:53 -0800 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/reaching-50-000/threads/16072?page=13#forum_thread_comment_515218 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/reaching-50-000/threads/16072?page=13#forum_thread_comment_515218 RainbowFishie Ugh, I still haven't reached 15k yet &gt;.&lt; Sat, 05 Nov 2011 23:39:28 -0800 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/reaching-50-000/threads/16072?page=13#forum_thread_comment_515633 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/reaching-50-000/threads/16072?page=13#forum_thread_comment_515633 crabhooves Rakki you're so so close, 10k is a major milestone. Do it!! Good job Dervish although you really need more of a buffer, you need to use the starting energy to push you forward so you don't fall behind if you get the 15th November blues. Fishie, how long do you have left to write today? Maybe you can still hit it if you really discipline yourself, or at least split it into 2 with today and tommorrow. I see Asuka has betrayed us and run into the closet of shame. Tsk, tsk. Sun, 06 Nov 2011 00:02:12 -0800 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/reaching-50-000/threads/16072?page=13#forum_thread_comment_515865 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/reaching-50-000/threads/16072?page=13#forum_thread_comment_515865 RainbowFishie Well, technically it's Sunday now, so... xD But yay! One extra hour to torture myself with writing! Jk Sun, 06 Nov 2011 00:04:04 -0800 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/reaching-50-000/threads/16072?page=13#forum_thread_comment_515884 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/reaching-50-000/threads/16072?page=13#forum_thread_comment_515884 BloodRoseAngel Uuuugh work tomorrow, I can't have a late night &gt;_&gt; In order to keep up with my wordcount target I've got to write 5k again today. I JUST managed it yesterday. X'D Let's see if I can overtake Solunar at least. Sun, 06 Nov 2011 01:57:13 -0900 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/reaching-50-000/threads/16072?page=13#forum_thread_comment_517512 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/reaching-50-000/threads/16072?page=13#forum_thread_comment_517512 crabhooves Yes! Just hit 30k, awesooome! This is more than I wrote last year (only 22k) in the whole damn month, although I gave up on the 17th day. You know bloodrose I'm not even sure is Solunar is challenging enough for me anymore, maybe you can be my new nemesis? Old gal has had her day and she's not the way she used to be ya know. Beat her and see if you can catch up to me as well :D Sun, 06 Nov 2011 02:17:13 -0900 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/reaching-50-000/threads/16072?page=13#forum_thread_comment_517699 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/reaching-50-000/threads/16072?page=13#forum_thread_comment_517699 BloodRoseAngel Just passed 25k :D Challenge accepted, crabby XD But lunchtime first, I am STARVING xD Sun, 06 Nov 2011 03:08:05 -0900 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/reaching-50-000/threads/16072?page=13#forum_thread_comment_518213 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/reaching-50-000/threads/16072?page=13#forum_thread_comment_518213 reading-obsession Hello, my minions! *cough* I mean, friends. Yes, friends. Aiming for 15K today. I swear, the two days I get off, and my parents decide that dragging me around town is the best thing to do. And yes, they know about NaNo. -.- Sun, 06 Nov 2011 04:30:17 -0900 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/reaching-50-000/threads/16072?page=13#forum_thread_comment_519320 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/reaching-50-000/threads/16072?page=13#forum_thread_comment_519320 Solunar Gah. Only two hours left to today and I've only just settled down to right. Came home at 8+ and cooked until now. Sigh. On top of that, I have to tend to rps. I might be able to whack out 1k for today only. Tomorrow I might be heading out again since we have a public holiday as it's Hari Raya Haji today for the Muslims here. Or I could be staying home. We'll see. Sun, 06 Nov 2011 05:14:25 -0900 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/reaching-50-000/threads/16072?page=13#forum_thread_comment_520005 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/reaching-50-000/threads/16072?page=13#forum_thread_comment_520005 Solunar WRITE, not RIGHT. wtf. Sun, 06 Nov 2011 05:14:43 -0900 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/reaching-50-000/threads/16072?page=13#forum_thread_comment_520011 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/reaching-50-000/threads/16072?page=13#forum_thread_comment_520011 GothiqueSukkubus You're on, Rakki! I'll hit 10k today, at least. That means a little under 3k to write. My actual goal for the day? 5k again. It'll give me a bit of cushion for days where life trumps noveling. &gt;.&lt;;; Sun, 06 Nov 2011 05:32:40 -0900 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/reaching-50-000/threads/16072?page=13#forum_thread_comment_520310 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/reaching-50-000/threads/16072?page=13#forum_thread_comment_520310 reading-obsession Three hours over here. And yes, not a single word written. *Sigh* AIM FOR AT LEAST 2K. Go do some word wars! I use 15 minute long ones, since I usually manage to cough out 500 words or more in each, meaning that after four of them, I have 2K written and I'm still ready for more. (Those things get addicting.) You can do it! (: Go, go, go! Sun, 06 Nov 2011 05:35:47 -0900 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/reaching-50-000/threads/16072?page=13#forum_thread_comment_520361 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/reaching-50-000/threads/16072?page=13#forum_thread_comment_520361 reading-obsession Aww, that's the spirit! ;D Sun, 06 Nov 2011 05:42:38 -0900 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/reaching-50-000/threads/16072?page=13#forum_thread_comment_520471 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/reaching-50-000/threads/16072?page=13#forum_thread_comment_520471 Solunar Just got 853 written in twenty minutes. Hmmm, should I aim for 2k? That means putting off my rps though. Sigh. HNGH. I guess it's a sacrifice I have to make. Sun, 06 Nov 2011 05:44:39 -0900 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/reaching-50-000/threads/16072?page=13#forum_thread_comment_520508 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/reaching-50-000/threads/16072?page=13#forum_thread_comment_520508 reading-obsession Whoa, that's great! :D We all make sacrifices throughout the month (I, for example, am seriously pissing off my friends when they ask my what I'm thinking about, or writing about, or doodling about, or even talking about, and then I say that it's my novel for NaNoWriMo. Oh, not to mention that I'm not going on Wattpad [It's like chocolate. Addicting.] and about a gazillion apps on my phone.), but you <em>can</em> still go on your rps. Just tell yourself, "2K and I get to rp all I want afterwards." (Wow. That was a big addition in the parentheses!) Sun, 06 Nov 2011 05:52:28 -0900 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/reaching-50-000/threads/16072?page=13#forum_thread_comment_520638 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/reaching-50-000/threads/16072?page=13#forum_thread_comment_520638 Solunar Yeah! Just 700 words to go now. Then I can rp. HNGH. Sun, 06 Nov 2011 06:03:42 -0900 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/reaching-50-000/threads/16072?page=13#forum_thread_comment_520842 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/reaching-50-000/threads/16072?page=13#forum_thread_comment_520842 reading-obsession Wow, you're fast xD Tell you what. Everytime you post on an rp, write the exact same number of words (or more) into your NaNo novel, which you'll helpfully keep open. It passes the time which you have to wait, while the other person responds, and gets more words in. (Just wondering. Where do you rp on?) Sun, 06 Nov 2011 06:21:06 -0900 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/reaching-50-000/threads/16072?page=13#forum_thread_comment_521137 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/reaching-50-000/threads/16072?page=13#forum_thread_comment_521137 Solunar That's a good idea! Just wrote a 362 word rp post. Which is probably why I'm sort of fast. Practice of multiple posts per day=speed. Annndd, I'm a little behind Nano. I think another 20 minute sprint should demolish the remaining 700 words. Yeah, actually rping in between makes sense. They usually take a little longer to respond because they have other rps too. Lol. (Shhh. Secret. *wink*) Sun, 06 Nov 2011 06:28:53 -0900 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/reaching-50-000/threads/16072?page=13#forum_thread_comment_521291 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/reaching-50-000/threads/16072?page=13#forum_thread_comment_521291 reading-obsession Gosh, how many RPs are you part of? xD I can only manage to keep track of two or three of them. Any more, and my brain fizzles out. ._. [quote=Solunar] Annndd, I'm a little behind Nano. [/quote] I think half of the people in this forum just got ready to kill you when they read that. GO KILL THOSE 700 WORDS. PULVERISE THEM. Oh, and which novel are you writing in right now? ^.^ (I WANT TO KNOOOOW! TELL ME, OH GREAT ONE.) Sun, 06 Nov 2011 06:38:59 -0900 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/reaching-50-000/threads/16072?page=13#forum_thread_comment_521488 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/reaching-50-000/threads/16072?page=13#forum_thread_comment_521488 Solunar Erhm, at my height I had 40+ active rps. Heh. Now I culled it to about 8 or so. Yup! Those 700 words have been mashed with a large hammer into the grave. I was just writing Ring for the 700 words and the first 1300 went to Dragons. Now I'm wondering if I should continue with Ring 'cos they're at a interesting scene or if I should go back to rping. There's only six minutes left before 12 so any wordcount will go to tomorrow anyway, lol. Sun, 06 Nov 2011 06:55:14 -0900 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/reaching-50-000/threads/16072?page=13#forum_thread_comment_521785 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/reaching-50-000/threads/16072?page=13#forum_thread_comment_521785 reading-obsession Just keep writing ;) I know it's already hit midnight, but still xD More words for tomorrow (meaning today), hmm? Sun, 06 Nov 2011 07:05:54 -0900 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/reaching-50-000/threads/16072?page=13#forum_thread_comment_522013 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/reaching-50-000/threads/16072?page=13#forum_thread_comment_522013 DervishJ Crabby, what is this buffer of which you speak? Seriously, I have never had a buffer that successfully lasted more than a day; I think I take it as an excuse to slack off. Also I have this weird attitude where I like how my idea looks in my head, but I hate writing it down because I have to figure out how stuff happens, and then it doesn't seem cool anymore. I do know I'm going to be royally screwed if I don't build up a buffer before Thanksgiving, though, when I never get any writing done. If I can manage just an extra 350 words a day, that would add up to 7,000 by Thanksgiving. Okay, that's doable. Sun, 06 Nov 2011 08:17:28 -0900 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/reaching-50-000/threads/16072?page=13#forum_thread_comment_523588 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/reaching-50-000/threads/16072?page=13#forum_thread_comment_523588 catcrunchies Same XD I think the sex scenes are starting to outnumber the serious ones already &gt;_&gt; Sun, 06 Nov 2011 08:24:46 -0900 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/reaching-50-000/threads/16072?page=12#forum_thread_comment_523767 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/reaching-50-000/threads/16072?page=12#forum_thread_comment_523767 catcrunchies I am not lagging! *writer RAGE!* Sun, 06 Nov 2011 08:26:11 -0900 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/reaching-50-000/threads/16072?page=13#forum_thread_comment_523802 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/reaching-50-000/threads/16072?page=13#forum_thread_comment_523802 eternalcow All right, I slacked yesterday (largely due to the fact that I spent 6 hours in driving school; yes, I'm 26 and I'm just learning to drive, I AM THE COOLEST). But I ended up with more time time than I thought I'd have today and I'm already about 1500 words up. The goal for today is to reach 15K and there's no real reason I shouldn't be able to do it...guilt and shame me on, everybody! Sun, 06 Nov 2011 10:54:59 -0900 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/reaching-50-000/threads/16072?page=13#forum_thread_comment_527495 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/reaching-50-000/threads/16072?page=13#forum_thread_comment_527495 Talaria It was soooo trueeee!! ...apparently, still true. Sun, 06 Nov 2011 12:25:17 -0900 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/reaching-50-000/threads/16072?page=11#forum_thread_comment_530011 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/reaching-50-000/threads/16072?page=11#forum_thread_comment_530011 Talaria Your new race sounds similar to a new movie coming out in the U.S. called 'In Time' [http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1637688/]. It might make for some interesting comparisons to your novel. :) Sun, 06 Nov 2011 12:35:03 -0900 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/reaching-50-000/threads/16072?page=12#forum_thread_comment_530304 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/reaching-50-000/threads/16072?page=12#forum_thread_comment_530304 Talaria Good job! If you have Windows 7 (possibly true for newer mac OSes too) there is a built-in speech-to-text option. I got a nice 6,500 words over the weekend while driving. Definitely helped out since I didn't have any other time to devote to writing. Only issue with the speech option, is you'll have to train the software for a day or so to understand your words... at least if you tend to slur them together like I do :3 I also suggest you look into some yoga wrist stretches to see if that helps. I'm sure you can find some on youtube, or yogatoday.com or a yoga podcast. Good luck! Sun, 06 Nov 2011 12:39:07 -0900 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/reaching-50-000/threads/16072?page=12#forum_thread_comment_530411 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/reaching-50-000/threads/16072?page=12#forum_thread_comment_530411 P-3a Did not write anything yesterday. Yet to write anything today. I blame partner. He has left now. 15k. That is the amount I will get. Sun, 06 Nov 2011 12:44:18 -0900 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/reaching-50-000/threads/16072?page=13#forum_thread_comment_530551 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/reaching-50-000/threads/16072?page=13#forum_thread_comment_530551 Talaria I got 6.682 words while driving for four hours over the past two days! accomplishment acheived! Athough since I was writing away from my normal set-up I've lost any organization for those parts, and will have much editing to do next month. Either way, I'm in need of some motivation to return to my regularly scheduled show and write at this desk. I have 2.5 hours to spend now. Any one want to do a word war or have a prompt in their head? Sun, 06 Nov 2011 12:45:34 -0900 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/reaching-50-000/threads/16072?page=13#forum_thread_comment_530583 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/reaching-50-000/threads/16072?page=13#forum_thread_comment_530583 alinamv I might e asking for it... but.... My grand total for day 5 is 1735. FFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUU!!!! Sun, 06 Nov 2011 13:25:59 -0900 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/reaching-50-000/threads/16072?page=13#forum_thread_comment_531713 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/reaching-50-000/threads/16072?page=13#forum_thread_comment_531713 eternalcow I'm currently beating you. You'd better get writing! I'm going for 15K today as well. We'll be neck and neck if we both make it. Excellent motivation for me, mwahaha! Sun, 06 Nov 2011 13:27:01 -0900 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/reaching-50-000/threads/16072?page=13#forum_thread_comment_531736 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/reaching-50-000/threads/16072?page=13#forum_thread_comment_531736 Talaria So that means you were lieing when you posted: -- I will win this year! I don't know how I'll manage this, but it's going to be interesting. :D -- yep, flat out lie to all of us here. Shame on you. Get to work! Sun, 06 Nov 2011 13:28:48 -0900 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/reaching-50-000/threads/16072?page=13#forum_thread_comment_531786 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/reaching-50-000/threads/16072?page=13#forum_thread_comment_531786 BloodRoseAngel I'm on target now, my 'at this rate you'll finish on' is November 10th X3 I'm still 500 words off my 30k target for today but I really need an early night (eh... yeah... early-ish, it's midnight...) for work tomorrow X3 I'll keep going tomorrow! XD Sun, 06 Nov 2011 14:46:11 -0900 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/reaching-50-000/threads/16072?page=13#forum_thread_comment_533844 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/reaching-50-000/threads/16072?page=13#forum_thread_comment_533844 thatollie Work, work and more work have left me seriously behind the crab. Now I have two days off. It's time to pound those keys. Sun, 06 Nov 2011 15:05:08 -0900 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/reaching-50-000/threads/16072?page=13#forum_thread_comment_534326 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/reaching-50-000/threads/16072?page=13#forum_thread_comment_534326 alinamv Yup, I was. xD Thanks for calling me out. That definitely acted as motivation. Sun, 06 Nov 2011 16:25:22 -0900 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/reaching-50-000/threads/16072?page=13#forum_thread_comment_536550 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/reaching-50-000/threads/16072?page=13#forum_thread_comment_536550 P-3a Nope. Writing not seeming to happen. This exact thing (except the first two panels) has happened to me: http://oglaf.com/media/comic/muse.jpg [mild nudity; other pages of comic are very nsfw] The people on my buddy list who didn't even finish last year are catching up; I can't even write quickly any more, let alone well. Sun, 06 Nov 2011 17:24:11 -0900 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/reaching-50-000/threads/16072?page=13#forum_thread_comment_538167 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/reaching-50-000/threads/16072?page=13#forum_thread_comment_538167 thatollie Come on kiddo, you just need to put away a few words and then you'll feel better. yay . . . I'm so enthused. Sun, 06 Nov 2011 17:40:33 -0900 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/reaching-50-000/threads/16072?page=13#forum_thread_comment_538625 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/reaching-50-000/threads/16072?page=13#forum_thread_comment_538625 thero I'm just passing 2k, but consider myself ahead of schedule as I intend to miraculously write 48k in the last 48 hours of November. . . Sun, 06 Nov 2011 18:24:52 -0900 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/reaching-50-000/threads/16072?page=13#forum_thread_comment_539836 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/reaching-50-000/threads/16072?page=13#forum_thread_comment_539836 Solunar !? Why are you lumping everything at the end? That will certainly kill your fingers! Write more today! Sun, 06 Nov 2011 18:40:37 -0900 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/reaching-50-000/threads/16072?page=13#forum_thread_comment_540253 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/reaching-50-000/threads/16072?page=13#forum_thread_comment_540253 Solunar Doing 6k today to make up for yesterday. Debating on 7k. Sun, 06 Nov 2011 18:40:58 -0900 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/reaching-50-000/threads/16072?page=14#forum_thread_comment_540259 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/reaching-50-000/threads/16072?page=14#forum_thread_comment_540259 thatollie Okay folks, remember to do your first week back up. We wouldn't want you losing any of your precious wordage. Sun, 06 Nov 2011 19:14:12 -0900 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/reaching-50-000/threads/16072?page=14#forum_thread_comment_541042 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/reaching-50-000/threads/16072?page=14#forum_thread_comment_541042 thero Ah, you're right, you're right. Back to the grind! Sun, 06 Nov 2011 19:24:43 -0900 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/reaching-50-000/threads/16072?page=13#forum_thread_comment_541311 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/reaching-50-000/threads/16072?page=13#forum_thread_comment_541311 reading-obsession Very true. The only problem is, I keep my novel on a pen drive already xD So where can I back it up? Sun, 06 Nov 2011 19:40:55 -0900 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/reaching-50-000/threads/16072?page=14#forum_thread_comment_541692 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/reaching-50-000/threads/16072?page=14#forum_thread_comment_541692 thatollie Email? That's where I back up my work. Sun, 06 Nov 2011 19:48:11 -0900 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/reaching-50-000/threads/16072?page=14#forum_thread_comment_541873 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/reaching-50-000/threads/16072?page=14#forum_thread_comment_541873 tajavioletta [quote=catcrunchies] Same XD I think the sex scenes are starting to outnumber the serious ones already &gt;_&gt; [/quote] That right there's a quality, classic NaNo novel. :D Sun, 06 Nov 2011 20:11:06 -0900 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/reaching-50-000/threads/16072?page=12#forum_thread_comment_542405 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/reaching-50-000/threads/16072?page=12#forum_thread_comment_542405 tajavioletta Howdy, folks. I've basically been in hiding from this thread, due to sheer embarrassment at my paltry word count. But I just freaking missed you guys too much! So I'll be your resident goat--I've only got a bit over 5K right now. In my defense, I spent Thursday preparing for a job interview and Friday attending it. And this weekend has been eaten alive with the realization that one of my roommates is a toxic nutcase, and that I'll need to be moving out by the end of this year to preserve my sanity. In other words, the Drama Llama has made off with the early lead I'd intended to reach. So, where do I go from here? I just pounded out 1K in a bit less than an hour. But I need someone to take hold of this leash and jerk it a bit. Fuck the job, fuck the living arrangement fail--I've got NaNo to do ! :S Sun, 06 Nov 2011 20:19:03 -0900 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/reaching-50-000/threads/16072?page=14#forum_thread_comment_542597 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/reaching-50-000/threads/16072?page=14#forum_thread_comment_542597 tajavioletta Hee! Someone else has heard of that webcomic! What a trip... Sun, 06 Nov 2011 20:21:15 -0900 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/reaching-50-000/threads/16072?page=13#forum_thread_comment_542656 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/reaching-50-000/threads/16072?page=13#forum_thread_comment_542656 tajavioletta [quote=thero] I'm just passing 2k, but consider myself ahead of schedule as I intend to miraculously write 48k in the last 48 hours of November. . . [/quote] It can happen. <a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/8138557@N02/4150048442/in/set-72157624130346871" rel="nofollow">Here's</a> what my NaNoWriMo 2009 win looked like. And no, I didn't cheat--I just felt like a stepped-on tube of toothpaste after it was done! Sun, 06 Nov 2011 20:23:52 -0900 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/reaching-50-000/threads/16072?page=13#forum_thread_comment_542713 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/reaching-50-000/threads/16072?page=13#forum_thread_comment_542713 thatollie Don't fuck the job, the job is important. Fuck the living arrangement, you can sort it out in December. Just explain that you're too busy writing a novel to deal with their crap at the moment. Sun, 06 Nov 2011 20:33:49 -0900 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/reaching-50-000/threads/16072?page=14#forum_thread_comment_542942 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/reaching-50-000/threads/16072?page=14#forum_thread_comment_542942 akanksha52 I have introduced Talia, by the way. And I'm writing now :) Thank you!!! Sun, 06 Nov 2011 20:33:58 -0900 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/reaching-50-000/threads/16072?page=10#forum_thread_comment_542944 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/reaching-50-000/threads/16072?page=10#forum_thread_comment_542944 thatollie Right, now that I've said that. I'm going to go read an actual book. I haven't read a book since nano started. Sun, 06 Nov 2011 20:34:49 -0900 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/reaching-50-000/threads/16072?page=14#forum_thread_comment_542958 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/reaching-50-000/threads/16072?page=14#forum_thread_comment_542958 akanksha52 Alright, you creepy stalker. I wonder how you know so much about me xD i will write, dont worry... and thanks for all the guilt xP Sun, 06 Nov 2011 20:34:59 -0900 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/reaching-50-000/threads/16072?page=10#forum_thread_comment_542961 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/reaching-50-000/threads/16072?page=10#forum_thread_comment_542961 RakkiFox Writing is the cheapest form of therapy available. Stressful work? Escape for ten minutes at a time into your story, where jobs can be as glamorous, rewarding, or nonexistent as you would like. Horrible roommate? Give them a cameo--as the most recent assassin victim, dragon snack, or accidental space debris. Live by word wars. Very short sessions still add up and will give you little vacations throughout the day. Now get to it! Sun, 06 Nov 2011 20:42:56 -0900 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/reaching-50-000/threads/16072?page=14#forum_thread_comment_543126 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/reaching-50-000/threads/16072?page=14#forum_thread_comment_543126 Solunar I write with google docs since it autosaves. Sun, 06 Nov 2011 20:44:13 -0900 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/reaching-50-000/threads/16072?page=14#forum_thread_comment_543153 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/reaching-50-000/threads/16072?page=14#forum_thread_comment_543153 Solunar I'm aiming to do 4k in the next 5 hours. Join me! Sun, 06 Nov 2011 20:45:01 -0900 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/reaching-50-000/threads/16072?page=14#forum_thread_comment_543173 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/reaching-50-000/threads/16072?page=14#forum_thread_comment_543173 Solunar Hear ye, hear ye, I issue this challenge to all who have ears to hear and eyes to see. 4k in the next 5 hours. Winners can take a break. Losers have to write another 1k. *Throws down gloves* Sun, 06 Nov 2011 20:46:52 -0900 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/reaching-50-000/threads/16072?page=14#forum_thread_comment_543224 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/reaching-50-000/threads/16072?page=14#forum_thread_comment_543224 Solunar *scribbling as a note to self: That means 31k.* Sun, 06 Nov 2011 20:51:55 -0900 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/reaching-50-000/threads/16072?page=14#forum_thread_comment_543336 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/reaching-50-000/threads/16072?page=14#forum_thread_comment_543336 tajavioletta @Thatollie: you've go it about right! yeah, I'm almost at the point where I'd actually say that to another person. D: I'm not gonna fk the job--I feel pretty good about it, but damn if dealing with it doesn't suck up hours! @Rakkifox: thanks for the support! maybe I can write a scene where the hose beast roommate is sucked out of an airlock or something. Ahh, the joys of science fiction! I've plotted the next eight scenes, and written 500 words, this hour. Not too bad, considering the lack of plotting was one of the main things that was stalling me. Now that I have a few scenes taking shape in my head, writing them is much quicker. I'd like to at least get to 7500-8000 before I pass out from too much sauvignon blanc. Sun, 06 Nov 2011 21:20:58 -0900 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/reaching-50-000/threads/16072?page=14#forum_thread_comment_543840 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/reaching-50-000/threads/16072?page=14#forum_thread_comment_543840 Solunar 1k down. Sun, 06 Nov 2011 21:45:06 -0900 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/reaching-50-000/threads/16072?page=14#forum_thread_comment_544177 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/reaching-50-000/threads/16072?page=14#forum_thread_comment_544177 Solunar Woah! That's some major plottage. Congrats! Write like the wind! Sun, 06 Nov 2011 21:46:03 -0900 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/reaching-50-000/threads/16072?page=14#forum_thread_comment_544189 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/reaching-50-000/threads/16072?page=14#forum_thread_comment_544189 thero Whoa! That's epic! 35k in two days! Did you get any sleep? Sun, 06 Nov 2011 21:51:03 -0900 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/reaching-50-000/threads/16072?page=13#forum_thread_comment_544249 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/reaching-50-000/threads/16072?page=13#forum_thread_comment_544249 tajavioletta Thanks for the encouragement, Solunar! So, I've written about 1k in the past hour. That means, to match your challenge, I'd have to finish 3k in the next 4 hours. I think that's doable! The final bit might make less sense than I'd like (it's been a long day)...but it would be words! Challenge accepted! It's 2am here, and I'm at 6k...so by 6am, I need to be at 9k. Let us do this thing. Sun, 06 Nov 2011 21:59:20 -0900 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/reaching-50-000/threads/16072?page=14#forum_thread_comment_544344 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/reaching-50-000/threads/16072?page=14#forum_thread_comment_544344 Solunar WOAH. That is really awesome. You're writing at 2am? I can barely type at 2 am let alone string together a coherent sentence. It's 3pm here now and I have about.... 2.2k words left and 4 hours. Let's do this!! Sun, 06 Nov 2011 22:10:21 -0900 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/reaching-50-000/threads/16072?page=14#forum_thread_comment_544449 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/reaching-50-000/threads/16072?page=14#forum_thread_comment_544449 Solunar 2k down. 1.1 to go. Sun, 06 Nov 2011 23:33:04 -0900 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/reaching-50-000/threads/16072?page=14#forum_thread_comment_545285 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/reaching-50-000/threads/16072?page=14#forum_thread_comment_545285 Solunar Taja, you still around? Or did your novel crush you? Sun, 06 Nov 2011 23:33:25 -0900 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/reaching-50-000/threads/16072?page=14#forum_thread_comment_545289 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/reaching-50-000/threads/16072?page=14#forum_thread_comment_545289 reading-obsession Arghh. 2K in 2 hours. Can I do it? Mon, 07 Nov 2011 06:02:29 -0900 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/reaching-50-000/threads/16072?page=14#forum_thread_comment_549280 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/reaching-50-000/threads/16072?page=14#forum_thread_comment_549280 AliceUnrequited So. I haven't written since early Thursday. Why? I got hit with a particularly nasty spell of vertigo around 3:30pm. I had to find someone to escort me back to my room so I could lie down and sleep. I proceeded to sleep for 23 hours or so over the course of 36 hours. Got up at 4am on Saturday to go on a Geology Field trip. Was still dizzy and found out, upon arrival, that I had been lied to by the professor. Sure, we were walking on a beach. The beach just happened to be covered in driftwood and dead pine trees. Oh, and a section of quicksand. I nearly died. Okay, not died. Nearly fell and busted my head open. Several times. So I returned from the field trip and resumed sleeping. Completely lost the extra hour from Daylight Savings here. So I had about five hours of writing time on Sunday. But since I still felt pretty terrible, I ended up playing Dragon Age 2 instead of writing, which wouldn't be so bad if the game wasn't a festering pile of refuse. Now I have less than an hour in which to write because I've got class. Four and a half hours of class. Please help. I need reminding of why writing is so much more important than all the things that distracted me this weekend. Oh, and I am feeling better. The dizziness is mostly gone. I'll be a little unsteady for about a week, but then I'll be completely back to normal. You know, just in case anyone was wondering. Mon, 07 Nov 2011 06:04:02 -0900 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/reaching-50-000/threads/16072?page=14#forum_thread_comment_549319 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/reaching-50-000/threads/16072?page=14#forum_thread_comment_549319 reading-obsession Thank god you're feeling better. I was about to spaz out in a little rant about all of that, whether you're okay, and all that. Now, back to the matter at hand. Writing. <em>Three days.</em> You have gone THREE days without writing. Two days ago, you were sprinting ahead of me and I was struggling to catch up. Today, I'm ahead by 4K! Now, why do you need to write? I've got an answer for you. You love writing, remember? It's way more important than any video game, sickness, and geographical features, because it gives you this amazing feeling of satisfaction once you've finished writing something. And you've been deprived of that feeling for THREE ENTIRE DAYS. Are you going to add yet another consecutive day to that? I think not! Now go, get your butt off the forums and start writing! Mon, 07 Nov 2011 06:16:52 -0900 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/reaching-50-000/threads/16072?page=14#forum_thread_comment_549523 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/reaching-50-000/threads/16072?page=14#forum_thread_comment_549523 Solunar Glad to hear you're felling better Alice. Why do you write? Why does any of us write? What makes a writer pick themselves up after a crappy week, plunk themselves at a table, pick up a pen or start up a computer and write? Maybe if we answer the question of why do birds sing we'll understand why. Maybe all we really need are answers. Maybe something more important than the answers are the questions themselves. Writers help to put down in words the feelings mankind experience. That vague feeling of unease before a trying day- whether before a battle, before an exam, before the gunning of a race. We help to put words to the downtrodden, the underdog, the one who looks like he will be killed in an instant in conflict. We write for the mentally deranged, the evil that dwells in all our hearts, the one that tells you to kill that novel. Kill it with fire because it's not worth anything. Scrap it now because it's a pile of festering refuse. You're worthless and nothing you ever do will amount to anything. I think on some level everyone feels like this. Humanity is always overcompensating. Quit telling yourself that you can't write the perfect novel in your current state, that you're too ill to even type anything. Because you just did. Take the misery of the week you felt and translate it into your characters. Write the scene where the hero has failed miserably, when all seems lost and the last star is fading. Write that scene out when you're feeling at your worst and harness it into creative energy. Because we don't just write for the poor, the undeserving or the marginalised, we also write for the graceful, the strong, and the glorious. Writing this novel, your novel, will be a reminder of how you overcame the physical limitations of your body and power through to finish up what you started. Mon, 07 Nov 2011 06:30:28 -0900 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/reaching-50-000/threads/16072?page=14#forum_thread_comment_549691 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/reaching-50-000/threads/16072?page=14#forum_thread_comment_549691 Solunar Do it, do it! I'm feeling lazy today. Think it's the monday blues. Only 30 mins left today. Mon, 07 Nov 2011 06:31:02 -0900 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/reaching-50-000/threads/16072?page=14#forum_thread_comment_549698 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/reaching-50-000/threads/16072?page=14#forum_thread_comment_549698 reading-obsession Hmm, I think it's the dread of tomorrow. Today being a holiday and all for me. Plus, Monday's are always hell for me. I'll try xD About 45 minutes for me to keep updating my wordcount for today, then I'll switch to my phone and write there. All words over there go for tomorrow. Tuesday, the day that they also call the hangover from hell. Mon, 07 Nov 2011 06:42:38 -0900 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/reaching-50-000/threads/16072?page=14#forum_thread_comment_549840 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/reaching-50-000/threads/16072?page=14#forum_thread_comment_549840 Solunar Oh! Cool, You're celebrating Hari Raya Haji there too? Yeah. I think it's the Monday lethargy from having to entertain people over the weekend. Sigh. I'll cheer you on here! Do a word war. Mon, 07 Nov 2011 06:44:40 -0900 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/reaching-50-000/threads/16072?page=14#forum_thread_comment_549863 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/reaching-50-000/threads/16072?page=14#forum_thread_comment_549863 AliceUnrequited Thanks for the encouragement, you guys. Got just over 1k written in the half hour I had after doing last-minute classwork stuff. Gonna drop off my geology things with my boyfriend and keep writing. No sense ruining a good thing with geology. Mon, 07 Nov 2011 06:52:31 -0900 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/reaching-50-000/threads/16072?page=14#forum_thread_comment_549957 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/reaching-50-000/threads/16072?page=14#forum_thread_comment_549957 tajavioletta Ahh, blast it! I fell asleep on the floor. ...D: Well, as Scarlett O'Hara DIDN'T say, "Today is another day!" Mon, 07 Nov 2011 07:31:46 -0900 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/reaching-50-000/threads/16072?page=14#forum_thread_comment_550183 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/reaching-50-000/threads/16072?page=14#forum_thread_comment_550183 BloodRoseAngel Ehh. It's 4pm and I've only done 1k today. Stupid work. &gt;_&gt; It was an utterly boring and pointless shift too, because I had nothing to do. BUT. For the moment, I've overtaken crabby. I suspect this won't last long though, so after dinner I'm going to write like the wind! xD Also, I'm facing a mirror right now because I've been kicked out of my room so building work can start in there. My mum's desk has a mirror on it and I can constantly see my 'writing face'. It's very distracting. XD Hope you feel better soon, Alice! &lt;3 That sounds scary. D: Mon, 07 Nov 2011 07:50:51 -0900 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/reaching-50-000/threads/16072?page=14#forum_thread_comment_550487 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/reaching-50-000/threads/16072?page=14#forum_thread_comment_550487 Solunar OH WOW! I just saw your post in the Post your Character Art thread! Really awesome drawing of the dragon! Mon, 07 Nov 2011 08:02:07 -0900 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/reaching-50-000/threads/16072?page=14#forum_thread_comment_550722 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/reaching-50-000/threads/16072?page=14#forum_thread_comment_550722 AliceUnrequited I'm used to the vertigo. It's been an on and off thing for the past year. Will probably be that way for the rest of my life. I'm mostly just glad that it's not something that'll eventually kill me. Well, unless I fall and give myself multiple concussions. That COULD kill me. And why don't you get a blanket or a sheet and cover up the mirror? That'll kill the distraction and then you'll be able to write like the wind without your writing face getting in your way. Mon, 07 Nov 2011 08:02:14 -0900 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/reaching-50-000/threads/16072?page=14#forum_thread_comment_550725 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/reaching-50-000/threads/16072?page=14#forum_thread_comment_550725 AliceUnrequited And I'm at 13k now. 2.5k in two hours isn't too shabby, eh? Mon, 07 Nov 2011 08:03:29 -0900 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/reaching-50-000/threads/16072?page=14#forum_thread_comment_550749 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/reaching-50-000/threads/16072?page=14#forum_thread_comment_550749 BloodRoseAngel Thank you! &lt;3 I'm hoping to attend another convention in May to sell it at. It didn't print very well at the last con and nobody bought a copy, so it was kind of 50 hours' work down the drain, haha. XD I'm planning on writing their story for a future NaNo. :3 Mon, 07 Nov 2011 08:11:08 -0900 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/reaching-50-000/threads/16072?page=14#forum_thread_comment_550898 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/reaching-50-000/threads/16072?page=14#forum_thread_comment_550898 BloodRoseAngel Haha, good plan! XD Then my mum will be like "... what are you doing. o_o" Mon, 07 Nov 2011 08:11:41 -0900 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/reaching-50-000/threads/16072?page=14#forum_thread_comment_550909 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/reaching-50-000/threads/16072?page=14#forum_thread_comment_550909 DervishJ This is beautiful. Thanks. My writing has devolved into nothing but dialogue, and I was pretty despairing when I got up today. I may take a few minutes to plot actual events into the next few scenes so I have a challenge for my characters to respond to. Mon, 07 Nov 2011 08:34:06 -0900 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/reaching-50-000/threads/16072?page=14#forum_thread_comment_551343 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/reaching-50-000/threads/16072?page=14#forum_thread_comment_551343 AliceUnrequited And of course you shall answer: "Hiding from my writing face. It's too distracting and I need to write more. MORE I TELL YOU. MORE!!!!!!!" and then coherent thought will dissolve into maniacal laughter. Or is that just me? Mon, 07 Nov 2011 09:31:10 -0900 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/reaching-50-000/threads/16072?page=14#forum_thread_comment_552437 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/reaching-50-000/threads/16072?page=14#forum_thread_comment_552437 BloodRoseAngel No, I don't think she'd be too surprised by that response from me either actually =P She tends to keep her distance when I'm writing. Mon, 07 Nov 2011 09:52:23 -0900 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/reaching-50-000/threads/16072?page=14#forum_thread_comment_552893 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/reaching-50-000/threads/16072?page=14#forum_thread_comment_552893 AliceUnrequited I'm up to 14k and have written two of the cameos I promised ya'll. Crabby and Solunar are up first, with Crabby as mentor to an intrepid hero and Solunar the mighty eldritch abomination the hero must slay. "He told of a strange and fantastical journey, of meeting a crab with hooved feet who told him of many things. "You must press onward, youngling. Defeat the dreaded Solunar to return to your home. Only then will you be free." His brother insisted the crab had told him many things, and that, on the crab's advice, he had taken the remains of the battered ship and lashed together a raft to carry him into the caves of the dreaded Solunar. "It was with words from a clever crab that his brother defeated the dreaded Solunar, a vicious beast of a thousand synonyms and antonyms, an amalgamation of hastily-written words not meant to make sense to the minds of mortals. A true abomination. Through the back of the cave his brother claimed to have found a ship, and on it he sailed back into harbor. It looked like the first ship to Seth, but he'd never had the heart to correct his brother." Mon, 07 Nov 2011 12:13:28 -0900 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/reaching-50-000/threads/16072?page=14#forum_thread_comment_556294 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/reaching-50-000/threads/16072?page=14#forum_thread_comment_556294 thatollie Right, that's me over 24K Mon, 07 Nov 2011 13:09:23 -0900 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/reaching-50-000/threads/16072?page=14#forum_thread_comment_557777 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/reaching-50-000/threads/16072?page=14#forum_thread_comment_557777 RainbowFishie That is quite possibly one of the most inspiring speeches I've ever heard. And I've heard quite a lot of inspiring speeches. Mon, 07 Nov 2011 13:53:55 -0900 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/reaching-50-000/threads/16072?page=14#forum_thread_comment_558855 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/reaching-50-000/threads/16072?page=14#forum_thread_comment_558855 RainbowFishie Do you mind if I post your speech on the writing website I created? We could all use a little inspiration. I'll give full credit to you, of course. Mon, 07 Nov 2011 14:13:59 -0900 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/reaching-50-000/threads/16072?page=14#forum_thread_comment_559329 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/reaching-50-000/threads/16072?page=14#forum_thread_comment_559329 BloodRoseAngel Well that was weird XD I just updated my wordcount at 31,422, only to discover I last updated it at 30,422. Coincidence! 8D My story has gone off doing its own thing again like last year - I ended up with a whole new species and a gay relationship that then brought the threat of blackmail with it an ended up being a rather complex subplot - except this time it's changed worlds. XD It was originally meant to be set in our world in the future, but the moment I nicked the name 'Aethercove' for the main city from the adoption threads, it's gone "OOHH CYBERPUNK" and is doing its own thing. XD Oh well, I kinda like it. I'm picturing the towns now kind of like the ones in Outlaw Star or something. :3 Mon, 07 Nov 2011 14:18:18 -0900 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/reaching-50-000/threads/16072?page=14#forum_thread_comment_559436 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/reaching-50-000/threads/16072?page=14#forum_thread_comment_559436 eternalcow Beautiful, Sol, and very inspiring. Thank you. Mon, 07 Nov 2011 15:49:06 -0900 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/reaching-50-000/threads/16072?page=14#forum_thread_comment_561550 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/reaching-50-000/threads/16072?page=14#forum_thread_comment_561550 RainbowFishie Yes! I finally hit 15k! Mon, 07 Nov 2011 21:15:59 -0900 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/reaching-50-000/threads/16072?page=14#forum_thread_comment_569116 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/reaching-50-000/threads/16072?page=14#forum_thread_comment_569116 Solunar Thank you! Well, some dialogue is better than nothing! (Which is what today seems to be turning out for me) Tue, 08 Nov 2011 04:48:23 -0900 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/reaching-50-000/threads/16072?page=14#forum_thread_comment_573096 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/reaching-50-000/threads/16072?page=14#forum_thread_comment_573096 Solunar Sure! Go ahead! Tue, 08 Nov 2011 04:48:44 -0900 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/reaching-50-000/threads/16072?page=14#forum_thread_comment_573102 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/reaching-50-000/threads/16072?page=14#forum_thread_comment_573102 Solunar Thank you for the kind words too! Now, bump that wordcount up. Tue, 08 Nov 2011 04:49:40 -0900 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/reaching-50-000/threads/16072?page=14#forum_thread_comment_573116 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/reaching-50-000/threads/16072?page=14#forum_thread_comment_573116 Solunar That's awesome! Tue, 08 Nov 2011 04:49:59 -0900 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/reaching-50-000/threads/16072?page=14#forum_thread_comment_573122 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/reaching-50-000/threads/16072?page=14#forum_thread_comment_573122 Solunar HAHAHA. Have not written a word today because I woke up super late. And I'm tending to rps again. Geeez. Okay. I better set a target here. 2k for today. Tue, 08 Nov 2011 04:50:46 -0900 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/reaching-50-000/threads/16072?page=14#forum_thread_comment_573139 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/reaching-50-000/threads/16072?page=14#forum_thread_comment_573139 BloodRoseAngel Anyone noticed crabby hasn't moved for a little while? ;) I thought he was supposed to be feeling very smug for overtaking us all. =P Tue, 08 Nov 2011 05:29:14 -0900 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/reaching-50-000/threads/16072?page=14#forum_thread_comment_573627 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/reaching-50-000/threads/16072?page=14#forum_thread_comment_573627 Solunar Yeah! Can't say I didn't expect this. Like I said, he's a comet - starts out bright and then burns out near the end. Only week 2 and he's down again. Tue, 08 Nov 2011 05:53:52 -0900 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/reaching-50-000/threads/16072?page=14#forum_thread_comment_573963 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/reaching-50-000/threads/16072?page=14#forum_thread_comment_573963 reading-obsession YES! 15K! Finally :D Yesterday was a bit of a letdown, and today was no better. Hoping to at least reach 16,500 by today, and then I'll work as hard as I can tomorrow, I swear! Only half an hour of Facebook, email, and anything else I might want to do. :3 How's everyone doing so far? Tue, 08 Nov 2011 06:01:01 -0900 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/reaching-50-000/threads/16072?page=14#forum_thread_comment_574070 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/reaching-50-000/threads/16072?page=14#forum_thread_comment_574070 Scribe Azai Congratulations on hitting 15k! Yesterday was a bit of let down for me too - travelling has really cut down on my writing time, but I managed to hit 35k today, so I'm doing alright. Tue, 08 Nov 2011 06:06:32 -0900 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/reaching-50-000/threads/16072?page=14#forum_thread_comment_574168 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/reaching-50-000/threads/16072?page=14#forum_thread_comment_574168 reading-obsession GODDAMMIT. You're at 35K? AND YOU'RE 15? xO What is your secret, Oh Brilliant One? How do you manage to write at least 6K every day? I barely get time to write even 3. xP Tue, 08 Nov 2011 07:09:24 -0900 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/reaching-50-000/threads/16072?page=14#forum_thread_comment_575263 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/reaching-50-000/threads/16072?page=14#forum_thread_comment_575263 GothiqueSukkubus I hate when life interferes with noveling... 'Nuff said. Got some catching up to do today! &gt;.&lt;;; Tue, 08 Nov 2011 07:46:05 -0900 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/reaching-50-000/threads/16072?page=14#forum_thread_comment_575918 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/reaching-50-000/threads/16072?page=14#forum_thread_comment_575918 reading-obsession Oh, trust me, life can be such a pain when it gets in the way of noveling. ._. Get writing! I have double your word count, and you were so close to me a few days ago! No slacking! Tue, 08 Nov 2011 07:49:07 -0900 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/reaching-50-000/threads/16072?page=14#forum_thread_comment_575990 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/reaching-50-000/threads/16072?page=14#forum_thread_comment_575990 GothiqueSukkubus Up nearly 1500! That means only 3173 to go! Getting there. &lt;3 Word wars &amp; Write or Die in conjunction = winning. Tue, 08 Nov 2011 09:44:19 -0900 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/reaching-50-000/threads/16072?page=14#forum_thread_comment_578088 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/reaching-50-000/threads/16072?page=14#forum_thread_comment_578088 BloodRoseAngel I think, for just the moment, I'm in the lead out of everyone in this thread. That's never happened before. o_o ... I bet someone's about to shoot me down and go "Actually, I'm beating you. ;D" xD Tue, 08 Nov 2011 10:37:52 -0900 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/reaching-50-000/threads/16072?page=14#forum_thread_comment_579186 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/reaching-50-000/threads/16072?page=14#forum_thread_comment_579186 thatollie Let crabs have his break, we all know long breaks lead to failure and I love seeing crabby fail. Tue, 08 Nov 2011 11:54:58 -0900 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/reaching-50-000/threads/16072?page=14#forum_thread_comment_580912 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/reaching-50-000/threads/16072?page=14#forum_thread_comment_580912 thatollie Now that I've thought about it, he might just have gone dark to write to the finish. Tue, 08 Nov 2011 12:38:45 -0900 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/reaching-50-000/threads/16072?page=14#forum_thread_comment_581960 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/reaching-50-000/threads/16072?page=14#forum_thread_comment_581960 DervishJ I wrote 800 words, got to a really exciting point in the story, then realized I had killed off the wrong person and didn't know how to kill off the right one. So I hopped on the forums. ::smacks self in head:: At least it was only an hour's break, and I think I figured out how to continue. Back to the notebook I go. Don't psych yourself out, thatollie, keep writing and beat crabby soundly! You too, Solunar, you can write 2000k in your sleep! Tue, 08 Nov 2011 12:52:58 -0900 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/reaching-50-000/threads/16072?page=14#forum_thread_comment_582278 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/reaching-50-000/threads/16072?page=14#forum_thread_comment_582278 thatollie Oh man, that was close. I only just loaded on time. I'd hate for words written yesterday (8th) to count for today and leave me feeling too cocky when I see that words written today bar. Tue, 08 Nov 2011 15:06:05 -0900 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/reaching-50-000/threads/16072?page=15#forum_thread_comment_585225 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/reaching-50-000/threads/16072?page=15#forum_thread_comment_585225 AliceUnrequited Only 700 words today, but that's not bad given that I've only had about half an hour of writing time. Class + Weekly DnD makes for very full Tuesdays. And now I'm accompanying my boyfriend to a social he has to attend for class so I can be his designated driver. o.0 But I should be able to write some more this evening, though I doubt it'll be more than a few hundred words. Tue, 08 Nov 2011 15:27:32 -0900 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/reaching-50-000/threads/16072?page=15#forum_thread_comment_585693 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/reaching-50-000/threads/16072?page=15#forum_thread_comment_585693 thatollie What's DnD? Tue, 08 Nov 2011 15:31:24 -0900 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/reaching-50-000/threads/16072?page=15#forum_thread_comment_585784 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/reaching-50-000/threads/16072?page=15#forum_thread_comment_585784 Shahrizai Massive amounts of cold and flu medication are apparently bad for writing &gt;.&gt; My progress dragged, but at least I kept moving forward - that should count for something, right? The goal is 2k every day this week while I get my students' grades and lesson plans back on track (and, oh yeah, get some form of an outline done for my 25 page term paper that's due Dec 2 x.x). Meanwhile I'll stare at the absolutely insane wordcounts some of you people have; I'm really in awe. Tue, 08 Nov 2011 15:49:35 -0900 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/reaching-50-000/threads/16072?page=15#forum_thread_comment_586146 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/reaching-50-000/threads/16072?page=15#forum_thread_comment_586146 crabhooves Ugh, aiming for a lot of words today but things aren't so good on the home front, I might have to leave here on very short notice, so I'm taking what time I can get. Tue, 08 Nov 2011 17:48:52 -0900 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/reaching-50-000/threads/16072?page=15#forum_thread_comment_588581 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/reaching-50-000/threads/16072?page=15#forum_thread_comment_588581 Iluna Hello! I know I'm new here but I figure a little guilt can't hurt, in fact it might get me back into gear to write tonight... I've been taking a "break" and it's almost 11... how are you guys doing? Tue, 08 Nov 2011 18:49:23 -0900 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/reaching-50-000/threads/16072?page=15#forum_thread_comment_589966 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/reaching-50-000/threads/16072?page=15#forum_thread_comment_589966 tajavioletta Is everything ok? Tue, 08 Nov 2011 18:59:24 -0900 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/reaching-50-000/threads/16072?page=15#forum_thread_comment_590161 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/reaching-50-000/threads/16072?page=15#forum_thread_comment_590161 RainbowFishie Need a remedy? Easy. writeordie.com Choose kamikaze mood, and select 'evil.' Keep writing, or your work erases itself. 'Tis all the motivation you need Tue, 08 Nov 2011 19:09:38 -0900 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/reaching-50-000/threads/16072?page=15#forum_thread_comment_590338 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/reaching-50-000/threads/16072?page=15#forum_thread_comment_590338 RainbowFishie That sucks ): Do you want a hug, or something along those lines? Tue, 08 Nov 2011 19:10:14 -0900 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/reaching-50-000/threads/16072?page=15#forum_thread_comment_590347 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/reaching-50-000/threads/16072?page=15#forum_thread_comment_590347 Solunar Poor crabby. *pat pat* Argh. You're at 33k now. Admirable. Better get to writing here as well x_X Tue, 08 Nov 2011 19:38:45 -0900 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/reaching-50-000/threads/16072?page=15#forum_thread_comment_590911 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/reaching-50-000/threads/16072?page=15#forum_thread_comment_590911 Solunar Hey Iluna! Stop abandoning your novel or it'll look like how strawberries do when they go bad. Tue, 08 Nov 2011 19:39:34 -0900 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/reaching-50-000/threads/16072?page=15#forum_thread_comment_590929 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/reaching-50-000/threads/16072?page=15#forum_thread_comment_590929 Solunar I will! I will! I kept procrastinating yesterday and it looks like crabby is back. Tue, 08 Nov 2011 19:40:11 -0900 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/reaching-50-000/threads/16072?page=14#forum_thread_comment_590942 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/reaching-50-000/threads/16072?page=14#forum_thread_comment_590942 thatollie The earlier you start, the earlier you smash through your next wordcount goal. Tue, 08 Nov 2011 20:28:15 -0900 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/reaching-50-000/threads/16072?page=15#forum_thread_comment_591882 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/reaching-50-000/threads/16072?page=15#forum_thread_comment_591882 RainbowFishie I only managed to write 1k today xP I'm aiming to write over 20k by the time Thursday ends, and I'm going to need all the guilt I can get Tue, 08 Nov 2011 21:29:08 -0900 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/reaching-50-000/threads/16072?page=15#forum_thread_comment_592812 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/reaching-50-000/threads/16072?page=15#forum_thread_comment_592812 thatollie All the guilt you've piled on others will become null and void if you fail to reach 20K by Thursday. Tue, 08 Nov 2011 22:25:52 -0900 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/reaching-50-000/threads/16072?page=15#forum_thread_comment_593522 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/reaching-50-000/threads/16072?page=15#forum_thread_comment_593522 Emmygir Nowhere near enough words! I learned about this two days ago (and was guilt-tripped into joining), and between eight classes, essays, papers to write, and a house to clean and meals to cook, I have a pathetic 1500 words. Someone slap me. Tue, 08 Nov 2011 22:31:10 -0900 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/reaching-50-000/threads/16072?page=15#forum_thread_comment_593577 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/reaching-50-000/threads/16072?page=15#forum_thread_comment_593577 thatollie You have to clean the house and cook the meals and you're a student. How did you get all that lumped on top of you? Tue, 08 Nov 2011 22:47:46 -0900 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/reaching-50-000/threads/16072?page=15#forum_thread_comment_593718 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/reaching-50-000/threads/16072?page=15#forum_thread_comment_593718 artemisfang Good gosh you guys are insane. I'm at 25k...this is my second nano. I read the first 5 pages to procrastinate...then figured I should get back to writing. Tue, 08 Nov 2011 23:40:38 -0900 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/reaching-50-000/threads/16072?page=15#forum_thread_comment_594147 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/reaching-50-000/threads/16072?page=15#forum_thread_comment_594147 crabhooves Taja things are 'ok' for the moment but who knows how long they'll last. Fishie yes i'll take that hug :) I got up to 36k, 10k in front of thatollie, my my. Beating Solunar ^_^ Emmy you need to figure out how many words you need to be at and then how long you'e willing to write extra to make it up, if you can make it up in a weekend, good, do it. But if you can't, then say ok i'll write an extra 1.6k each day (3k a day) for 9 days and then I can do the normal 1.6k, you need a schedule gurl, if you just go it freeform you'll never win. Wed, 09 Nov 2011 00:29:54 -0900 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/reaching-50-000/threads/16072?page=15#forum_thread_comment_594463 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/reaching-50-000/threads/16072?page=15#forum_thread_comment_594463 Solunar Woah. You're alive. Mwaahahah, writing now. Be prepared for chilli crabs. (It's so cold here today I don't even have a fan on. Woah.) Wed, 09 Nov 2011 01:10:43 -0900 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/reaching-50-000/threads/16072?page=15#forum_thread_comment_594747 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/reaching-50-000/threads/16072?page=15#forum_thread_comment_594747 Solunar Scratch that. Need to spend some time coming up with names first. Wed, 09 Nov 2011 01:12:46 -0900 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/reaching-50-000/threads/16072?page=15#forum_thread_comment_594762 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/reaching-50-000/threads/16072?page=15#forum_thread_comment_594762 AliceUnrequited Dungeons and Dragons. Sorry, I forget not everyone knows the acronym. Table-top fantasy role-playing game that kind of pioneered the genre. Created by a man named Gary Gygax. The game has been through four distinct iterations: Dungeons and Dragons; Dungeons and Dragons Advance; 3.0 and its revision, 3.5; and finally, 4e, the most hated (and simplified) of all the versions. 3.5 is generally the most accepted, as it has the most stuff and is far simpler than either of its predecessors. Wed, 09 Nov 2011 05:26:27 -0900 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/reaching-50-000/threads/16072?page=15#forum_thread_comment_596856 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/reaching-50-000/threads/16072?page=15#forum_thread_comment_596856 AliceUnrequited behindthename.com is my personal favorite baby name site. Really good for long lists of names that don't sound modern common. Wed, 09 Nov 2011 05:29:22 -0900 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/reaching-50-000/threads/16072?page=15#forum_thread_comment_596883 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/reaching-50-000/threads/16072?page=15#forum_thread_comment_596883 BloodRoseAngel Back from work, time to write! &gt;8D I'm not going to hit 50k by the 10th like last year. X'D But I'll try and write as much as possible. Wed, 09 Nov 2011 06:18:06 -0900 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/reaching-50-000/threads/16072?page=15#forum_thread_comment_597460 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/reaching-50-000/threads/16072?page=15#forum_thread_comment_597460 reading-obsession GOOD GOD. I just got Inheritance! It's AWESOME- But it's hindered me from writing even a word today. :/ Must. Get. To. 18K. By. Today. If. It. Kills. Wed, 09 Nov 2011 06:18:43 -0900 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/reaching-50-000/threads/16072?page=15#forum_thread_comment_597467 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/reaching-50-000/threads/16072?page=15#forum_thread_comment_597467 BloodRoseAngel I read the other books so long ago I've forgotten the plot XD I hate when that happens. I don't know if I even have the will to read the others all over again. They're alright, but... eh. xD Besides, I'm too absorbed in Chris Wooding's latest book right now. X3 Wed, 09 Nov 2011 06:57:23 -0900 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/reaching-50-000/threads/16072?page=15#forum_thread_comment_598052 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/reaching-50-000/threads/16072?page=15#forum_thread_comment_598052 BloodRoseAngel I've found that two of my characters love snarking at each other. They won't stop niggling and insulting each other the entire way through their conversations. And since they're currently working together to catch a rogue android, they're going to be spending a lot of time together. WORD PADDING YAY. 8'D Wed, 09 Nov 2011 06:59:47 -0900 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/reaching-50-000/threads/16072?page=15#forum_thread_comment_598085 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/reaching-50-000/threads/16072?page=15#forum_thread_comment_598085 Shahrizai Eight classes plus housekeeping? I don't want to slap you; I want to give you a freaking medal. Wed, 09 Nov 2011 11:39:46 -0900 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/reaching-50-000/threads/16072?page=15#forum_thread_comment_603063 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/reaching-50-000/threads/16072?page=15#forum_thread_comment_603063 P-3a I stopped. And now everything's crawling. Ffffff. Wed, 09 Nov 2011 11:46:06 -0900 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/reaching-50-000/threads/16072?page=15#forum_thread_comment_603178 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/reaching-50-000/threads/16072?page=15#forum_thread_comment_603178 AliceUnrequited Sigh. I'm so disinterested in my own writing right now that I don't even want to post about how I need to write. Ugh. It doesn't help that I've been given an ultimatum from one of my players. I sent the party to see the Good Magician Humfrey from Xanth. If the encounter doesn't do him justice, my player quits. So that's pretty stressful because I like the party. I don't want the emo half-elf to leave. He's the second most competent one. Someone slap me? Wed, 09 Nov 2011 11:46:32 -0900 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/reaching-50-000/threads/16072?page=15#forum_thread_comment_603186 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/reaching-50-000/threads/16072?page=15#forum_thread_comment_603186 DervishJ ::Hugs:: Stress sucks. You are meeting the recommended word count, so if you need to take it easy today, I say go for it. Maybe try to write a couple hundred words just so you don't lose track of your story. You'll get through this. About the DnD: Doesn't do who justice, Humphrey or the emo half-elf? If it's the former, I say be confident in your abilities as a DM. If you had the idea to send the party there in the first place, you're going to know Humphrey well enough to represent him properly. If it's the latter, then screw that jerk. DnD isn't all about one player's ego even if he is competent. I don't want to be all, "The DM is God," but there's a difference between incorporating feedback and designing an encounter around an ultimatum. If he's giving you an ultimatum, I don't think he respects you or the group enough to stick around for long, even if you do everything you can to please him. Sorry for the rant, I don't know the whole situation. It just bugs me when people go on a power trip and ruin things for others. Wed, 09 Nov 2011 12:32:45 -0900 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/reaching-50-000/threads/16072?page=15#forum_thread_comment_604150 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/reaching-50-000/threads/16072?page=15#forum_thread_comment_604150 BloodRoseAngel Ooohhh wordcount bars. So that's what they were doing when they went offline for a minute there. This is more motivating. 8D Wed, 09 Nov 2011 13:29:39 -0900 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/reaching-50-000/threads/16072?page=15#forum_thread_comment_604880 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/reaching-50-000/threads/16072?page=15#forum_thread_comment_604880 RainbowFishie Are you kidding me? That's pretty impressive! 1500 is a lot for the limited amount of time you have. Though if you really want it, I could dump a bucket of freezing cold water onto your head Wed, 09 Nov 2011 14:11:23 -0900 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/reaching-50-000/threads/16072?page=15#forum_thread_comment_605777 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/reaching-50-000/threads/16072?page=15#forum_thread_comment_605777 RakkiFox Oh yeah, that's what I'm talking about! Instant jealousy, competition and, most importantly, GUILT: just add blue bars. Wed, 09 Nov 2011 14:15:12 -0900 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/reaching-50-000/threads/16072?page=15#forum_thread_comment_605854 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/reaching-50-000/threads/16072?page=15#forum_thread_comment_605854 RainbowFishie I've been on for one hour, and I haven't even written a single word xP Somebody slap me Wed, 09 Nov 2011 14:42:41 -0900 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/reaching-50-000/threads/16072?page=15#forum_thread_comment_606458 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/reaching-50-000/threads/16072?page=15#forum_thread_comment_606458 RainbowFishie So true xD Btw, I just realized this, but you beat Crabby! :D Wed, 09 Nov 2011 14:43:23 -0900 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/reaching-50-000/threads/16072?page=15#forum_thread_comment_606476 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/reaching-50-000/threads/16072?page=15#forum_thread_comment_606476 BloodRoseAngel Eeexactly. &gt;8D Wed, 09 Nov 2011 14:56:48 -0900 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/reaching-50-000/threads/16072?page=15#forum_thread_comment_606751 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/reaching-50-000/threads/16072?page=15#forum_thread_comment_606751 BloodRoseAngel Haha, I did yesterday for a little while and then he overtook me again. XD I'm slowing down though because I had to go to work and then had to clear my room today for some building work that starts tomorrow. I'll try and do more tomorrow! Wed, 09 Nov 2011 14:57:37 -0900 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/reaching-50-000/threads/16072?page=15#forum_thread_comment_606765 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/reaching-50-000/threads/16072?page=15#forum_thread_comment_606765 P-3a Haha they introduced blue bars to the forums the very same day I fall behind. It's like they're trying to single me out and shame me. WELL IT'S NOT WORKING. Story is still blah, characters are still worse, motivation situation steadily getting abyssal; genuinely considering declaring this year a dud and giving up. Wed, 09 Nov 2011 15:12:31 -0900 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/reaching-50-000/threads/16072?page=15#forum_thread_comment_607125 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/reaching-50-000/threads/16072?page=15#forum_thread_comment_607125 BloodRoseAngel Chuck something unexpected in there? I threw in some new characters when my story was lagging. X3 Don't give up! D: I'm going to bed now, but if you post what kind of problems you're having I can try and suggest something in the morning. X3 Wed, 09 Nov 2011 15:26:55 -0900 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/reaching-50-000/threads/16072?page=15#forum_thread_comment_607420 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/reaching-50-000/threads/16072?page=15#forum_thread_comment_607420 ChickenWing I was doign so well today - 2350 words and caught back up. But then, when I reached 15K and decided to watch a new tv show with my housemate. We already saw the same series (Borgias) produced by another chanel and wanted to compare the two series. It was boring and I knew the whole plot already, but still I couldn't go back to wwriting another 1000 words, like I had intended. It's 1:30am here and I just now going to bed. And tomorrow I have to get up around 9am to catch a train. Ssometimes I hate that damn tv! Wed, 09 Nov 2011 15:27:50 -0900 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/reaching-50-000/threads/16072?page=15#forum_thread_comment_607445 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/reaching-50-000/threads/16072?page=15#forum_thread_comment_607445 thatollie I have heard of it, but I didn't think you'd give up precious novelling time for that sort of thing. I was expecting some sort of college thing. Wed, 09 Nov 2011 15:43:37 -0900 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/reaching-50-000/threads/16072?page=15#forum_thread_comment_607762 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/reaching-50-000/threads/16072?page=15#forum_thread_comment_607762 thatollie I really failed yesterday. Time to pick up the pieces and get back to work. Wed, 09 Nov 2011 15:45:55 -0900 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/reaching-50-000/threads/16072?page=16#forum_thread_comment_607809 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/reaching-50-000/threads/16072?page=16#forum_thread_comment_607809 tajavioletta WELL DON'T. P-3a, you're still ahead of me. That's something. Why give up now? There's a whole universe of things you could do to your story to make it more interesting. Make a list of the things you love to read about, and the characters that draw you in; then SHOVE them into your story as it stands right now. It doesn't matter if they fit--the story can be completely different starting right now. You, as the author, are God. I've been trying to crowbar in time to play catch-up for about a week now. If it doesn't happen soon, it's going to start requiring far more alcohol than I can currently afford. So you wanna have a few word wars or something? Bounce some dares around? You can't give up--you helped push me over the 50K mark last year! :) Wed, 09 Nov 2011 15:47:47 -0900 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/reaching-50-000/threads/16072?page=15#forum_thread_comment_607846 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/reaching-50-000/threads/16072?page=15#forum_thread_comment_607846 crabhooves I love how Ollie said 3 days ago that he had 2 days off and he was going to catch up to crabby. how'd that go ollie? Solunar i'm not seeing any of this crab chilli, you're still behind me. Re. Inheritance, I know it's trendy among young writers to bash the novel and it's author even more so, but I enjoy the series a lot despite it's flaws and I'll definitely be getting the latest one. And as for D&amp;D, I'm so excited - I'm going to get to play my first ever game sometime later this month, squeal! Wed, 09 Nov 2011 17:02:18 -0900 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/reaching-50-000/threads/16072?page=16#forum_thread_comment_609284 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/reaching-50-000/threads/16072?page=16#forum_thread_comment_609284 RainbowFishie *gives Crabby a hug :)* Wed, 09 Nov 2011 17:16:54 -0900 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/reaching-50-000/threads/16072?page=15#forum_thread_comment_609580 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/reaching-50-000/threads/16072?page=15#forum_thread_comment_609580 thatollie Actually, I got my days mixed up. And, to be fair, you were being awfully quiet at the time. Wed, 09 Nov 2011 17:32:47 -0900 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/reaching-50-000/threads/16072?page=16#forum_thread_comment_609857 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/reaching-50-000/threads/16072?page=16#forum_thread_comment_609857 crabhooves Wouldn't that make it easier for you to catch up? :P Because I wasn't posting and you can sneak up behind me? Wed, 09 Nov 2011 17:35:44 -0900 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/reaching-50-000/threads/16072?page=16#forum_thread_comment_609927 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/reaching-50-000/threads/16072?page=16#forum_thread_comment_609927 thatollie But you just started posting again, I would be pretty close if you hadn't. Wed, 09 Nov 2011 18:00:50 -0900 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/reaching-50-000/threads/16072?page=16#forum_thread_comment_610358 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/reaching-50-000/threads/16072?page=16#forum_thread_comment_610358 Solunar ChickenWing! Not even a new tv show but an old one? You disgust me. Wed, 09 Nov 2011 20:34:31 -0900 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/reaching-50-000/threads/16072?page=15#forum_thread_comment_613093 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/reaching-50-000/threads/16072?page=15#forum_thread_comment_613093 Solunar P-3a, come on now. Not even halfway through the month and you want to give up? When's the next time you'll get a chance to write a novel with all of us here again? Next year. That's another year gone by and a foot closer to the grave. Crabby &gt; Watch me today. Gonna demolish your wordcount. I can't write over the weekend since I'm heading in to Malaysia for shopping and massage, so I'll be pulverising you to a pulp today and tomorrow. Wed, 09 Nov 2011 20:38:17 -0900 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/reaching-50-000/threads/16072?page=16#forum_thread_comment_613173 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/reaching-50-000/threads/16072?page=16#forum_thread_comment_613173 thatollie My wordcounter is creeping up past 30K. Wed, 09 Nov 2011 20:49:31 -0900 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/reaching-50-000/threads/16072?page=16#forum_thread_comment_613345 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/reaching-50-000/threads/16072?page=16#forum_thread_comment_613345 crabhooves Ugh fucking Sol, making me work, making me write. I was just going to chillax today once schoolwork is done but I guess that's been DENIED. Ollie - so close :D I wanna see that 30k. You're going to lose Sol and you know it and by know you know you know it. Oh and is it just me or are the word counters less appealing this year? I liked the glossy borders of the last ones, felt more like a bar being filled, but I'm so glad to have them back.. P3a, please don't quit. That's a request, not an idle statement. You're basically where i was in my second year, had a great first year I really, deeply regret quitting in my second and third years (I think it's not arrogant to say that I won't be quitting this year since it's basically only 4 good hours away from completion.) The feelings you have are deeply transient, most people reach a moment where they get tired of their novel and the characters. It's to be expected as a sign of progress, not to be considered as a sign to ditch it, you do whatever you have to do, shake it up, change it dramatically, whatever to make it interesting. You have all year not to write, but November well... November is for noveling! Wed, 09 Nov 2011 21:11:55 -0900 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/reaching-50-000/threads/16072?page=16#forum_thread_comment_613690 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/reaching-50-000/threads/16072?page=16#forum_thread_comment_613690 thatollie P3a, you're where I was last year when I quit and I know it's going to be hard for you to continue but quitting didn't help me do anything. I'm sure you don't really want to quit, but you got us if you need some help. Crabs, I'll be over the mark very soon. Wed, 09 Nov 2011 21:16:57 -0900 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/reaching-50-000/threads/16072?page=16#forum_thread_comment_613755 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/reaching-50-000/threads/16072?page=16#forum_thread_comment_613755 crabhooves Congrats Ollie! Woot! Wed, 09 Nov 2011 21:48:37 -0900 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/reaching-50-000/threads/16072?page=16#forum_thread_comment_614114 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/reaching-50-000/threads/16072?page=16#forum_thread_comment_614114 thatollie I'm going to celebrate for like thirty valuable seconds and then it's time to get back to writing. Wed, 09 Nov 2011 21:51:17 -0900 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/reaching-50-000/threads/16072?page=16#forum_thread_comment_614137 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/reaching-50-000/threads/16072?page=16#forum_thread_comment_614137 ChickenWing Well, theone e already watched ran from the week before to last week. And the other runs since yesterday. But, yes I digust myself for giving up on writing time. Thu, 10 Nov 2011 00:04:07 -0900 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/reaching-50-000/threads/16072?page=15#forum_thread_comment_615364 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/reaching-50-000/threads/16072?page=15#forum_thread_comment_615364 thatollie Stop whinging and start winning. Thu, 10 Nov 2011 00:06:24 -0900 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/reaching-50-000/threads/16072?page=15#forum_thread_comment_615377 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/reaching-50-000/threads/16072?page=15#forum_thread_comment_615377 thatollie That's almost 5K so far today. I'm going to break for a while. I want to see some wordage from Crabs when I get back. Thu, 10 Nov 2011 00:14:42 -0900 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/reaching-50-000/threads/16072?page=16#forum_thread_comment_615425 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/reaching-50-000/threads/16072?page=16#forum_thread_comment_615425 BloodRoseAngel Guh. This time last year I was on 50k. Maybe my story just have better opportunities for rambling then, haha. XD I only just started writing for today - got woken up by the builders working in the next room. &gt;_&gt; I need to get writing! X3 Thu, 10 Nov 2011 00:49:00 -0900 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/reaching-50-000/threads/16072?page=16#forum_thread_comment_615621 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/reaching-50-000/threads/16072?page=16#forum_thread_comment_615621 Solunar Lol, same here. Cooking teriyaki and udon stirfry now. Thu, 10 Nov 2011 01:26:50 -0900 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/reaching-50-000/threads/16072?page=16#forum_thread_comment_615860 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/reaching-50-000/threads/16072?page=16#forum_thread_comment_615860 reading-obsession My word count for yesterday was a mind-blowing number of zero. I actually managed to go form a sprint to being below the number I should've been at yesterday! Must. Write. (But Inheritance is too tempting... AGHH! O.O) Thu, 10 Nov 2011 02:55:42 -0900 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/reaching-50-000/threads/16072?page=16#forum_thread_comment_616438 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/reaching-50-000/threads/16072?page=16#forum_thread_comment_616438 reading-obsession *I actually managed to go from a somewhat sprint to being below the number I should've been at yesterday! I feel so guilty :/ Thu, 10 Nov 2011 02:56:30 -0900 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/reaching-50-000/threads/16072?page=16#forum_thread_comment_616447 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/reaching-50-000/threads/16072?page=16#forum_thread_comment_616447 thatollie So, get writing. I'm at nearly 5K for the day and I'm about to write some more. Thu, 10 Nov 2011 03:22:23 -0900 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/reaching-50-000/threads/16072?page=16#forum_thread_comment_616615 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/reaching-50-000/threads/16072?page=16#forum_thread_comment_616615 Solunar Oh. Yeah. The word bar is not as nice as the past year. Should easily hit 40 k today. Thu, 10 Nov 2011 05:23:40 -0900 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/reaching-50-000/threads/16072?page=16#forum_thread_comment_617798 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/reaching-50-000/threads/16072?page=16#forum_thread_comment_617798 AliceUnrequited I've been running this game since the semester started. It's two hours on a Tuesday + whatever time I put into my preparations, which hasn't been much since I had already gotten planning done up until about halfway through this past Tuesday's game. Thu, 10 Nov 2011 05:31:15 -0900 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/reaching-50-000/threads/16072?page=15#forum_thread_comment_617898 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/reaching-50-000/threads/16072?page=15#forum_thread_comment_617898 AliceUnrequited I'm trying to go for 100k though, and if I don't make it, my boyfriend has staunchly refused to accompany me to see The Nutcracker in December. That's why all the stress. But I have figured out why I wasn't writing. I hate my main character. She's boring. Her only major feature is that she was worried about dying. Now that she's not dead, there's nothing left of her. The particular player is the one who lent me my first Xanth book. I've read four of the books. He's read them all. It's mostly a matter of comping up with a plausible Humfrey challenge that won't be too easy to solve or from one of the books. And I do actually have a DM God. It came of the reminder to my players that Drow are not allowed in my campaign because I hate them and will drop a giant blue elephant on any drow who try to invade. And so now if a blue elephant appears, the DM God has acted, usually in a minute way, like awarding the squirrel-slaying dwarf with a squirrel totem that might or might not turn him into a weresquirrel. Thu, 10 Nov 2011 05:36:54 -0900 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/reaching-50-000/threads/16072?page=15#forum_thread_comment_617960 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/reaching-50-000/threads/16072?page=15#forum_thread_comment_617960 Stinula Thank you so much for that tip. I have so much trouble coming up with names! I hate my main character's name. Unfortunately now there's a theme going with a whole bunch of other characters so I can only tweak the name a teensy bit. Oh well. Time to keep writing. So much catching up to do!!!! Thu, 10 Nov 2011 06:07:42 -0900 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/reaching-50-000/threads/16072?page=15#forum_thread_comment_618347 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/reaching-50-000/threads/16072?page=15#forum_thread_comment_618347 Stinula Personally I'm a fan of dinosaurs. But an unexpected robot apocalypse is also a nice way to move the plot along. Especially if your story is set somewhere decidedly un-robot friendly. Like the jurassic period. You can do it!!!!! Thu, 10 Nov 2011 06:12:22 -0900 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/reaching-50-000/threads/16072?page=15#forum_thread_comment_618410 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/reaching-50-000/threads/16072?page=15#forum_thread_comment_618410 Stinula I do hope you're not dead. Thu, 10 Nov 2011 06:13:48 -0900 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/reaching-50-000/threads/16072?page=15#forum_thread_comment_618434 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/reaching-50-000/threads/16072?page=15#forum_thread_comment_618434 Solunar Woo! 40k. Feels good. Tempted to go for 41k before bed. Definitely can't hit it before the 12 am mark. Words are really flowing today. Thu, 10 Nov 2011 06:49:29 -0900 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/reaching-50-000/threads/16072?page=16#forum_thread_comment_618892 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/reaching-50-000/threads/16072?page=16#forum_thread_comment_618892 eternalcow Ugh, I'm having the Week Two doldrums like whoa yesterday and today. Not a word written yesterday, shame! I know we all need a day off every now and then, but I am absolutely not allowed to take two. I just need to power through for a little bit. Heap on the guilt and shame, everybody. I know I said I'd be fine with failing this year, but now that I'm into it, I'm way too stubborn to quit. Thu, 10 Nov 2011 09:26:01 -0900 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/reaching-50-000/threads/16072?page=16#forum_thread_comment_621381 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/reaching-50-000/threads/16072?page=16#forum_thread_comment_621381 tajavioletta Maybe it's callous of me, but KILL HER OFF ANYWAY. Whiny characters deserve to die, and gory deaths can really up that word count--not to mention being quite cathartic for the author. Kill her off, and let another character leap out of her corpse like a chest-burster in "Alien". This is your new MC. I'm serious. Kill off your boring MC, or watch in helpless despair as SHE kills your 2011 novel. Thu, 10 Nov 2011 09:38:52 -0900 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/reaching-50-000/threads/16072?page=15#forum_thread_comment_621610 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/reaching-50-000/threads/16072?page=15#forum_thread_comment_621610 tajavioletta Shall I hurry you along with my cattle prod, or hand it to you to use on me? You've got the doldrums--but you're 10K ahead of me. You aren't ALLOWED to feel novel-sloth. Doesn't the fact that I look at your blue bar in envy and covetousness tickle your ego just a little bit? Come on, eternalcow's ego, you know you want to make that word count even more covetably higher? Or, you know, we could do a few word wars. But you MUST WRITE today, or I'll give the flying monkeys your GPS coordinates. Thu, 10 Nov 2011 09:43:01 -0900 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/reaching-50-000/threads/16072?page=16#forum_thread_comment_621684 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/reaching-50-000/threads/16072?page=16#forum_thread_comment_621684 Solunar Okay, courtesy of taja's thread here: http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forum_comments/621513 I'm doing it. I'm going to write 8k tomorrow and 2k over the weekend to hit 50k by the end of this week. I need to finish at least two of the novels by Nov. All three, preferably. Going to sleep for six hours now, wake up and drink tea/coffee and write! So yes, this is advanced warning for the taunting to come when I stand atop of the 50k mountain and flick boogers down at all of you. Especially you, cow, since you're not a moving target. Thu, 10 Nov 2011 10:56:14 -0900 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/reaching-50-000/threads/16072?page=16#forum_thread_comment_622960 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/reaching-50-000/threads/16072?page=16#forum_thread_comment_622960 BloodRoseAngel I'll join you in that 50k by the end of the week challenge, if I may ;) Thu, 10 Nov 2011 10:58:00 -0900 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/reaching-50-000/threads/16072?page=16#forum_thread_comment_622998 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/reaching-50-000/threads/16072?page=16#forum_thread_comment_622998 GothiqueSukkubus Ultimate Goal today: par. 16666 More realistic goal so as not to give myself a stress induced heart attack due to life, of late: 15k. We'll see where it ends up. &gt;.&lt;;; Thu, 10 Nov 2011 12:02:39 -0900 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/reaching-50-000/threads/16072?page=16#forum_thread_comment_624286 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/reaching-50-000/threads/16072?page=16#forum_thread_comment_624286 eternalcow Aw, you give good motivation, taja! I can see from your other thread Sol referenced below that you're about to be a contender, so you'd better look out - I claim the right to cattle prod you if you haven't caught up with me by midnight. It's only 9K away...assuming, that is, that I don't write more tonight. Except that I am totally going to write more tonight. I've got to avoid those flying monkeys... And I might be able to fit in a word war or two tonight, if you're inclined. Sometime between 9 and 10 for sure, and possibly between 7 and 8 as well (and I see you're in my time zone, for extra ease). I'll look for you. Thu, 10 Nov 2011 12:48:23 -0900 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/reaching-50-000/threads/16072?page=16#forum_thread_comment_625234 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/reaching-50-000/threads/16072?page=16#forum_thread_comment_625234 eternalcow Like all cows, I tend to move slowly...until I SUDDENLY STAMPEDE! Thu, 10 Nov 2011 12:49:22 -0900 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/reaching-50-000/threads/16072?page=16#forum_thread_comment_625253 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/reaching-50-000/threads/16072?page=16#forum_thread_comment_625253 eternalcow Let's go, rainbow cakes! A week ago you were my main competition, and now I can barely even see you back there. ;) Thu, 10 Nov 2011 12:50:32 -0900 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/reaching-50-000/threads/16072?page=16#forum_thread_comment_625274 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/reaching-50-000/threads/16072?page=16#forum_thread_comment_625274 RainbowFishie I'm aiming to write 3k today, at the very least. I'm gonna need an extra helping of guilt to get through this. Thu, 10 Nov 2011 13:58:15 -0900 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/reaching-50-000/threads/16072?page=16#forum_thread_comment_626618 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/reaching-50-000/threads/16072?page=16#forum_thread_comment_626618 crabhooves We haven't heard from p3a...quick everyone join hands in a circle! We shall invoke her presence and demand satisfaction! I think the winning weekend sounds like a fine idea, I'm up for it :) Thu, 10 Nov 2011 14:18:12 -0900 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/reaching-50-000/threads/16072?page=16#forum_thread_comment_627011 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/reaching-50-000/threads/16072?page=16#forum_thread_comment_627011 RainbowFishie If you quit, you'll regret it for an entire year. I don't think you'd want to deal with the guilt and shame for an entire year. No inspiration? Manipulate the weather. Need something interesting to happen? Have of your characters be shot dead. Need motivation? writeordie.com Thu, 10 Nov 2011 14:22:59 -0900 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/reaching-50-000/threads/16072?page=15#forum_thread_comment_627061 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/reaching-50-000/threads/16072?page=15#forum_thread_comment_627061 crabhooves Oh and Sol - aren't you going to Malaysia this weekend? How are you goin to write 2k while you're on a mini holiday? Thu, 10 Nov 2011 14:23:00 -0900 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/reaching-50-000/threads/16072?page=17#forum_thread_comment_627062 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/reaching-50-000/threads/16072?page=17#forum_thread_comment_627062 eternalcow You've got a 1200 word buffer...you might think that means you can rest on your laurels, but it certainly does not! You're not even a full day ahead! What happens when you face some crisis that takes you away from writing for a day or two? You don't want to fall behind, do you? NO YOU DON'T. Most of this thread is outperforming you...I know you don't want to be laughed at for the rest of the month. And we will laugh. Loudly. And often. Now stop reading the forums and get writing! Note to self: stop posting on the forums and get writing. Thu, 10 Nov 2011 15:55:12 -0900 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/reaching-50-000/threads/16072?page=16#forum_thread_comment_628673 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/reaching-50-000/threads/16072?page=16#forum_thread_comment_628673 tajavioletta Here's the Winner Weekend thread I just created: <a href="http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/word-wars-prompts-sprints/threads/32776" rel="nofollow">http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/word-wars-prompts-sprints/threads/32776</a> Let's play ball! Thu, 10 Nov 2011 16:02:57 -0900 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/reaching-50-000/threads/16072?page=17#forum_thread_comment_628844 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/reaching-50-000/threads/16072?page=17#forum_thread_comment_628844 Solunar Watch me, crab. I might even be able to write 2k in before Sunday. Well, to be honest, Malaysia isn't one hundred percent safe. So the two of us will be staying in the hotel at night on Saturday. Then, on Sunday, we'll be arriving home at around 3pm or 4pm, so there's plenty of time to write 2k! Just need one or two hours and it's done. Thu, 10 Nov 2011 17:31:43 -0900 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/reaching-50-000/threads/16072?page=17#forum_thread_comment_630354 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/reaching-50-000/threads/16072?page=17#forum_thread_comment_630354 eternalcow A paltry 1300 today. Blargh. It's reached that time of the NaNo month that my arms start going "Excuse me, but what the HELL have you been doing to us for the past 10 day?!" Still, better than nothing. I hope for 30K by the end of the weekend, which would be easier if I didn't have 6 hours of driving school Saturday. Oh well! I WILL JUST HAVE TO HAVE LOTS OF CAFFEINE, YES THAT IS A GOOD PLAN. WHAT DO YOU MEAN WHY IS MY EYE TWITCHING? THAT IS THE EYETWITCH OF CHAMPIONS! Thu, 10 Nov 2011 18:03:19 -0900 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/reaching-50-000/threads/16072?page=17#forum_thread_comment_630914 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/reaching-50-000/threads/16072?page=17#forum_thread_comment_630914 RainbowFishie Mwua ha ha, yes! I finally reached 20k! I'm perfectly well aware that I'm still lagging behind the majority of you guys, but let me savor this moment for a while, would you? Thu, 10 Nov 2011 21:51:37 -0900 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/reaching-50-000/threads/16072?page=17#forum_thread_comment_634360 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/reaching-50-000/threads/16072?page=17#forum_thread_comment_634360 RainbowFishie Go, cow! You can do it! Thu, 10 Nov 2011 21:52:42 -0900 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/reaching-50-000/threads/16072?page=17#forum_thread_comment_634366 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/reaching-50-000/threads/16072?page=17#forum_thread_comment_634366 Solunar Mmm, caffeine. Just had chocolate. Thu, 10 Nov 2011 22:16:15 -0900 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/reaching-50-000/threads/16072?page=17#forum_thread_comment_634594 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/reaching-50-000/threads/16072?page=17#forum_thread_comment_634594 Solunar Congratulations! Heh. Thu, 10 Nov 2011 22:16:27 -0900 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/reaching-50-000/threads/16072?page=17#forum_thread_comment_634596 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/reaching-50-000/threads/16072?page=17#forum_thread_comment_634596 Solunar Oh, I bet P-3a is playing Skyrim, btw. Thu, 10 Nov 2011 22:20:08 -0900 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/reaching-50-000/threads/16072?page=17#forum_thread_comment_634647 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/reaching-50-000/threads/16072?page=17#forum_thread_comment_634647 reading-obsession *Sigh* Yesterday, I realized that posting on the guilt thread doesn't really do much if you don't afterwards. xP Long weekend's starting tomorrow, so here's hoping that I stop being so freaking lazy and get writing. Oh, and cow, just wait. ;) I'll be rushing ahead of you soon! Fri, 11 Nov 2011 02:56:50 -0900 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/reaching-50-000/threads/16072?page=17#forum_thread_comment_636655 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/reaching-50-000/threads/16072?page=17#forum_thread_comment_636655 reading-obsession Congratulations! Hopefully I'll reach there soon too xP Fri, 11 Nov 2011 02:57:51 -0900 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/reaching-50-000/threads/16072?page=17#forum_thread_comment_636660 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/reaching-50-000/threads/16072?page=17#forum_thread_comment_636660 crabhooves So tired of writing, just hit a 6k bender :P Fri, 11 Nov 2011 03:39:49 -0900 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/reaching-50-000/threads/16072?page=17#forum_thread_comment_636958 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/reaching-50-000/threads/16072?page=17#forum_thread_comment_636958 Solunar My hand is dropping off too. But I have to press on. Oh, the agony. Fri, 11 Nov 2011 03:49:57 -0900 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/reaching-50-000/threads/16072?page=17#forum_thread_comment_637023 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/reaching-50-000/threads/16072?page=17#forum_thread_comment_637023 reading-obsession Both of your wordcounts make me seem insignificant. Yes, they're very intimidating. Fri, 11 Nov 2011 03:57:54 -0900 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/reaching-50-000/threads/16072?page=17#forum_thread_comment_637099 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/reaching-50-000/threads/16072?page=17#forum_thread_comment_637099 Solunar *guilt guilt guilt guilt* Fri, 11 Nov 2011 04:17:45 -0900 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/reaching-50-000/threads/16072?page=17#forum_thread_comment_637259 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/reaching-50-000/threads/16072?page=17#forum_thread_comment_637259 reading-obsession How very evil of you! xO Fri, 11 Nov 2011 04:30:02 -0900 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/reaching-50-000/threads/16072?page=17#forum_thread_comment_637382 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/reaching-50-000/threads/16072?page=17#forum_thread_comment_637382 crabhooves Guilt your way to success r-o, do you even have a buffer? I don't even know what it's supposed to be, what are you supposed to be at this time of month? Usually I know and am struggling to keep up with it, but this year....well let's just say competition is a terrific motivator *glances in the general direction of Singapore* Fri, 11 Nov 2011 04:43:25 -0900 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/reaching-50-000/threads/16072?page=17#forum_thread_comment_637480 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/reaching-50-000/threads/16072?page=17#forum_thread_comment_637480 caramaypearl So is there any hope for me? I'm at 5421 as of last night. I have two days off in a row coming up on Sunday and Monday and plan to be pretty much stuck to the computer. I get distracted so easily though! Fri, 11 Nov 2011 04:44:01 -0900 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/reaching-50-000/threads/16072?page=17#forum_thread_comment_637487 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/reaching-50-000/threads/16072?page=17#forum_thread_comment_637487 reading-obsession Gosh, Cara! I just took a look at your stats, and I've noticed a pattern that seems to be eating up your words! You write a few hundred words, and then rest for a few days. Shame on you! I know what its been like to be slacking, and slacking is exactly what you've been doing. And during NaNo, that's something that will not be tolerated, especially if you want any free shrimp dinners! (Oh, don't forget that little part that includes winning. You can't do that if you're being lazy.) So here's some advice. If you use Chrome as your web browser, download the StayFocused application, and <strong>block every single time consuming website</strong> that you tend to go on. If you use Internet Explorer, go to the Settings toolbar, and then to Internet Options. Go to the security tab, and then click on Restricted. Then click on Sites, and add all those distracting sites over there to block 'em. This one's a bit time-consuming, yes, but worth it! If the distractions are coming from real life, then <strong>make sure that you inform everyone on the importance of NaNoWriMo.</strong> Stress on the fact that during a certain span of time, they shouldn't bother you at all. Seriously. Otherwise, they won't get to see your novel at the end of November, and they <em>do</em> want to see it, don't they? <strong>Switch off that phone during writing sessions.</strong> Catching up with the world can wait until after you reach your desired wordcount (and hopefully, even more than that!) <strong>Write whenever you have free time.</strong> Don't waste that precious time on small things! Whip out that writing device, whether it be a laptop, a tablet, a phone or a napkin, and get that story continuing. Oh, and I expect to see a wordcount that's at least reached 8K by today. Otherwise, there will be consequences... *evil laugh* Fri, 11 Nov 2011 05:02:22 -0900 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/reaching-50-000/threads/16072?page=17#forum_thread_comment_637669 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/reaching-50-000/threads/16072?page=17#forum_thread_comment_637669 reading-obsession Eh... I was hoping to be at 25K by now. I can see that I'm failing at that. I'm going to aim for 20K by today, and 25 by Saturday or Sunday instead. Beat me up black and blue if I don't! Fri, 11 Nov 2011 05:04:03 -0900 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/reaching-50-000/threads/16072?page=17#forum_thread_comment_637694 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/reaching-50-000/threads/16072?page=17#forum_thread_comment_637694 crabhooves Caramay you need to figure out how you write best, some people (like myself) thrive under structure, i.e doing 1k words an hour. Some people find that very stifling and need to write freeform. Some people are self motivating and some people are...well self demotivating :P They need a lot of encouragement to write. How do you respond to guilt, to pressure and obligation? Do you need your writing to be structured or can you trust yourself to just sit down and write a whole bunch? Tell me and we'll figure something out...In the meantime I'm off to go finish Nanowrimo :) Fri, 11 Nov 2011 05:14:00 -0900 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/reaching-50-000/threads/16072?page=17#forum_thread_comment_637786 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/reaching-50-000/threads/16072?page=17#forum_thread_comment_637786 crabhooves Oh and Caramay, I've written more than your entire months word count tonight in less than two hours. If that doesn't make you feel like shit then it really should. WRITE. Fri, 11 Nov 2011 05:29:54 -0900 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/reaching-50-000/threads/16072?page=17#forum_thread_comment_637965 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/reaching-50-000/threads/16072?page=17#forum_thread_comment_637965 Solunar *eyetwitch* No no, must resist urge to compete to 50k. It's 11pm here and i have to preserve my hands for the rest of the month. Fri, 11 Nov 2011 06:08:15 -0900 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/reaching-50-000/threads/16072?page=17#forum_thread_comment_638377 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/reaching-50-000/threads/16072?page=17#forum_thread_comment_638377 caramaypearl LOL Sounds like a plan to me. At least 8k by tonight! Fri, 11 Nov 2011 06:13:36 -0900 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/reaching-50-000/threads/16072?page=17#forum_thread_comment_638435 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/reaching-50-000/threads/16072?page=17#forum_thread_comment_638435 crabhooves You're about to lose Solunar, only 5 more minutes and I'll update..only 400 away, wait for it :) Fri, 11 Nov 2011 06:23:56 -0900 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/reaching-50-000/threads/16072?page=17#forum_thread_comment_638566 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/reaching-50-000/threads/16072?page=17#forum_thread_comment_638566 reading-obsession Tsk! i would encourage you to keep going, but you're right. Go get some sleep, and then come back in full force tomorrow! What's your goal for the end of November? 75K? 100? Fri, 11 Nov 2011 06:24:53 -0900 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/reaching-50-000/threads/16072?page=17#forum_thread_comment_638577 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/reaching-50-000/threads/16072?page=17#forum_thread_comment_638577 crabhooves Fifty thousand, two hundred and eighty two words. 50,2832.. I'm done this year, HELLS YEH! Every word written before the 12th day rises. Ah this feels magnificent. Sorry Solunar, guess you can't win them all :) Fri, 11 Nov 2011 06:38:02 -0900 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/reaching-50-000/threads/16072?page=17#forum_thread_comment_638778 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/reaching-50-000/threads/16072?page=17#forum_thread_comment_638778 Solunar 100k, though I think I might be surpassing that at the rate I'm going. My actual aim is to finish all three novels. Especially Eternity Ring and Dome. I'm going to try and get ER published since it's a... gay erotica. Dome is linked to it so I have to finish that up to get a better idea of the world. I'm having a lot of fun with Dragons now though. At 25k for it. Fri, 11 Nov 2011 06:40:26 -0900 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/reaching-50-000/threads/16072?page=17#forum_thread_comment_638808 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/reaching-50-000/threads/16072?page=17#forum_thread_comment_638808 Solunar *bashes Crabby in with a mallet* I bet your story isn't finished yet. &gt;:) Fri, 11 Nov 2011 06:40:49 -0900 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/reaching-50-000/threads/16072?page=17#forum_thread_comment_638815 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/reaching-50-000/threads/16072?page=17#forum_thread_comment_638815 Solunar You're not done, you're not done! I bet you're not done. And I'll have the bigger word count at the end of the month. Mwahahahahah. Small crab. Fri, 11 Nov 2011 06:43:55 -0900 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/reaching-50-000/threads/16072?page=17#forum_thread_comment_638857 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/reaching-50-000/threads/16072?page=17#forum_thread_comment_638857 crabhooves The story is definitely finished - the rest of this month will be dedicated to a bottom up rewrite and second draft. It's very very rough, but the core of it is there :) I'm very much done! 50k was my goal and I hit it. I need to do some heavy restructuring on the first 7k, I changed the entire structure and format of the story after that though, so need to fit in. There was some pretty weird parts too - like a lesbian sex scene that somehow crept in - and I don't even like women! What about you? Do you think you'll finish any one of your (3?) novels at 50k? How far are you going? This was a really lush experience and I'm so glad I did it, novel writing isn't really my passion and it can feel really dry for me at times. I'm so much a visual creature but I had a lot of great ideas that really helped me flesh out the world it's written in and that will help so much in it's more...mmm visual and interactive incarnations :) Fri, 11 Nov 2011 06:49:03 -0900 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/reaching-50-000/threads/16072?page=17#forum_thread_comment_638919 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/reaching-50-000/threads/16072?page=17#forum_thread_comment_638919 Solunar Oh fine! Lol. Here's a grudging congratulations. At least it's finished. I'm really surprised it tied in so neatly at 50k though! My novels seem to expand and flow like a stream atop a mountain. You did a thorough planning/outline? Like.. you planned out a scene and say, "I'll write 1k for this." Eh, I'm hoping to finish all three by the end of this month, which is why I've been pushing myself a lot more than past years. Dome already has 50k from Nano Camp July. It's at 9k now. Ring is at 11k - this one I really have to finish, I'm hoping to get it published. Dragons is like crack cocaine at the moment- 26.9k. But I also wanted to focus on this for Nano so it's at the juicy part, though I think I might have to switch focus back to Ring if I really want to try for publishing. Hmm.. visual and interactive incarnations? *raises an eyebrow* Fri, 11 Nov 2011 06:58:02 -0900 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/reaching-50-000/threads/16072?page=17#forum_thread_comment_639023 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/reaching-50-000/threads/16072?page=17#forum_thread_comment_639023 BloodRoseAngel DAMMIT CRABBY I was just about to set a 'first to 50k on this thread' challenge but it seems everyone else sped ahead while I was at work/sleeping (not both at the same time, don't worry XD). Congrats though :D Hm, I don't know where my story's going to finish. Theoretically I could probably wrap it up not too far past 50k but that would be a bit rushed and throw all the revelations in at once. But otherwise, the characters spend their time running away from the bad guys and I can't think of anything else to chuck in there. xD Fri, 11 Nov 2011 07:04:33 -0900 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/reaching-50-000/threads/16072?page=17#forum_thread_comment_639121 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/reaching-50-000/threads/16072?page=17#forum_thread_comment_639121 Solunar Yeah! I'm surprised crabby won this year. Looks like I'll have to refrain from eating crabs for a while in honour of the achievement of their breathen. Think I'm heading to bed for now. Didn't get 8k, only 7, but my wrists are feeling pretty good, so my hands either got stronger in the past year or my seating posture was better this time around. I THINK there's free wifi in the hotel, so hopefully I'll still be able to update my wc. Fri, 11 Nov 2011 07:09:13 -0900 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/reaching-50-000/threads/16072?page=17#forum_thread_comment_639200 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/reaching-50-000/threads/16072?page=17#forum_thread_comment_639200 crabhooves Thankyou Sol :) That means a hell of a lot coming from you - I think more than it would mean from any other nanoer. With such fine sportsmanship as well! No it was very freeform - it wasn't really a single coherent narrative, it was basically a series of short stories tied together by a meta narrative. Sort of like The Last Wish if you've ever read it (and if you haven't you really should, really tremendous fantasy and a very original world). It revolves around a festival of some sorts where every member of a certain race that can make the journey (like the Hajj on steroids) does and they recreate their past with magic for all to see and watch it unfold physically in front of their eyes. Each short story is one of those recreations. I didn't have a structure, I didn't even have any particular stories in mind when I started and I pretty much just picked them as I went along (although I had a list of ideas) and however long they went, I let them go on that long. But it tied up pretty well near the end and I'd gone over all the major themes/stories and it was all coming to the (chronological) point that I wanted it to, so I was able to end it at 50k. So are you going to try and publish all three of these? Well I suppose that triples your chances :P Are they all based on the same world, the one you told me about before with the Asian inspired fantasy creatures? The visual and interactive thing, well I realized halfway through last years nano that I didn't really love noveling, while at the same time I knew I had a huge passion for writing and world building and I've always loved video games. It's been really fun trying to make my own and it's a much better format for world building (for me at least). Right now I'm churning out the 3D assets I'll need, just before nano started I finished modelling a room in which one of the short stories takes place :D Fri, 11 Nov 2011 07:14:10 -0900 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/reaching-50-000/threads/16072?page=17#forum_thread_comment_639292 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/reaching-50-000/threads/16072?page=17#forum_thread_comment_639292 crabhooves Thanks bloodrose! I suppose the big race is between you and Sol now? (who is not going to eat crab for a while - I thank you! I can just imagine you turning it down and then having to explain why XD) I wonder who will come after you two, ollie? taja? eternalcow? my money is on ollie but who knows how tajas epic weekend writing will go. Thanks for the congrats bloodrose :) And goodnight Sol! Hope you have a great time in Malaysia tommorrow! Fri, 11 Nov 2011 07:18:17 -0900 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/reaching-50-000/threads/16072?page=17#forum_thread_comment_639351 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/reaching-50-000/threads/16072?page=17#forum_thread_comment_639351 AliceUnrequited Congratulations on 50k, Crabby!! You truly did defeat the dreaded Solunar, which makes life easier for me. If you'd lost, I would've had to switch your places in my novel and Solunar would be the wise mentor to the side story hero and you would become the eldritch abomination slain by a madman. In other news, my grandmother died yesterday. She was very old (92) and ready to go home. My mother and all of her siblings are really torn up about it, as are the cousins who are old enough to take for granted still having their grandmother when they're in their fifties and sixties. Those of us youngsters (the under 25s, mostly) are happy she's not suffering, sad that we don't have her with us anymore, and pretty damn zen about the whole thing. It's surreal. It's also not an excuse for my pitiful word count as of late. So, in honor of my grandmother, I'm going for 50k by midnight Sunday. It's going to be a long road, but I think I can make it. Fri, 11 Nov 2011 07:33:16 -0900 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/reaching-50-000/threads/16072?page=17#forum_thread_comment_639559 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/reaching-50-000/threads/16072?page=17#forum_thread_comment_639559 crabhooves I'm sorry to hear that Alice - it really does help when they're old and they've had as long and a good life as anybody can hope for (more than that in your grandmothers case it seems!). The Zen thing is awesome - hold onto it, I think it's possible to mourn someone without it being a sorrowful experience and it sounds like that's what you're doing to some extent. I can relate too - both my grandmothers died many years ago, but a few weeks ago our old neighbour who was more like a grandma to me died, I was pretty zen about it too, although the funeral really put a dent in that (ugh, they played "What a wonderful world" in the middle of the damn service and hearing that horrible gravelly voice sing that particular song, I was so sad I was actually angry). 50k by Sunday midnight is an excellent way to honour her! I'm truly excited to see how it pans out :P Do you have a plan or are you going to wing it? By the way I -love- -love- -love- that Solunar is an eldritch abomination slain by a madman. Can the madman be somebody who was a failed student of mine whos mind snapped under the pressure and now he just kills whatever he's told to? Or whatever he comes across? Can crabs be incorporated somehow? Fri, 11 Nov 2011 07:42:20 -0900 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/reaching-50-000/threads/16072?page=17#forum_thread_comment_639683 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/reaching-50-000/threads/16072?page=17#forum_thread_comment_639683 AliceUnrequited Did you miss the part where I posted your cameos?? Let me go find them for you. His brother returned, eventually, though he was too late to save their ailing mother. He told of a strange and fantastical journey, of meeting a crab with hooved feet who taught him of many things. "You must press onward, young man. Defeat the dreaded Solunar to return to your home. Only then will you be free." His brother insisted the crab had saved him, and that, on the crab's advice, he had taken the remains of the battered ship and lashed together a raft to carry him into the caves of the dreaded Solunar. It was with words from a clever crab that his brother defeated the dreaded Solunar, a vicious beast of a thousand synonyms and antonyms, an amalgamation of hastily-written words not meant to make sense to the minds of mortals. A true abomination. Through the back of the cave his brother claimed to have found a ship, and on it he sailed back into harbor. It looked like the first ship to Seth, but he'd never had the heart to correct his brother. And that is now it happened. You saved the brother of my favorite character. Fri, 11 Nov 2011 07:47:50 -0900 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/reaching-50-000/threads/16072?page=17#forum_thread_comment_639783 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/reaching-50-000/threads/16072?page=17#forum_thread_comment_639783 crabhooves Hah I'm so happy - I can't believe I missed out on that! I absolutely love it. I'm going to have to write a cameo for you, I never did write them for anyone else, because I wanted to take the proper time but then it just kept getting put off because every time I wrote I did it in sprint sessions. Funnily enough while I was reading about her death, a lyric in a song I'm listening to said "the sun was born, so it shall die". Very appropriate for our friend SOLunar. I'm still thinking of how to work her into my world, maybe I could have her as an experimental mage who's succeeded in mastering both shadow and light magics (working titles that i use to refer to them, i'm so bad with names, I still don't have a name for my book even though it's finished). That'd be pretty spectacular considering the people who practice light magic are fiercely protective and jealous of their knowledge (even knowledge of their existence) and people who practice shadow magic are fairly common but not in lands that are friendly (or even accessible most of the time) to humans. So she'd be a pretty remarkable character. Fri, 11 Nov 2011 07:55:27 -0900 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/reaching-50-000/threads/16072?page=18#forum_thread_comment_639893 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/reaching-50-000/threads/16072?page=18#forum_thread_comment_639893 Solunar Oh wow! The book you listed sounds really awesome, crabs. I should go check it out. Who's the author? Any idea? Don't wanna get the wrong book. The Asian inspired one was last years nano and... Erh. It's sitting completed in my drive. I'm not sure if I should send it in for publication.... Should I try getting all three published? Or even all four? I'm not too sure. Dome and dragons are fantasy while both the Asian one and ring have erotica elements in it. I'm actually quite surprised you have a lesbian sex scene btw! (was a little too excited to remember to address that.) and I'm glad you've found a creative outlet you're passionate about. For me, it's still books, lol. Though I do enjoy games for the stories! And Alice... Me as bad guy sounds really epic! Bring it. Kinda sad that I have to die though. I hope I die while madly yelling and gurgling blood! Fri, 11 Nov 2011 07:55:32 -0900 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/reaching-50-000/threads/16072?page=18#forum_thread_comment_639896 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/reaching-50-000/threads/16072?page=18#forum_thread_comment_639896 Solunar Just read the excerpt. Woaaaaaaah yes yes YES, sounds so awesome. mwahahahahaha. *spew synonyms and antonyms at crabs* Fri, 11 Nov 2011 07:57:49 -0900 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/reaching-50-000/threads/16072?page=18#forum_thread_comment_639932 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/reaching-50-000/threads/16072?page=18#forum_thread_comment_639932 Solunar And just read crabs post. Mwahahahahaha. Yesssss. I shall blind you with light and then crush you in darkness. I think I'm having a power trip here from lack of sleep. Okay, heading to bed. Have to be up in six hours or so. (wish the forums had an edit button) Fri, 11 Nov 2011 08:00:37 -0900 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/reaching-50-000/threads/16072?page=18#forum_thread_comment_639987 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/reaching-50-000/threads/16072?page=18#forum_thread_comment_639987 crabhooves Sol the description I gave wasn't for the last wish, it was for my own book! As forThe Last Wish, the author is, hold on lemme go find the book - there's no way in hell I can remember how to spell his name. Andrzej Sapkowski, he's a polish author and if you've ever heard of or played The Witcher - this is the novel that started it all. It's very well written - flawless composition and the morals in it are terrific and thought provoking. I think you should try to get all four published if you think they're good enough - but don't split your focus! I'd probably try and focus on getting one up to snuff, then let it sit for a while, move onto the next one and then go through them all and come back to them for a third edit, because you've got so much written you can really get the critical distance and time you need to examine and improve them. As for the lesbian sex scene - I suppose we've all got to branch out a little bit :P Fri, 11 Nov 2011 08:03:39 -0900 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/reaching-50-000/threads/16072?page=18#forum_thread_comment_640050 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/reaching-50-000/threads/16072?page=18#forum_thread_comment_640050 BloodRoseAngel Alice, sorry to hear about your grandmother ): But it's awesome that you're finishing NaNo in honour of her! I don't think I can churn out 6k tonight, it's just gone 5pm and I'll be making dinner as soon as the builder leaves. XD But we'll see. I'm a bit stuck at the moment. 8'D Fri, 11 Nov 2011 08:07:05 -0900 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/reaching-50-000/threads/16072?page=18#forum_thread_comment_640111 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/reaching-50-000/threads/16072?page=18#forum_thread_comment_640111 AliceUnrequited I'm glad you like it. I was worried that I'd get accused of picking favorites when really it just seemed more fitting that the small, hooved crab be the mentor and the word-count behemoth be the abomination. And the guy who killed you? He died because the fight with an eldritch abomination drove him mad. And because I was being mean to Seth and killing his entire family before his thirteenth birthday. Fri, 11 Nov 2011 08:18:13 -0900 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/reaching-50-000/threads/16072?page=18#forum_thread_comment_640298 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/reaching-50-000/threads/16072?page=18#forum_thread_comment_640298 caramaypearl WOW! Thanks :P I do need to just sit down and write and not get up until I have my mini goal or goal for the night done. I get logged into steam then play on FB, etc etc. Good thing is though that while I'm waiting for calls working, I'm writing in my notebook to transcribe later. Today I've actually written about 3 pages so far but I feel like I'm getting into the story and not thinking so much about what to write in next. I needed to not describe every single thing that happened one day and move on. When I can't think of anything else to write then I'll go to another future part in the story and start writing that. I've got a plan now and I am gonna crank out these words. If I can spend a couple hours chatting with people and playing video games then I can surely write 2500 tonight and go from there (instead of chat and games of course). I will report back tonight! Fri, 11 Nov 2011 11:04:05 -0900 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/reaching-50-000/threads/16072?page=17#forum_thread_comment_642993 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/reaching-50-000/threads/16072?page=17#forum_thread_comment_642993 RainbowFishie *gives Alice a hug* I'm really sorry about your grandmother ): Go for the 50k mark! We're all here to support you and provide free coffee refills! :) Fri, 11 Nov 2011 12:08:49 -0900 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/reaching-50-000/threads/16072?page=17#forum_thread_comment_644207 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/reaching-50-000/threads/16072?page=17#forum_thread_comment_644207 RainbowFishie *bows to Crabby's wordcount* I can't believe you reached 50k before the month was even half over. 'Tis truly an impressive feat. I'm still pitifully lagging behind all of you :P I'm aiming for 5k by the end of today. Hopefully, I'll reach 50k by the 25th Fri, 11 Nov 2011 12:12:16 -0900 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/reaching-50-000/threads/16072?page=18#forum_thread_comment_644269 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/reaching-50-000/threads/16072?page=18#forum_thread_comment_644269 tajavioletta Alice, I'm sorry for your loss. The zen feeling is a-okay, and a perfectly honorable way to feel. I was sad when my grandmother died at 83, but I kept remembering the long life she'd had and the things she'd seen. A toast to grandmothers! And congratulations, Crabby! Your story sounds awesome, and so does the video game idea. Of course, I feel selfishly scared that your realization about the medium means you won't do NaNo next year, and I love this thread. It's so inspiring, even when I'm bogged down in writing cover letters for (admittedly awesome) nonprofit jobs here in DC, to watch everyone set a wordcount example for me to catch up to this weekend. You rock, and so do the 2 or 3 of you about to overtake our dear Crabby! Fri, 11 Nov 2011 12:22:00 -0900 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/reaching-50-000/threads/16072?page=18#forum_thread_comment_644479 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/reaching-50-000/threads/16072?page=18#forum_thread_comment_644479 Candy_Lips This is for crabby and Sol. *had to find this so late in the month right?* Your word count mocks me! Mocks me I say!! You put my pathetic 24,407 word count to shame. *pets the word count and coos at her plunny* You'd think I'd have more written considering I'm not able to do much. But noooooo, the muses had to hate on me. I swear...any word count above 30,000 laughs at mine and calls it puny... I go try to kill myself and hit 26,000 today. HOPEFULLY. Fri, 11 Nov 2011 13:11:25 -0900 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/reaching-50-000/threads/16072?page=18#forum_thread_comment_645448 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/reaching-50-000/threads/16072?page=18#forum_thread_comment_645448 Solunar In Malaysia now, using the wifi at Starbucks. Oh, I forgot to say that I'm sorry about your grandmother, Alice. I hope your family copes with it well; it sounds like she led a good life. Bwahahaha, write people write! My mum's drinking green tea latte next to me now. It's like one sing dollar cheaper here. Took about one hour to come here, lol. Going to have foot and body massage later. Then I'm going to destroy all hope anyone has of overtaking me. Fri, 11 Nov 2011 17:27:12 -0900 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/reaching-50-000/threads/16072?page=18#forum_thread_comment_649290 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/reaching-50-000/threads/16072?page=18#forum_thread_comment_649290 thatollie Congrats Crabbs. I would try to be fourth, but I doubt I'll be done before the 17th. Fri, 11 Nov 2011 17:47:14 -0900 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/reaching-50-000/threads/16072?page=18#forum_thread_comment_649626 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/reaching-50-000/threads/16072?page=18#forum_thread_comment_649626 caramaypearl I got to 8030 tonight! I couldn't think of anything to write about towards the end so I took them to Wal-Mart! I'll work on atleast 2500 tomorrow. Thanks guys for all your butt kicking. It did help. :) Fri, 11 Nov 2011 19:36:55 -0900 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/reaching-50-000/threads/16072?page=18#forum_thread_comment_651681 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/reaching-50-000/threads/16072?page=18#forum_thread_comment_651681 thatollie You'd better write at least 2500 tomorrow. You don't wanna see these folk in proper guilt mode. Fri, 11 Nov 2011 19:53:09 -0900 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/reaching-50-000/threads/16072?page=18#forum_thread_comment_651942 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/reaching-50-000/threads/16072?page=18#forum_thread_comment_651942 P-3a Attending a write-in. 1,051 words in a 15 minute word-sprint? Yes please. Although they did just say they might have to kill me and hide the body. You now know what happened if you never hear from me again. Sat, 12 Nov 2011 04:27:21 -0900 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/reaching-50-000/threads/16072?page=18#forum_thread_comment_656016 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/reaching-50-000/threads/16072?page=18#forum_thread_comment_656016 thatollie Go do another sprint, your novel deserves more words. Sat, 12 Nov 2011 04:58:08 -0900 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/reaching-50-000/threads/16072?page=18#forum_thread_comment_656279 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/reaching-50-000/threads/16072?page=18#forum_thread_comment_656279 BloodRoseAngel Gah. It's 3pm and I haven't written anything yet. Been cleaning up the entire house in the aftermath of the building work. I have no idea how that much mess ensued from just one cupboard being built. o__o I'm not sure if I'll manage to be the second to 50k in this thread (Solunar is probably going to beat me to it very soon), but I'll try. I do have more ideas now though, I was completely stuck yesterday. XD I have to go to my grandparents' later for dinner but I'm going to take my netbook and sneak away into a corner to write. xD Sat, 12 Nov 2011 05:56:01 -0900 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/reaching-50-000/threads/16072?page=18#forum_thread_comment_656762 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/reaching-50-000/threads/16072?page=18#forum_thread_comment_656762 Shahrizai I uh ... totaled my car last night. I'm physically unharmed, just preparing to deal with massive amounts of headaches while trying to get a new car, deal with this one, etc. Someone tell me this is not an acceptable excuse for getting behind on my writing. Sat, 12 Nov 2011 13:33:43 -0900 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/reaching-50-000/threads/16072?page=18#forum_thread_comment_663528 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/reaching-50-000/threads/16072?page=18#forum_thread_comment_663528 AliceUnrequited No. No it is not. Keep writing, even if you can't stay "on track" for 50k. Every little bit helps. Sat, 12 Nov 2011 14:10:31 -0900 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/reaching-50-000/threads/16072?page=18#forum_thread_comment_664214 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/reaching-50-000/threads/16072?page=18#forum_thread_comment_664214 RainbowFishie Aiming for 5k today, but I keep procrastinating... &gt;.&lt; Sat, 12 Nov 2011 14:27:04 -0900 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/reaching-50-000/threads/16072?page=18#forum_thread_comment_664493 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/reaching-50-000/threads/16072?page=18#forum_thread_comment_664493 P-3a Back on track for today (that's a 6k word spike). I should go to the library more often but it's so far away :( Sat, 12 Nov 2011 14:45:29 -0900 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/reaching-50-000/threads/16072?page=18#forum_thread_comment_664774 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/reaching-50-000/threads/16072?page=18#forum_thread_comment_664774 P-3a (It's not actually that far away, I just have to ask parental unit for a lift, and that's a hassle. Also likely I would get very anxious being by myself without the other wrimos there.) Sat, 12 Nov 2011 14:46:41 -0900 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/reaching-50-000/threads/16072?page=18#forum_thread_comment_664794 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/reaching-50-000/threads/16072?page=18#forum_thread_comment_664794 caramaypearl Okay so I got to 50532 after some drinking. I added some crazy stuff at walmart and a spicy scene in the back of a car. I don't know what's going to happen tomorrow. Hopefully something that will bring it back to the story line. I hope to write at least 5k tomorrow and Monday since I have the days off. Yessss! Sat, 12 Nov 2011 19:41:32 -0900 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/reaching-50-000/threads/16072?page=18#forum_thread_comment_669751 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/reaching-50-000/threads/16072?page=18#forum_thread_comment_669751 thatollie Right, lunch and then more writing. Sun, 13 Nov 2011 03:49:36 -0900 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/reaching-50-000/threads/16072?page=18#forum_thread_comment_674012 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/reaching-50-000/threads/16072?page=18#forum_thread_comment_674012 Solunar Back. From my knowledge of physiotherapy, think I injured my medial collateral ligament. But that wont stop me from writing. Gaining to try to hit 3 k in the next few hours. Didn't have time or wifi to write there (have to pay). Bought back quite a bit of stuff and ate a lot pic.twitter.com/BMohAS9L Hope that link worked. First time using it. I bought two sets of headphones for cheap too. And 9 pieces of tom yam KFC chicken. Could have bought more but could barely walk. Still, that's a good excuse to stay home and write. Sun, 13 Nov 2011 04:52:42 -0900 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/reaching-50-000/threads/16072?page=18#forum_thread_comment_674287 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/reaching-50-000/threads/16072?page=18#forum_thread_comment_674287 reading-obsession That's so cute! If I wasn't paranoid about internet safety, I would favorite that. :3 I'm aiming for about 2K in the next 2 hours. Woohoo. (Note the lack of enthusiasm.) Sun, 13 Nov 2011 05:09:00 -0900 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/reaching-50-000/threads/16072?page=18#forum_thread_comment_674350 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/reaching-50-000/threads/16072?page=18#forum_thread_comment_674350 Solunar Yeah. I saw it coming down the escalator. It was... 25 Malaysian ringgit, or SG$10.22, or US$7.93. Twitter doesn't seem to be loading for me. Glad the link is right! Hm, I might be trying out sprints. Think I'll be able to only squeeze in under a k before the next one hour, 12am strikes. Sun, 13 Nov 2011 05:51:42 -0900 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/reaching-50-000/threads/16072?page=18#forum_thread_comment_674589 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/reaching-50-000/threads/16072?page=18#forum_thread_comment_674589 Candy_Lips Some one want to "encourage" me into writing 30K today? *eyetwitch* *grabs tea and settles in to kill self with word count* Sun, 13 Nov 2011 11:37:32 -0900 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/reaching-50-000/threads/16072?page=18#forum_thread_comment_677819 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/reaching-50-000/threads/16072?page=18#forum_thread_comment_677819 thatollie Getting to 30K from 28K is hardly a big push. You should be more than willing without our "help". Sun, 13 Nov 2011 11:49:06 -0900 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/reaching-50-000/threads/16072?page=18#forum_thread_comment_678029 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/reaching-50-000/threads/16072?page=18#forum_thread_comment_678029 Candy_Lips I'm feeling the pain. My wrist is swollen and my muses are dying. I'm about to add the proverbial ninja. I just need a bit of a shove to do it otherwise I'm gonna waffle. Sun, 13 Nov 2011 11:57:21 -0900 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/reaching-50-000/threads/16072?page=18#forum_thread_comment_678182 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/reaching-50-000/threads/16072?page=18#forum_thread_comment_678182 thatollie Are you going to let some poxy little greek fairy tell you that they aren't feeling up to it? They can like it or lump it as far as I'm concerned. Sun, 13 Nov 2011 11:59:47 -0900 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/reaching-50-000/threads/16072?page=18#forum_thread_comment_678230 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/reaching-50-000/threads/16072?page=18#forum_thread_comment_678230 Candy_Lips Okay, I needed that. *snickers* Thank you. I'm going to take my pencil and go back to typing now. As long as I can aim properly with the darn thing. *snickers some more* Sun, 13 Nov 2011 12:09:45 -0900 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/reaching-50-000/threads/16072?page=18#forum_thread_comment_678417 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/reaching-50-000/threads/16072?page=18#forum_thread_comment_678417 thatollie I've tried to do that before. It's not very hard but also not as fast as using les digits. In fact I'm finding it less ainless than just typing with my hands. Sun, 13 Nov 2011 12:16:10 -0900 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/reaching-50-000/threads/16072?page=18#forum_thread_comment_678535 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/reaching-50-000/threads/16072?page=18#forum_thread_comment_678535 BloodRoseAngel Whee! 50k! :D Still going though. Still going to be going for... about another 30k at least, I'd say. It's still going to be a lot shorter than last year's though, unless something surprising happens again like it did the other day. Who's to say it won't? XD Sun, 13 Nov 2011 12:29:20 -0900 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/reaching-50-000/threads/16072?page=19#forum_thread_comment_678775 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/reaching-50-000/threads/16072?page=19#forum_thread_comment_678775 thatollie Way to go Rose. Sun, 13 Nov 2011 12:46:22 -0900 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/reaching-50-000/threads/16072?page=19#forum_thread_comment_679094 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/reaching-50-000/threads/16072?page=19#forum_thread_comment_679094 RainbowFishie *bows to Rose's word count* You've done it - you've beat Sol! I swear, you guys are crazy talented Sun, 13 Nov 2011 13:02:46 -0900 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/reaching-50-000/threads/16072?page=19#forum_thread_comment_679395 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/reaching-50-000/threads/16072?page=19#forum_thread_comment_679395 Candy_Lips Woo! Go Rose! Congrats. :D And good luck with the rest of the words. Sun, 13 Nov 2011 13:23:40 -0900 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/reaching-50-000/threads/16072?page=19#forum_thread_comment_679761 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/reaching-50-000/threads/16072?page=19#forum_thread_comment_679761 BloodRoseAngel Thanks guys! 8'D I did make myself a celebratory hot chocolate, but I forgot it was there and it went cold... XD; I'll just go back to writing and lament the lost hot chocolate. Sun, 13 Nov 2011 13:26:29 -0900 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/reaching-50-000/threads/16072?page=19#forum_thread_comment_679817 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/reaching-50-000/threads/16072?page=19#forum_thread_comment_679817 caramaypearl Wow and meant to say 10532 not 50k! sheesh!!! Sun, 13 Nov 2011 13:40:51 -0900 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/reaching-50-000/threads/16072?page=18#forum_thread_comment_680069 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/reaching-50-000/threads/16072?page=18#forum_thread_comment_680069 eternalcow Congrats to Crabby and Rose!! I just hit 25K, which is exciting but would be considerably more so if I weren't pathetically behind where I should and could be. :-/ This weekend turned out to be even busier than I anticipated. And next weekend isn't looking much better. Fortunately, I have weeknights to try and push ahead. Pile on the shame, guys, wasn't I supposed to be at 30K by now?! Sun, 13 Nov 2011 16:17:57 -0900 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/reaching-50-000/threads/16072?page=19#forum_thread_comment_682612 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/reaching-50-000/threads/16072?page=19#forum_thread_comment_682612 reading-obsession Congratulations, Crabby and Rose! Whenever I look at your wordcounts and how full that blue bar is, I'm awed by the fact that you could finish a novel in less than <strong>15 days.</strong> And then the guilt sets in, like this thread should. xP Sun, 13 Nov 2011 20:22:07 -0900 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/reaching-50-000/threads/16072?page=19#forum_thread_comment_687006 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/reaching-50-000/threads/16072?page=19#forum_thread_comment_687006 Solunar Congrats, Rose! Not sure if I might be able to finish 50k soon. Had fever today and I've lost my appetite. Feeling very lethargic and groggy/ headache/light -headed. Sun, 13 Nov 2011 23:48:13 -0900 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/reaching-50-000/threads/16072?page=19#forum_thread_comment_689000 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/reaching-50-000/threads/16072?page=19#forum_thread_comment_689000 reading-obsession Awh! :/ Get well soon, Sol! Mon, 14 Nov 2011 03:45:46 -0900 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/reaching-50-000/threads/16072?page=19#forum_thread_comment_690278 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/reaching-50-000/threads/16072?page=19#forum_thread_comment_690278 thatollie Hey rainbow cake, get writing will ya. Mon, 14 Nov 2011 04:24:25 -0900 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/reaching-50-000/threads/16072?page=19#forum_thread_comment_690521 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/reaching-50-000/threads/16072?page=19#forum_thread_comment_690521 reading-obsession O.O Yes, sir. Mon, 14 Nov 2011 04:49:55 -0900 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/reaching-50-000/threads/16072?page=19#forum_thread_comment_690707 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/reaching-50-000/threads/16072?page=19#forum_thread_comment_690707 reading-obsession Finally reached 20K. I think I'll need more guilt and inspiration if I'm going to reach 25K by today, though, or at least 22/23K. xP Mon, 14 Nov 2011 05:38:40 -0900 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/reaching-50-000/threads/16072?page=19#forum_thread_comment_691094 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/reaching-50-000/threads/16072?page=19#forum_thread_comment_691094 RainbowFishie Aiming to write at least 4k today. I was supposed to have reached 30k yesterday, but I'm feeling rather lazy.... Mon, 14 Nov 2011 06:33:09 -0900 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/reaching-50-000/threads/16072?page=19#forum_thread_comment_691604 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/reaching-50-000/threads/16072?page=19#forum_thread_comment_691604 RainbowFishie That sucks ): Hope you get better soon! Mon, 14 Nov 2011 06:33:47 -0900 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/reaching-50-000/threads/16072?page=19#forum_thread_comment_691610 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/reaching-50-000/threads/16072?page=19#forum_thread_comment_691610 reading-obsession AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAGH. I HATE YOU, MOMENTUM WRITER. HATE HATE HATE YOU! I might have just lost my entire novel. Trying to recover it right now, but i dunno if it'll work. :/ Mon, 14 Nov 2011 06:41:08 -0900 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/reaching-50-000/threads/16072?page=19#forum_thread_comment_691709 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/reaching-50-000/threads/16072?page=19#forum_thread_comment_691709 eternalcow OMG! D: Did you get it back?? Mon, 14 Nov 2011 07:46:44 -0900 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/reaching-50-000/threads/16072?page=19#forum_thread_comment_692407 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/reaching-50-000/threads/16072?page=19#forum_thread_comment_692407 eternalcow Poor Sol! Get lots of rest and return to us when you can. Mon, 14 Nov 2011 07:47:10 -0900 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/reaching-50-000/threads/16072?page=19#forum_thread_comment_692416 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/reaching-50-000/threads/16072?page=19#forum_thread_comment_692416 BloodRoseAngel I hit 50k on day 10 last year, but that was thanks to writing all day, every day and also managing a 10k day when someone challenged me, haha. XD Thanks! :) Mon, 14 Nov 2011 11:26:27 -0900 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/reaching-50-000/threads/16072?page=19#forum_thread_comment_695173 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/reaching-50-000/threads/16072?page=19#forum_thread_comment_695173 BloodRoseAngel Oh, and also, my novel ain't finished. In case that makes you feel any better. ;D Mon, 14 Nov 2011 11:27:14 -0900 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/reaching-50-000/threads/16072?page=19#forum_thread_comment_695185 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/reaching-50-000/threads/16072?page=19#forum_thread_comment_695185 Candy_Lips If I can reach for my daily word count with a hangover, I'm sure you can do it while feeling lazy. Mon, 14 Nov 2011 13:40:55 -0900 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/reaching-50-000/threads/16072?page=19#forum_thread_comment_697415 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/reaching-50-000/threads/16072?page=19#forum_thread_comment_697415 Solunar Thanks rainbow cake, Fishie and cow! I spent most of yesterday sleeping and woke up without any fever or headache today. My knee doesn't hurt as much when I walk with a knee guard now. Will try to hit 50k today. Mon, 14 Nov 2011 21:15:05 -0900 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/reaching-50-000/threads/16072?page=19#forum_thread_comment_704523 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/reaching-50-000/threads/16072?page=19#forum_thread_comment_704523 reading-obsession Nope :/ I'm going to see if i can find a backup file, but I doubt I have one. Might have to back out this year... Tue, 15 Nov 2011 01:21:45 -0900 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/reaching-50-000/threads/16072?page=19#forum_thread_comment_706059 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/reaching-50-000/threads/16072?page=19#forum_thread_comment_706059 reading-obsession So I guess it's final... I'll pulling out of NaNo this year. :/ Tue, 15 Nov 2011 06:11:48 -0900 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/reaching-50-000/threads/16072?page=19#forum_thread_comment_708114 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/reaching-50-000/threads/16072?page=19#forum_thread_comment_708114 BloodRoseAngel Aw, what happened? D: Tue, 15 Nov 2011 06:40:35 -0900 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/reaching-50-000/threads/16072?page=19#forum_thread_comment_708417 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/reaching-50-000/threads/16072?page=19#forum_thread_comment_708417 elwrites I'm at college for 10 hours a day four days a week, work part time, and get eight hours of sleep every night. So, what's everyone else's excuses? AmIdoin'thisright? Tue, 15 Nov 2011 06:51:52 -0900 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/reaching-50-000/threads/16072?page=19#forum_thread_comment_708575 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/reaching-50-000/threads/16072?page=19#forum_thread_comment_708575 eternalcow Oh, you poor thing. *hugs* That is the absolute worst feeling. I encourage you to stick around and chat with us or do some writing just for fun, but I understand if you're too heartbroken. Tue, 15 Nov 2011 10:09:23 -0900 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/reaching-50-000/threads/16072?page=19#forum_thread_comment_711053 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/reaching-50-000/threads/16072?page=19#forum_thread_comment_711053 eternalcow I can't believe you posted this 13 hours ago and we haven't seen a 50K victory post yet...I really want to poke you but I'm worried you've had a relapse. If you have, get better again soon (that's an order!). If not, let's see that 50K. :) Tue, 15 Nov 2011 10:11:28 -0900 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/reaching-50-000/threads/16072?page=19#forum_thread_comment_711080 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/reaching-50-000/threads/16072?page=19#forum_thread_comment_711080 Candy_Lips I have no excuse! No...wait. I do. My mother gave me her fraggin' cold (again) and I'm dealing with a left over party hangover. But I'm kicking the word count. *smiles* Tue, 15 Nov 2011 10:59:54 -0900 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/reaching-50-000/threads/16072?page=19#forum_thread_comment_711800 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/reaching-50-000/threads/16072?page=19#forum_thread_comment_711800 thatollie Oh man, I have to crack on. Tue, 15 Nov 2011 14:51:44 -0900 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/reaching-50-000/threads/16072?page=19#forum_thread_comment_715642 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/reaching-50-000/threads/16072?page=19#forum_thread_comment_715642 reading-obsession My novel got wiped. Terrifying thing... D: Tue, 15 Nov 2011 16:30:20 -0900 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/reaching-50-000/threads/16072?page=19#forum_thread_comment_717230 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/reaching-50-000/threads/16072?page=19#forum_thread_comment_717230 reading-obsession Of course I'll still stay on! (: And I'll definitely do some writing, just for fun. I don't think a week could go by without me writing anything, even if it's a simple paragraph or a short story. :3 Tue, 15 Nov 2011 16:34:40 -0900 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/reaching-50-000/threads/16072?page=19#forum_thread_comment_717283 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/reaching-50-000/threads/16072?page=19#forum_thread_comment_717283 eternalcow Oh good! I'm pretty sure you get to hand out as much guilt as you like, too. We're all ungrateful bastards if we don't work hard. :) Tue, 15 Nov 2011 16:54:20 -0900 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/reaching-50-000/threads/16072?page=19#forum_thread_comment_717579 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/reaching-50-000/threads/16072?page=19#forum_thread_comment_717579 RainbowFishie *gives you a hug, a rainbow pony, and a cookie-donut hybrid (yeah, I went there)* That's awful! D': You know what they say when bad things happen ~ hakuna mattata (yeah, I have been watching waaay too much Lion King - don't ask) But it's okay. You can always try against next year! On the bright side, at least you managed to reach over 21k this year! 21k is much better than nothing. Tue, 15 Nov 2011 18:51:15 -0900 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/reaching-50-000/threads/16072?page=19#forum_thread_comment_718694 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/reaching-50-000/threads/16072?page=19#forum_thread_comment_718694 RainbowFishie Blibbering humdingers, you have to deal with that much, but you already have over 71k?! Ah, I really have to get off my lazy ass... Tue, 15 Nov 2011 18:52:24 -0900 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/reaching-50-000/threads/16072?page=19#forum_thread_comment_718716 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/reaching-50-000/threads/16072?page=19#forum_thread_comment_718716 RainbowFishie Yes, yes you do Tue, 15 Nov 2011 18:52:32 -0900 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/reaching-50-000/threads/16072?page=19#forum_thread_comment_718718 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/reaching-50-000/threads/16072?page=19#forum_thread_comment_718718 Solunar Thanks for the, erh, push. Yeah, I was more procrastinating and worrying over my leg yesterday than having any fever. There was a really loud cracking sound when I got injured so I was fearing for my meniscus. I think it's sort of recovered now. I can walk, though the bone still cracks when I do certain exercises. Will write today. Tue, 15 Nov 2011 23:50:20 -0900 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/reaching-50-000/threads/16072?page=19#forum_thread_comment_721848 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/reaching-50-000/threads/16072?page=19#forum_thread_comment_721848 Solunar Rainbow cake, you're pulling out? Loser. Yes, you're a loser for pulling out after a novel wipe. There are actually other alternatives you can take from here, after you've gotten over your psychological slump of losing words. Whether you continue to win is all in your mind. 1) Carry on writing your novel from where you stopped. You should roughly be able to gauge where it is. Continue writing from there or at the next scene change and add the words to your current word count. The beginning part of your novel? Write it in after November. That's known as the second draft. Not only will you be able to write faster because you know what's going to happen, but you'll also be more aware of characters and settings leading to richer descriptions. Have faith in your mind. 2) Start a whole new novel from 50k up. Crab, Rose, and countless others all over the boards have shown that writing a novel in under half a month is possible as long as you have the discipline. You can either write a whole new plot so you don't feel as fatigued or have the bad stigma so far associated with it. OR you can continue writing your current novel, since you've already trodden down that path. The journey will be much smoother now. There has to have been something in your current plot idea that captured you so badly to devote one month of your life to this. Let's do the calculations. 1) 21k words at your current count. 24k in 14 days to hit 50k. 1.7k a day. Not too bad. 2) 50k words in a new novel. 50k in 14 days. 3.5 k a day. I had a look at your word count chart and it's clear that you're capable of up to 4k a day. There is of course, another option. 3) 0k words in 0 novel. 0 words in 14 days. 0 words a day. 0 word wars. 0 novels at the end of November. 0 winner's bar. I'm not saying it's going to be easy restarting or carrying on when you know you've lost words, but to dwell on your past failure instead of using that to build your future success just leaves you mucking about with nothing to show at the end of this month. Take a day off to clear your mind and then decide. Maybe start plotting a new novel or plan our where your current one is supposed to go from here. You have not failed nor lost until you have given up. Thomas Edison was interviewed by a young reporter who boldly asked Mr. Edison if he felt like a failure and if he thought he should have just given up by now. Perplexed, Edison replied, "Young man, why would I feel like a failure? And why would I ever give up? I now know definitively over 9,000 ways that an electric light bulb will not work. Success is almost in my grasp." And shortly after that, at over 10,000 attempts, Edison invented the carbon filament light bulb. Wed, 16 Nov 2011 00:28:12 -0900 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/reaching-50-000/threads/16072?page=19#forum_thread_comment_721977 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/reaching-50-000/threads/16072?page=19#forum_thread_comment_721977 reading-obsession Oh, I'd be delighted to. It's my favorite part of the forum! &gt;:D Wed, 16 Nov 2011 01:54:59 -0900 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/reaching-50-000/threads/16072?page=19#forum_thread_comment_722369 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/reaching-50-000/threads/16072?page=19#forum_thread_comment_722369 reading-obsession I love the Lion King :D And that's true! I think last year I was struggling to get by. Did much better this year, even if it wasn't by much. xP Wed, 16 Nov 2011 02:25:40 -0900 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/reaching-50-000/threads/16072?page=19#forum_thread_comment_722558 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/reaching-50-000/threads/16072?page=19#forum_thread_comment_722558 AliceUnrequited And afterwards he spent the rest of his life trying to discredit Nikola Tesla because when Edison refused to pay Tesla for his work on Edison's DC system, Tesla quit. Edison was kind of an enormous douchebag. A very persistent one, though. In other news, I'm terrible and haven't done much writing in the past few days. Too busy with school work and yesterday's DnD campaign (which was fun, they liked the Good Magician Humfrey stuff, though the last challenge was rushed). I'm still woefully behind at 21k. The same number I've had since Friday. I need guilt, I think. Wed, 16 Nov 2011 06:08:34 -0900 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/reaching-50-000/threads/16072?page=19#forum_thread_comment_724318 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/reaching-50-000/threads/16072?page=19#forum_thread_comment_724318 reading-obsession That was... inspirational, to say the least, Sol! You have a way with words that could make someone do anything. I think I might actually continue writing because of you. You're a wonder! Wed, 16 Nov 2011 06:17:18 -0900 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/reaching-50-000/threads/16072?page=19#forum_thread_comment_724418 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/reaching-50-000/threads/16072?page=19#forum_thread_comment_724418 reading-obsession Aaaaand we have another winner! Congratulations, Sol! (: Wed, 16 Nov 2011 07:04:26 -0900 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/reaching-50-000/threads/16072?page=19#forum_thread_comment_724937 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/reaching-50-000/threads/16072?page=19#forum_thread_comment_724937 Solunar Yup, not saying Edison is superhuman and incapable of faults. Just saying that he was one determined man, which is an admirable trait. One which you seem to need since you're still at the same number. I went overseas, limped back, recovered from a fever and just hit 50k while you haven't budged a number? ͠ʘ_͠ʘ Wed, 16 Nov 2011 07:04:50 -0900 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/reaching-50-000/threads/16072?page=19#forum_thread_comment_724939 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/reaching-50-000/threads/16072?page=19#forum_thread_comment_724939 Solunar Phew. Here I thought I went overboard. Do it. Really. I just hit 50k but I'm far from my goal of completing all the novels, so I'm still fighting. Unlike crabby who's slinked back into his crab hole, I'll still be sticking around for moral support if you need it. I think I might be behind schedule as well. Going to try to get back to my 4k or 5k per day avg tomorrow. 50k was just a stepping stone to greater things. Just like how your wipe out should be a stepping stone to an even better novel. The words you wrote weren't wasted because they served as practice for your craft. Wed, 16 Nov 2011 07:16:19 -0900 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/reaching-50-000/threads/16072?page=19#forum_thread_comment_725066 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/reaching-50-000/threads/16072?page=19#forum_thread_comment_725066 Solunar Thank you! :D You should join me. Lol. Wed, 16 Nov 2011 07:17:56 -0900 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/reaching-50-000/threads/16072?page=19#forum_thread_comment_725088 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/reaching-50-000/threads/16072?page=19#forum_thread_comment_725088 thatollie I just need ten more Ks. Wed, 16 Nov 2011 08:45:47 -0900 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/reaching-50-000/threads/16072?page=19#forum_thread_comment_726143 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/reaching-50-000/threads/16072?page=19#forum_thread_comment_726143 BloodRoseAngel Congrats, Sol! :D I went Christmas shopping after work today instead of coming straight home to write... 8'D I need to get my momentum back up again. Wed, 16 Nov 2011 12:34:42 -0900 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/reaching-50-000/threads/16072?page=19#forum_thread_comment_729323 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/reaching-50-000/threads/16072?page=19#forum_thread_comment_729323 BloodRoseAngel I would cry if that happened to me! X'D Wed, 16 Nov 2011 12:35:22 -0900 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/reaching-50-000/threads/16072?page=19#forum_thread_comment_729332 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/reaching-50-000/threads/16072?page=19#forum_thread_comment_729332 eternalcow Congratulations, Sol!! I'm going to try and pull ahead by at least a bit again tonight. Because I'm not sure how much time I'll have for writing Thursday through Saturday. D: Wed, 16 Nov 2011 13:01:59 -0900 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/reaching-50-000/threads/16072?page=19#forum_thread_comment_729744 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/reaching-50-000/threads/16072?page=19#forum_thread_comment_729744 eternalcow Yay Nikola Tesla! Have you heard this song about him? http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S2dDdVSU6M4 Yes, my dorkiness knows few bounds. :P Wed, 16 Nov 2011 13:03:49 -0900 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/reaching-50-000/threads/16072?page=19#forum_thread_comment_729766 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/reaching-50-000/threads/16072?page=19#forum_thread_comment_729766 Nessabutterfly I totally fell asleep at 11 pm and got up to write in the morning. I look like I need to be guilted now, but really, I'm recovering from surgery-- hopefully I'll get back to writing in another day or so... Wed, 16 Nov 2011 14:25:42 -0900 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/reaching-50-000/threads/16072?page=2#forum_thread_comment_731039 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/reaching-50-000/threads/16072?page=2#forum_thread_comment_731039 Nessabutterfly I'm back... I don't need guilt anymore, but gentle encouragement to get started back in might be appreciated. I set up my month to be able to finish in 20 days because I had MAJOR surgery on the 10th and knew I'd need a bit of time to recover. Physically, I'm recovering a lot faster than expected and *could* be writing again. Mentally... I got the pathology back on my tumor yesterday and it's not stage one (cured by surgery) like they thought. It's stage 3 and I'll be starting chemo in 3 weeks and have less than a 50% chance of survival. Scared out of me mind. Fear is not so great for writing-- it's kinda paralyzing. Hard to slip back into my fairytale world when I'm facing possible death! But there's nothing that should be keeping me from writing, and I know it's about the only thing in my entire world that I can actually control right now. I'm losing everywhere I turn-- it would be so nice to *win* something. And being published would be a nice thing to leave behind if I do end up dying... so yeah, gentle guilt, please. Wed, 16 Nov 2011 14:34:32 -0900 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/reaching-50-000/threads/16072?page=19#forum_thread_comment_731174 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/reaching-50-000/threads/16072?page=19#forum_thread_comment_731174 eternalcow Oh my goodness, I can't even imagine how difficult this must be to face. You'll be in my thoughts. *hugs* It sounds like you're already on your way to being well self-motivated, but I'll add that writing has always been really therapeutic for me in hard times, when I've been able to push myself into doing it. I've never had to go through something so difficult, but it seems like being able to slip away into a wonderful world you've created (and have something to share with people later) could be a good distraction. Creation is good for the mind, and maybe it can be something good in your life you can look to for comfort - and, like you said, something that you can control and WIN. You can do it! Wed, 16 Nov 2011 16:48:16 -0900 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/reaching-50-000/threads/16072?page=19#forum_thread_comment_733089 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/reaching-50-000/threads/16072?page=19#forum_thread_comment_733089 thatollie Whew, that feels better. Wed, 16 Nov 2011 18:37:31 -0900 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/reaching-50-000/threads/16072?page=20#forum_thread_comment_734352 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/reaching-50-000/threads/16072?page=20#forum_thread_comment_734352 RakkiFox You've got a whole lot of people right here, cheering you on in your writing and your path to health. Just remember, no matter what anyone tells you about percentages or odds, there will be no coin flip to determine your life or death. You always have a chance. Forget the odds. Screw that noise. Hold on to the positive conviction that every minute you're still here breathing is a moment of victory. Don't look to the possible finish--of you or this month or your book. Just focus on every moment and every word you can grab with both hands. There are no promises in life. But you are here, now, and by all the words in the OED, your life story will be worth reading, no matter how long or short. Get out there and start writing, honey. Wed, 16 Nov 2011 19:34:43 -0900 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/reaching-50-000/threads/16072?page=19#forum_thread_comment_735234 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/reaching-50-000/threads/16072?page=19#forum_thread_comment_735234 RainbowFishie I'm so sorry about that ): Life is short, and we've got to make the most of it. You most certainly are making the most of it. Don't say that you're losing everywhere you turn, because you aren't. You're a winner, and you're a survivor. Don't let people and statistics tell you whether or not you're going to live or die. You are going to win this, and we'll be here to support you the entire time! Wed, 16 Nov 2011 19:46:21 -0900 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/reaching-50-000/threads/16072?page=19#forum_thread_comment_735394 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/reaching-50-000/threads/16072?page=19#forum_thread_comment_735394 RainbowFishie Congrats, Sol! Excellent job! I'm still a long way to go from 50k xD Wed, 16 Nov 2011 19:46:57 -0900 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/reaching-50-000/threads/16072?page=19#forum_thread_comment_735402 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/reaching-50-000/threads/16072?page=19#forum_thread_comment_735402 Solunar Thank you! Yeah, you better write. I'm coming for your word count today. &gt;:) Wed, 16 Nov 2011 19:48:51 -0900 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/reaching-50-000/threads/16072?page=19#forum_thread_comment_735422 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/reaching-50-000/threads/16072?page=19#forum_thread_comment_735422 Solunar Thank you! Go for it, cow! Just imagine how great it would feel to complete ahead of time, no pressure, and laugh at everyone else stumbling over the finishing line like dazed zombies. Wed, 16 Nov 2011 19:50:43 -0900 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/reaching-50-000/threads/16072?page=19#forum_thread_comment_735438 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/reaching-50-000/threads/16072?page=19#forum_thread_comment_735438 Solunar Good to see you back, butterfly :) Firstly, about your 50% survival statistic. Did the doctor say if it was a five year relative rate of survival? Or how many years into the future did he give? The thing with survival statistics is that they take a group of patients similar to your tumor pathology and see how they are doing so many years in the future. If half of the group survives - that means a 50% chance of survival. If less than half, then less than 50%. So, what does this mean for you? Well, first of all, this means that the patients that they base the statistics on were receiving treatment from years ago. Definitely, the treatment you will be receiving now as compared to whenever the statistics were taken will be better. Not only because those who survived helped them gather more data on how to treat it, but because of technology. Medicine is a lucrative business, one which involves a lot of money being poured in to research and development. Technology will have improved treatment for you. On top of that, those people? They are not you. Even between twins, who are the most genetically similar beings we can have, there are large differences. Those people researched did not share the same food habits, upbringing, and strong will to complete Nano even when you just went through surgery. That strong will that drove you back to the forum is the thing that will make you part of the group of survivors. Because you understand this is just another road bump in the story of your life. You know that no matter what, creation of your own world will come about in spite, and maybe because of the possible destruction you're facing. In fact, don't ignore what you're feeling. Write it into your novel. I just read through your novel info and it says that you still need a villain. Well, I think you've found one. All heroes have to face their mortality. What you do despite the fear and confusion inflicted on you is what will make you great. Wed, 16 Nov 2011 20:28:04 -0900 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/reaching-50-000/threads/16072?page=19#forum_thread_comment_735888 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/reaching-50-000/threads/16072?page=19#forum_thread_comment_735888 Nessabutterfly Thanks for the encouragement! My husband reminded me today that my attitude is what is helping me heal from surgey unexpectedly fast-- maybe it'll keep me strong for the long haul too-- I'm freakishly stubborn! As for the villain thing-- need to edit that-- I forgot that I already had one-- he doesn't turn out to be one in the end, but the fills the role well for a time, and causes quite a bit of tension. Cancer will be next year's villain (assuming I'm still alive to write next year's NaNo). Wed, 16 Nov 2011 21:33:52 -0900 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/reaching-50-000/threads/16072?page=19#forum_thread_comment_736469 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/reaching-50-000/threads/16072?page=19#forum_thread_comment_736469 crabhooves I really should be editing XD I haven't checked this thread properly since I hit 50k. Taja you misunderstood me! I got the games realization in the middle of last years nano but I still came back this year, I still enjoy writing even if I don't want to do it full time, so this thread will definitely be back next year and every year after that ^_^ Wed, 16 Nov 2011 22:00:45 -0900 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/reaching-50-000/threads/16072?page=20#forum_thread_comment_736686 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/reaching-50-000/threads/16072?page=20#forum_thread_comment_736686 BloodRoseAngel What RakkiFox said is right - doctors don't know everything, and percentages are never going to be accurate. I was told I have an illness that could never be cured - a couple of years later, I got discharged from hospital because it vanished! I can see that you've already got the strong will to keep on writing. Keep on going, we're all behind you! &lt;3 Thu, 17 Nov 2011 01:50:35 -0900 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/reaching-50-000/threads/16072?page=19#forum_thread_comment_737941 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/reaching-50-000/threads/16072?page=19#forum_thread_comment_737941 BloodRoseAngel Gaaahh I'm only about 60-70% of the way through my novel and I've slowed down since I hit 50k. I didn't get lazy last year after I hit it, so I don't think it's that, I think I'm just sort of in that part of the story where you've got past the fun stuff and are just trying to work out how to fit everything together, and you need to speed it up again. &gt;_&lt; Someone kick me 8'D Thu, 17 Nov 2011 02:30:54 -0900 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/reaching-50-000/threads/16072?page=20#forum_thread_comment_738130 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/reaching-50-000/threads/16072?page=20#forum_thread_comment_738130 Nessabutterfly I'll put on my pointy little boots! Thwap! Thu, 17 Nov 2011 16:35:18 -0900 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/reaching-50-000/threads/16072?page=20#forum_thread_comment_747264 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/reaching-50-000/threads/16072?page=20#forum_thread_comment_747264 Nessabutterfly Okay-- I have no excuse. I'm just goofing off online. There is nothing exciting online. I'm just getting depressed and feeling sorry for myself. I NEED to write. So smack me if that word count doesn;t start moving again-- I've used all but one day of the 'break" I scheduled for myself, and that was a maximum number. Starting slow is fine, but I need to START! Thu, 17 Nov 2011 16:37:07 -0900 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/reaching-50-000/threads/16072?page=20#forum_thread_comment_747280 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/reaching-50-000/threads/16072?page=20#forum_thread_comment_747280 RainbowFishie Finally reached 30k xD I've been swamped in homework, not to mention that I have a huge debate coming up which I have to prep for. Thanksgiving break shall be my savior! (otherwise I'm never gonna reach 50k by the end of November) Thu, 17 Nov 2011 20:23:23 -0900 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/reaching-50-000/threads/16072?page=20#forum_thread_comment_749792 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/reaching-50-000/threads/16072?page=20#forum_thread_comment_749792 Nessabutterfly I suck-- I STILL didn't write anything. I NEED to write tomorrow. During the day. Thu, 17 Nov 2011 23:08:11 -0900 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/reaching-50-000/threads/16072?page=20#forum_thread_comment_750971 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/reaching-50-000/threads/16072?page=20#forum_thread_comment_750971 Nessabutterfly I wrote 260ish words. Not much, but maybe enough to get the story back into my head as a story rather than an obscure project I should be working on. Rereading the last few pages helped (since it's been so long). Now to sleep... Fri, 18 Nov 2011 00:46:35 -0900 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/reaching-50-000/threads/16072?page=20#forum_thread_comment_751451 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/reaching-50-000/threads/16072?page=20#forum_thread_comment_751451 Solunar Sleep well. :) Fri, 18 Nov 2011 05:12:29 -0900 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/reaching-50-000/threads/16072?page=20#forum_thread_comment_752765 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/reaching-50-000/threads/16072?page=20#forum_thread_comment_752765 Solunar I've been slacking the past few days. Oh jeez. Well, I just drank some ice lemon tea so I should be awake for quite a while tonight. Going to dash for the next hour or so. The guilt is building up. Fri, 18 Nov 2011 05:13:15 -0900 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/reaching-50-000/threads/16072?page=20#forum_thread_comment_752769 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/reaching-50-000/threads/16072?page=20#forum_thread_comment_752769 AliceUnrequited How caffeinated is that tea? Fri, 18 Nov 2011 05:15:00 -0900 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/reaching-50-000/threads/16072?page=20#forum_thread_comment_752779 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/reaching-50-000/threads/16072?page=20#forum_thread_comment_752779 Dawnz_Rose I need to get my butt in gear, but it seems as if November has conspired against me. But im determined to do it! i can and will finish this. Fri, 18 Nov 2011 05:19:56 -0900 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/reaching-50-000/threads/16072?page=20#forum_thread_comment_752808 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/reaching-50-000/threads/16072?page=20#forum_thread_comment_752808 Solunar Not too caffeinated. Normal Pokka Ice Lemon Tea. http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_AAqcUW7nBWc/TTwcJ2swA1I/AAAAAAAAAEo/64DHEXi5qmQ/s200/pokka.gif I don't usually drink tea or coffee so I'm extremely sensitive to caffeine. Even eating dark chocolate at 9pm keeps me up until 4am. And if I drink a full cup of coffee, my heart goes all jittery and my hands shake, so I drink half a cup in the morning if I really need it. Green tea is perfect though. Fri, 18 Nov 2011 05:40:19 -0900 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/reaching-50-000/threads/16072?page=20#forum_thread_comment_752961 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/reaching-50-000/threads/16072?page=20#forum_thread_comment_752961 Solunar Go for it. :) I'm heading to the word wars thread now I think. Fri, 18 Nov 2011 05:41:14 -0900 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/reaching-50-000/threads/16072?page=20#forum_thread_comment_752971 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/reaching-50-000/threads/16072?page=20#forum_thread_comment_752971 GothiqueSukkubus Halfway to where I should be. =/ BUT! Rather than totally wallowing in despair, I'm going a bit above the recommended "daily words needed to make goal on time". Right now, it's 2600 and some change. i wrote 2500 yesterday easily, so if I kick out 3-5k daily, I'll be in business. I've discovered that I usually lose momentum when I get behind because I feel like I should be able to make everything up in one day. 15k, while possible in one day, isn't something that would lead to any credible work. I'd rather have 35k usable words than 50k of utter tripe. So, 3-5k daily. Much more attainable and easy to digest than 7-10k daily. Congrats to everyone who hit the 50k goal already! I'll be there too, by the 30th! &lt;3 Fri, 18 Nov 2011 08:01:40 -0900 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/reaching-50-000/threads/16072?page=20#forum_thread_comment_754118 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/reaching-50-000/threads/16072?page=20#forum_thread_comment_754118 RakkiFox Good to see you back in this. I'm in the same situation. I got a little behind and started to talk myself out of ever writing at all because I couldn't possibly get it all made up in one day. So I had more and more days of little or no writing. But I managed to trick, confuse, and bully myself into some solid work yesterday. Got a major morale boost out of that and I'm feeling like I can make it through that deficit now. Here's to nibbling our way to the finish line. :D Fri, 18 Nov 2011 09:10:27 -0900 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/reaching-50-000/threads/16072?page=20#forum_thread_comment_754788 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/reaching-50-000/threads/16072?page=20#forum_thread_comment_754788 crabhooves omg Solunar im just reading the old posts now - are you ok? Still injured? Also my many congratulations on 50k! (i'm so bad, got my grats and then spaced out for a while). Is rainbow cake ever coming back? You're so right Sol - she could have done a whole novel in less than half a month, but I suppose the loss was too demoralizing. I don't know what happened specifically - but back this shit up people! Dropbox is your friend, a second copy in google docs is also your friend! Bloodrose - congrats on 50k! You were the third to hit it right? You're a bloody champion gurl. Nessa - I'm not sure what I can say that wouldn't be hackneyed or stereotyped, but you've already shown tremendous strength in the face of all this adversity, so you already know you have it in you, just keep going, you basically just need to keep doing something you already know how to and can do (being strong) and you'll be fine ^_^ Fri, 18 Nov 2011 15:40:18 -0900 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/reaching-50-000/threads/16072?page=20#forum_thread_comment_759193 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/reaching-50-000/threads/16072?page=20#forum_thread_comment_759193 RainbowFishie Derf, I've only written about 300 words today xP I'm feeling so lazy, I've spent the last 4 hours procrastinating. Not to mention that I still have to find at least 18 perfect, strong points for a major debate, write a brilliant introduction and conclusion, go back and revise the debate plan, then re-revise it. And my teammates are dumping all of the work on me -_- I'm almost tempted to give up on NaNo xP But I won't! I shall hit 50k even if it means pulling an all-nighter every day next week! Now, somebody slap me before I go back to my tumblr and continue procrastinating... Fri, 18 Nov 2011 17:12:34 -0900 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/reaching-50-000/threads/16072?page=20#forum_thread_comment_760206 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/reaching-50-000/threads/16072?page=20#forum_thread_comment_760206 MageQueenHoshi I need the real Crab here. I about quit NaNo for the season a few days ago, but I tried to pick up the pieces by realizing I wont hit 75k this year, but I can still aim for 50k. Problem is I am still kind of behind for where I should be to even win that. If I do not some how pull out another couple thousand tonight, I will be lucky to finish 50k by Dec 4th. And I had been hoping to hit 50k for NoWD to ring the dang bell! /fail //violin ///help? Fri, 18 Nov 2011 17:36:37 -0900 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/reaching-50-000/threads/16072?page=20#forum_thread_comment_760432 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/reaching-50-000/threads/16072?page=20#forum_thread_comment_760432 Solunar Lol, thanks for asking, crabby! Yup, better now. Still pain in my knee when I walk, but slowly recovering. Should be okay by the end of next week. Yeah, you definitely spaced out for a while there. Trying to get back into my stride here as well. All my stories are quite far from over. Fri, 18 Nov 2011 22:02:37 -0900 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/reaching-50-000/threads/16072?page=20#forum_thread_comment_763239 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/reaching-50-000/threads/16072?page=20#forum_thread_comment_763239 Solunar Your teammates suck. Take a whip to them. Or tell your teacher you did all the work. Fri, 18 Nov 2011 22:03:15 -0900 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/reaching-50-000/threads/16072?page=20#forum_thread_comment_763247 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/reaching-50-000/threads/16072?page=20#forum_thread_comment_763247 BloodRoseAngel Ouch! DX *writes* Sat, 19 Nov 2011 02:14:00 -0900 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/reaching-50-000/threads/16072?page=20#forum_thread_comment_764436 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/reaching-50-000/threads/16072?page=20#forum_thread_comment_764436 BloodRoseAngel I think I was second, I hit it a few days after you and then Sol a day or so after me. If I remember right. Someone correct me if I'm wrong. XD Thanks! Sat, 19 Nov 2011 02:15:50 -0900 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/reaching-50-000/threads/16072?page=20#forum_thread_comment_764449 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/reaching-50-000/threads/16072?page=20#forum_thread_comment_764449 BloodRoseAngel I just realised my ol' friend catcrunchies hasn't been lurking here for quite a while. She was quite ferocious last year. xD; Sat, 19 Nov 2011 02:17:13 -0900 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/reaching-50-000/threads/16072?page=20#forum_thread_comment_764453 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/reaching-50-000/threads/16072?page=20#forum_thread_comment_764453 P-3a I think I'm going to run out of story to tell by about 30k, so I might pad the remaining 20k with short stories. Do... is that okay, do you think? Better than failing miserably (which is what seems to be on the cards right now)? Never gonna get published anyway 8D Sat, 19 Nov 2011 04:24:53 -0900 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/reaching-50-000/threads/16072?page=20#forum_thread_comment_765016 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/reaching-50-000/threads/16072?page=20#forum_thread_comment_765016 Solunar I think it's fine. Just write "And just around the corner, a storyteller was saying..." Or something to that effect. Give a semblance of linkage, lol. Annnnd I just got sucked into Snoopy's Fair for an hour. It's damn addicting to collect the coins. Sat, 19 Nov 2011 05:05:21 -0900 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/reaching-50-000/threads/16072?page=20#forum_thread_comment_765233 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/reaching-50-000/threads/16072?page=20#forum_thread_comment_765233 BloodRoseAngel Gah the latest donor-only pep talk encourages us to try and finish our novel within the month. I finished my actual novel 25 days after NaNo finished last year (yep, on Christmas Day, because I was obviously feeling sociable then XP). I don't know if I can do it this year either! xD Oh well. I'LL DAMN WELL TRY. Sat, 19 Nov 2011 05:28:37 -0900 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/reaching-50-000/threads/16072?page=20#forum_thread_comment_765376 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/reaching-50-000/threads/16072?page=20#forum_thread_comment_765376 P-3a I've decided to flesh out some off-handed "noodle incident" style things that I mentioned in previous chapters, including the one in my synopsis (2MC, age 10, defeats dragon). Let's see how this goes shall we. Sat, 19 Nov 2011 05:48:02 -0900 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/reaching-50-000/threads/16072?page=20#forum_thread_comment_765476 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/reaching-50-000/threads/16072?page=20#forum_thread_comment_765476 thatollie Oh gods, I'm going to make it. Sat, 19 Nov 2011 15:07:31 -0900 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/reaching-50-000/threads/16072?page=20#forum_thread_comment_771636 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/reaching-50-000/threads/16072?page=20#forum_thread_comment_771636 meredithjunior I'm so far behind right now, and I have so much school work next week, and I need to write right now or I'll fall even farther behind but my plot is going nowhere... :( Sat, 19 Nov 2011 15:14:18 -0900 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/reaching-50-000/threads/16072?page=20#forum_thread_comment_771735 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/reaching-50-000/threads/16072?page=20#forum_thread_comment_771735 Candy_Lips *laughs hysterically before falling over and twitching* I think I beat my last two records. I finished before Thanksgiving. Now! On to the other 13,000 or so words planned out! Sat, 19 Nov 2011 15:16:33 -0900 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/reaching-50-000/threads/16072?page=20#forum_thread_comment_771761 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/reaching-50-000/threads/16072?page=20#forum_thread_comment_771761 meredithjunior I hate you (and by you I mean your wordcount :P) Sat, 19 Nov 2011 15:23:10 -0900 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/reaching-50-000/threads/16072?page=20#forum_thread_comment_771853 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/reaching-50-000/threads/16072?page=20#forum_thread_comment_771853 Candy_Lips *looks cute and innocent* Not my fault I had a 5K day and that I tended to write 2K a day. I have no life. Sat, 19 Nov 2011 15:28:33 -0900 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/reaching-50-000/threads/16072?page=20#forum_thread_comment_771914 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/reaching-50-000/threads/16072?page=20#forum_thread_comment_771914 thatollie You can do it. You're only four days behind the count. Hmm, not guilt inducing enough . . . Jeez, you were almost on track a few days ago and then stopped . . . if you could've just gotten a little bit done you'd be a little closer. It's okay though, you can make it up if you write 800ish words three times a day for the rest of November. Sat, 19 Nov 2011 15:29:29 -0900 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/reaching-50-000/threads/16072?page=20#forum_thread_comment_771922 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/reaching-50-000/threads/16072?page=20#forum_thread_comment_771922 meredithjunior *curls up in a corner* I know! @Candy_Lips, I still hate you Sat, 19 Nov 2011 15:36:04 -0900 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/reaching-50-000/threads/16072?page=20#forum_thread_comment_771979 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/reaching-50-000/threads/16072?page=20#forum_thread_comment_771979 Candy_Lips *offers something yummy* Come on! You can do it! I did it. I actually thought I would end up finishing closer to the end of November. &gt;&gt; Sat, 19 Nov 2011 15:49:54 -0900 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/reaching-50-000/threads/16072?page=21#forum_thread_comment_772146 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/reaching-50-000/threads/16072?page=21#forum_thread_comment_772146 thatollie There you go, a few more words tonight and you'll have made a neat amount of progress. Sat, 19 Nov 2011 16:18:28 -0900 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/reaching-50-000/threads/16072?page=20#forum_thread_comment_772456 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/reaching-50-000/threads/16072?page=20#forum_thread_comment_772456 AliceUnrequited I just ate the best mashed potatoes my mother has ever made. They were almost exactly like my grandmother's mashed potatoes, the standard to which we have held my poor mother for the past fifteen years. Mom has tried everything to make mashed potatoes like nanny, even going so far as to borrowing her hand mixer. Nothing worked. But tonight. Tonight was magical. We found the missing ingredient. For all these years, mom has been using the wrong potatoes. There. I wrote something. 79 words. Now I need to write something else. Something relevant to my novel. I haven't touched it in over a week now. I'm afraid to pick it back up. What if it hates me? What if my characters go on strike because I neglected them? What if I can't reach 50k? Right now, picking up where I left off is scarier than a Ferris wheel and running a red light combined. But I have to try. I love the world I created. I love the story I have to tell. I want to get it right. Maybe not the first time, but eventually. I want to come out of November with a story, sloppy start to rushed finish. I don't want to have just another half-written novel on my hands, waiting for me to get around to writing the ending it so desperately needs. Sat, 19 Nov 2011 18:48:26 -0900 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/reaching-50-000/threads/16072?page=21#forum_thread_comment_774210 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/reaching-50-000/threads/16072?page=21#forum_thread_comment_774210 Nessabutterfly So, despite all hopes of catching up, I landed myself in the hospital AGAIN! Bowel Obstruction and the WORLD'S WORST PAIN! (And I have a freakishly high pain tolerance, so that's saying something!). BUT when the obstruction finally passed, they wanted to keep me a while longer. I was thinking I'd be heavily drugged the whole time, so I brought nothing with me last night. But when I realized I had 4-6 hours to kill, I asked for paper and a pen. And I wrote almost 6 pages of my novel. From a rough count it's looking like 1000-1500 words. NOT enough to even begin to catch up, but not bad for being in the hospital on crazy drugs (they stay in your system a while-- still a little dizzy now even 12 hours after last dose!). I want to type them up, but I'm so tired now that I think I'm going to sleep. Yes, at 8:30 pm. But at least I wrote! Sat, 19 Nov 2011 19:35:47 -0900 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/reaching-50-000/threads/16072?page=21#forum_thread_comment_774814 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/reaching-50-000/threads/16072?page=21#forum_thread_comment_774814 eternalcow Just hit 30K. I know I'm still a day behind, but still, just one day. Could be worse. God, this is like pulling teeth the last week or so. What the h. Sat, 19 Nov 2011 20:02:44 -0900 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/reaching-50-000/threads/16072?page=21#forum_thread_comment_775158 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/reaching-50-000/threads/16072?page=21#forum_thread_comment_775158 Solunar *drools at the thought of mashed potatoes* What potatoes did she use and what did she change to? I use russet when making potato salad since it's crumbly. Write! You'll have to start somewhere anyway. And if your characters go on strike, drag them into a dungeon and starve them of food and water until they agree to cooperate. Sat, 19 Nov 2011 20:15:55 -0900 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/reaching-50-000/threads/16072?page=21#forum_thread_comment_775286 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/reaching-50-000/threads/16072?page=21#forum_thread_comment_775286 Solunar Yeowch. It's amazing you can still write even after that. Have a good sleep. :) Sat, 19 Nov 2011 20:16:42 -0900 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/reaching-50-000/threads/16072?page=21#forum_thread_comment_775293 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/reaching-50-000/threads/16072?page=21#forum_thread_comment_775293 Solunar Yeah, I've been slacking too. Going to catch up on word count today since it's a free weekend finally. I think if I weren't injured I would be forced to go out again. BUT I've got block on two of my novels. So have to work through those first. Sat, 19 Nov 2011 20:18:01 -0900 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/reaching-50-000/threads/16072?page=21#forum_thread_comment_775306 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/reaching-50-000/threads/16072?page=21#forum_thread_comment_775306 AliceUnrequited I don't know. My grandfather gave them to her. Obviously it is his magical touch that makes the potatoes so good. Sat, 19 Nov 2011 22:47:33 -0900 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/reaching-50-000/threads/16072?page=21#forum_thread_comment_776537 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/reaching-50-000/threads/16072?page=21#forum_thread_comment_776537 thatollie I have the opportunity to write right now, but over the last few days it been a crapshoot whether actually will or not. Sun, 20 Nov 2011 01:55:01 -0900 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/reaching-50-000/threads/16072?page=21#forum_thread_comment_777567 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/reaching-50-000/threads/16072?page=21#forum_thread_comment_777567 crabhooves Candy - congrats on 50k! Ollie, you're so close mate. I want to see you cross that finish line, even if you're more than a week behind *sunglasses* Sun, 20 Nov 2011 03:13:00 -0900 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/reaching-50-000/threads/16072?page=21#forum_thread_comment_777981 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/reaching-50-000/threads/16072?page=21#forum_thread_comment_777981 thatollie I would have written more but I can't help laughing because those sunglasses keep sliding around your shell. That was your plan all along, wasn't it? Sun, 20 Nov 2011 04:56:51 -0900 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/reaching-50-000/threads/16072?page=21#forum_thread_comment_778556 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/reaching-50-000/threads/16072?page=21#forum_thread_comment_778556 BloodRoseAngel Pathetic addition to my wordcount today - it was my grandad's birthday so I went out with my family and then when I got home I worked on some commission artwork because tomorrow I get kicked out of my room again so it can be painted. XD So I'll take my netbook and write tomorrow after work. &gt;8D Sun, 20 Nov 2011 15:17:00 -0900 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/reaching-50-000/threads/16072?page=21#forum_thread_comment_784803 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/reaching-50-000/threads/16072?page=21#forum_thread_comment_784803 Nessabutterfly I added 1300ish words. Not much. And it was just typing up what I hand-wrote in the hospital yesterday, but it's still *something*. And it brought me up to 24,999. Yes, ONE WORD SHY of half-way. Today was the end of my possible 10 days of break and I am half-way, after having written 9 days before my surgery. So... technically it should still be doable to finish as long as I can write as much every day from here on as I did before my surgery. Can i do it? Who knows-- I'm really tired and having a hard time getting comfortable to write, so I may not. But I may. I'm going to try. Now off to write at least one more word before midnight (25 mins... no prob!) so I can say I'm half way. Sun, 20 Nov 2011 22:36:20 -0900 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/reaching-50-000/threads/16072?page=21#forum_thread_comment_789530 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/reaching-50-000/threads/16072?page=21#forum_thread_comment_789530 Nessabutterfly got there, and added a few more after midnight. Passing out at 25,617. Hope I can get some in tomorrow. At least I'm mentally back in Anadaria again-- that helps! Sun, 20 Nov 2011 23:39:19 -0900 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/reaching-50-000/threads/16072?page=21#forum_thread_comment_789903 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/reaching-50-000/threads/16072?page=21#forum_thread_comment_789903 thatollie Must ignore bacon, need wordage. Mon, 21 Nov 2011 03:37:43 -0900 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/reaching-50-000/threads/16072?page=21#forum_thread_comment_790796 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/reaching-50-000/threads/16072?page=21#forum_thread_comment_790796 RainbowFishie I took a break from my novel to work on my debate plan, and now I'm lagging behind in my word count xP Mon, 21 Nov 2011 10:37:42 -0900 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/reaching-50-000/threads/16072?page=21#forum_thread_comment_793990 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/reaching-50-000/threads/16072?page=21#forum_thread_comment_793990 DarkAngela I hear you. I'm only slightly behind...I'll be caught up by tonight...but I have people coming into town after Thanksgiving (yes, after - they don't love me enough to brave the airport crowds FOR Thanksgiving), so really I'm behind. Is anyone else planning to hole up for a couple days over the holiday weekend?? That's right, family, I love my NaNo book more than you! &gt;8-D Man, I wish I'd found this thread earlier. I think I'd be to 50k by now. =P Mon, 21 Nov 2011 10:55:55 -0900 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/reaching-50-000/threads/16072?page=21#forum_thread_comment_794219 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/reaching-50-000/threads/16072?page=21#forum_thread_comment_794219 thatollie Hello Fishie, get to work. Mon, 21 Nov 2011 11:06:46 -0900 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/reaching-50-000/threads/16072?page=21#forum_thread_comment_794374 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/reaching-50-000/threads/16072?page=21#forum_thread_comment_794374 Candy_Lips Thank you, you interesting crab like creature. You're lucky I don't like to eat shellfish. ;) I see so many of you so close to reaching that 50,000 word count! You can do it! I'd drag out the pompoms but I hurt to much to be a good cheerleader. Mon, 21 Nov 2011 12:59:55 -0900 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/reaching-50-000/threads/16072?page=21#forum_thread_comment_795702 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/reaching-50-000/threads/16072?page=21#forum_thread_comment_795702 eternalcow Ollie, how can you be that close and not done yet?! I'm not guilting, because lord knows I'm in no position to guilt you, I'm just boggling. If I were 500 words from finishing, my fingers would be flying... Mon, 21 Nov 2011 14:27:59 -0900 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/reaching-50-000/threads/16072?page=21#forum_thread_comment_796770 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/reaching-50-000/threads/16072?page=21#forum_thread_comment_796770 thatollie I was kicked off the computer for two hours just as I passed the 500 words to go mark. I have to work in the morning but damnit, I'm going to finish it right now. Mon, 21 Nov 2011 15:38:07 -0900 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/reaching-50-000/threads/16072?page=21#forum_thread_comment_797571 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/reaching-50-000/threads/16072?page=21#forum_thread_comment_797571 thatollie I need to start a new chapter with 384 words to go, I had such trouble deciding who to use as the pov characters in the last two chapters. Come on man, just decide someone and write. Mon, 21 Nov 2011 15:40:25 -0900 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/reaching-50-000/threads/16072?page=21#forum_thread_comment_797603 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/reaching-50-000/threads/16072?page=21#forum_thread_comment_797603 thatollie I actually did it.. Mon, 21 Nov 2011 16:13:31 -0900 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/reaching-50-000/threads/16072?page=21#forum_thread_comment_797921 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/reaching-50-000/threads/16072?page=21#forum_thread_comment_797921 eternalcow Congratulations!! Mon, 21 Nov 2011 17:02:01 -0900 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/reaching-50-000/threads/16072?page=21#forum_thread_comment_798426 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/reaching-50-000/threads/16072?page=21#forum_thread_comment_798426 AliceUnrequited Yay!! Go Ollie! Mon, 21 Nov 2011 17:05:04 -0900 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/reaching-50-000/threads/16072?page=21#forum_thread_comment_798460 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/reaching-50-000/threads/16072?page=21#forum_thread_comment_798460 RainbowFishie *gives you a standing ovation* Bravo! Mon, 21 Nov 2011 21:36:28 -0900 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/reaching-50-000/threads/16072?page=21#forum_thread_comment_801551 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/reaching-50-000/threads/16072?page=21#forum_thread_comment_801551 RainbowFishie Gah, I'm lagging behind by 5k ._. I've been so busy with debate xP Now that that's finally over, I just wanna take a long nap.... must.....stop...procrastinating....and....start.....writing.... Mon, 21 Nov 2011 21:37:23 -0900 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/reaching-50-000/threads/16072?page=21#forum_thread_comment_801562 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/reaching-50-000/threads/16072?page=21#forum_thread_comment_801562 BloodRoseAngel Congrats! :D Tue, 22 Nov 2011 06:18:13 -0900 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/reaching-50-000/threads/16072?page=21#forum_thread_comment_804001 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/reaching-50-000/threads/16072?page=21#forum_thread_comment_804001 AliceUnrequited I've got an entire day with nothing in particular that needs to be done. I've got two tutus to make, but they're for Christmas. They can wait. I think I'm gonna go for a 10k day. It'll catch me up to a whole lot closer than I am right now. I've got a lunch/dinner date with an old friend tomorrow. If I'm not at 35k by the time I need to leave, I'll cancel and stay in to write. Tue, 22 Nov 2011 09:03:38 -0900 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/reaching-50-000/threads/16072?page=21#forum_thread_comment_805456 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/reaching-50-000/threads/16072?page=21#forum_thread_comment_805456 RainbowFishie Aiming for a minimum of 7k today. Bring on the guilt! Tue, 22 Nov 2011 10:07:18 -0900 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/reaching-50-000/threads/16072?page=21#forum_thread_comment_806061 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/reaching-50-000/threads/16072?page=21#forum_thread_comment_806061 Nessabutterfly spending all my time researching chemotherapy. Starting to think I may not get around to finishing... Tue, 22 Nov 2011 10:31:55 -0900 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/reaching-50-000/threads/16072?page=21#forum_thread_comment_806352 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/reaching-50-000/threads/16072?page=21#forum_thread_comment_806352 thatollie Woah, don't frreak out if you can't do 7K today. You're still doing okay. Wed, 23 Nov 2011 00:11:03 -0900 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/reaching-50-000/threads/16072?page=21#forum_thread_comment_815598 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/reaching-50-000/threads/16072?page=21#forum_thread_comment_815598 eternalcow Okay. If I write 3500 words today and tomorrow, I'll be caught up again. I'm not sure if I can do it, but I'm darn well going to try. I've done 1500 so far, so if I can bang out the other 2K tonight, I'll be well on my way. Wed, 23 Nov 2011 13:11:31 -0900 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/reaching-50-000/threads/16072?page=21#forum_thread_comment_822288 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/reaching-50-000/threads/16072?page=21#forum_thread_comment_822288 BloodRoseAngel I am distressed. I want to buy a winner's shirt and all of a sudden NaNo don't want to accept my debit card. &gt;8U Maybe it's a hint that I should get back to writing. XD I've got a new laptop too and I'm trying to get used to the keyboard. No excuses though! I have a day off work tomorrow so I'll try and bash a load more words out. &gt;:D Someone does need to kick me though, I'm so sloooow compared to last year and I don't know why. o_o Wed, 23 Nov 2011 13:25:23 -0900 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/reaching-50-000/threads/16072?page=21#forum_thread_comment_822455 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/reaching-50-000/threads/16072?page=21#forum_thread_comment_822455 AliceUnrequited I didn't get 10k, but I did get started writing again last night. I think I can still make it. A few days of heavy writing and maybe I'll be caught up. Wed, 23 Nov 2011 14:08:22 -0900 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/reaching-50-000/threads/16072?page=22#forum_thread_comment_822978 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/reaching-50-000/threads/16072?page=22#forum_thread_comment_822978 eternalcow Good for you! You can join my catch-up club, I'm trying desperately to get on track again (probably only to fall behind again Friday, but whatever, I can so make one day up over the weekend!). I'm now 10K words ahead of you...catch me if you can! Don't let me taunt you from the finish line. Because I will taunt you. A lot. And I'll enjoy it. :P Wed, 23 Nov 2011 16:40:39 -0900 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/reaching-50-000/threads/16072?page=22#forum_thread_comment_824597 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/reaching-50-000/threads/16072?page=22#forum_thread_comment_824597 crabhooves Ollie! Congratulations mate :D Very proud of you. Nessa - I don't know what to say, it's heartbreaking to watch you go through this and just be at a loss for words. I think that even if you don't finish, considering what you've been through, it counts as a moral victory. Cow - you have so much writing to do! I want to see you finish. Alice - sooo behind. What's the game plan to finish? You seem tragically unconcerned with your own failure so far. Wed, 23 Nov 2011 16:58:49 -0900 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/reaching-50-000/threads/16072?page=22#forum_thread_comment_824811 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/reaching-50-000/threads/16072?page=22#forum_thread_comment_824811 Tigerlord I think I need some guilting. I need 3k more words to go to be back on the track I've made for myself. I can't figure why I all of a sudden can't concentrate on the story, its going well, albiet, not even close to as planned, I don't dislike it. I like the characters, I like whats in the immediate future, but I can't write but a couple hundred words at a time before getting severly distracted (like coming here). Help! Wed, 23 Nov 2011 17:39:20 -0900 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/reaching-50-000/threads/16072?page=22#forum_thread_comment_825319 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/reaching-50-000/threads/16072?page=22#forum_thread_comment_825319 P-3a I feel like it is impossible to finish. All of my ideas have dried up, and trying to write is like trying to do a physics assignment at the 48 hour sleep deprivation mark. I always do excellently at write-ins - just look at my graph (write-ins are on Saturdays) - but I feel too afraid to go to the library on my own, and I don't think I can write more than 5-6k each Saturday. There's only one more left before the end of the month, and I've got far more than 5-6k to go. Wed, 23 Nov 2011 17:51:35 -0900 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/reaching-50-000/threads/16072?page=22#forum_thread_comment_825458 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/reaching-50-000/threads/16072?page=22#forum_thread_comment_825458 RainbowFishie You're only at 18k? C'mon, you know you can do better than that. 3k should be a breeze. Just go on writeordie.com, and write for 1 hour straight on kamikaze evil mode. Believe me, you won't regret it. Wed, 23 Nov 2011 18:30:31 -0900 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/reaching-50-000/threads/16072?page=22#forum_thread_comment_825790 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/reaching-50-000/threads/16072?page=22#forum_thread_comment_825790 RainbowFishie You can, and you will finish. Don't think about the other stuff, just write. Need some ideas? Head over to the dare thread and use a couple of them. If you're truly desperate, break the fourh wall. Wed, 23 Nov 2011 18:32:46 -0900 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/reaching-50-000/threads/16072?page=22#forum_thread_comment_825808 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/reaching-50-000/threads/16072?page=22#forum_thread_comment_825808 eternalcow I have a lot, but not TOO much...I'm catching up fast. :D It looks like I might actually finish, which is quite exciting. Wed, 23 Nov 2011 20:21:56 -0900 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/reaching-50-000/threads/16072?page=22#forum_thread_comment_826972 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/reaching-50-000/threads/16072?page=22#forum_thread_comment_826972 RainbowFishie 643 more words to go, and I'll reach 35k. I can do this! Wed, 23 Nov 2011 21:41:39 -0900 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/reaching-50-000/threads/16072?page=22#forum_thread_comment_827649 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/reaching-50-000/threads/16072?page=22#forum_thread_comment_827649 RainbowFishie Finally reached 35k! Just 5k more to go, and I'll be caught up. By the way, Happy Turkey Day (Thanksgiving), everyone! Wed, 23 Nov 2011 23:05:49 -0900 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/reaching-50-000/threads/16072?page=22#forum_thread_comment_828172 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/reaching-50-000/threads/16072?page=22#forum_thread_comment_828172 AliceUnrequited Crabby- I'm leaving the guilt for you lot. I know I should feel bad about not writing. But I've had so much going on I haven't had the time to feel bad. Been putting all of my time I could be spending feeling guilty into not writing, and then into writing. Thu, 24 Nov 2011 07:21:46 -0900 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/reaching-50-000/threads/16072?page=22#forum_thread_comment_830383 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/reaching-50-000/threads/16072?page=22#forum_thread_comment_830383 thatollie Come on Fishie, you're doing great. go for another 2K before bed time. Thu, 24 Nov 2011 08:00:00 -0900 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/reaching-50-000/threads/16072?page=22#forum_thread_comment_830697 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/reaching-50-000/threads/16072?page=22#forum_thread_comment_830697 thatollie Come on P, you can do this. I'm over the line and I just wrote a scene about my mc buying milk. Thu, 24 Nov 2011 08:02:05 -0900 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/reaching-50-000/threads/16072?page=22#forum_thread_comment_830715 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/reaching-50-000/threads/16072?page=22#forum_thread_comment_830715 Nessabutterfly 449 words last night. Oh, that is pitiful. At least I'm writing again. A little. But I need to do better. I just can't finish like this! Thu, 24 Nov 2011 10:57:35 -0900 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/reaching-50-000/threads/16072?page=22#forum_thread_comment_832170 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/reaching-50-000/threads/16072?page=22#forum_thread_comment_832170 eternalcow I am spectacularly impressed by your continuing to write at all; I think it speaks to what an amazing and determined person you clearly are. Keep writing. Don't make me break out the butterfly net. ;) Thu, 24 Nov 2011 11:35:02 -0900 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/reaching-50-000/threads/16072?page=22#forum_thread_comment_832481 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/reaching-50-000/threads/16072?page=22#forum_thread_comment_832481 AliceUnrequited Hey Cow, I'm catching up with you. Better hurry up, or it'll be me laughing at you from the other side of the finish line! Thu, 24 Nov 2011 12:41:35 -0900 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/reaching-50-000/threads/16072?page=22#forum_thread_comment_833001 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/reaching-50-000/threads/16072?page=22#forum_thread_comment_833001 RainbowFishie You can do this, Nessa! :) Even if you don't reach 50k, at least you'll know that despite the hardships that you're going through, you didn't give up. And that's what really matters. Thu, 24 Nov 2011 14:01:01 -0900 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/reaching-50-000/threads/16072?page=22#forum_thread_comment_833713 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/reaching-50-000/threads/16072?page=22#forum_thread_comment_833713 eternalcow What was that? I can't hear you from almost 8K words ahead. :P You'll get your chance to close the gap tomorrow when I'll likely have little or no time to write, but I'll be back to it Saturday for sure. And this week I remembered how well word wars work for me, which made it a breeze to catch up. So you'd better get going! Thu, 24 Nov 2011 17:30:05 -0900 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/reaching-50-000/threads/16072?page=22#forum_thread_comment_835396 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/reaching-50-000/threads/16072?page=22#forum_thread_comment_835396 Alinzar410 *shakes head in shame* I just passed the half way mark... 10 days behind... Hopefully this weekend will bring some free time for writing. Thu, 24 Nov 2011 18:17:23 -0900 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/reaching-50-000/threads/16072?page=22#forum_thread_comment_835852 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/reaching-50-000/threads/16072?page=22#forum_thread_comment_835852 RainbowFishie C'mon, Alinzar! You can do this! Thu, 24 Nov 2011 18:36:50 -0900 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/reaching-50-000/threads/16072?page=22#forum_thread_comment_836055 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/reaching-50-000/threads/16072?page=22#forum_thread_comment_836055 RainbowFishie Aiming for 37k before I go to bed Thu, 24 Nov 2011 21:49:24 -0900 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/reaching-50-000/threads/16072?page=22#forum_thread_comment_837731 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/reaching-50-000/threads/16072?page=22#forum_thread_comment_837731 RainbowFishie Finally reached 37k. I'll (hopefully) catch up tomorrow, if I survive the Black Friday craze. Thu, 24 Nov 2011 22:29:00 -0900 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/reaching-50-000/threads/16072?page=22#forum_thread_comment_837948 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/reaching-50-000/threads/16072?page=22#forum_thread_comment_837948 crabhooves Congrats fishie! You're well on your way to 50k ^_^ Fri, 25 Nov 2011 00:50:43 -0900 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/reaching-50-000/threads/16072?page=22#forum_thread_comment_838548 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/reaching-50-000/threads/16072?page=22#forum_thread_comment_838548 Sunshine Cat Oh come on, 10 days behind? You can do so much better than that! Butt on chair, hands on keyboard, let's see some improvement here! Push yourself, challenge yourself! You can do it! Fri, 25 Nov 2011 00:54:59 -0900 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/reaching-50-000/threads/16072?page=22#forum_thread_comment_838568 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/reaching-50-000/threads/16072?page=22#forum_thread_comment_838568 P-3a I need at least 6k today, and 7k tomorrow, and then I will be on track. Just. I don't have anything to write 6k words about today. x_x I'm increasingly unsure about where my main novel is going to end. But the winner's bars are so pretty this year... Fri, 25 Nov 2011 05:18:17 -0900 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/reaching-50-000/threads/16072?page=22#forum_thread_comment_839609 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/reaching-50-000/threads/16072?page=22#forum_thread_comment_839609 BloodRoseAngel There are winner's bars? I haven't seen any. o_o Fri, 25 Nov 2011 06:24:45 -0900 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/reaching-50-000/threads/16072?page=22#forum_thread_comment_840038 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/reaching-50-000/threads/16072?page=22#forum_thread_comment_840038 BloodRoseAngel HAHAHA there's one!! XD Fri, 25 Nov 2011 06:24:58 -0900 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/reaching-50-000/threads/16072?page=22#forum_thread_comment_840039 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/reaching-50-000/threads/16072?page=22#forum_thread_comment_840039 RainbowFishie There's nothing wrong with being unsure about how your novel's going to end :) If you don't have anything to write about, add in a fight scene, mix up the weather, add in a long backstory, have your characters insult each other, break the fourth wall (if you're desperate), etc. Fri, 25 Nov 2011 10:48:54 -0900 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/reaching-50-000/threads/16072?page=22#forum_thread_comment_842250 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/reaching-50-000/threads/16072?page=22#forum_thread_comment_842250 crabhooves Ah luscious purple, a regal colour indeed. The colour of emperors! Fri, 25 Nov 2011 17:54:14 -0900 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/reaching-50-000/threads/16072?page=22#forum_thread_comment_846435 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/reaching-50-000/threads/16072?page=22#forum_thread_comment_846435 Solunar Oh wow, nice winner's bar. Better go get mine. Unfortunately, I've hit a procrastinating wall, so I haven't finished any novels. Don't feel like a winner here. Fri, 25 Nov 2011 19:04:54 -0900 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/reaching-50-000/threads/16072?page=22#forum_thread_comment_847155 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/reaching-50-000/threads/16072?page=22#forum_thread_comment_847155 tajavioletta Hi, all! Just look at my bar, and yell at me, please. I'm not a hopeless case, promise! Fri, 25 Nov 2011 22:10:17 -0900 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/reaching-50-000/threads/16072?page=22#forum_thread_comment_849002 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/reaching-50-000/threads/16072?page=22#forum_thread_comment_849002 RainbowFishie Reached 40k, aiming to reach 41k by the time I go to bed (which is in one hour, the laptop's battery life is running out and I don't have the charger with me) Fri, 25 Nov 2011 23:05:39 -0900 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/reaching-50-000/threads/16072?page=22#forum_thread_comment_849369 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/reaching-50-000/threads/16072?page=22#forum_thread_comment_849369 RainbowFishie Oh, my. Taja, what have you done? You were making such good progress before. C'mon, you can do it. It's not to late yet. We're in the homestretch, but where there's a will, there's a way. If you have enough determination, you can pull it off. Now, start writing! I want to see some progress from you by the time I head to bed. Fri, 25 Nov 2011 23:06:58 -0900 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/reaching-50-000/threads/16072?page=22#forum_thread_comment_849375 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/reaching-50-000/threads/16072?page=22#forum_thread_comment_849375 Nessabutterfly Only got in like 300 words before I passed out last night and don't expect anything better tonight. Sigh. sooooo tired. Fri, 25 Nov 2011 23:45:04 -0900 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/reaching-50-000/threads/16072?page=22#forum_thread_comment_849581 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/reaching-50-000/threads/16072?page=22#forum_thread_comment_849581 eternalcow What do you think you're doing, posting and reading forums when you should be writing? Do you think those remaining words are going to write themselves? This is not the elves and the shoemaker. You don't go to bed to find your wordcount magically caught up. You can totally get to 50K still - people have pulled off higher sprints. But you're going to have to get to it! You don't want us all laughing at you on December 1st, do you? Sat, 26 Nov 2011 07:54:02 -0900 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/reaching-50-000/threads/16072?page=22#forum_thread_comment_851839 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/reaching-50-000/threads/16072?page=22#forum_thread_comment_851839 P-3a I wanted to get to 45k tonight, but I can tell I only have about another 1k in me. I can't decide what to focus it on. I need to think of another short, and if I'm lucky and think of a good idea, I'll get 6k out of it like I did the other one I wrote today. Sat, 26 Nov 2011 09:58:59 -0900 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/reaching-50-000/threads/16072?page=22#forum_thread_comment_852976 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/reaching-50-000/threads/16072?page=22#forum_thread_comment_852976 AnonymousChild I feel guilty. I'm reading forums instead of writing. I'm almost to my final chapter, which is the one I couldn't wait to get to write (I held it out to myself like a carrot on a stick to a donkey. People call me that a lot - well, not the carrot or the stick, but, you know..) C'YA at 50K. Sat, 26 Nov 2011 12:41:26 -0900 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/reaching-50-000/threads/16072?page=22#forum_thread_comment_854356 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/reaching-50-000/threads/16072?page=22#forum_thread_comment_854356 Nessabutterfly taking a nap (can't keep eyes open!) then maybe (hopefully) getting in some writing this afternoon. I think I'll consider myself successful if I can hit 40,000 words. Sat, 26 Nov 2011 12:44:18 -0900 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/reaching-50-000/threads/16072?page=22#forum_thread_comment_854391 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/reaching-50-000/threads/16072?page=22#forum_thread_comment_854391 BloodRoseAngel Don't worry, I'm not done yet either :3 I finished on Christmas day last year, but hopefully I'll finish sooner than that this time round! Sat, 26 Nov 2011 13:57:10 -0900 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/reaching-50-000/threads/16072?page=22#forum_thread_comment_855089 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/reaching-50-000/threads/16072?page=22#forum_thread_comment_855089 eternalcow That sounds quite reasonable to me. :) Sat, 26 Nov 2011 14:12:16 -0900 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/reaching-50-000/threads/16072?page=22#forum_thread_comment_855255 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/reaching-50-000/threads/16072?page=22#forum_thread_comment_855255 Nessabutterfly tried napping-- had to fight myself to sleep for an hour, but I'm still so tired. WHAT? What's wrong with you body-- sleep!! So now I'll try writing. Not sure how successfull I'll be, but I'll try... After I pee. Wait, maybe THAT's why I couldn't sleep.... Sat, 26 Nov 2011 15:24:35 -0900 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/reaching-50-000/threads/16072?page=22#forum_thread_comment_855950 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/reaching-50-000/threads/16072?page=22#forum_thread_comment_855950 RainbowFishie Aiming for 44k by the end of today. Nessa - Don't push yourself too hard. 40k is an excellent goal, you can definitely reach it :) But remember, your health comes before everything else. Cow - Bwua ha ha, I'm catching up to you &gt;:D P - C'mon P, you can do this! Try a funny yet exciting short with tons of nonsense thrown in - excellent for raising your word count. Anonymous - Stop procrastinating and start writing. I expect to see some serious wordage from you by the end of today. You're so close to 50k, don't stop now. Sat, 26 Nov 2011 15:54:02 -0900 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/reaching-50-000/threads/16072?page=22#forum_thread_comment_856225 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/reaching-50-000/threads/16072?page=22#forum_thread_comment_856225 Shahrizai Already balancing term paper, writing a final exam for my students, and NaNo ... so I bought Dissidia 012 yesterday x.x I'm a bad person and I deserve scolding. But on the plus side, I think I'll have my novel done tonight or, at the latest, tomorrow. Sat, 26 Nov 2011 16:03:49 -0900 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/reaching-50-000/threads/16072?page=23#forum_thread_comment_856312 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/reaching-50-000/threads/16072?page=23#forum_thread_comment_856312 RainbowFishie Ooh, Dissidia 012? :D I've wanted to play that for awhile. I should be scolding you, but I can't bring myself to do it xD After all, you did buy Dissidia 012.... Give yourself a quick break, then get back to writing. I want to see that winner's bar by the end of tomorrow at the latest. Sat, 26 Nov 2011 17:21:05 -0900 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/reaching-50-000/threads/16072?page=23#forum_thread_comment_857190 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/reaching-50-000/threads/16072?page=23#forum_thread_comment_857190 Anoulie Ugh. Why does this boy that I still kind of have more-than-friends feelings for suddenly decide to Skype me at 6 o'clock in the freakin' morning! (Pulling an allnighter to reach 50K.) And in the middle of one of the two word wars or so that I've done the whole month. Someone please tell me to keep writing and to have some FREAKIN' PRIORITIES?! Sat, 26 Nov 2011 19:30:21 -0900 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/reaching-50-000/threads/16072?page=23#forum_thread_comment_858626 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/reaching-50-000/threads/16072?page=23#forum_thread_comment_858626 RainbowFishie You're so close to 50k, you can't let yourself get distracted by a boy! Pull yourself together and keep writing until you reach 50k! Sat, 26 Nov 2011 19:32:51 -0900 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/reaching-50-000/threads/16072?page=23#forum_thread_comment_858664 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/reaching-50-000/threads/16072?page=23#forum_thread_comment_858664 Anoulie Thanks, Fishie. He ended up going offline first, which was good, because he kept sending me cat videos and stuff. Off to 49,000 words! Then, 50,000! Then, 51,000! (As I start each of my 15 chapters with a quote, I won't validate until I've hit 51K.) Sat, 26 Nov 2011 20:15:01 -0900 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/reaching-50-000/threads/16072?page=23#forum_thread_comment_859130 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/reaching-50-000/threads/16072?page=23#forum_thread_comment_859130 eternalcow We're neck and neck...race you to the finish! Sat, 26 Nov 2011 20:18:19 -0900 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/reaching-50-000/threads/16072?page=22#forum_thread_comment_859163 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/reaching-50-000/threads/16072?page=22#forum_thread_comment_859163 AnonymousChild Imagine a very small person in a position that looks like they might be mimicking 'The Thinker' except their hair is longer, they wear glasses, and you hear the urgently whispered "Yessssssss!" that escapes them. Yep, that's me right now. "In it to win it!" doesn't have the same RAH-RAH-RAH effect when you're sitting alone with a laptop, but it can still help... Sat, 26 Nov 2011 20:38:25 -0900 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/reaching-50-000/threads/16072?page=23#forum_thread_comment_859366 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/reaching-50-000/threads/16072?page=23#forum_thread_comment_859366 AnonymousChild P.S. I forgot to say...THANK YOU to you all! Sat, 26 Nov 2011 20:39:13 -0900 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/reaching-50-000/threads/16072?page=23#forum_thread_comment_859380 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/reaching-50-000/threads/16072?page=23#forum_thread_comment_859380 RainbowFishie Good job, Anonymous! I knew you could do it! :) Now, I'm off to catch up, as I'm pitifully lagging behind.... Sat, 26 Nov 2011 20:56:28 -0900 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/reaching-50-000/threads/16072?page=23#forum_thread_comment_859535 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/reaching-50-000/threads/16072?page=23#forum_thread_comment_859535 RainbowFishie Cat videos are epic :) Anyways, I have this gargantuan quote collection, so feel free to tell me if you're in need of a quote :) Sat, 26 Nov 2011 20:57:15 -0900 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/reaching-50-000/threads/16072?page=23#forum_thread_comment_859546 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/reaching-50-000/threads/16072?page=23#forum_thread_comment_859546 Shahrizai It's really fun. I gave myself three thirty minute breaks today for it, and I really could have spent the entire day playing it, cheerfully. Stupid research turned into a time sponge, though, and I have 2.2k to write tomorrow. On the plus side, I'm fairly positive I can do that, since my other plans are .... more of the same work I did today ^^; Sat, 26 Nov 2011 22:23:48 -0900 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/reaching-50-000/threads/16072?page=23#forum_thread_comment_860220 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/reaching-50-000/threads/16072?page=23#forum_thread_comment_860220 Anoulie Thanks! I likely will take you up on that offer, but not until December or even January. :) Happy noveling! Sat, 26 Nov 2011 22:26:15 -0900 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/reaching-50-000/threads/16072?page=23#forum_thread_comment_860233 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/reaching-50-000/threads/16072?page=23#forum_thread_comment_860233 Shahrizai Yeah you are - need your own cheerleader? Get on it, Fishie; it's time to turn that boring blue bar bright freaking purple! *pompoms* Sat, 26 Nov 2011 22:28:17 -0900 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/reaching-50-000/threads/16072?page=23#forum_thread_comment_860247 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/reaching-50-000/threads/16072?page=23#forum_thread_comment_860247 Nessabutterfly Finally passed the 30,000 mark! over 3000 words today. My best since the surgery. Not quite enough to finish at this rate, but close. Very close. 25% more than that every day and I can still do it. There may be hope. And now to sleep. Sat, 26 Nov 2011 23:01:02 -0900 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/reaching-50-000/threads/16072?page=23#forum_thread_comment_860438 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/reaching-50-000/threads/16072?page=23#forum_thread_comment_860438 RainbowFishie Great job, Nessa! You can do it, there's definitely hope! Sat, 26 Nov 2011 23:19:38 -0900 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/reaching-50-000/threads/16072?page=23#forum_thread_comment_860526 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/reaching-50-000/threads/16072?page=23#forum_thread_comment_860526 RainbowFishie Reached 45k, 1k more than I was expecting. I'm off to bed now, hopefully I'll be able to churn out 3k tomorrow. I've got a debate tournament on Monday, so I doubt I'll be able to write much that day. Sat, 26 Nov 2011 23:20:37 -0900 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/reaching-50-000/threads/16072?page=23#forum_thread_comment_860532 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/reaching-50-000/threads/16072?page=23#forum_thread_comment_860532 RainbowFishie Congratulations, Anoulie, you've done it! :) You've reached 50k! Sat, 26 Nov 2011 23:21:18 -0900 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/reaching-50-000/threads/16072?page=23#forum_thread_comment_860536 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/reaching-50-000/threads/16072?page=23#forum_thread_comment_860536 Solunar [quote=BloodRoseAngel] Don't worry, I'm not done yet either :3 I finished on Christmas day last year, but hopefully I'll finish sooner than that this time round! [/quote] Oh wow. You finished it. How did it feel to finish? Have you edited yet? Did you continue hanging around the forums to finish or just your own pure will? Sun, 27 Nov 2011 00:09:16 -0900 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/reaching-50-000/threads/16072?page=23#forum_thread_comment_860729 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/reaching-50-000/threads/16072?page=23#forum_thread_comment_860729 P-3a I hit 40k last night by the will of the "writing fluffy future-fic" gods. Today I hope to finish my plot for my main novel - which I have simplified so I can get it over with - and hopefully write at least 3k. Maybe even 5k. Then it's only 5k more to finish. Yay..? Sun, 27 Nov 2011 08:06:00 -0900 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/reaching-50-000/threads/16072?page=23#forum_thread_comment_862851 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/reaching-50-000/threads/16072?page=23#forum_thread_comment_862851 BloodRoseAngel It was an awesome feeling finishing. XD I decided to leave it before editing though, and somehow got distracted by other stories over the year. I am definitely going to rewrite it for publication this year though. Sounds vain, but I'm really proud of it, even if it is currently a mess. X'D It's had no editing yet at all. Maybe I'll get into a routine of writing a NaNo novel, then editing the last year's once that's done, and so on. XD I hung around the forums quite a bit afterwards but it wasn't very busy at all so it was mostly will. I did get ill in December though - the doctor said I had depression but it turned out I was just anaemic and it made me feel very down and tired - so it was a slog to get the last 40k or so done, definitely a LOT slower than in November. XD But the feeling of finishing was worth it, and unlike a lot of people, I'm really looking forward to editing and rewriting! :D Sun, 27 Nov 2011 15:05:35 -0900 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/reaching-50-000/threads/16072?page=23#forum_thread_comment_867532 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/reaching-50-000/threads/16072?page=23#forum_thread_comment_867532 BloodRoseAngel Yay indeed! You can do it! &gt;8D *waves pom-poms* Sun, 27 Nov 2011 15:06:25 -0900 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/reaching-50-000/threads/16072?page=23#forum_thread_comment_867541 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/reaching-50-000/threads/16072?page=23#forum_thread_comment_867541 BloodRoseAngel That said, this novel is also nowhere near finished. So I'm probably going to be doing the same thing again. Wheeee. 8'D Sun, 27 Nov 2011 15:06:47 -0900 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/reaching-50-000/threads/16072?page=23#forum_thread_comment_867546 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/reaching-50-000/threads/16072?page=23#forum_thread_comment_867546 Nessabutterfly 3000 words yesterday. Over 2000 already today. Need near 5000 a day to finish, but at least there's a slight chance... Sun, 27 Nov 2011 17:32:04 -0900 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/reaching-50-000/threads/16072?page=23#forum_thread_comment_869241 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/reaching-50-000/threads/16072?page=23#forum_thread_comment_869241 RainbowFishie Hit 47k, 3k more to go Sun, 27 Nov 2011 18:46:47 -0900 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/reaching-50-000/threads/16072?page=23#forum_thread_comment_870063 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/reaching-50-000/threads/16072?page=23#forum_thread_comment_870063 AliceUnrequited Almost to 38k with the next 8,000 words or so planned out. And after that, it's only a measly 5,000 words to go. I can do it. Sun, 27 Nov 2011 20:48:40 -0900 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/reaching-50-000/threads/16072?page=23#forum_thread_comment_871443 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/reaching-50-000/threads/16072?page=23#forum_thread_comment_871443 Nessabutterfly 6000 words today! YES!!! only 4587 words a day to finish... I can do that, right??? Mon, 28 Nov 2011 00:37:01 -0900 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/reaching-50-000/threads/16072?page=23#forum_thread_comment_872850 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/reaching-50-000/threads/16072?page=23#forum_thread_comment_872850 P-3a At the mercy of the "angsty past-fiction" gods today. Going OK but nowhere near as well as it should. Finding it difficult to let myself write crap. Mon, 28 Nov 2011 05:43:58 -0900 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/reaching-50-000/threads/16072?page=23#forum_thread_comment_874201 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/reaching-50-000/threads/16072?page=23#forum_thread_comment_874201 P-3a Come on. 1k more and then I can go and get delicious food. (Unless I chicken out of that, and just go home.) Mon, 28 Nov 2011 07:24:43 -0900 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/reaching-50-000/threads/16072?page=23#forum_thread_comment_874948 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/reaching-50-000/threads/16072?page=23#forum_thread_comment_874948 BloodRoseAngel I've got a big gap between the middle of the book and the end and don't really know what to fill it with. But then again, I have an android, his human wife, his hermit friend, a secret jilted ex, a sarcastic investigator, a crazy inventor, an android prostitute and a harassed second investigator, and a big futuristic city to throw them into. I'm sure I can find SOMETHING for them to do. XD I'm just disappointed that my wordcount is so much lower than it was last year, but then again, last year all I did was write, and this year I've had commission artwork to do and a lot of building work going on in my room which means being moved about a lot (I'm in the kitchen again and the TV is making it hard to concentrate. xD) Mon, 28 Nov 2011 11:52:50 -0900 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/reaching-50-000/threads/16072?page=23#forum_thread_comment_877460 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/reaching-50-000/threads/16072?page=23#forum_thread_comment_877460 eternalcow Of course you can!! Mon, 28 Nov 2011 12:55:50 -0900 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/reaching-50-000/threads/16072?page=23#forum_thread_comment_878166 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/reaching-50-000/threads/16072?page=23#forum_thread_comment_878166 eternalcow I've had that experience a bunch of times this month. XD Powering through it seems to have worked so far, though... Mon, 28 Nov 2011 12:56:25 -0900 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/reaching-50-000/threads/16072?page=23#forum_thread_comment_878171 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/reaching-50-000/threads/16072?page=23#forum_thread_comment_878171 AliceUnrequited I'm almost caught up! Gonna go indulge myself by trying to build a house in The Sims 3 now. Then more writing. Hey Cow. I'm catching up to you. You wouldn't want me to win first, would you? Mon, 28 Nov 2011 17:24:53 -0900 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/reaching-50-000/threads/16072?page=23#forum_thread_comment_881534 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/reaching-50-000/threads/16072?page=23#forum_thread_comment_881534 RainbowFishie Got back from the tournament (which I spent the entire afternoon prepping for/freaking out/waiting for our turn) a while ago, finished my homework, and finally logged onto the laptop. Thing is, I'm dead exhausted and I really don't feel like writing right now... Mon, 28 Nov 2011 20:33:05 -0900 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/reaching-50-000/threads/16072?page=23#forum_thread_comment_883715 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/reaching-50-000/threads/16072?page=23#forum_thread_comment_883715 RainbowFishie Wrote a measly 400-something words, but my well of creativity has been drained for the day. I'll try to make up for it tomorrow. Mon, 28 Nov 2011 21:42:01 -0900 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/reaching-50-000/threads/16072?page=23#forum_thread_comment_884284 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/reaching-50-000/threads/16072?page=23#forum_thread_comment_884284 Nessabutterfly I spent most of today typing up what I handwrote last night. Ugh. But then I got in almost 4000 words this evening and broke 40k. So now I have a litlte under 5000 words to write each of the next 2 days. I;ve done that much in a day a few times. I have done that much in a day a few times. I think I can do it. Also, my in-laws are taking my kids out to the Y tomorrow, so I'll be alone to write. I CAN do this!! Tue, 29 Nov 2011 00:20:35 -0900 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/reaching-50-000/threads/16072?page=23#forum_thread_comment_885024 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/reaching-50-000/threads/16072?page=23#forum_thread_comment_885024 BloodRoseAngel Good luck! I did a 10k day last year when someone challenged me (I think it was someone in this thread but I can't remember who. I only beat them by about 300 words, it was very close XD). You can do it! =D Tue, 29 Nov 2011 00:27:04 -0900 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/reaching-50-000/threads/16072?page=23#forum_thread_comment_885050 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/reaching-50-000/threads/16072?page=23#forum_thread_comment_885050 AliceUnrequited Yes, yes you can do it. And when we all get ourselves across that finish line, there will be candy. And cakes. And kittens. So write on. I'll be cheering for you, whether you get there first or I do. Tue, 29 Nov 2011 06:17:38 -0900 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/reaching-50-000/threads/16072?page=23#forum_thread_comment_886824 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/reaching-50-000/threads/16072?page=23#forum_thread_comment_886824 crabhooves Shahrizai - congrats on finishing! Nessa I am so damn proud of you. If you finish this year it'll be the most inspiring thing of 2011 for me. Is there anything we can do to motivate you? Sol - how's the writing going, are you close to finishing yet? Alice, fishie, I want to see purple bars very very soon! Are we going to have any midnight dashes from anyone? That's how I finished my first nano, exhilarating they are :D Back to studying! I've been on a bit of a binge, trying to finish all my work before December. Tue, 29 Nov 2011 07:01:36 -0900 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/reaching-50-000/threads/16072?page=23#forum_thread_comment_887126 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/reaching-50-000/threads/16072?page=23#forum_thread_comment_887126 Nessabutterfly I don't know what will motivate me. My kids are out of the house today so it should be relatively distraction free day. I have checked every website that draws my attention (including every thread here!!), and there is no excuse to look again for many hours... time to write! Of course, I seem to be getting no closer to the end of my actual story-- these characters have a mind of their own and keep making things more complicated. A character that was never actually supposed to appear (back story only) just stole 2 whole chapters!! Oh well-- WORDS are good!! Tue, 29 Nov 2011 08:18:25 -0900 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/reaching-50-000/threads/16072?page=23#forum_thread_comment_887787 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/reaching-50-000/threads/16072?page=23#forum_thread_comment_887787 innocentidealist I could use some guilting, I'm way behind as you can see. However, my first year I did this thing in 2 days, so let's see if I can pull it off again. Tue, 29 Nov 2011 08:35:26 -0900 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/reaching-50-000/threads/16072?page=23#forum_thread_comment_887918 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/reaching-50-000/threads/16072?page=23#forum_thread_comment_887918 Nessabutterfly wow-- you do need some guilt. What have you been DOING all month?? Tue, 29 Nov 2011 09:13:49 -0900 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/reaching-50-000/threads/16072?page=23#forum_thread_comment_888261 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/reaching-50-000/threads/16072?page=23#forum_thread_comment_888261 innocentidealist I've been doing this crazy thing called working on my proposal for my dissertation, but that's still not a good reason to be so far behind. Tue, 29 Nov 2011 09:16:00 -0900 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/reaching-50-000/threads/16072?page=23#forum_thread_comment_888280 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/reaching-50-000/threads/16072?page=23#forum_thread_comment_888280 Nessabutterfly write, write, write!!! I found out I had cancer and had surgery two weeks ago. If I can do it, you can. Get your butt moving!! Tue, 29 Nov 2011 10:41:50 -0900 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/reaching-50-000/threads/16072?page=23#forum_thread_comment_889074 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/reaching-50-000/threads/16072?page=23#forum_thread_comment_889074 Nessabutterfly almost 3000 words already today. I CAN do it!! I will write until I drop! Tue, 29 Nov 2011 10:43:45 -0900 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/reaching-50-000/threads/16072?page=23#forum_thread_comment_889103 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/reaching-50-000/threads/16072?page=23#forum_thread_comment_889103 AliceUnrequited Go Nessa! I'm right behind you. Gonna see about getting a few hundred words out there before I go run a DnD campaign. Hate to let life get in the way of my writing, but we didn't play last week and I'm trying for some consistency for the players so I don't have another one think he can blow off my game to play ukulele on the pedestrian mall. (True story. He called and said he was in town and couldn't make it. I had to go get my dice and found him on the ped mall.) I'm gonna do this. I'm going to get this thing written. Maybe by tonight. Or not. Tue, 29 Nov 2011 10:57:11 -0900 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/reaching-50-000/threads/16072?page=24#forum_thread_comment_889253 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/reaching-50-000/threads/16072?page=24#forum_thread_comment_889253 innocentidealist I'm sorry to hear that and I wish you luck. Tue, 29 Nov 2011 11:38:18 -0900 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/reaching-50-000/threads/16072?page=23#forum_thread_comment_889666 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/reaching-50-000/threads/16072?page=23#forum_thread_comment_889666 Nessabutterfly It's okay. I'm getting by. And writing. Less than 6000 words to go!! Tue, 29 Nov 2011 12:53:20 -0900 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/reaching-50-000/threads/16072?page=23#forum_thread_comment_890620 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/reaching-50-000/threads/16072?page=23#forum_thread_comment_890620 Nessabutterfly we can do it! Less than 6000 words left. Who will finish first? You go play DnD and I'll take a nap. Then we'll write some more. Tue, 29 Nov 2011 12:54:19 -0900 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/reaching-50-000/threads/16072?page=24#forum_thread_comment_890634 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/reaching-50-000/threads/16072?page=24#forum_thread_comment_890634 eternalcow You'd better pick up the pace...I'm hoping to hit 50K tonight! Tue, 29 Nov 2011 12:55:00 -0900 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/reaching-50-000/threads/16072?page=23#forum_thread_comment_890646 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/reaching-50-000/threads/16072?page=23#forum_thread_comment_890646 eternalcow You really amaze me Nessa...thanks for the inspiration! Enjoy your nap! Tue, 29 Nov 2011 12:59:21 -0900 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/reaching-50-000/threads/16072?page=24#forum_thread_comment_890702 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/reaching-50-000/threads/16072?page=24#forum_thread_comment_890702 RainbowFishie You can do this, Nessa! *cheers* Tue, 29 Nov 2011 13:53:01 -0900 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/reaching-50-000/threads/16072?page=24#forum_thread_comment_891367 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/reaching-50-000/threads/16072?page=24#forum_thread_comment_891367 Nessabutterfly didn't nap. Wrote another 1000 words. Less than 5000 to go! (I'm so going to pass out!) Tue, 29 Nov 2011 14:05:54 -0900 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/reaching-50-000/threads/16072?page=24#forum_thread_comment_891531 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/reaching-50-000/threads/16072?page=24#forum_thread_comment_891531 P-3a I am stuck. I read the pep talk and was like "YES! That is the thing that has happened to me!" when I read about the not being able to write a single more word. I need 5k by midnight tomorrow and at the moment, a trip to the library is my only hope. Still at the mercy of the "fluffy future-fic/angsty past-fic/crack-pairing smut-fic" gods, and they are not feeling merciful tonight. Tue, 29 Nov 2011 15:10:49 -0900 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/reaching-50-000/threads/16072?page=24#forum_thread_comment_892354 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/reaching-50-000/threads/16072?page=24#forum_thread_comment_892354 eternalcow WOW. Seriously, that is amazing! You're so going to make it! Tue, 29 Nov 2011 15:32:28 -0900 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/reaching-50-000/threads/16072?page=24#forum_thread_comment_892586 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/reaching-50-000/threads/16072?page=24#forum_thread_comment_892586 eternalcow OH HEY WHAT'S THIS PURPLE THING UNDER MY NAME? IT LOOKS LIKE A WINNER'S BAR. I WONDER HOW THAT HAPPENED? *does a celebratory dance with a minimum of in-your-face attitude, I swear* Tue, 29 Nov 2011 16:15:57 -0900 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/reaching-50-000/threads/16072?page=24#forum_thread_comment_893139 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/reaching-50-000/threads/16072?page=24#forum_thread_comment_893139 RainbowFishie Congratulations, Cow! Excellent job! I'm aiming to reach 50k next, or else risk facing the hammer of shame. Tue, 29 Nov 2011 17:57:40 -0900 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/reaching-50-000/threads/16072?page=24#forum_thread_comment_894245 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/reaching-50-000/threads/16072?page=24#forum_thread_comment_894245 thatollie Come on, blue kids, you're so close to joining the purple army. Tue, 29 Nov 2011 21:19:43 -0900 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/reaching-50-000/threads/16072?page=24#forum_thread_comment_896865 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/reaching-50-000/threads/16072?page=24#forum_thread_comment_896865 tajavioletta Hey all! I'm playing the come-from-behind game, woo-hoo! I've spent some time planning, and gotten to a point where I can get out about 2K words an hour. At this point, I've got 20K to go and 22 hours. I'm wide awake, I have coffee, chocolate, and last night I acquired a MUCH more comfortable desk chair. Let's see if I can pull this off. I'll probably hang out in this thread and in 30-minute word wars. Anyone else pulling an all-nighter? Tue, 29 Nov 2011 21:45:44 -0900 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/reaching-50-000/threads/16072?page=24#forum_thread_comment_897092 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/reaching-50-000/threads/16072?page=24#forum_thread_comment_897092 thatollie I'm pulling an editoring all nighter. You can do it. Tue, 29 Nov 2011 22:30:38 -0900 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/reaching-50-000/threads/16072?page=24#forum_thread_comment_897413 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/reaching-50-000/threads/16072?page=24#forum_thread_comment_897413 RakkiFox YES! Sound the trumpets, baby! I thought for sure I was doomed, almost since the start of the month. I thought I was really, extra doomed when I fell behind mid month. But here I am and 24 hours early to boot. With the exception of the year when I ruined my knee and had to write 7k days while all messed up on big white pills, I think this was the most difficult and most satisfying NaNo I've had. To those of you still getting here, you can do it! You're so close. (Close being relative and occasionally defined as "miles away" but still, so very possible.) Tue, 29 Nov 2011 22:53:05 -0900 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/reaching-50-000/threads/16072?page=24#forum_thread_comment_897554 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/reaching-50-000/threads/16072?page=24#forum_thread_comment_897554 RainbowFishie I wish I could pull an all-nighter, but I have school tomorrow *sighs* Tue, 29 Nov 2011 22:57:25 -0900 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/reaching-50-000/threads/16072?page=24#forum_thread_comment_897577 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/reaching-50-000/threads/16072?page=24#forum_thread_comment_897577 Nessabutterfly you don't need an all nighter to write 600 words! Tue, 29 Nov 2011 23:46:44 -0900 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/reaching-50-000/threads/16072?page=24#forum_thread_comment_897830 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/reaching-50-000/threads/16072?page=24#forum_thread_comment_897830 tajavioletta Heck you could write 600 words in your sleep! If I were that close, I'd bang my head into a wall until the words came out...THEN sleep for school. Don't you wanna go to class knowing you have a pretty PURPLE BAR?!? Wed, 30 Nov 2011 00:10:04 -0900 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/reaching-50-000/threads/16072?page=24#forum_thread_comment_897945 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/reaching-50-000/threads/16072?page=24#forum_thread_comment_897945 Nessabutterfly I beat you! :) Wed, 30 Nov 2011 04:11:14 -0900 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/reaching-50-000/threads/16072?page=24#forum_thread_comment_899085 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/reaching-50-000/threads/16072?page=24#forum_thread_comment_899085 Nessabutterfly and I'm PURPLE! And passing out. (I ate something I shouldn't have and couldn't sleep despite extreme exhaustion-- lets just say something very very bad would have happened if I had gone to sleep for real) So anyway, I stayed up until 5 am and wrote so i could deal with that something and avoid the very very bad thing happening. It may still happen, but I don't care. I MUST sleep. And I won. so, yeah. Even if the bad thing happens, I will have won my first NaNoWriMo, so I'll deal. And now I pass out . Wed, 30 Nov 2011 04:14:02 -0900 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/reaching-50-000/threads/16072?page=24#forum_thread_comment_899102 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/reaching-50-000/threads/16072?page=24#forum_thread_comment_899102 P-3a At the library all by myself. Already managed to accidentally make someone lose their work (he said it was fine to move his plug to the multisocket I brought - forgetting his battery was out). BUT I MUST NOT LET THIS BE AN INDICATION OF HOW I MEAN TO GO ON. *backs up once more, just to be sure* Wed, 30 Nov 2011 04:14:58 -0900 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/reaching-50-000/threads/16072?page=24#forum_thread_comment_899110 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/reaching-50-000/threads/16072?page=24#forum_thread_comment_899110 Nessabutterfly Okay crabby-- I'm purple now. Be inspired! Wed, 30 Nov 2011 04:15:03 -0900 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/reaching-50-000/threads/16072?page=23#forum_thread_comment_899111 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/reaching-50-000/threads/16072?page=23#forum_thread_comment_899111 tajavioletta Congratulations, Nessabutterfly! :D Wed, 30 Nov 2011 04:16:29 -0900 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/reaching-50-000/threads/16072?page=24#forum_thread_comment_899122 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/reaching-50-000/threads/16072?page=24#forum_thread_comment_899122 eternalcow Thank you! I can't wait to see you cross over and join us...you're so close! DO IT OR FACE THE SHAME. ;) Wed, 30 Nov 2011 04:24:15 -0900 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/reaching-50-000/threads/16072?page=24#forum_thread_comment_899182 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/reaching-50-000/threads/16072?page=24#forum_thread_comment_899182 eternalcow Go taja go! You can do it! Wed, 30 Nov 2011 04:24:31 -0900 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/reaching-50-000/threads/16072?page=24#forum_thread_comment_899185 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/reaching-50-000/threads/16072?page=24#forum_thread_comment_899185 eternalcow Well done, Rakki! Congrats! Wed, 30 Nov 2011 04:25:23 -0900 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/reaching-50-000/threads/16072?page=24#forum_thread_comment_899193 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/reaching-50-000/threads/16072?page=24#forum_thread_comment_899193 eternalcow Wow, Nessa. Just...wow. You came back from so far behind and against incredible odds...you are way inspirational, girl. :) Congratulations!! Wed, 30 Nov 2011 04:35:20 -0900 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/reaching-50-000/threads/16072?page=24#forum_thread_comment_899270 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/reaching-50-000/threads/16072?page=24#forum_thread_comment_899270 P-3a tooooo many screeeaaming chiiiildren why did the public sector strikes have to be today why so many hyperactive eight year olds why Wed, 30 Nov 2011 05:19:42 -0900 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/reaching-50-000/threads/16072?page=24#forum_thread_comment_899579 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/reaching-50-000/threads/16072?page=24#forum_thread_comment_899579 AliceUnrequited Just under 3,000 words to go, and I have to take a break. Gotta plan out a paper for a conference later this afternoon. Should've written it already, but it's November. I haven't had the time for such paltry things as schoolwork. :/ Wed, 30 Nov 2011 05:40:57 -0900 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/reaching-50-000/threads/16072?page=24#forum_thread_comment_899747 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/reaching-50-000/threads/16072?page=24#forum_thread_comment_899747 P-3a eeee lookit lookit it went purple Wed, 30 Nov 2011 08:34:33 -0900 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/reaching-50-000/threads/16072?page=24#forum_thread_comment_901431 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/reaching-50-000/threads/16072?page=24#forum_thread_comment_901431 Jelly.Belly.Girl This is me majorly failing my first NaNo. I was hoping for at least 15K, but sadly, it is not so. Wed, 30 Nov 2011 09:11:47 -0900 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/reaching-50-000/threads/16072?page=24#forum_thread_comment_901825 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/reaching-50-000/threads/16072?page=24#forum_thread_comment_901825 Shahrizai Mad congrats - I'm totally excited for you finishing! :D Wed, 30 Nov 2011 09:17:21 -0900 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/reaching-50-000/threads/16072?page=23#forum_thread_comment_901900 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/reaching-50-000/threads/16072?page=23#forum_thread_comment_901900 Merimde there is still time... keep going... your aren't that far off... first try to get to 10K, then make it 11K YOU CAN DO IT, or do i need to initiate some beatings. Wed, 30 Nov 2011 10:04:52 -0900 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/reaching-50-000/threads/16072?page=24#forum_thread_comment_902533 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/reaching-50-000/threads/16072?page=24#forum_thread_comment_902533 mutewolf_ i need to write about 2k an hour for the next 10 hours to win. let's go &gt;:D Wed, 30 Nov 2011 10:12:33 -0900 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/reaching-50-000/threads/16072?page=24#forum_thread_comment_902600 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/reaching-50-000/threads/16072?page=24#forum_thread_comment_902600 Kira Joy Looky, all! Purple bar! I was really depressed that I didn't find this forum until just now, which means that I wasn't able to join in the sarcastic comments and dastardly racing. I guess next year I'll have to look for it... Wed, 30 Nov 2011 10:46:51 -0900 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/reaching-50-000/threads/16072?page=24#forum_thread_comment_903015 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/reaching-50-000/threads/16072?page=24#forum_thread_comment_903015 cheydancer Jelly.Belly.Girl: Get up off your chair of shame and depression...get un-calm, and START BLINKING! You didn't start NANOWRIMO to fail miserably. Walk away from the computer...yes right now. Get out a notebook...yes I know that writing in notebooks make for slow work...grab a pen. Now here is what I want you to write: I WILL WRITE . Got it? Now pick up the notebook, and bang your head against it until the message is clearly scrawled across your brain... :D I will do it to because ahem. My blue bar isn't progressing much either. Now for the nice Pep talk. Dearest Jelly.Belly.Girl Nanowrimo is hard, but I know you can do it. You are smart, and intelligent, brilliant, and drop dead gorgeous...oh wait that's me. : D Well I'm sure you are very pretty...even if you don't think so. Want to know how I know?! A. Because we live in a world where we are all absolutely beautiful but many of us were chosen to cloak our beauty and go out in the world with no memory of what we truly look like. Their mission to spread the word about inner beauty amongst the Beautifuls. And B. Because you wouldn't be on here if you weren't the first three. C : So my friend. Get writing! Wed, 30 Nov 2011 11:38:03 -0900 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/reaching-50-000/threads/16072?page=24#forum_thread_comment_903653 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/reaching-50-000/threads/16072?page=24#forum_thread_comment_903653 crabhooves Kira - we always need more people to join in the racing and sarcastic comments - this year was actually a lot less venomous than usual. But never fear! The crabby guilt thread will return in 2012 for its fifth iteration. I always make it on the first day so be on the look out. Nessa - I am so so freekin proud of you! You're an absolute champ, from now on when the whingers turn up i'll be able to say that you had cancer and an operation and you still came back and won! To all the winners - congratulations! p-3a, eternalcow, rakki &lt;3 and anyone I've missed. I was with you all in spirit last night, it's now 8am and I was up all night trying to get this years school work done before December and I succeeded! December is going to be a busy time for me, got lots of editing to do and coding and 3D models to churn out. Ok just in case you all scarper quickly, this year was awesome, so glad to have done this with you all. Sol in particular, you're a legend, if it wasn't for you I would never have finished in 12 days. I'll see you next year (unless you linger for a bit?) as always :) I'm already itching to begin again next year :D Wed, 30 Nov 2011 11:51:16 -0900 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/reaching-50-000/threads/16072?page=24#forum_thread_comment_903833 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/reaching-50-000/threads/16072?page=24#forum_thread_comment_903833 BooKeeper I'm so close I can taste it. But I'm procrastinating! Agh! Back to the grind. To the winner's circle! CHARGE! Or, ya know, crabwalk REALLY quickly! Wed, 30 Nov 2011 12:00:49 -0900 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/reaching-50-000/threads/16072?page=24#forum_thread_comment_903962 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/reaching-50-000/threads/16072?page=24#forum_thread_comment_903962 AliceUnrequited I did it!! :D And now I get to go celebrate my best friend's birthday and my triumphant novelling. Earlier today, a professor told me, "You know you can't write a whole novel in a month, right?" Well I just did. And it feel fucking fantastic. Wed, 30 Nov 2011 12:02:35 -0900 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/reaching-50-000/threads/16072?page=24#forum_thread_comment_903992 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/reaching-50-000/threads/16072?page=24#forum_thread_comment_903992 deadlinehah Hey, all you almost-theres! Wish I'd gone exploring and found this discussion earlier. (Another example of my last-minute tendencies.) Congrats to all of you in purple! You are inspiring! What a relief to see I'm not in this blue boat alone at this late hour. I think I can...I think I can... Wed, 30 Nov 2011 12:03:00 -0900 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/reaching-50-000/threads/16072?page=25#forum_thread_comment_904002 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/reaching-50-000/threads/16072?page=25#forum_thread_comment_904002 FreelanceSunshine Hello there! I'm Freelancie, pleasure to meet you, I'm sure. What do you think you're doing? "I think I can, I think I can?" Shame upon you! Haven't you heard? The word is out! You CAN do it, and you WILL do it! THERE IS NO MORE ROOM FOR YOUR PROCRASTINATION. THIS IS WAR. WORD WAR. Now wipe that silly smile off your face and BUNKER DOWN AND GRIN soldier.. (er) WRITER. Cause you're a winner, and even if you don't finish writing by midnight tonight, there will be time to finish it, because your story is worth being told and your characters depend upon you, not to mention the whole world is waiting as well. Now go! Shoo! Write! Happy writing and good luck. Wed, 30 Nov 2011 12:17:51 -0900 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/reaching-50-000/threads/16072?page=25#forum_thread_comment_904215 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/reaching-50-000/threads/16072?page=25#forum_thread_comment_904215 AnonymousChild It's so cool to see all of these purple bars with WINNER! on them - and to have one! Come on, you last minute wordsmiths...hit those keys! TYPE, two, three, four! TYPE, two, three, four! (But even if you don't make it, you're still a winner for trying. You know that, right?) Wed, 30 Nov 2011 12:23:15 -0900 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/reaching-50-000/threads/16072?page=25#forum_thread_comment_904304 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/reaching-50-000/threads/16072?page=25#forum_thread_comment_904304 eternalcow Nice job!! I knew you could do it. :) Wed, 30 Nov 2011 12:36:27 -0900 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/reaching-50-000/threads/16072?page=24#forum_thread_comment_904539 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/reaching-50-000/threads/16072?page=24#forum_thread_comment_904539 tajavioletta I had to sleep for a few hours, and now I've got 16.5K to do in 7.5 hours. Ha haaaaa! Wed, 30 Nov 2011 12:36:59 -0900 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/reaching-50-000/threads/16072?page=25#forum_thread_comment_904547 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/reaching-50-000/threads/16072?page=25#forum_thread_comment_904547 eternalcow Thanks Crabby! And thank you, as always, for making this thread. It's always great fun and great motivation. Wed, 30 Nov 2011 12:37:51 -0900 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/reaching-50-000/threads/16072?page=24#forum_thread_comment_904557 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/reaching-50-000/threads/16072?page=24#forum_thread_comment_904557 eternalcow Go, go! You can do it! You're so close! Wed, 30 Nov 2011 12:38:05 -0900 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/reaching-50-000/threads/16072?page=24#forum_thread_comment_904565 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/reaching-50-000/threads/16072?page=24#forum_thread_comment_904565 eternalcow Congratulations!! And send that professor our way, we'll teach him/her a thing or two! Wed, 30 Nov 2011 12:38:40 -0900 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/reaching-50-000/threads/16072?page=24#forum_thread_comment_904577 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/reaching-50-000/threads/16072?page=24#forum_thread_comment_904577 BloodRoseAngel Determined to get a few more words in for the last... *checks clock* two and a half hours of NaNo. I don't know why, I just can't write nothing on the last day. It's the principle! XD Wed, 30 Nov 2011 12:42:00 -0900 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/reaching-50-000/threads/16072?page=25#forum_thread_comment_904624 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/reaching-50-000/threads/16072?page=25#forum_thread_comment_904624 crabhooves Taja start now and don't stop! It's very achievable, I did 3.2k an hour over 5 hours on my last day. You just need to set quotas and understand where you need to be at any given moment, I set 5 minute quotas, the constant urgency means you never have time to sit down and mope about where your novel is going. I want to see you finish! Wed, 30 Nov 2011 12:43:40 -0900 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/reaching-50-000/threads/16072?page=25#forum_thread_comment_904655 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/reaching-50-000/threads/16072?page=25#forum_thread_comment_904655 GothicRabbit Seven hours and twenty minutes to write... 25k words? No, wait- need to start dinner. Let's make it 5 minutes instead of twenty. Oy. :( Anyone in the mood to give me a good kick in the pants, here? I think I could use it... Wed, 30 Nov 2011 12:52:18 -0900 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/reaching-50-000/threads/16072?page=25#forum_thread_comment_904817 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/reaching-50-000/threads/16072?page=25#forum_thread_comment_904817 noplacespecial NEVER give up, gothicrabbit!! i didnt even start this year until the 5th, and most of the month has been spent playing catch-up, doing thousands of words in a day because i didnt write anything during the work week. and now im under 1000 words away from finishing! i almost gave up SO many times, but here i am. YOU CAN DO IT!! Wed, 30 Nov 2011 12:55:30 -0900 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/reaching-50-000/threads/16072?page=25#forum_thread_comment_904876 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/reaching-50-000/threads/16072?page=25#forum_thread_comment_904876 tajavioletta Oh, I'm going to, beautiful crab! That purple bar is MINE. Wed, 30 Nov 2011 12:58:26 -0900 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/reaching-50-000/threads/16072?page=25#forum_thread_comment_904935 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/reaching-50-000/threads/16072?page=25#forum_thread_comment_904935 tajavioletta 2,245 an hour for 7 hours 1,123 per 30 minutes 562 per 15 minutes 188 per 5 minutes 38 words per minute TOTALLY doable. Now, to send the boyfriend out wine...! XD Wed, 30 Nov 2011 13:02:47 -0900 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/reaching-50-000/threads/16072?page=25#forum_thread_comment_905019 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/reaching-50-000/threads/16072?page=25#forum_thread_comment_905019 tajavioletta Out FOR wine. See where I'm at already?!? Wed, 30 Nov 2011 13:03:11 -0900 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/reaching-50-000/threads/16072?page=25#forum_thread_comment_905024 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/reaching-50-000/threads/16072?page=25#forum_thread_comment_905024 sablize So... close... and I have so much homework to do tonight and other school-related obligations, but I've got seven hours left. I CAN DO IT GODDAMNIT. And to everyone out there who's still typing away like I am: YOU CAN DO IT TOO. GODDAMNIT. Wed, 30 Nov 2011 13:04:26 -0900 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/reaching-50-000/threads/16072?page=25#forum_thread_comment_905044 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/reaching-50-000/threads/16072?page=25#forum_thread_comment_905044 thelastsaskatchewanpirate 5000 words, plus I need to hand in a ton of assignments by the end of tomorrow. My parents are going to be hounding me about homework all night. I don't know if I can do this.. Wed, 30 Nov 2011 13:04:31 -0900 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/reaching-50-000/threads/16072?page=25#forum_thread_comment_905046 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/reaching-50-000/threads/16072?page=25#forum_thread_comment_905046 thelastsaskatchewanpirate I'm in the same boat, bro. JUST KEEP TYPING! *high fives* Pull an all nighter if you have to. Wed, 30 Nov 2011 13:08:24 -0900 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/reaching-50-000/threads/16072?page=25#forum_thread_comment_905096 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/reaching-50-000/threads/16072?page=25#forum_thread_comment_905096 cmh05u You can do it and so can I! Wed, 30 Nov 2011 13:35:25 -0900 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/reaching-50-000/threads/16072?page=25#forum_thread_comment_905547 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/reaching-50-000/threads/16072?page=25#forum_thread_comment_905547 BloodRoseAngel Except... you can't pull an all-nighter... because NaNo ends at midnight. XD; Wed, 30 Nov 2011 14:27:19 -0900 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/reaching-50-000/threads/16072?page=25#forum_thread_comment_906435 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/reaching-50-000/threads/16072?page=25#forum_thread_comment_906435 BloodRoseAngel I just updated my wordcount to find that it's the first time I've ever written exactly 1667 words in a day. XD Well, I'm about to alter that by writing more. I just found it interesting that I had accidentally done the recommended amount of words. It didn't feel like enough! &gt;8U Half an hour left of NaNo over here. I want to hit 85k at least! X'D Wed, 30 Nov 2011 14:29:04 -0900 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/reaching-50-000/threads/16072?page=25#forum_thread_comment_906461 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/reaching-50-000/threads/16072?page=25#forum_thread_comment_906461 kelci.dehaas You can do it! I have done the majority of my novel in the last seven days, which means I have gotten almost no sleep! These last two days have been 8k days, and I know that you can handle a measly little 2,400 words. You've already done FORTY SEVEN THOUSAND WORDS!! That's awesome! I'm a freshman in college and I know the crazy balance between homework and writing, but you got this! Wed, 30 Nov 2011 14:30:28 -0900 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/reaching-50-000/threads/16072?page=25#forum_thread_comment_906483 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/reaching-50-000/threads/16072?page=25#forum_thread_comment_906483 OBVRJA You guys can do it! No excuses! There is nothing stopping you from doing this at lightning speed except your own insecurities! You should have NONE! Look how far you've come so far! Did you think you could have done that if you were an idiot? The only reason you'd be an idiot is if you didn't give it 4200% and try to make it work. Do you want to let all that work go to waste? Do you want to miss winning by only that much? Imagine if every second of the remaining hours of the day was put into that novel with no procrasination (I know it sounds impossible, and I am often guilty of procrastination) but you can focus and you can do it! Just get into gear. It's in you, just pull it out! Winning feels fantastic! You'll be so glad you did. You can sleep later, but until midnight let every thought be your novel. I just ran around my house in circles yelling "WOOOOOOO!" It was FANTASTIC. And I got a certificate. It rocks and I hope that you, strangers in this strange month with me, can feel that rush of finishing and the eternal bragging rights. -OBVRJA Wed, 30 Nov 2011 14:32:52 -0900 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/reaching-50-000/threads/16072?page=25#forum_thread_comment_906511 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/reaching-50-000/threads/16072?page=25#forum_thread_comment_906511 rachelgita I am 48K and totally ready to give up. my mind is mush and my novel makes no sense :( but I really like those pretty purple bars....going to get more coffee!!!! hoping for 2k words in just a few hours, rachelgita Wed, 30 Nov 2011 14:56:04 -0900 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/reaching-50-000/threads/16072?page=25#forum_thread_comment_906888 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/reaching-50-000/threads/16072?page=25#forum_thread_comment_906888 BloodRoseAngel I just TOTALLY freaked out because I went back on my profile and it said '0 words so far'. Then I realised that it had just turned midnight and so it had decided to hide my wordcount, and now I can't see anyone else's either. This didn't happen last year, so it frightened me. XD Wed, 30 Nov 2011 15:01:28 -0900 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/reaching-50-000/threads/16072?page=25#forum_thread_comment_906971 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/reaching-50-000/threads/16072?page=25#forum_thread_comment_906971 tajavioletta YOU ARE NOT GIVING UP. Not now, not ever. I'd give anything to be where you're at right now. GO GO GO! Drink the coffee with one hand, type with the other. Mushy novel nonsense-mind is the best place you could be right now. Just let it flow, rockstar. You can DO THIS. Wed, 30 Nov 2011 15:05:47 -0900 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/reaching-50-000/threads/16072?page=25#forum_thread_comment_907055 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/reaching-50-000/threads/16072?page=25#forum_thread_comment_907055 mardillo1 I'm about seven thousand words behind...must keep telling myself I can do it! Wed, 30 Nov 2011 15:30:57 -0900 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/reaching-50-000/threads/16072?page=25#forum_thread_comment_907481 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/reaching-50-000/threads/16072?page=25#forum_thread_comment_907481 RainbowFishie 600 more words to go! I can do that in my sleep. Pretty purple bar, here I come! Nessa - Congratulations, you reached 50k! You truly are amazing. Alice - Excellent job, Alice! You've done it. Fellow not-quite-at-50k-yet-Wrimos, you can win this thing! We all can! Race you to the finish line! Wed, 30 Nov 2011 15:33:26 -0900 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/reaching-50-000/threads/16072?page=25#forum_thread_comment_907510 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/reaching-50-000/threads/16072?page=25#forum_thread_comment_907510 zoe.schorr This is my first year on here due to the harassment of my best friend and I have thanked her everyday of November. I know I can't make it this year, but I am already pumped for next year. I WILL GET MY PURPLE BAR! Wed, 30 Nov 2011 15:48:15 -0900 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/reaching-50-000/threads/16072?page=25#forum_thread_comment_907734 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/reaching-50-000/threads/16072?page=25#forum_thread_comment_907734 sablize No no no, don't you dare give up!!! You and me are so close! WE CAN DO THIS. GO GO GO. (for the record, the end of mine is shaping up to be mush, too, but OH WELL. that's what December is for! you write that mush!) Wed, 30 Nov 2011 15:54:29 -0900 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/reaching-50-000/threads/16072?page=25#forum_thread_comment_907824 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/reaching-50-000/threads/16072?page=25#forum_thread_comment_907824 tajavioletta You've so GOT this! Seven thousand words isn't that bad. Break it into four chunks, and do them as fast as you can. Don't forget to leave time to copy, paste and validate! Good luck! :) Wed, 30 Nov 2011 15:58:25 -0900 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/reaching-50-000/threads/16072?page=25#forum_thread_comment_907890 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/reaching-50-000/threads/16072?page=25#forum_thread_comment_907890 Nessabutterfly drop and give me 600 Fishie! You HAVE to finish now! You are so close. be purple with us!!! Wed, 30 Nov 2011 15:59:54 -0900 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/reaching-50-000/threads/16072?page=25#forum_thread_comment_907913 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/reaching-50-000/threads/16072?page=25#forum_thread_comment_907913 Achilleus My goodness...this terrified me, it took me about ten seconds to realize that we're in different time zones and I actually have about five hours left. I want to get 80k before nano ends. Wed, 30 Nov 2011 16:10:57 -0900 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/reaching-50-000/threads/16072?page=25#forum_thread_comment_908068 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/reaching-50-000/threads/16072?page=25#forum_thread_comment_908068 BloodRoseAngel Congrats for hitting 50k, Nessa! :D Wed, 30 Nov 2011 16:32:15 -0900 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/reaching-50-000/threads/16072?page=25#forum_thread_comment_908383 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/reaching-50-000/threads/16072?page=25#forum_thread_comment_908383 RainbowFishie YES! I reached 50k! *hugs my pretty purple bar* I'm still reeling from shock at the moment xD To be honest, this is the first time I've ever gotten past chapter 2 on any of my noveling attempts, so winning NaNoWriMo really means a lot to me :) Now, since it seems like the appropriate moment for a speech... (sorry if your username isn't directly mentioned, I have a hard time keeping track of everyone xD) Nessa - As I've said before, you are a true inspiration. It's amazing - awe-inspiring, really - that you won NaNo despite having cancer. Now, that's what I call true dedication and a strong will. You are an amazing person. Crabby - Crabby, Crabby, Crabby, what can I say? Well, first off, crabs taste delicious. Mmm....I could really go for some crab right now after 30 days of literary abandon..... Now that I've gotten that over with, I'm sure you'll be pleased to know that you're forever immortalized in my memory as The Dude Who Finished NaNoWriMo Before it Was Half Over (or was that Sol?) Sol - I never really got around to saying this, but your icon is awesome. It's 100 pixels of sheer epicness right there. Final Fantasy is epictastically awesome. 'Nuff said. The mini pep talk that you gave awhile ago (it feels like it's been years since NaNo began) was one of the most inspiring speeches I've ever heard. Seriously, I've filed it away to look at whenever I hit a writer's block. Taja - You are so close, only 40k words left! You can do this! Rose - Your word count amazes me. 'Nuff said. Alice - You were lagging behind me (all the way back at 47k), yet you managed to pull ahead and beat me. I fear I shall never recover from the shame. Just kidding. Seriously, though, excellent job on reaching 50k! Next year I shall beat you, though &gt;:) Cow - I love your username. You totally beat me. By one day. Congratulations. Seriously, though, you are awesome. P - Excellent job reaching 50k! You hit some tough times awhile back, but you continued on despite that. And you did it. You reached 50k. For that, I applaud you. It takes a lot to stick through tough times and keep going, instead of giving up. Ollie - Your icon is awesome. L is awesome. If I recall correctly, you finished NaNo around a week ago. Thanks for egging me on when I was lagging behind; I needed the guilt :) Rakki - You fell behind mid-month, but you pulled through and reached 50k. The will to keep going? That's what counts. Bravo! Everyone Else - To those of you who have reached 50k, congratulations! To those of you who haven't: there's still time! As someone once said, where there's a will, there's a way. If you're willing to do it, you can reach 50k. I believe in you. Even if you don't manage to reach 50k by the end of the month, it's okay. There's always next year. And besides, at least you tried, and it's the effort that counts. Being a winner doesn't necessarily mean that you reached 50k. Being a winner means that you tried, you gave it your best shot, and that's what counts. I'm glad I chose to embark on this near-impossible, traumatizing, awful, stress-inducing challenge. I believe Winston Churchill once said: "If you're going through hell, keep going." This month was hell for me, but I'm glad that I chose to try NaNoWriMo. This month was horrible, but it was also quite possibly one of the best experiences I've ever been through. I've really grown as a writer. I've gained a lot more perseverance, and I've learned to keep going even when the future seems bleak. However, I couldn't have reached 50k without the support of all you fellow Wrimos. Without the guilting and the encouragement I received, I probably would still be at 30k right now. Thank you, really. You are all truly awe-inspiring, amazing people. I'm glad that NaNo gave me the chance to meet you. Keep doing what you're best at, and rock on! I'll see you next year! Wed, 30 Nov 2011 16:33:35 -0900 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/reaching-50-000/threads/16072?page=25#forum_thread_comment_908413 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/reaching-50-000/threads/16072?page=25#forum_thread_comment_908413 rachelgita tajavioletta and sablize: that was just the encouragement that I need to get a little bit closer. Now just 500 to go and I kinda have to do it, because it would be so stupid if I dont and I would be totally embarrassed-face if I got so close and lamed out. Whew, I am going to finish, AND YOU ARE TOO!! Keep working working everyone! I am so impressed with all the winners and the near winners, let's goooooooooo (pretend running to the finish line, actually still sitting at my desk) Wed, 30 Nov 2011 16:36:03 -0900 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/reaching-50-000/threads/16072?page=25#forum_thread_comment_908447 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/reaching-50-000/threads/16072?page=25#forum_thread_comment_908447 RainbowFishie You can do it, Gita! Just 500 more words! *cheers* Wed, 30 Nov 2011 16:42:54 -0900 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/reaching-50-000/threads/16072?page=25#forum_thread_comment_908538 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/reaching-50-000/threads/16072?page=25#forum_thread_comment_908538 RainbowFishie You can do it, Mardillo! *waves pom poms in the air* Wed, 30 Nov 2011 16:43:30 -0900 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/reaching-50-000/threads/16072?page=25#forum_thread_comment_908546 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/reaching-50-000/threads/16072?page=25#forum_thread_comment_908546 RainbowFishie Excellent job reaching 85k! Seriously, how did you do it? Wed, 30 Nov 2011 16:44:10 -0900 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/reaching-50-000/threads/16072?page=25#forum_thread_comment_908560 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/reaching-50-000/threads/16072?page=25#forum_thread_comment_908560 RainbowFishie C'mon, Pirate! You're so close! You can do this, don't tell yourself that you can't! Where there's a will, there's a way! Wed, 30 Nov 2011 16:44:45 -0900 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/reaching-50-000/threads/16072?page=25#forum_thread_comment_908566 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/reaching-50-000/threads/16072?page=25#forum_thread_comment_908566 RainbowFishie That's the way to think, sablize! C'mon, you're so close! Just a bit over 1000 words to go! Try breaking it up into chunks of 600 words each. Wed, 30 Nov 2011 16:45:36 -0900 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/reaching-50-000/threads/16072?page=25#forum_thread_comment_908577 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/reaching-50-000/threads/16072?page=25#forum_thread_comment_908577 RainbowFishie C'mon, Rabbit! You can write 25k, I know you can. Even if you don't make it, don't fret too much about it - at least you tried, and that's what counts. Wed, 30 Nov 2011 16:46:34 -0900 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/reaching-50-000/threads/16072?page=25#forum_thread_comment_908592 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/reaching-50-000/threads/16072?page=25#forum_thread_comment_908592 RainbowFishie Don't THINK you can, KNOW you can! Where there's a will, there's a way. You can do this! Wed, 30 Nov 2011 16:47:28 -0900 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/reaching-50-000/threads/16072?page=25#forum_thread_comment_908604 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/reaching-50-000/threads/16072?page=25#forum_thread_comment_908604 Nessabutterfly thanks! I got to WIN something this month. at least I took control of SOMETHING! (still have over a third of the story to write though... but I can be more relaxed about it now) Wed, 30 Nov 2011 17:18:56 -0900 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/reaching-50-000/threads/16072?page=25#forum_thread_comment_909013 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/reaching-50-000/threads/16072?page=25#forum_thread_comment_909013 elliwrite &lt;3 you guys...you've kept me typing and laughing. couldn't have had these last couple 5k days with y'all! *almost there* Wed, 30 Nov 2011 17:21:30 -0900 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/reaching-50-000/threads/16072?page=25#forum_thread_comment_909046 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/reaching-50-000/threads/16072?page=25#forum_thread_comment_909046 Lilwmfl04 I could've used this group two weeks ago, quarter to 7pm here and I still have just over 25k to go! Any got some of that hate-love for me? Damn, I just used up thirty words on this! Ok, back to work... Wed, 30 Nov 2011 17:50:58 -0900 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/reaching-50-000/threads/16072?page=26#forum_thread_comment_909435 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/reaching-50-000/threads/16072?page=26#forum_thread_comment_909435 WhimsicalSnowflake Lilwmfl04, you can DO THIS! COME ON! LET'S GO! MOVE IT MOVE IT MOVE IT! If you were in my time zone YOU'D BE ANOTHER HOUR BEHIND. HOW DOES THAT MAKE YOU FEEL? HUH? SO COME ON THEN! LET'S GO! (You got this! :D) ~~Whimsy Wed, 30 Nov 2011 18:02:17 -0900 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/reaching-50-000/threads/16072?page=26#forum_thread_comment_909600 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/reaching-50-000/threads/16072?page=26#forum_thread_comment_909600 Marmabean Ah! I finished, but can I still be berated by Uncle Crabby? Wed, 30 Nov 2011 18:08:07 -0900 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/reaching-50-000/threads/16072?page=26#forum_thread_comment_909705 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/reaching-50-000/threads/16072?page=26#forum_thread_comment_909705 Marmabean Go! Write like the wind! Wed, 30 Nov 2011 18:09:19 -0900 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/reaching-50-000/threads/16072?page=26#forum_thread_comment_909728 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/reaching-50-000/threads/16072?page=26#forum_thread_comment_909728 deadlinehah I started this day at 28,401, and I'm now over 41,000. SO close! My biggest obstacle tonight is that my brain is freezing and I'm running out of words. Nooooo! Now I know why Jack Nicholson's character in "The Shining" typed so many pages of "All work and no play makes Jack a dull boy." He ran out of words! Ha ha!! If I don't make it by midnight, I'm going to be sooo mad at myself. C'mon, Lilwmfl04! Let's finish this thing together, then go get margaritas! Wed, 30 Nov 2011 18:12:44 -0900 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/reaching-50-000/threads/16072?page=26#forum_thread_comment_909778 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/reaching-50-000/threads/16072?page=26#forum_thread_comment_909778 Gmaster562 I know this doesnt even fit with this topic, but im kinda freaking out because I have no idea where i'm supposed to turn in my novel so I can attempt to win!!!! Thanks in advanced! Wed, 30 Nov 2011 18:17:29 -0900 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/reaching-50-000/threads/16072?page=26#forum_thread_comment_909836 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/reaching-50-000/threads/16072?page=26#forum_thread_comment_909836 Lilwmfl04 Thank you Marma &amp; Whimsy!! Writing Bootcamp!! Wed, 30 Nov 2011 18:27:37 -0900 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/reaching-50-000/threads/16072?page=26#forum_thread_comment_909984 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/reaching-50-000/threads/16072?page=26#forum_thread_comment_909984 Kate Whitely Under the "My NaNo" tab, go to "Edit Novel Info". Under "Word Count", you will see something that says, in red, "I am ready to validate my novel." When you click on that, a box will pop up asking you to "Paste your novel below". Once you copy and paste your novel in the box, hit "submit". Voila! You're a winner. Wed, 30 Nov 2011 18:38:52 -0900 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/reaching-50-000/threads/16072?page=26#forum_thread_comment_910143 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/reaching-50-000/threads/16072?page=26#forum_thread_comment_910143 Alexanderson200 I love this topic! It is certainly one of the things that I definitely want to participate next year. I think with this motivation would have amused me twice. And, of course, have written twice as many words. I love your comments. Wed, 30 Nov 2011 19:17:18 -0900 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/reaching-50-000/threads/16072?page=26#forum_thread_comment_910699 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/reaching-50-000/threads/16072?page=26#forum_thread_comment_910699 Another NaNoWriMer Wordcount fail this NaNo Wed, 30 Nov 2011 19:17:55 -0900 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/reaching-50-000/threads/16072?page=26#forum_thread_comment_910707 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/reaching-50-000/threads/16072?page=26#forum_thread_comment_910707 AndreaSG Yeah, I guess this year it wasn't meant to be-also known as once again poor preparation and some bad luck and well mostly poor preparation have shafted me. BUT I did learn some stuff. And I'm writing, so my final count will be better than what shows up now. And maybe I'll just continue to 50000 anyway! Just to do it. What I have written so far is so-insert blasphemy here-that it won't be any worse. AND I can go back and look at the forums that I was mostly too freaked out to read much of. And well I'll just do better next year! 'The winners laugh and tell funny stories; the losers cry 'deal.' Regards, AndreaSG-loser,, but learner too Wed, 30 Nov 2011 19:38:02 -0900 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/reaching-50-000/threads/16072?page=26#forum_thread_comment_911030 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/reaching-50-000/threads/16072?page=26#forum_thread_comment_911030 tajavioletta I MOTHERFUCKING WON. Wed, 30 Nov 2011 19:50:39 -0900 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/reaching-50-000/threads/16072?page=26#forum_thread_comment_911205 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/reaching-50-000/threads/16072?page=26#forum_thread_comment_911205 Kira Joy I think that professor needs to meet...well, all of us! :) Wed, 30 Nov 2011 20:15:56 -0900 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/reaching-50-000/threads/16072?page=24#forum_thread_comment_911598 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/reaching-50-000/threads/16072?page=24#forum_thread_comment_911598 Nessabutterfly wow-- that's a lot in one day-- something to be proud of either way. If you can do that, you can finish. Go, go, go!! Wed, 30 Nov 2011 20:17:38 -0900 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/reaching-50-000/threads/16072?page=26#forum_thread_comment_911620 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/reaching-50-000/threads/16072?page=26#forum_thread_comment_911620 Nessabutterfly yay! You won! Wed, 30 Nov 2011 20:18:39 -0900 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/reaching-50-000/threads/16072?page=26#forum_thread_comment_911632 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/reaching-50-000/threads/16072?page=26#forum_thread_comment_911632 RainbowFishie Congratulations, Taja!!! Wed, 30 Nov 2011 20:32:26 -0900 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/reaching-50-000/threads/16072?page=26#forum_thread_comment_911826 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/reaching-50-000/threads/16072?page=26#forum_thread_comment_911826 mardillo1 Thank you guys...my first win! Wed, 30 Nov 2011 20:32:57 -0900 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/reaching-50-000/threads/16072?page=25#forum_thread_comment_911830 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/reaching-50-000/threads/16072?page=25#forum_thread_comment_911830 tajavioletta Thank you guys so much! Once again, this thread has saved my butt, and been my favorite place in the forums to hang out. Thanks Crabby for creating it, and everyone for coming in here and being super sarcastic and awesome! Even on days when I was so shamefully behind that I didn't even have the courage to lurk, let alone post, I swear the knowledge of this thread and you all in it was like a cattle prod in the backside. I would sit down and wrestle with my story almost every day, and a lot of that was the desire to not be laughed out of the room by you awesome folks, as some of you so pointedly threatened. It was just what I needed, once again. So cheers, y'all. XD And Nessa, you're going to be in my thoughts. Good luck and know that NaNoers DO have a special strength and gift, to get through rough times. Peace to you, wonderful &amp; inspirational writer-lady! :) Wed, 30 Nov 2011 20:46:48 -0900 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/reaching-50-000/threads/16072?page=26#forum_thread_comment_911995 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/reaching-50-000/threads/16072?page=26#forum_thread_comment_911995 crabhooves Taja - I am so so so happy for you! I think that after Nessa your victory is the one I found the most satisfying this year :D Congratulations! You make sure to get your ass back next year, you're part of the regular gang now! I totally know what you mean about not even having the courage to lurk - this thread is a powerful motivator! FIshie - Congrats on finishing! Yes it was me who finished before it was half over, it most certainly was -not- Solunar (haha I can't get enough of that). She was too busy suntanning on a beach in Malaysia and yelling at the waiters for not serving crab to actually finish her novel that quickly. Make sure you come back next year as well :D You were a delight to spend the month with. Wed, 30 Nov 2011 21:02:20 -0900 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/reaching-50-000/threads/16072?page=26#forum_thread_comment_912184 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/reaching-50-000/threads/16072?page=26#forum_thread_comment_912184 Bynadutch 3800 words, 3 hours to go, been writing all day... running out of words, but not things to say. I am starting to ramble and repeat myself, and not progress my plot, I am afraid I am writing myself into a dead end! Wed, 30 Nov 2011 21:03:30 -0900 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/reaching-50-000/threads/16072?page=26#forum_thread_comment_912198 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/reaching-50-000/threads/16072?page=26#forum_thread_comment_912198 crabhooves Oh and it's worth noting that we just hit 1000 replies and are the most popular non sticky thread in the reaching 50k section. Bynadutch, come on, you can do it! Just make a giant crab burst through the walls and attack people. If it's incongruous, make it a hallucination that has all kinds of deep subconscious meaning for the main characters. Or maybe they do some peyote together and see this insane crab! Wed, 30 Nov 2011 21:07:08 -0900 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/reaching-50-000/threads/16072?page=26#forum_thread_comment_912242 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/reaching-50-000/threads/16072?page=26#forum_thread_comment_912242 TexasAuthor Past midnight here. The challenge is over. First time at bat trying this. Two weeks in, I thought I was doing alright. Then the flu. Oy. Who wants to write when you're spiking a fever? Or can't hardly breathe cause you feel like all the snot in the world is trying to force its way through your nose! Yeah, bad imagery there. Sorry. So, time's up. 20,012 words written. I'll try again next year. On a positive note, I like where this novel is going and I intend to finish it. I've already done the fanfic bit. Stories posted at fanfiction dot net, Heliopolis, and Twisting the Hellmouth. So yeah, i've been doing crossovers and fanfic for years. At my own pace. Always wanted to do something original. I'll finish it. Halfway there already. Wed, 30 Nov 2011 21:34:26 -0900 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/reaching-50-000/threads/16072?page=26#forum_thread_comment_912501 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/reaching-50-000/threads/16072?page=26#forum_thread_comment_912501 phyln I didn't get there either, but I know I got a late start. I also know I will finish and I will publish. After all, this is the SEQUEL! Sorry I am just now seeing this tab, but I wanted to weigh in. TexasAuthor -- I hope you finish! And I hope you'll keep us posted when you do. Bynadutch, I hope by this point -- or by midnight in your timezone -- you will have finished. Either way, keep writing. The world needs you! Wed, 30 Nov 2011 21:43:04 -0900 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/reaching-50-000/threads/16072?page=26#forum_thread_comment_912553 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/reaching-50-000/threads/16072?page=26#forum_thread_comment_912553 deadlinehah YAY! YAY! YAY!!! My wrists are aching and it's not the best stuff I've ever written, but I did it, with more than an hour to spare. I am SO HAPPY!!! When I entered my word count for validation, I made my hubby and daughter come in and watch. And then I got teary-eyed. (I do that.) Congratulations, and thanks, everyone! (Now if I can just get the halo fixed to reflect the donation I made earlier this month, my life would be complete. More or less.) Wed, 30 Nov 2011 21:51:39 -0900 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/reaching-50-000/threads/16072?page=26#forum_thread_comment_912623 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/reaching-50-000/threads/16072?page=26#forum_thread_comment_912623 AdonisNimbus I cannot believe I didn't seek out this thread sooner. I will be adding all the 'regulars' to my writing buddies in the hopes that I remember next year. Wed, 30 Nov 2011 21:52:12 -0900 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/reaching-50-000/threads/16072?page=26#forum_thread_comment_912630 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/reaching-50-000/threads/16072?page=26#forum_thread_comment_912630 crabhooves Hey adonis if you want I can nanomail you next year when I make the thread. I'll just put a reminder in my calendar, anybody else want a reminder and a link? Wed, 30 Nov 2011 22:15:49 -0900 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/reaching-50-000/threads/16072?page=26#forum_thread_comment_912809 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/reaching-50-000/threads/16072?page=26#forum_thread_comment_912809 crabhooves Oh and congratulations deadline! Huzzah on your well earnt victory! Wed, 30 Nov 2011 22:16:49 -0900 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/reaching-50-000/threads/16072?page=26#forum_thread_comment_912822 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/reaching-50-000/threads/16072?page=26#forum_thread_comment_912822 Gemma Knott I am so close... Tell me tl get back tl work will you? Wed, 30 Nov 2011 22:27:26 -0900 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/reaching-50-000/threads/16072?page=26#forum_thread_comment_912887 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/reaching-50-000/threads/16072?page=26#forum_thread_comment_912887 Bynadutch Put me on that list. This would have been nice to have found 2 weeks ago :) Wed, 30 Nov 2011 22:40:31 -0900 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/reaching-50-000/threads/16072?page=26#forum_thread_comment_912966 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/reaching-50-000/threads/16072?page=26#forum_thread_comment_912966 Nessabutterfly Everyone post a line from your novel. Just for fun. I got writing again this evening (I'm only about 2/3 of the way through my plot) and just wrote what might be my favourite line so far. Here. Enjoy. The "he" is her boyfriend, BTW. With his current lack of personal history and knowledge of their world, an hour of being questioned by eight curious females was a dangerous place to be. Instead, Taylor decided to subject him to a far worse fate. “Actually, I was going to go introduce him to my Dad.” Wed, 30 Nov 2011 22:50:26 -0900 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/reaching-50-000/threads/16072?page=27#forum_thread_comment_913032 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/reaching-50-000/threads/16072?page=27#forum_thread_comment_913032 Bynadutch Looks like you did it! Congrats! I am 699 words off myself... 1 hour :) I got this. Wed, 30 Nov 2011 22:59:03 -0900 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/reaching-50-000/threads/16072?page=26#forum_thread_comment_913107 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/reaching-50-000/threads/16072?page=26#forum_thread_comment_913107 AnonymousChild Yes, please! I wish I had found this thread sooner, too. All for one and one for kicking each others' butts - and all that. Fun times, and the forums helped get me to the win. Yay! Wed, 30 Nov 2011 23:26:49 -0900 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/reaching-50-000/threads/16072?page=26#forum_thread_comment_913272 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/reaching-50-000/threads/16072?page=26#forum_thread_comment_913272 Bynadutch Got it! Over 12k written today to make it, but I did it! Thank you for the final poke I needed to get it done! Anyone else still writing, you can do it too! Wed, 30 Nov 2011 23:29:35 -0900 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/reaching-50-000/threads/16072?page=27#forum_thread_comment_913284 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/reaching-50-000/threads/16072?page=27#forum_thread_comment_913284 Shun Definitely. I only finished this year because of an epiphany. I do not want to be stuck 800 words under the bar twenty minutes to go ever again. Wed, 30 Nov 2011 23:40:34 -0900 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/reaching-50-000/threads/16072?page=26#forum_thread_comment_913335 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/reaching-50-000/threads/16072?page=26#forum_thread_comment_913335 Alexanderson200 ¡Yes please! I so want to bee a part of this next year. Thu, 01 Dec 2011 00:42:40 -0900 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/reaching-50-000/threads/16072?page=26#forum_thread_comment_913522 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/reaching-50-000/threads/16072?page=26#forum_thread_comment_913522 tajavioletta [quote=Shun] I do not want to be stuck 800 words under the bar twenty minutes to go ever again. [/quote] Oh gods, I was right there with you! :P Yes, Crabby, I would love an invite next year! Thanks for making me feel welcome! Thu, 01 Dec 2011 00:53:00 -0900 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/reaching-50-000/threads/16072?page=26#forum_thread_comment_913554 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/reaching-50-000/threads/16072?page=26#forum_thread_comment_913554 BloodRoseAngel @Nessa - good idea! :D This is the last line I wrote before my final validation last night. X3 I was writing as fast and possible and wasn't really concentrating on what I was doing, haha, but I was quite pleased with how it turned out. XD He didn’t respond for a long moment, then he slowly sat up, brushing his long hair out of his face. His back was turned to Casey, so she couldn’t read his expression. The pale sunlight drifting in through the broken window blinds, illuminating tiny dust motes in the air, limned his outline in a thin stroke of luminescence, like a wire. His shirt was marred with dusty patches, and his hair was unbrushed and tangled, a vast contrast to its usually unnatural synthetic smoothness. Somehow, ironically, he looked more human this way, and it took Casey a moment to figure out why. He looked exhausted. Thu, 01 Dec 2011 03:09:58 -0900 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/reaching-50-000/threads/16072?page=27#forum_thread_comment_913935 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/reaching-50-000/threads/16072?page=27#forum_thread_comment_913935 GothicRabbit Aw... Not only did I not make it (way off the mark) but by the time all my documents stopped fighting me and took their proper place in the Validate My Story box and I clicked Submit, it was two minutes too late. Sadness. &gt;.&lt; Thu, 01 Dec 2011 05:42:59 -0900 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/reaching-50-000/threads/16072?page=25#forum_thread_comment_914688 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/reaching-50-000/threads/16072?page=25#forum_thread_comment_914688 Kira Joy Well, you got 26000 this month. Now, for December, write the other half! You tried, and that's really what counts, BUT now you need to push yourself all the way! GO GO GO! Thu, 01 Dec 2011 05:49:29 -0900 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/reaching-50-000/threads/16072?page=25#forum_thread_comment_914727 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/reaching-50-000/threads/16072?page=25#forum_thread_comment_914727 Kira Joy That's fantastic! You pulled through! Thu, 01 Dec 2011 05:55:55 -0900 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/reaching-50-000/threads/16072?page=25#forum_thread_comment_914766 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/reaching-50-000/threads/16072?page=25#forum_thread_comment_914766 Kira Joy That's an inspiring way to pull through!!! Thu, 01 Dec 2011 06:05:22 -0900 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/reaching-50-000/threads/16072?page=26#forum_thread_comment_914821 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/reaching-50-000/threads/16072?page=26#forum_thread_comment_914821 Kira Joy NO!!!! You didn't! No one fails in NaNoWriMo!! At least you gave it a try and attempted a huge scary monster so large it would take thirty days to conquer it! Look at you! You got way over 8,000!!!! That's still absolutely amazing! Most people don't ever even dream of writing that much! Especially in only a month! Please join us again next year! Thu, 01 Dec 2011 06:13:54 -0900 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/reaching-50-000/threads/16072?page=26#forum_thread_comment_914883 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/reaching-50-000/threads/16072?page=26#forum_thread_comment_914883 Kira Joy That's wonderful! At least you tried, and truly, NaNoWriMo is a learning experience, so, in a way, you won! I admire you for keeping a positive attitude! Thu, 01 Dec 2011 06:15:42 -0900 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/reaching-50-000/threads/16072?page=26#forum_thread_comment_914897 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/reaching-50-000/threads/16072?page=26#forum_thread_comment_914897 Kira Joy Me again! Please add me to the NaNoMail list! Thu, 01 Dec 2011 06:21:38 -0900 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/reaching-50-000/threads/16072?page=26#forum_thread_comment_914928 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/reaching-50-000/threads/16072?page=26#forum_thread_comment_914928 Kira Joy Nessa, here is a line from my novel: Waking up screaming is not much fun. Actually, let me change that. Waking up screaming is no fun at all. First of all, there is the absolute panic of the moment when you wake up. For a moment all your brain can feel is panic. Then as it starts to slowly, and yet more slowly wake up, the next emotion you feel is confusion. You start to ask yourself questions like, Why the heck did I just wake up? And then the real trouble starts. You answer those questions. In the course of maybe two minutes, your brain mounts a super fast roller coaster ride that seems to last for at least an hour. You start to answer the questions. Ok, so it's a paragraph, not a line, but it's one of my favorite parts of the book. It's the opening paragraph. Thu, 01 Dec 2011 06:24:16 -0900 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/reaching-50-000/threads/16072?page=27#forum_thread_comment_914944 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/reaching-50-000/threads/16072?page=27#forum_thread_comment_914944 ghawthorne I'd like to state that I have a magic wizard crab who appears in my novels and waves a crabby wand to advance the plot when I can't think of a link yet. He's basically a crab with a wizard hat (with stars on it, like there's any other kind), a beard and a wand. He's probably crabhooves' cousin. :) Thu, 01 Dec 2011 08:57:23 -0900 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/reaching-50-000/threads/16072?page=27#forum_thread_comment_916057 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/reaching-50-000/threads/16072?page=27#forum_thread_comment_916057 eternalcow I definitely do. Thu, 01 Dec 2011 09:37:15 -0900 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/reaching-50-000/threads/16072?page=26#forum_thread_comment_916336 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/reaching-50-000/threads/16072?page=26#forum_thread_comment_916336 hc-ski Ooh, I just found this thread and I am so joining next year! *bouncing up and down in excitment* Ya'll don't even know how much fun I will have. Bwahahahahahaaaaa! Thu, 01 Dec 2011 12:09:22 -0900 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/reaching-50-000/threads/16072?page=27#forum_thread_comment_917196 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/reaching-50-000/threads/16072?page=27#forum_thread_comment_917196 Heather.G I won for the first time ever! TAKE THAT!!!! :) Thu, 01 Dec 2011 13:44:38 -0900 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/reaching-50-000/threads/16072?page=27#forum_thread_comment_917965 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/reaching-50-000/threads/16072?page=27#forum_thread_comment_917965 RainbowFishie That would be awesome, thanks :) Thu, 01 Dec 2011 14:09:55 -0900 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/reaching-50-000/threads/16072?page=26#forum_thread_comment_918166 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/reaching-50-000/threads/16072?page=26#forum_thread_comment_918166 AdonisNimbus Thank you, I'll need a good asswhupping. Thu, 01 Dec 2011 14:57:09 -0900 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/reaching-50-000/threads/16072?page=26#forum_thread_comment_918545 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/reaching-50-000/threads/16072?page=26#forum_thread_comment_918545 RainbowFishie This is a bit random but remember how I fell behind a few days ago because I was busy working on my team's debate plan? Well, we made it to the finals. And now we're going to the league tournament :) This is officially the best. Week. Ever. Thu, 01 Dec 2011 15:34:26 -0900 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/reaching-50-000/threads/16072?page=27#forum_thread_comment_918854 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/reaching-50-000/threads/16072?page=27#forum_thread_comment_918854 Shahrizai Mad congrats! Thu, 01 Dec 2011 20:44:04 -0900 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/reaching-50-000/threads/16072?page=26#forum_thread_comment_920944 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/reaching-50-000/threads/16072?page=26#forum_thread_comment_920944 tajavioletta Congrats, Heather.G and Fishie! :D Thu, 01 Dec 2011 22:32:15 -0900 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/reaching-50-000/threads/16072?page=27#forum_thread_comment_921267 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/reaching-50-000/threads/16072?page=27#forum_thread_comment_921267 tajavioletta Hey deadlinehah, CONGRATS! From one come-from-behind-loony to another, you pulled that off gorgeously. Your stats chart is a thing of beauty! Go you! :D Thu, 01 Dec 2011 22:36:35 -0900 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/reaching-50-000/threads/16072?page=26#forum_thread_comment_921275 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/reaching-50-000/threads/16072?page=26#forum_thread_comment_921275 Shahrizai That's awesome; congratulations! Fri, 02 Dec 2011 06:35:11 -0900 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/reaching-50-000/threads/16072?page=27#forum_thread_comment_922484 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/reaching-50-000/threads/16072?page=27#forum_thread_comment_922484 BloodRoseAngel Just spotted that this thread was in the Procrastination Station on the front page. It's not exactly procrastination, more... well, the opposite! XD Fri, 02 Dec 2011 07:13:29 -0900 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/reaching-50-000/threads/16072?page=27#forum_thread_comment_922645 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/reaching-50-000/threads/16072?page=27#forum_thread_comment_922645 Lilwmfl04 Here's a little line (ok two, er...lines?) from mine (two different scenes) :) : “What are you looking for?” “My phone.” replied Nala absently. Nathan laughed. “What’s so funny?” she demanded, throwing him a dirty look. “Since we have, as you say, ‘brought you here against your will and expect you to stay’, do you really think we’d be crazy enough to leave you your phone?” * * * * * Chris was halfway out of her chair when Sean’s hand clamped around her arm, freezing her in place. “No. We go tonight.” “Tonight?” Chris shook him off. “News flash, how do we get in if it’s after hours?” Sean smirked. “We break in. I’ll pick you up at eight.” Fri, 02 Dec 2011 15:49:06 -0900 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/reaching-50-000/threads/16072?page=27#forum_thread_comment_924947 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/reaching-50-000/threads/16072?page=27#forum_thread_comment_924947 WastedDaylight Here's a little dialogue part between my two characters. (Honestly, this is my favorite dialogue between them ever.) "If you think you're a burden, then you're insane." My body drifting from his, we sat across from each other, the smell of the gas nearly free of my nose, I patted Sail's shoulder. "I guess you're contagious then," Sail joked and flashed me a smile before groaning as he staggered to his feet. *** *Sighs with a smile* It's hilarious if you actually read the book xP Because it's true! xD Fri, 02 Dec 2011 16:34:03 -0900 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/reaching-50-000/threads/16072?page=27#forum_thread_comment_925164 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/reaching-50-000/threads/16072?page=27#forum_thread_comment_925164 crabhooves It's so weird that it's in the procrastination station - this is not a thread for procrastinating bitches! Although I suppose it is now that November is over. I think last year we were featured too, "Go guilt uncle crabhooves" it gave me such a thrill to see it on the front page. What's everybpody going to be doing in December, editing or running as far away from their novel as they possibly can? Sat, 03 Dec 2011 05:01:17 -0900 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/reaching-50-000/threads/16072?page=27#forum_thread_comment_927324 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/reaching-50-000/threads/16072?page=27#forum_thread_comment_927324 crabhooves Oh and it's worth noting that we have a record number of winners this year - i've never seen so much purple! Sat, 03 Dec 2011 05:12:10 -0900 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/reaching-50-000/threads/16072?page=27#forum_thread_comment_927348 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/reaching-50-000/threads/16072?page=27#forum_thread_comment_927348 BloodRoseAngel I'm still writing my novel, personally. 8'D I'm about 2/3 of the way through. By the time midnight rolled round on November 30th, I was just getting excited about the action scenes I'm putting in! It's all getting dramatic now &gt;8D Sat, 03 Dec 2011 07:45:34 -0900 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/reaching-50-000/threads/16072?page=27#forum_thread_comment_927776 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/reaching-50-000/threads/16072?page=27#forum_thread_comment_927776 Darkotter's Kosher Bacon Dammit, why'd I only find this thread NOW?! I could have used this during second week... T.T Ah well. I'll join Guiltfest next year... Sat, 03 Dec 2011 11:19:11 -0900 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/reaching-50-000/threads/16072?page=27#forum_thread_comment_928489 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/reaching-50-000/threads/16072?page=27#forum_thread_comment_928489 Shahrizai I'm finishing up my novel, still, and after that I'm taking a break from it for about two weeks or so before I start editing. Won't that be fun? ^^; Sat, 03 Dec 2011 12:20:29 -0900 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/reaching-50-000/threads/16072?page=27#forum_thread_comment_928705 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/reaching-50-000/threads/16072?page=27#forum_thread_comment_928705 Nessabutterfly I made you all feel guilty!! Sat, 03 Dec 2011 21:48:36 -0900 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/reaching-50-000/threads/16072?page=27#forum_thread_comment_930821 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/reaching-50-000/threads/16072?page=27#forum_thread_comment_930821 Nessabutterfly same here-- about 2/3 as well and just getting to the good stuff. Of course, I'm going MUCH slower now. the extra 25,000 will probably take 2 months. Sat, 03 Dec 2011 21:49:49 -0900 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/reaching-50-000/threads/16072?page=27#forum_thread_comment_930829 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/reaching-50-000/threads/16072?page=27#forum_thread_comment_930829 BloodRoseAngel The last 50,000 words of my NaNo last year took 25 days. I finished on Christmas Day! XD But yeah, it was very slow compared to my November pace, in which I wrote 135,000 words XD Sun, 04 Dec 2011 03:01:05 -0900 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/reaching-50-000/threads/16072?page=27#forum_thread_comment_931280 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/reaching-50-000/threads/16072?page=27#forum_thread_comment_931280 Anoulie Someone guilt me into keeping going. I got to 51051 words, and for the past 10K words or so, I have really hated my story, and I still do. I just kept going to win, but I still don't like it. I just can't force myself to write the next 40K. Sun, 04 Dec 2011 09:44:56 -0900 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/reaching-50-000/threads/16072?page=27#forum_thread_comment_932147 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/reaching-50-000/threads/16072?page=27#forum_thread_comment_932147 JagrBishop Anoulie: If you don't finish it, then you'll have to write it NEXT YEAR for NaNo! Mwahahahahaha! Sun, 04 Dec 2011 11:43:06 -0900 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/reaching-50-000/threads/16072?page=27#forum_thread_comment_932764 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/reaching-50-000/threads/16072?page=27#forum_thread_comment_932764 AliceUnrequited We're on the front page in Procrastination Station. o.0 And my excerpt: He never saw it coming. Didn't see it going, either. He was already dead, one knife slid deep into his gut, the other drawn across his throat. The blood spray was magnificent, an arc of brilliant crimson staining his killer even as the guards tackled her to the ground. His eyes went wide and then his frame went limp, crumpling to the ground like a broken rag doll. She didn't cry out. Not when the assassin approached. Not when she saw the blood leaking from his mouth-- from his throat. Not when she realized she was covered with gore, her pristine, fashionable white gown forever sullied with the blood of her husband. She simply stared, wide-eyed. She'd never seen so much blood. Never seen much blood, period. Sun, 04 Dec 2011 14:46:26 -0900 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/reaching-50-000/threads/16072?page=27#forum_thread_comment_933716 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/reaching-50-000/threads/16072?page=27#forum_thread_comment_933716 hc-ski Same here! Lol ;) Sun, 04 Dec 2011 14:47:18 -0900 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/reaching-50-000/threads/16072?page=27#forum_thread_comment_933723 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/reaching-50-000/threads/16072?page=27#forum_thread_comment_933723 Kira Joy Guilt: think of the characters that you wrote 51051 words about! Are you just going to drop them now, and leave them to forever sit in the black hole of unfinishedment? Think of thier personalities and capabilities! Do you want to just flush them all down the toilet? That's murder, I say! Murder! Keep the story alive and finish it for their sake!! Sun, 04 Dec 2011 17:59:04 -0900 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/reaching-50-000/threads/16072?page=27#forum_thread_comment_934641 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/reaching-50-000/threads/16072?page=27#forum_thread_comment_934641 Kira Joy Crabhooves, I'm going to be finishing my novel along with a lot of other people, I can see. I have about 3/4 done, but I need to finish it. Then comes the wonderful editing process! &lt;-- sarcasm. I'm actually really excited about how my book turned out. I think it's beautiful! Sun, 04 Dec 2011 18:01:34 -0900 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/reaching-50-000/threads/16072?page=28#forum_thread_comment_934657 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/reaching-50-000/threads/16072?page=28#forum_thread_comment_934657 crabhooves Alice I love that you managed to put 'blood' and 'period' next to each other, love the reference. Did your Aunt Floe from Redbank, New Jersey help you come up with that? Kira sounds like fun, im not sure if ill be editing mine at all. I've drastically changed the thing that it was supposed to act as a prequel to, so we'll see. I'll definitely be busy this December working on that though :D I could use some motivation so I don't slack off. Mon, 05 Dec 2011 01:32:45 -0900 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/reaching-50-000/threads/16072?page=28#forum_thread_comment_936018 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/reaching-50-000/threads/16072?page=28#forum_thread_comment_936018 tajavioletta Hmmm, I think I'll go ahead and work on my novel more. I say that every year and never do, but this year, I've already taken the manuscript back out and added a few words. Anyone wanna hang out here a bit and chat over the next month or so? I'm not ready for NaNo to be over! I think my motivation stems from the fact that I really am very in love with my glitterpunk noir novel, and do want to see it through to completion. That'll involve fully plotting it out, finishing it, editing it, and beta-readers...hint hint. I've come across some great self-publishing sites recently, that have just about won me over to the concept of publishing the novel online through my blog, when it's done. In any case, I feel super motivated to keep going--and I can always ladle out a bit more guilt, if anyone wants to write some more this December but is slacking about it! Mon, 05 Dec 2011 02:22:25 -0900 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/reaching-50-000/threads/16072?page=28#forum_thread_comment_936054 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/reaching-50-000/threads/16072?page=28#forum_thread_comment_936054 BloodRoseAngel It's definitely harder to keep going when the forums just empty out after November, haha. XD Anyone who's still writing should lurk about here and keep chatting, definitely! :D Mon, 05 Dec 2011 05:56:05 -0900 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/reaching-50-000/threads/16072?page=28#forum_thread_comment_936446 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/reaching-50-000/threads/16072?page=28#forum_thread_comment_936446 Princess Binky Lemontwist I'll be lurking around... Sounds creepy. LOL! I check the forums every day! SO does this forum now become the guilt you into editing, publishing, etc.? Mon, 05 Dec 2011 13:10:43 -0900 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/reaching-50-000/threads/16072?page=28#forum_thread_comment_937927 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/reaching-50-000/threads/16072?page=28#forum_thread_comment_937927 Princess Binky Lemontwist I saw this forum too late to join in the bantering but I'm bookmarking this for next year! I'll roast all of your wordcounts alive next year!! Mon, 05 Dec 2011 13:11:33 -0900 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/reaching-50-000/threads/16072?page=28#forum_thread_comment_937933 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/reaching-50-000/threads/16072?page=28#forum_thread_comment_937933 Kira Joy I'll stick around. Lurking around corners and dishing out large servings of guilt and sarcasm. Let's finish these novels, y'all! Mon, 05 Dec 2011 18:51:47 -0900 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/reaching-50-000/threads/16072?page=28#forum_thread_comment_940022 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/reaching-50-000/threads/16072?page=28#forum_thread_comment_940022 Solunar I've crawled back here after procrastinating. Lol, time to get back to cracking out those words. Mon, 05 Dec 2011 20:50:54 -0900 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/reaching-50-000/threads/16072?page=28#forum_thread_comment_940658 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/reaching-50-000/threads/16072?page=28#forum_thread_comment_940658 Solunar Still no edit button. Well, I think 3k is a good way to start out again. 1k for each novel. Mon, 05 Dec 2011 20:52:10 -0900 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/reaching-50-000/threads/16072?page=28#forum_thread_comment_940664 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/reaching-50-000/threads/16072?page=28#forum_thread_comment_940664 Nessabutterfly I'll stick around. I've spent a little time writing, but not enough. Maybe 1000 words so far this month? I really want to finish this though-- pretty sure it's the best thing I've ever written (adjusting for the current stage of course), so it's work finishing! Mon, 05 Dec 2011 21:32:10 -0900 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/reaching-50-000/threads/16072?page=28#forum_thread_comment_940773 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/reaching-50-000/threads/16072?page=28#forum_thread_comment_940773 crabhooves Nessa I can't say it enough you were such an inspiration this month. From now on, no matter how long this thread goes and people whine about being busy or having problems we'll be like "Nessa didn't let CANCER get in her way and you're whining about your god damn kids? Shut the hell up and start writing!" Sol - how close are you to finishing? I haven't even started on the non nano thing that needs motivation today, when I get back from running I may consider it.. Mon, 05 Dec 2011 21:43:20 -0900 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/reaching-50-000/threads/16072?page=28#forum_thread_comment_940787 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/reaching-50-000/threads/16072?page=28#forum_thread_comment_940787 Solunar Oh man!! So awesome to see Nessa still around. :D crabby, hahahahha. Not very close. I havent written a lot since I hit the 68k. Still quite a long ways to go. I procrastinated even more today by creating this for all of us: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet/ccc?key=0At3kIHw4buGydE0zclJ0MmdtNThuT3RCTTFrclgzQWc It's still under a bit of construction since I'm trying to figure out how to take the formula from a cell and apply it to the whole column, otherwise I'll just have to input it manually. There's also a multi-coloured, psychedelic rainbow bar chart there! This was inspired by the Cabin Skype spreadsheet. Mon, 05 Dec 2011 23:12:23 -0900 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/reaching-50-000/threads/16072?page=28#forum_thread_comment_940918 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/reaching-50-000/threads/16072?page=28#forum_thread_comment_940918 crabhooves Honey share it with me, my gmail is the same as my nanowrimo name. I spent like 12 hours on LibreOffice Calc the other day, I can figure this shit out. Just hope I remember some of it. Oh wait nvm it's publicly editable - what formula do you want to apply to what cells? Usually you just select the cell with the formula and then there's a little box on the bottom of it, small box and you drag that over the cells you want to apply it to. Tue, 06 Dec 2011 04:20:39 -0900 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/reaching-50-000/threads/16072?page=28#forum_thread_comment_941275 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/reaching-50-000/threads/16072?page=28#forum_thread_comment_941275 Princess Binky Lemontwist XD Tue, 06 Dec 2011 05:13:29 -0900 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/reaching-50-000/threads/16072?page=28#forum_thread_comment_941363 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/reaching-50-000/threads/16072?page=28#forum_thread_comment_941363 Lizardhound Yesyesyes! I found NanoWriMo by accident a week into October, so I didn't participate this yar. But next year......... Beware! Here Be Dragons! Tue, 06 Dec 2011 07:15:57 -0900 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/reaching-50-000/threads/16072?page=26#forum_thread_comment_941625 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/reaching-50-000/threads/16072?page=26#forum_thread_comment_941625 Lizardhound I'll stick around here, even if I didn't write a single blessed word this NaNo... Tue, 06 Dec 2011 07:22:45 -0900 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/reaching-50-000/threads/16072?page=28#forum_thread_comment_941640 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/reaching-50-000/threads/16072?page=28#forum_thread_comment_941640 Solunar AH! Who entered the spreadsheet and left? We were in chat! Tue, 06 Dec 2011 07:26:15 -0900 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/reaching-50-000/threads/16072?page=28#forum_thread_comment_941655 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/reaching-50-000/threads/16072?page=28#forum_thread_comment_941655 Princess Binky Lemontwist Hey, if you get back to spreadsheet, you can find us in chat under other viewers Tue, 06 Dec 2011 07:27:05 -0900 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/reaching-50-000/threads/16072?page=28#forum_thread_comment_941659 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/reaching-50-000/threads/16072?page=28#forum_thread_comment_941659 Nessabutterfly I'd totally be whining about my kids if I didn't have other people here keeping them out of my hair 24 hours a day (I'm not allowed to lift them-- or anything over 10 lbs for another 4 weeks). Heck, as it is I STILL whine about them! Tue, 06 Dec 2011 09:18:39 -0900 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/reaching-50-000/threads/16072?page=28#forum_thread_comment_942069 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/reaching-50-000/threads/16072?page=28#forum_thread_comment_942069 Solunar Argh. Got a little worried so came back to add. The spreadsheet is still under construction. There's one formula left I'm trying to find the solution for. Tue, 06 Dec 2011 09:51:12 -0900 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/reaching-50-000/threads/16072?page=28#forum_thread_comment_942239 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/reaching-50-000/threads/16072?page=28#forum_thread_comment_942239 Nessabutterfly solunar-- your little chart is wonderful! I want to write JUST so I can add my word count to it! I am so pathetic to be motivated by such a silly thing, but it works!! Tue, 06 Dec 2011 16:18:35 -0900 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/reaching-50-000/threads/16072?page=28#forum_thread_comment_943870 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/reaching-50-000/threads/16072?page=28#forum_thread_comment_943870 crabhooves Nessa are you looking at it now? I'm in chat :D click on the "one other person viewing" thing at the top of the page Tue, 06 Dec 2011 16:48:26 -0900 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/reaching-50-000/threads/16072?page=28#forum_thread_comment_944056 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/reaching-50-000/threads/16072?page=28#forum_thread_comment_944056 Nessabutterfly sorry, I left to go to Bible study. I'll keep peeking back though. Tue, 06 Dec 2011 21:30:45 -0900 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/reaching-50-000/threads/16072?page=28#forum_thread_comment_945540 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/reaching-50-000/threads/16072?page=28#forum_thread_comment_945540 Lizardhound ... I'll just pretend I understood that. This feels like being new at fanfiction.net, only there the terminology wasn't thrown at me like this x) Wed, 07 Dec 2011 07:41:46 -0900 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/reaching-50-000/threads/16072?page=28#forum_thread_comment_946492 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/reaching-50-000/threads/16072?page=28#forum_thread_comment_946492 Lizardhound Ha! Found it! Wed, 07 Dec 2011 07:44:57 -0900 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/reaching-50-000/threads/16072?page=28#forum_thread_comment_946502 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/reaching-50-000/threads/16072?page=28#forum_thread_comment_946502 crabhooves Fishie come back! I only check it intermittently, it doesn't make a sound or anything, come back and chat to meee :D https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet/ccc?key=0At3kIHw4buGydE0zclJ0MmdtNThuT3RCTTFrclgzQWc Anyone else is welcome to come chat too. Wed, 07 Dec 2011 15:16:10 -0900 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/reaching-50-000/threads/16072?page=28#forum_thread_comment_948239 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/reaching-50-000/threads/16072?page=28#forum_thread_comment_948239 tajavioletta Hey, cool spreadsheet! Can I add my numbers too? Since I already have Scrivener, I was going to share out my NaNoWriMo winner's half-off certificate, and I wanted to give one of the Crabby People first dibs. I know most of you guys won, so you don't need it...but if you didn't win and are sad you don't have an AMAZING writing program like Scrivener (yeah, I've become a bit of a fangirl), NaNo mail me and you can have my coupon. Stipulation: you have to have given NaNo a go this year. Like, written at least 5K! :) Just mail me if you want it--the program is really worth having. Wed, 07 Dec 2011 19:57:56 -0900 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/reaching-50-000/threads/16072?page=28#forum_thread_comment_949893 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/reaching-50-000/threads/16072?page=28#forum_thread_comment_949893 crabhooves Ooh taja you reminded me to get that, I want to check it out :D How versatile is it? Can I use it to keep track of characters and plotlines for my game? Or is it strictly a noveling program? Taja definitely put your numbers in it, come on in and say hi in the chat (click on the top right, one other viewers it opens the chat log) it might take a while for someone to notice but then we can all talk :D Wed, 07 Dec 2011 20:10:09 -0900 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/reaching-50-000/threads/16072?page=28#forum_thread_comment_949939 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/reaching-50-000/threads/16072?page=28#forum_thread_comment_949939 tajavioletta Oh, I use it for all sorts of things! I keep track of my blog posts (shamefully neglected of late) and my Getting Things Done work. I don't know much about running a game, but I don't see why you couldn't use it for that--each branch of the game could have its own folder with multiply-nested sub-folders, and you can color-code plotlines, as well as choose different document icons for each character...or vice versa. It doesn't have a timeline, which is my only real complaint--not all of us are writing linear literary fiction! :P And it doesn't have a character or plot generator, but character templates can be imported from elsewhere and populated. But you can import pdfs, audio/video files, and photos, and make them be documents within folders. But its strengths overcome its weaknesses by a long shot. It's not one of those writing programs that will actively help you do things. What it is, is a very pretty, very strong and stable program, that can alternately be used in nearly infinite configurations, or be made very plain and get the hell out of your way, depending on your needs. A lot of writing software I looked at had more bells and whistles, but got intrusive almost immediately, and therefore pissed me off within a couple of hours. Scrivener is cool in that you determine exactly how simple or complicated you want your work with it to be, and it will scale to that. And different projects can have different levels of complicatedness or simplicity, depending on what they are. Thu, 08 Dec 2011 01:29:15 -0900 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/reaching-50-000/threads/16072?page=29#forum_thread_comment_950456 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/reaching-50-000/threads/16072?page=29#forum_thread_comment_950456 crabhooves Tajaaaa! Talk to us in the spreadsheet chat box, just click on other viewers on top right! Thu, 08 Dec 2011 01:49:03 -0900 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/reaching-50-000/threads/16072?page=29#forum_thread_comment_950467 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/reaching-50-000/threads/16072?page=29#forum_thread_comment_950467 BloodRoseAngel That spreadsheet thing is confusing o_o; Thu, 08 Dec 2011 02:58:41 -0900 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/reaching-50-000/threads/16072?page=29#forum_thread_comment_950522 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/reaching-50-000/threads/16072?page=29#forum_thread_comment_950522 Princess Binky Lemontwist Not once u get the hang of it Thu, 08 Dec 2011 08:22:27 -0900 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/reaching-50-000/threads/16072?page=29#forum_thread_comment_951209 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/reaching-50-000/threads/16072?page=29#forum_thread_comment_951209 Princess Binky Lemontwist Crabhooves! You haven't made anything according to the spreadsheet. o_O You getting lazy on us??? Fri, 09 Dec 2011 05:15:53 -0900 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/reaching-50-000/threads/16072?page=29#forum_thread_comment_955031 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/reaching-50-000/threads/16072?page=29#forum_thread_comment_955031 RainbowFishie ^ Fri, 09 Dec 2011 21:11:37 -0900 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/reaching-50-000/threads/16072?page=29#forum_thread_comment_958193 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/reaching-50-000/threads/16072?page=29#forum_thread_comment_958193 RainbowFishie *has returned to the forums xD* So, how's everyone been? Fri, 09 Dec 2011 21:11:58 -0900 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/reaching-50-000/threads/16072?page=29#forum_thread_comment_958195 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/reaching-50-000/threads/16072?page=29#forum_thread_comment_958195 RainbowFishie Btw, I'm on chat right now, if anyone's there... Fri, 09 Dec 2011 21:12:17 -0900 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/reaching-50-000/threads/16072?page=29#forum_thread_comment_958196 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/reaching-50-000/threads/16072?page=29#forum_thread_comment_958196 Solunar URGGGH SLACKING LIKE A SLUG! I've decided to join milwordy and try for a million words next year. BUT I should really start writing again. Will do so today. Mon, 19 Dec 2011 23:03:01 -0900 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/reaching-50-000/threads/16072?page=29#forum_thread_comment_986898 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/reaching-50-000/threads/16072?page=29#forum_thread_comment_986898 crabhooves Three thousand a day? Double nano all year round? Yeesh. I'll be in the spreadsheet tommorrow - it's so easy to forget people are talking to you when you have a million tabs and it doesn't beep or anything, we should really set up an irc or something. Wed, 21 Dec 2011 04:24:36 -0900 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/reaching-50-000/threads/16072?page=29#forum_thread_comment_990418 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/reaching-50-000/threads/16072?page=29#forum_thread_comment_990418 AliceUnrequited Found the spreadsheet. Is what I get, I suppose, when I don't read things closely enough. Hey Crabby. I want you to know that my family went out for seafood, and I did not eat crab. I was tempted to, but you beat me to 50k and so I abstained. This time, at least. :3 Wed, 21 Dec 2011 15:42:24 -0900 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/reaching-50-000/threads/16072?page=29#forum_thread_comment_991964 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/reaching-50-000/threads/16072?page=29#forum_thread_comment_991964 BloodRoseAngel Uaaargh just when I thought I was near the end my story's gone meandering off doing its own thing again. Couple of new characters have just appeared and taken over. Oh well, let's see what happens. XD Sat, 24 Dec 2011 16:12:37 -0900 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/reaching-50-000/threads/16072?page=29#forum_thread_comment_999107 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/reaching-50-000/threads/16072?page=29#forum_thread_comment_999107 Solunar ARGGGGGGGH such a procrastinator. Really have to do it. Mon, 26 Dec 2011 20:42:31 -0900 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/reaching-50-000/threads/16072?page=29#forum_thread_comment_1003027 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/reaching-50-000/threads/16072?page=29#forum_thread_comment_1003027 Nessabutterfly What is this craziness? Me? Writing? Why yes I am! (a whole 1000 words this evening!) Won't meet my goal, but it was a silly goal anyway. With Christmas, birthdays and health junk. Still, got more than 1/4 of the way. And I only have 3 pages of my 22 page outline left to go. I might finish the first draft under the 75K mark after all (still have at least an extra 10% to add in revision though!!) Sat, 31 Dec 2011 01:12:05 -0900 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/reaching-50-000/threads/16072?page=29#forum_thread_comment_1013978 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/reaching-50-000/threads/16072?page=29#forum_thread_comment_1013978 Solunar WOAAAAH Nessa you rock!! I've been dilly-dallying so much. I shall make another spread sheet so you can continue on your epic journey while I am Sam the gardener carrying your stuff. Sat, 31 Dec 2011 02:42:40 -0900 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/reaching-50-000/threads/16072?page=29#forum_thread_comment_1014001 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/reaching-50-000/threads/16072?page=29#forum_thread_comment_1014001 Nessabutterfly Well, I have a fanfic that I have PROMISED to finish and start posting sometime this spring (and I want to actually finish it/ before I start posting). But I can't start it until I am finished the first draft of this one! Then After I finish and post my fanfic, I can come back and revise this one. And then I can write the third part of my fanfic (I wrote the first of the 3-parter over 5 years ago!!!) Probably won't write anything for another week or so though. Sat, 31 Dec 2011 14:55:53 -0900 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/reaching-50-000/threads/16072?page=29#forum_thread_comment_1015596 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/reaching-50-000/threads/16072?page=29#forum_thread_comment_1015596 crabhooves Ok so I didn't do the 62 little 3D models like I wanted - but I did do one big model! The character model I made is almost done and ready to texture, rig and animate. So I would say December is a success :D Sat, 31 Dec 2011 15:58:00 -0900 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/reaching-50-000/threads/16072?page=29#forum_thread_comment_1015807 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/reaching-50-000/threads/16072?page=29#forum_thread_comment_1015807 Nessabutterfly Happy New Year! Will the guilt continue in January? Sat, 31 Dec 2011 23:08:26 -0900 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/reaching-50-000/threads/16072?page=29#forum_thread_comment_1017434 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/reaching-50-000/threads/16072?page=29#forum_thread_comment_1017434 Solunar https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet/ccc?key=0At3kIHw4buGydE0zclJ0MmdtNThuT3RCTTFrclgzQWc&amp;hl=en_GB#gid=9 January spreadsheet is up. REALLY LAGGING BEHIND I AM A HORRIBLE PERSON. I'll go hang out in the word wars forum. hope there's still one here. Mon, 02 Jan 2012 04:30:46 -0900 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/reaching-50-000/threads/16072?page=29#forum_thread_comment_1021078 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/reaching-50-000/threads/16072?page=29#forum_thread_comment_1021078 Nessabutterfly I'm like a half a chapter from the end!! It's sitting at 60,258 words right now, so it'll probably end around 62,000 or so? Of course, obviously it's a first draft and needs a LOT of work, so who knows where it will REALLY end up, but I think that's a pretty safe place to end for YA. I'm so excited. Probably one more day of writing should finish off this draft. I want to get working on revising it right away, but I'm going to sit on it! Kingdom Come is due for it's turn in the spotlight! Back to the fanfic for a while. Hopefully I can get that written by sometime in March (the first volume was only about 25K and this plot is only maybe a little longer). Okay, getting rambly. Off to dreamland now! Mon, 09 Jan 2012 00:46:53 -0900 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/reaching-50-000/threads/16072?page=29#forum_thread_comment_1043789 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/reaching-50-000/threads/16072?page=29#forum_thread_comment_1043789 Nessabutterfly And FINISHED!!! First draft anyway. It totally needs more tension-- the ending felt like a let down. It was too easy. These kids need a challenge! Or an enemy. Oh, maybe war? I've already got a war going on-- maybe he could be sent off to war? No, they wouldn't do that to the crown prince. Unless he volunteered to go help her country-- but he knows it's not really her country. Arg... I guess I'll need to read it through and see if anything comes to mind. Tue, 10 Jan 2012 00:04:18 -0900 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/reaching-50-000/threads/16072?page=29#forum_thread_comment_1046604 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/reaching-50-000/threads/16072?page=29#forum_thread_comment_1046604 Lizardhound Assassins would liven things up. They always do, except when they succeed. Tue, 10 Jan 2012 03:10:12 -0900 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/reaching-50-000/threads/16072?page=29#forum_thread_comment_1046818 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/reaching-50-000/threads/16072?page=29#forum_thread_comment_1046818 Nessabutterfly Can't believe I've read this 4 times and just now go the joke. Oh dear, my head is messed up! Tue, 10 Jan 2012 11:12:52 -0900 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/reaching-50-000/threads/16072?page=29#forum_thread_comment_1047514 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/reaching-50-000/threads/16072?page=29#forum_thread_comment_1047514 Solunar ARGH!!! The guilt is TOO HIGH! Okay. Going to war here. I think it's more motivational to post here and attack. So if anyone wants to hop in, feel free. I've been stuck in this rut for TOO LONg. going for 5. Not sure what to write. Tue, 10 Jan 2012 19:02:40 -0900 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/reaching-50-000/threads/16072?page=29#forum_thread_comment_1048821 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/reaching-50-000/threads/16072?page=29#forum_thread_comment_1048821 Solunar 103. Bahah, got distracted by our wordcount group chart. Just added Alice and crabby, just make a new bookmark linking to it. Tue, 10 Jan 2012 19:10:06 -0900 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/reaching-50-000/threads/16072?page=29#forum_thread_comment_1048846 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/reaching-50-000/threads/16072?page=29#forum_thread_comment_1048846 Solunar 204. Going for 5 again, then breaking a little. Tue, 10 Jan 2012 19:18:49 -0900 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/reaching-50-000/threads/16072?page=29#forum_thread_comment_1048869 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/reaching-50-000/threads/16072?page=29#forum_thread_comment_1048869 crabhooves whats the link for the new chart gurl? Tue, 10 Jan 2012 23:39:50 -0900 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/reaching-50-000/threads/16072?page=30#forum_thread_comment_1049155 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/reaching-50-000/threads/16072?page=30#forum_thread_comment_1049155 Solunar https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet/ccc?key=0At3kIHw4buGydE0zclJ0MmdtNThuT3RCTTFrclgzQWc&amp;hl=en_GB#gid=9 It's on the same page as the old one, just have to click the January tab at the bottom. You know, the area where you go to see the psychedelic bar graph? Tue, 10 Jan 2012 23:42:57 -0900 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/reaching-50-000/threads/16072?page=30#forum_thread_comment_1049156 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/reaching-50-000/threads/16072?page=30#forum_thread_comment_1049156 Solunar 1076 yesterday. :( The good news is that I went swimming today and realised how the main one I'm hoping to get published will end. Wed, 11 Jan 2012 20:12:54 -0900 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/reaching-50-000/threads/16072?page=30#forum_thread_comment_1052056 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/reaching-50-000/threads/16072?page=30#forum_thread_comment_1052056 Solunar Urgh. Damn it. Okay. Going for 5k today. Really need to finish this and hopefully edit the nano from two years ago. Going for 10 min sets from now. Wed, 11 Jan 2012 21:55:10 -0900 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/reaching-50-000/threads/16072?page=30#forum_thread_comment_1052293 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/reaching-50-000/threads/16072?page=30#forum_thread_comment_1052293 Nessabutterfly shoot-- one of my chemo side effects is hand cramps. Like my left hand will curl into a useless little ball. It only lasted an hour, but still-- no writing possible with hand cramps!! Chemo be DONE! And of course, I was too drugged from anti-nausea meds to get any writing done during my chemo appt. :( Oh, but there is a writing contest I want to enter. I need to have the first 10 pages polished and ready submit in the next 2 months. Hoping I can do it! Wed, 11 Jan 2012 23:47:10 -0900 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/reaching-50-000/threads/16072?page=30#forum_thread_comment_1052394 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/reaching-50-000/threads/16072?page=30#forum_thread_comment_1052394 Lizardhound Haha :P At least you got it! Sun, 15 Jan 2012 07:06:19 -0900 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/reaching-50-000/threads/16072?page=29#forum_thread_comment_1061735 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/reaching-50-000/threads/16072?page=29#forum_thread_comment_1061735 Lizardhound So I just revisited an old fanfic idea and somehow created an entire new race of half-spirit shapeshifter humanoids called the Amaelh for a new one, and I'm also trying to write a book. Yes, a real book. I hope to finish it before I turn seventeen, which gives me about... one year and three days. Perhaps I should reconsider? Sun, 15 Jan 2012 07:10:12 -0900 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/reaching-50-000/threads/16072?page=30#forum_thread_comment_1061739 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/reaching-50-000/threads/16072?page=30#forum_thread_comment_1061739 Solunar BLARGH Haven't written for three days. Guilt is eating me up now. Mon, 16 Jan 2012 19:53:36 -0900 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/reaching-50-000/threads/16072?page=30#forum_thread_comment_1066704 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/reaching-50-000/threads/16072?page=30#forum_thread_comment_1066704 Nessabutterfly I will guilt you even more! I wrote 1499 words tonight! (actually, like 1560, but there was a 1500 max on the contest!) Yay for fun writing contests! Get your butt in gear and write something! I got pumped full of poison this week and I still wrote! (not for a few days afterward though-- man does Chemo mess up your brain!!) Mon, 16 Jan 2012 21:39:31 -0900 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/reaching-50-000/threads/16072?page=30#forum_thread_comment_1066908 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/reaching-50-000/threads/16072?page=30#forum_thread_comment_1066908 Solunar YEAAAARRRRGGGGHHH I will! I must x_X The guilt is eating at me. Hope your chemo is going as well as it can. Tue, 17 Jan 2012 20:55:03 -0900 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/reaching-50-000/threads/16072?page=30#forum_thread_comment_1069997 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/reaching-50-000/threads/16072?page=30#forum_thread_comment_1069997 Nessabutterfly It made for a miserable 5 days, but I'm almost back to normal for now-- seems like it'll be one good week, one bad week for now. Towards the end, I hear that it's more bad than good, but for now, I've got slightly over half good days. Write, write, write!!! Tue, 17 Jan 2012 22:44:29 -0900 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/reaching-50-000/threads/16072?page=30#forum_thread_comment_1070154 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/reaching-50-000/threads/16072?page=30#forum_thread_comment_1070154 Solunar Go for it! I'll be cheering you on (or cracking the whip) here. I hope it continues like this for you and doesn't get worse though. Oh, what contest are you submitting for? I'm thinking of submitting for two anthologies, but that would take away from novelling for a while. Wed, 18 Jan 2012 03:57:40 -0900 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/reaching-50-000/threads/16072?page=30#forum_thread_comment_1070394 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/reaching-50-000/threads/16072?page=30#forum_thread_comment_1070394 Nessabutterfly Oh, just for a team based Sailor Moon community I'm in. Nothing all that special. I win a challenge every now and then though. My most recent entry was a Fairy tale retelling-- can't say any more until after voting is over though. Here's where I post my fanfics: http://www.fanfiction.net/u/826437/nessabutterfly Really gotta get my butt moving on Kingdom come and quit procrastinating with drabbles! Wed, 18 Jan 2012 20:27:59 -0900 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/reaching-50-000/threads/16072?page=30#forum_thread_comment_1072865 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/reaching-50-000/threads/16072?page=30#forum_thread_comment_1072865 Solunar Woah, sounds fun to do though! :D Yes! Get that butt into gear. I've resolved to start submitting things by the end of this month. Even if I get rejected, at least I'll get some things DONE and OUT THERE. I have to think up a pseudonym though. =/ Thu, 19 Jan 2012 08:24:32 -0900 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/reaching-50-000/threads/16072?page=30#forum_thread_comment_1073691 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/reaching-50-000/threads/16072?page=30#forum_thread_comment_1073691 crabhooves "Lady Lunar" ^_^ Thu, 19 Jan 2012 22:12:46 -0900 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/reaching-50-000/threads/16072?page=30#forum_thread_comment_1075835 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/reaching-50-000/threads/16072?page=30#forum_thread_comment_1075835 Solunar NO. Eyw. Lol. I've thought of one. Bwahaahhaha. Surprisingly, I'm motivated by the prospect of submission. 2.5k now. I really need pressure to work lol. Fri, 20 Jan 2012 03:28:52 -0900 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/reaching-50-000/threads/16072?page=30#forum_thread_comment_1076045 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/reaching-50-000/threads/16072?page=30#forum_thread_comment_1076045 Solunar 2.5k of an intimate scene might I add, crabby. Trying to think of the main conflict now. Urgh. Fri, 20 Jan 2012 03:38:22 -0900 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/reaching-50-000/threads/16072?page=30#forum_thread_comment_1076049 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/reaching-50-000/threads/16072?page=30#forum_thread_comment_1076049 Lizardhound I'm seriously thinking of writing a paper on fanfiction terminology. You know explain words and phrases like "Slash", "Five-and-ones", "Mary Sue" etc. Should I go for it? I know a lot of people I can contact for help... Fri, 20 Jan 2012 06:47:53 -0900 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/reaching-50-000/threads/16072?page=30#forum_thread_comment_1076277 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/reaching-50-000/threads/16072?page=30#forum_thread_comment_1076277 Solunar Paper for? What class is it for? What level of school are you at? Fri, 20 Jan 2012 07:04:16 -0900 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/reaching-50-000/threads/16072?page=30#forum_thread_comment_1076306 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/reaching-50-000/threads/16072?page=30#forum_thread_comment_1076306 Solunar Urgh. Write write write. It's okay if you only have an inkling of an idea. We'll polish it tomorrow. write! Sat, 21 Jan 2012 06:41:56 -0900 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/reaching-50-000/threads/16072?page=30#forum_thread_comment_1078945 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/reaching-50-000/threads/16072?page=30#forum_thread_comment_1078945 Lizardhound Not for a class. I just kinda want to write it. As for my level of school, I'm sixteen and soon finishing 10th grade. Sun, 22 Jan 2012 10:11:53 -0900 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/reaching-50-000/threads/16072?page=30#forum_thread_comment_1081360 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/reaching-50-000/threads/16072?page=30#forum_thread_comment_1081360 hc-ski Errr, I'm being nosy, but you say "in the end": is the cancer prognosis bad or do you mean when you get close to finishing the chemotherapy/poison treatment? Sorry, curiosity killed the cat. ;) Tue, 24 Jan 2012 03:44:44 -0900 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/reaching-50-000/threads/16072?page=30#forum_thread_comment_1087502 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/reaching-50-000/threads/16072?page=30#forum_thread_comment_1087502 Nessabutterfly I'm referring to the end of treatment-- I get 6 months of chemo. Of course, now I'm sick (probably strep) so it's getting pushed back even further (It knocks down your immunity so you get sick more easily, and recover at a snail's pace!). My original prognosis was about 28% survival rate, but it turns out that some of the things that make me unique (and made me get an "old person's cancer" at 30!) will also make me more likely to survive it. With chemo, I'm supposed to have about a 90% chance of survival. It's been a pretty up and down few months! Tue, 24 Jan 2012 19:04:49 -0900 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/reaching-50-000/threads/16072?page=30#forum_thread_comment_1089558 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/reaching-50-000/threads/16072?page=30#forum_thread_comment_1089558 Nessabutterfly writing, writing... blog posts this time (serious writing at least), but still nothing on Kingdom Come. Kick me please. Thu, 26 Jan 2012 02:38:46 -0900 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/reaching-50-000/threads/16072?page=30#forum_thread_comment_1092452 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/reaching-50-000/threads/16072?page=30#forum_thread_comment_1092452 hc-ski Good luck! I'll say a couple prayers just in case. :) Thu, 26 Jan 2012 06:56:28 -0900 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/reaching-50-000/threads/16072?page=30#forum_thread_comment_1092774 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/reaching-50-000/threads/16072?page=30#forum_thread_comment_1092774 hc-ski I did something stupid. Because I found no motivation on my own to write (beyond 7k for January), I promised two of my friends a chapter per week if they would help kick my butt if I failed to produce the chapter. *wail* what was I thinking?!? now I have to drag myself to the computer in the next two days and write...I was supposed to enjoy my vacation! *whine* On the positive side, I will be writing and I will finally be making progress on completing the story I began seven years ago. *sigh* Stupid. Thu, 26 Jan 2012 07:01:31 -0900 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/reaching-50-000/threads/16072?page=30#forum_thread_comment_1092786 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/reaching-50-000/threads/16072?page=30#forum_thread_comment_1092786 Nessabutterfly I'm motivated to write,but I can't find the notebook I wrote my outline in. Ooops. Guess that means cleaning should be higher on my to-do list than writing. I've had a virus this week though and have been too dizzy to stand most days. Blah. Spending an entire night in the hospital didn't help either (they're vampires, I tell you! They took so much blood I can barely stand!) Fri, 27 Jan 2012 20:31:47 -0900 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/reaching-50-000/threads/16072?page=30#forum_thread_comment_1096695 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/reaching-50-000/threads/16072?page=30#forum_thread_comment_1096695 Nessabutterfly Notebook found. Disaster averted. NOW I have no excuses. Write, write, write! (oh, maybe the fact that it's 2 am *should* be an excuse though!) Sat, 28 Jan 2012 00:58:30 -0900 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/reaching-50-000/threads/16072?page=30#forum_thread_comment_1096862 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/reaching-50-000/threads/16072?page=30#forum_thread_comment_1096862 Solunar WRITE. Went out to meet new people yesterday and a bit off-centered now. Only have 3 days until the deadline for submission. Need to write a 2 page synopsis and brush up the story. YEAAAARGGGGGGGGGH Sat, 28 Jan 2012 17:35:09 -0900 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/reaching-50-000/threads/16072?page=30#forum_thread_comment_1098738 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/reaching-50-000/threads/16072?page=30#forum_thread_comment_1098738 Solunar YES! My story has an ending and beginning. Loose ends mostly tied up. Just need a final edit tomorrow. 3/4 of synopsis done. Query letter done. YEARRRGH CHARRRRGE The fight isn't over yet. DO IT DO IT. "One of the commonest mistakes and one of the costliest is thinking that success is due to some genius, some magic - something or other which we do not possess. Success is generally due to holding on, and failure to letting go. You decide to learn a language, study music, take a course of reading, train yourself physically. Will it be success or failure? It depends upon how much pluck and perseverance that word "decide" contains. The decision that nothing can overrule, the grip that nothing can detach will bring success. Remember the Chinese proverb, "With time and patience, the mulberry leaf becomes satin." Maltbie Davenport Babcock Sun, 29 Jan 2012 04:15:52 -0900 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/reaching-50-000/threads/16072?page=30#forum_thread_comment_1099599 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/reaching-50-000/threads/16072?page=30#forum_thread_comment_1099599 Nessabutterfly I got off my butt, wrote an epilogue to the first book of my trilogy and posted it online. This is the first update to that story in 5 years! (I've been writing hundreds of drabbles and one-shots in the meantime.) And in the first 19 hours after it is posted, I have 1.55K hits!!!! WOW! I had no idea that story was so wildly popular! I guess I should get going with writing the second book now. I publically promised that the first chapter would be up this spring, so I've got to DO it now (I also promised myself I wouldn't post anything until the first draft was FINISHED!) Feeling so motivated and loved right now though. That's what writers need, right? Sun, 29 Jan 2012 20:20:02 -0900 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/reaching-50-000/threads/16072?page=30#forum_thread_comment_1101731 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/reaching-50-000/threads/16072?page=30#forum_thread_comment_1101731 Solunar Awesome! GO go gogogogogo Mon, 30 Jan 2012 03:07:28 -0900 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/reaching-50-000/threads/16072?page=30#forum_thread_comment_1102047 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/reaching-50-000/threads/16072?page=30#forum_thread_comment_1102047 Solunar OH DEAR YEAARGGGH FINAL EDIT. READING THis FOR THE fourth or fifth time now. Mon, 30 Jan 2012 03:07:59 -0900 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/reaching-50-000/threads/16072?page=30#forum_thread_comment_1102049 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/reaching-50-000/threads/16072?page=30#forum_thread_comment_1102049 Nessabutterfly it got up to 1,710 hits by midnight. WOW!! I feel SOOO loved. I went and started on the first chapter of the second one, but got distracted to a romantic scene... (at least my husband is more willing to let me write now ;) Mon, 30 Jan 2012 12:06:07 -0900 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/reaching-50-000/threads/16072?page=30#forum_thread_comment_1102824 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/reaching-50-000/threads/16072?page=30#forum_thread_comment_1102824 crabhooves Sol! Congrats on your writing successes, glad you're getting something done! Nessa, congrats on being affirmed, bet it feels awesome :) Wed, 01 Feb 2012 01:16:16 -0900 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/reaching-50-000/threads/16072?page=30#forum_thread_comment_1107132 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/reaching-50-000/threads/16072?page=30#forum_thread_comment_1107132 Solunar Thanks! I'm a bit worried now. They said I'm supposed to "receive an automated email confirming our receipt of your submission." It's been about two days and there hasn't been anything. Today's the deadline. I'm wondering if my submission got through or not. D: Wed, 01 Feb 2012 03:58:31 -0900 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/reaching-50-000/threads/16072?page=30#forum_thread_comment_1107236 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/reaching-50-000/threads/16072?page=30#forum_thread_comment_1107236 Solunar Went lurking around the net and apparently they can take up to three weeks to reply! Screw it. I'm writing about gay vampires again and I'm sending this to another publisher. I'm already feeling uncomfortable not writing. Wed, 01 Feb 2012 06:17:34 -0900 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/reaching-50-000/threads/16072?page=30#forum_thread_comment_1107383 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/reaching-50-000/threads/16072?page=30#forum_thread_comment_1107383 hc-ski Wow what story and site? You've stirred my curiousity and it demands to be appeased! :) Fri, 03 Feb 2012 18:43:27 -0900 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/reaching-50-000/threads/16072?page=30#forum_thread_comment_1113832 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/reaching-50-000/threads/16072?page=30#forum_thread_comment_1113832 hc-ski Turned in my ABC (already been composed) first chapter to my friends last week and turned in the second chapter tonight. So far positive reviews on first chapter. Will start beta reading a friends novel tomorrow and my third chapter Tuesday after I've slept off my night shift. Hmm, contentment :) Fri, 03 Feb 2012 18:48:04 -0900 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/reaching-50-000/threads/16072?page=30#forum_thread_comment_1113844 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/reaching-50-000/threads/16072?page=30#forum_thread_comment_1113844 Nessabutterfly Thanks-- it definitely does. Now once I've slept off this round of chemo, I'll finish the first chapter! Fri, 03 Feb 2012 23:29:45 -0900 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/reaching-50-000/threads/16072?page=30#forum_thread_comment_1114456 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/reaching-50-000/threads/16072?page=30#forum_thread_comment_1114456 crabhooves Sol you know I support gay vampires 100%. I just got back from my first day of school in like 5 years (distance doesn't count) and I'm wiped. Things are going awesome :D Been making a LOT of art for my game, there's a tent and a person and tools and a campfire to walk around in now! Sun, 05 Feb 2012 20:02:46 -0900 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/reaching-50-000/threads/16072?page=30#forum_thread_comment_1119062 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/reaching-50-000/threads/16072?page=30#forum_thread_comment_1119062 Nessabutterfly http://www.fanfiction.net/s/2462914/1/Kingdom_Come I'm halfway through the first chapter of the second book. Have to keep opening up the file and looking at it though-- it's easy to forget that I WANT to write! Mon, 06 Feb 2012 22:08:33 -0900 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/reaching-50-000/threads/16072?page=30#forum_thread_comment_1121837 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/reaching-50-000/threads/16072?page=30#forum_thread_comment_1121837 Nessabutterfly Went to my Writer's Association meeting tonight and decided that a blog entry deserves to be polished and submitted to magazines. Getting paid for my writing? That would be so awesome. Then I came home and wrote a chapter of Kingdom Come. Yay for motivation! Tue, 07 Feb 2012 01:26:36 -0900 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/reaching-50-000/threads/16072?page=30#forum_thread_comment_1121958 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/reaching-50-000/threads/16072?page=30#forum_thread_comment_1121958 Solunar Wow. You must be tired. Always feel drained after school. Awesome that you can still have energy to make stuff. Don't even feel like writing sometimes. Make lots now crabby! I had to turn down participating in an anthology because my exams are coming up. :( Tue, 07 Feb 2012 21:49:04 -0900 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/reaching-50-000/threads/16072?page=30#forum_thread_comment_1123755 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/reaching-50-000/threads/16072?page=30#forum_thread_comment_1123755 hc-ski So far two chapters out, but still haven't written the third. Deadline soon...must write, write, write. Beta read for friend after. Wed, 08 Feb 2012 19:22:34 -0900 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/reaching-50-000/threads/16072?page=30#forum_thread_comment_1125492 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/reaching-50-000/threads/16072?page=30#forum_thread_comment_1125492 hc-ski Thanks for posting the link, Nessa. You can add me now to your "captive" audience. I want to know what happens next. I never watched/read Sailor Moon, but my friends did, so I can picture most of the girls and even the cats to an extent. Really, I felt like I was reading a manga, the scenes you described were so clear! I hope I will find the link to the next book of The Legend of the Captive Wedding Party, when your done writing it! :) Wed, 08 Feb 2012 20:56:33 -0900 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/reaching-50-000/threads/16072?page=30#forum_thread_comment_1125690 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/reaching-50-000/threads/16072?page=30#forum_thread_comment_1125690 Nessabutterfly 2 chapters down (meaning, 2/3 of what was supposed to be the first chapter is written. This thing is getting out of hand!) Wed, 08 Feb 2012 22:41:20 -0900 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/reaching-50-000/threads/16072?page=30#forum_thread_comment_1125791 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/reaching-50-000/threads/16072?page=30#forum_thread_comment_1125791 Nessabutterfly Turned those first three chapters back into one. And wrote 2 more. I'm almost finished the third chapter. Yay! Only 12 more to go! I think I've got a tight enough outline that it really will be 12 more. I am LOVING this story. Who ever thought I would write a war story? I'm all unicorns and rainbows.... battle scenes? Scary, but exciting! Fri, 10 Feb 2012 12:11:29 -0900 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/reaching-50-000/threads/16072?page=30#forum_thread_comment_1129337 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/reaching-50-000/threads/16072?page=30#forum_thread_comment_1129337 crabhooves I'm trying to make more Sol! But certain substances (that start with an X and end with one too) that I kind of need to get my ass out of the foetal position and into school just totally knock me out, I usually collapse when I get home XD Sun, 12 Feb 2012 13:14:58 -0900 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/reaching-50-000/threads/16072?page=31#forum_thread_comment_1134324 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/reaching-50-000/threads/16072?page=31#forum_thread_comment_1134324 Nessabutterfly Thanks! I'm almost done the 5th chapter! 1/3 of the way there! Woo hoo! It's much easier writing than my original fic. At this rate, the first chapter should be out in a month or two. Sun, 12 Feb 2012 19:46:05 -0900 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/reaching-50-000/threads/16072?page=30#forum_thread_comment_1135492 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/reaching-50-000/threads/16072?page=30#forum_thread_comment_1135492 Nessabutterfly Yeah, drugs bite! I have to take drugs to keep me from puking, drugs to help me sleep, and then of course, the main drugs that make me certifiably insane. blarg. 2 more days till my brain gets chipped away at even more. Must write while I can still think... Must write now!! Sun, 12 Feb 2012 23:23:46 -0900 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/reaching-50-000/threads/16072?page=31#forum_thread_comment_1136106 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/reaching-50-000/threads/16072?page=31#forum_thread_comment_1136106 Solunar Damn, that sucks, crabby. Mon, 13 Feb 2012 05:51:39 -0900 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/reaching-50-000/threads/16072?page=31#forum_thread_comment_1136338 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/reaching-50-000/threads/16072?page=31#forum_thread_comment_1136338 Nessabutterfly Now I'm officially writing my first battle scene (as opposed to "run and hide; they're dropping bombs on us" scenes). I'm scared I'm going to totally suck at this! Mon, 13 Feb 2012 22:27:25 -0900 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/reaching-50-000/threads/16072?page=31#forum_thread_comment_1138589 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/reaching-50-000/threads/16072?page=31#forum_thread_comment_1138589 hc-ski Try and try again; practice makes perfect. These are truisms, because they are typically true! This is a new area of expansion and outlet of creativity for you. You will learn to write battle scenes too, you've gone through enough battles - you have/know the experience. The words will follow! :) Thu, 16 Feb 2012 11:13:45 -0900 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/reaching-50-000/threads/16072?page=31#forum_thread_comment_1144392 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/reaching-50-000/threads/16072?page=31#forum_thread_comment_1144392 Nessabutterfly More than a week and I still haven't written it. Sigh. There are at least 3 battle scenes in this book-- gotta get going! Thu, 23 Feb 2012 12:18:54 -0900 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/reaching-50-000/threads/16072?page=31#forum_thread_comment_1164863 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/reaching-50-000/threads/16072?page=31#forum_thread_comment_1164863 Nessabutterfly This stupid battle scene is going SOO SLOW. I have written less than a page in a week!! And I have had the document open for HOURS and only wrote 2 paragraphs. Just can't figure out what to write. Arg. I think I need to just snowplow through it and come back to fix it later... 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Tue, 06 Mar 2012 10:22:02 -0900 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/reaching-50-000/threads/16072?page=31#forum_thread_comment_1194183 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/reaching-50-000/threads/16072?page=31#forum_thread_comment_1194183 Nessabutterfly I've got it working better now. We'll see if I need it after chemo this round! I've had 3 weeks instead of the normal 2 between rounds, but it's because everyone had the flu, so it hasn't exactly been good writing time. Eventually I'll get through that chapter though! Tue, 06 Mar 2012 23:54:20 -0900 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/reaching-50-000/threads/16072?page=31#forum_thread_comment_1195882 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/reaching-50-000/threads/16072?page=31#forum_thread_comment_1195882 Nessabutterfly Good job! Nothing like getting paid for your writing. I'm still not there yet. :( Wed, 07 Mar 2012 22:22:40 -0900 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/reaching-50-000/threads/16072?page=31#forum_thread_comment_1197993 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/reaching-50-000/threads/16072?page=31#forum_thread_comment_1197993 hc-ski Seriously, no pressure ... I'm in the health care profession, so definitely take care of your health and stress levels first and foremost. Flu season, yikes! Mon, 12 Mar 2012 19:34:02 -0800 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/reaching-50-000/threads/16072?page=31#forum_thread_comment_1208582 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/reaching-50-000/threads/16072?page=31#forum_thread_comment_1208582 Nessabutterfly I FINALLY did it! Chapter 6 is finished!! Hopefully the rest will be much smoother. Now, I'm not saying that chapter is any good, but it's written, and tweaking it to perfection shouldn't be too hard. Onward and upward! I'm amazed I did anything today. Stupid drugs. Each new side effect requires new drugs with cause their own headaches. I'm 1/3 of the way through chemo though-- only 4 months to go!! Mon, 12 Mar 2012 23:26:55 -0800 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/reaching-50-000/threads/16072?page=31#forum_thread_comment_1208962 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/reaching-50-000/threads/16072?page=31#forum_thread_comment_1208962 hc-ski Hip, hip hooray! Onward and upward! ;) Tue, 13 Mar 2012 05:14:51 -0800 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/reaching-50-000/threads/16072?page=31#forum_thread_comment_1209299 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/reaching-50-000/threads/16072?page=31#forum_thread_comment_1209299 deadlinehah Hey, Nessabutterfly! I just wanted to say congratulations on getting through Chapter 6. With what you're going through, I'm impressed! Who cares if it's not great in its first-draft form? It will be! Sending good thoughts your way. Tue, 13 Mar 2012 08:05:30 -0800 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/reaching-50-000/threads/16072?page=31#forum_thread_comment_1209494 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/reaching-50-000/threads/16072?page=31#forum_thread_comment_1209494 Nessabutterfly :) Thanks for the ongoing encouragement. Tue, 13 Mar 2012 13:09:02 -0800 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/reaching-50-000/threads/16072?page=31#forum_thread_comment_1209907 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/reaching-50-000/threads/16072?page=31#forum_thread_comment_1209907 Nessabutterfly Thanks for the encouragement. You guys have no idea how much it means to me. Everyone else is telling me to abandon my writing while I'm in treatment between my hands causing problems and my non-existant vocabulary (stupid chemo-brain!). But I NEED to write, and this encouragement is so helpful! Tue, 13 Mar 2012 13:10:22 -0800 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/reaching-50-000/threads/16072?page=31#forum_thread_comment_1209912 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/reaching-50-000/threads/16072?page=31#forum_thread_comment_1209912 Solunar Hello! Guess what I got in an email today? My short story has been accepted for publication. It's being sent for editing now and I should receive a contract in 2 or 3 days. Unfortunately, my exams are coming up, so I won't be able to write anymore for now until they're over. At which point, I plan to challenge publishing a full novel. :) Wed, 14 Mar 2012 00:08:29 -0800 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/reaching-50-000/threads/16072?page=31#forum_thread_comment_1211725 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/reaching-50-000/threads/16072?page=31#forum_thread_comment_1211725 Gemma Knott Publication, wow! None of my short stories have a strong enough ideas behind them to be that good. But I am slogging through editing my novel with an end goal of publishing on smashwords. I wish you luck:) Wed, 14 Mar 2012 06:07:36 -0800 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/reaching-50-000/threads/16072?page=31#forum_thread_comment_1212068 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/reaching-50-000/threads/16072?page=31#forum_thread_comment_1212068 Nessabutterfly Wow!! Yay! Good for you!!! Good luck with your exams. Wed, 14 Mar 2012 12:20:21 -0800 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/reaching-50-000/threads/16072?page=31#forum_thread_comment_1212523 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/reaching-50-000/threads/16072?page=31#forum_thread_comment_1212523 Solunar Thank you! Go for it. :D Kinda panicking over studies now. Oops. Thu, 15 Mar 2012 06:05:31 -0800 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/reaching-50-000/threads/16072?page=31#forum_thread_comment_1214219 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/reaching-50-000/threads/16072?page=31#forum_thread_comment_1214219 Solunar Thank you! :D Yeah... Gonna need a lotta luck for it. =/ Thu, 15 Mar 2012 06:05:50 -0800 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/reaching-50-000/threads/16072?page=31#forum_thread_comment_1214220 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/reaching-50-000/threads/16072?page=31#forum_thread_comment_1214220 Nessabutterfly How'd they go?? Sat, 17 Mar 2012 01:32:09 -0800 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/reaching-50-000/threads/16072?page=31#forum_thread_comment_1217463 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/reaching-50-000/threads/16072?page=31#forum_thread_comment_1217463 hc-ski Don't quit unless you want to. I know for me writing makes me more compassionate, patient, and generally better. So I don't even care (right now) how good my writing is, I know it makes me a better nurse because I listen better. So if you feel you need to write, I say go for it. Of course, flip sides also true...if you need a break take it! ;) Sat, 17 Mar 2012 08:52:59 -0800 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/reaching-50-000/threads/16072?page=31#forum_thread_comment_1217913 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/reaching-50-000/threads/16072?page=31#forum_thread_comment_1217913 Solunar Oh oops. Should have mentioned they're in May. Not writing now to mug for them. Sat, 17 Mar 2012 23:27:10 -0800 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/reaching-50-000/threads/16072?page=31#forum_thread_comment_1220017 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/reaching-50-000/threads/16072?page=31#forum_thread_comment_1220017 BloodRoseAngel I haven't logged in here in ages XD Just spotted this. Congrats, that's awesome! Thu, 26 Apr 2012 11:39:36 -0800 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/reaching-50-000/threads/16072?page=31#forum_thread_comment_1321923 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/reaching-50-000/threads/16072?page=31#forum_thread_comment_1321923 Nessabutterfly Anyone still writing? I'm half-way through the fanfic that I was supposed to *quickly* write up while I let my nano novel age. 7 of 16 chapters are written now. Probably between 20-30,000 words so far. SOOOO slow! I didn't really write while I was on chemo. Blah. Lucky me though, I'm DONE CHEMO! It tried to kill me. Waking up with your face so swollen that you can hardly breath is no fun. So no more chemo. Still trying to get my strength back, but at least my concentration is getting better and I can write again. I have a writer's conference coming up in a few weeks and I need to get a short presentation prepared on my novel. I'm meeting with an agent. Maybe if I'm lucky, they'll sign on to represent me! Thu, 26 Apr 2012 16:27:42 -0800 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/reaching-50-000/threads/16072?page=31#forum_thread_comment_1322438 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/reaching-50-000/threads/16072?page=31#forum_thread_comment_1322438 hc-ski That's awesome! And, yay, you're following a more traditional writing path. All the writer friends I have either haven't attempted publishing yet or are self-publishing and self-promoting...something I don't think I could ever do well. It'll be cool to see how you do and ask advice. Fri, 27 Apr 2012 02:15:27 -0800 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/reaching-50-000/threads/16072?page=31#forum_thread_comment_1323520 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/reaching-50-000/threads/16072?page=31#forum_thread_comment_1323520 hc-ski Yes, still writing...sort of. Still stuck on Chapter 6 (of 20), though chapter 8 is done. I have to get a move on or I'll break my June 14th self-set deadline. Guilt me, please, anyone! Also, unrelated topic, but one I really need perspective on. My older brother is getting married soon and he asked me to read a Bible passage at his wedding. I accepted happily, but I have a mild case of stage fright, a definite fright of any new social situation, and a high-pitched voice that only gets squeakier through electronics and nervousness. Any advice on how to alleviate my nerves and/or how to do a good reading? I want my brother to be happy that he asked his kid sister to speak, not embarrassed when I fall into a paroxysm of nervous giggles...or tears. *sigh, head in hands* Fri, 27 Apr 2012 02:25:51 -0800 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/reaching-50-000/threads/16072?page=31#forum_thread_comment_1323529 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/reaching-50-000/threads/16072?page=31#forum_thread_comment_1323529 Nessabutterfly The only advice I have on speaking is to get so familiar with what you want to say that you can say it without having to "read" it. Practice in front of the mirror. If you have a digital camera, set it up on a counter or somewhere and record yourself, then go back and watch it and work on the areas where you were less than graceful. Do it over and over until you see some improvement. When it comes to the actual event, pick someone in the crowd who makes you comfortable, and focus on them. Even better, practice in front of that person a few times before the event. Then when you're looking at them during the wedding, it will feel like another practice run. I hope that helps. I still get a little nervous when I get up to speak, but I usually relax after a minute. Of course, I tend to throw myself into situations where I'm the center of attention (costume contests-- Eeek! Several thousand people staring at you!! And theatre!) 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