Going out on a limb here, as a newbie, inviting all South Bay newbies to post Shout Outs of whatever sort you need to express (the good, the not good, the hideous) as we all go through this process for the first time. I'm here, as a newbie, totally excited to have taken this challenge and intend to run with it for all I'm worth.
My personal Shout Out today is for reaching 15K! I was totally excited to reach 10K and feel as though I am reaching my stride here in the second week.
So, SoBayNewbs (and the WannabeSupportersOfNewbies), post, rejoice or seek comfort from fellow SoBayers. And, oh, enjoy the leftover Halloween candy in the bowl.
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Nov 10, 2007 - 20 49
I wanna be a supporter of newbies! I have been really excited by the coolness of the new participants who have been showing up at events this year. I hope you all keep coming to the write-ins and parties and that we've addicted you to NaNoWriMo so that you keep coming back year after year.
Go allsun on reaching 15k, and everyone else on your word count, whatever it's at.
%) Lisa
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Nov 10, 2007 - 20 52
Well I am having spurts of words and then days witn zero (darn that work and school) but trying to get as much as I can this weekend. So far today I have had one session of 1 hour 15 min and wrote 1500 words, I totally got into the scene and story. It was an intense horrible fight so I had to take a break and now on to session #2!
I am determined to break 10,000 by Sunday night!
I love the name SoBayNewbs! Reminds me of newts!
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Nov 10, 2007 - 22 04
Second session done and another 1K! Woo hoo!
My hand hurts!
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Nov 10, 2007 - 23 39
Whoa, 1200 words an hour! That's pretty good! I only got that on Day One at Denny's and that's all getting edited out on December 1st XD
I probably shouldn't feel like a noob anymore, this being my 3rd Nano... Alas. I suppose I'll pretend and toss my hat in with the SoBaVets supporting and cheering for the Newbs. :D
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Whoo! Go Newbs! Write write write!
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Nov 11, 2007 - 03 11
Session 3 and I got 750 words before pooping out! 3250 today, my highest ever! Yay!
55,111 / 50,000
Nov 11, 2007 - 10 50
Great to receive the enthusiastic support of SoBaVets! Thanks Marcopolo for your encouragement. I am planning to show at today's write-in, most likely with a notebook and the need to talk about the writing. And windral! Too funny! I think that this month it is just fine, in fact encouraged, to be more than one, so welcome to this thread as a NoobSoBaVet. I try really hard to consciously delete the use of the should word from my life as it frees me to be whoever I am at the moment. Oh, how I can ramble. I think that one of my characters is going to have dissociative identity disorder. Thanks for the thoughts you produced with your Noob Vs. Vet comments.
And, everyday07! Go, go, go! Glad to see multiple Shout Out posts (as opposed to multiple personalities) from you, updating us on your progress. Hope you are taking time out to massage that hand.
My morning Shout Out today is that a character introduced in the beginning pages and then disappeared, suddenly reappeared last night, being its negative self AND, as I ended for the night, decided to mention the name of a new character and then left the scene, just leaving my MC hanging. I LOVE THIS!
106,661 / 50,000
Nov 11, 2007 - 11 03
"... she turned me into a newt!... I got better..."
Sorry couldn't resist the Monty Python quote!!
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Hurray for newts... uh I mean Newbs!!!
And just like Monty Python, you'll get better!
Write write write write on!
Steph
106,661 / 50,000
Nov 11, 2007 - 11 07
Even though this is only my second year, and I am technically a vet, I categorically refuse to perform surgically invasive proceedures on the newts...uh newbs. No spaying and newtering here! (misspelling done on purpose... it's part of the joke... get it?)
My humor is really sick and wrong this morning... I'll get off the boards now...
Steph
P.S. write write write...
55,111 / 50,000
Nov 12, 2007 - 16 33
I'm planning to corral the 20K mark tonight! And...my novel was first person pov until I came to the end of writing last night when two of my other character began yelling, at the same time, that they have perspectives and that their points of view count too. They proceeded to have a small conversation after the main character had fallen asleep. What's up with that??? So goes the changing face of my first nano year.
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Nov 13, 2007 - 16 00
I did it, I broke 10K on Sunday night, even after going to a family bday dinner!
Going a bit slower now, felt sick yesterday so had 0 words, but slowly doing a page here and a page there today.
Allsun, a couple days ago I had a similar experience where my animal characters almost got killed unexpectedly, but my mc jumped in at the last minute and saved them! I had not seen that coming! But, it works perfectly in the plot. This is one of the things I love about writing and why I don't fully outline, I just love when things happen off the top of my head and I feel almost like an observer as the story comes alive!
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Nov 13, 2007 - 20 58
You go everyday07! Consider yourself the recipient of the newly created Noob Pushing Through The Uckies With Perseverance award!
I went with my characters wanting their own points of view heard and I've decided that they were quite wise to yell at me and catch my attention. It just shot my word count up again and has given me a bit of a different focus, encompassing a few things that I didn't even know were going to be important to explore. Now my wrists are hurting so I think I am going to give them a break.
Noob Allsun signing off for now.
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Nov 13, 2007 - 21 28
Cool! I'll take that badge! It's actually even more appropriate than you know because the part I have been writing since that happened is intense and depressing, my mc is now a prisoner of her mother and it is getting worse and worse and worse. So I feel like I am slogging through horribleness. But I am almost through that and help is on the way!
55,111 / 50,000
Nov 15, 2007 - 08 03
...slogging through horribleness...Hey, everyday07 - that so describes the last few scenes I've written myself. Has help arrived for you?
To all the Noobs who haven't posted in this thread (yet), here's to us making it to the halfway mark in this, our first nano month. We've made it! Halfway! WhooHoo! Congratulations to all of us. ...pause... I'm hearing strains of "We Are The Champions" - It is a great accomplishment, I think, to have decided to take on this challenge and still be here. So, join us in this thread and shout out you're own good, bad and horrible. Go SoBay Noobs! Hoping to meet some of you at the Halfway Party this coming Sunday.
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Nov 15, 2007 - 10 16
When it feels like you're slogging through horribleness, take comfort in the fact that we're all swimming in it. I describe my novel as a giant, steaming pile of crap. With some nuggets of corn to be extracted come December. Half of the novel is just random stream of consciousness. I think my character may have ADD.
This isn't NaGoNoWriMo (National GOOD Novel Writing Month), it's just NaNoWriMo. So write!
And grats on halfway!
windy
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Nov 18, 2007 - 19 57
Newbies Rock! Met a bunch of you at the fabulous Halfway Party (Thanks skneal!) and wishing you all words, words, words as we all make it through to the end of this first time nanoing. It was also great to meet lots of Supporters Of Newbies also . . . and others. Now, the party's over and its time that I get back to noveling. Can't wait to see how my characters choose to solve the latest crisis!
55,111 / 50,000
Nov 20, 2007 - 08 13
The Horribleness - OhMyGawd! The writing has become so dark. I had no idea that the characters inhabiting this novel would have to slog through so many gut wrenching experiences. One of them had to have a long stream of conciousness scene in order to begin to move the story line along. That was followed by a rabbit getting killed and . . . geez.
everyday07 - have you moved on from the horribleness yet?
SoBaVets - any advice to pull me out of this dark hole?
50,144 / 50,000
Nov 20, 2007 - 08 42
Ninjas! Well, no, but sometimes, if the story's not going the way I expected, I'll write some sort of OOC chapter that's not included in the continuity (often including pirates and/or ninjas) and that normally cheers me up and helps me to look at the main story in a new way so I can get back to where I want to be.
50,459 / 50,000
Nov 20, 2007 - 11 14
It helps that I have three or four different stories going on at any one time. When I get bored of one of them, I find a way for him to start writing the next one.
So I guess the less specific advice would be along the same lines as KandyBar, and just write something more fun. An action scene! With exploding helicopters! Or maybe that long awaited tender lovey scene that your characters really want to get to, but you can't justify putting in the continuity yet. Write it! It doesn't matter what's going on right NOW in the story. Heck, it doesn't even matter if you don't even want it in the story later! Choose done over good! (with credit to Miles)
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Nov 20, 2007 - 13 39
Love the "choose done over good" icon. But it's Rich/earthdog who originated that saying/philosophy/way of life.
50,459 / 50,000
Nov 20, 2007 - 14 27
Ah, my mistake. With credit to Rich then!
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Nov 20, 2007 - 15 22
There's still some darkness to go, but last night I started a new earlier scene that was more fun and lots of color! So that was fun, will get more on that today.
Now I have a bunch of work work to do (as in I'm getting paid to do it), and it was so hard for me to write even the measley 200 words that I did last night because I was pooped! But I'm still in the fight!
55,111 / 50,000
Nov 20, 2007 - 20 30
Thanks for all the good advice / ideas! Pehaps there is going to be fun in a thunder and lightening storm. I loved those when back East. And, maybe throw in a flying monkey. everyday07, doing great! Keep on going!
55,111 / 50,000
Nov 26, 2007 - 08 02
Congratulations to all the South Bay Newbies who have already crossed the Finish Line! It's the last week of my first NaNo and I just want to encourage all of the rest of our Newbies to keep going and to pat yourselves on the back for all that you've accomplished so far. Write on!
19,240 / 50,000
Nov 29, 2007 - 21 33
Thanks to all the nanoers who encouraged us Newbs! It was really helpful!
Super congratulations to all those Newbs who crossed the finish line! Amazing! You really and truly rock!!
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Dec 1, 2007 - 01 50
Thanks! :-D.
55,111 / 50,000
Dec 1, 2007 - 10 06
Congratulations to all the South Bay 2007 Newbies who did whatever it took to push yourselves through the month of November and complete your first year as a crazed novelist! Regardless of the final word counts, all of us took up this challenge and have found that we had more within us than we ever imagined.
As for me, I've rediscovered my passion for words and stories after more than 20 years. Thanks so much to those who introduced me to NaNoWriMo and provided encouragement throughout the month.
I plan to sign on again next year and hope you will too. We're all SoBayVets now! WhooHoo! I'm looking forward to posting a thread to encourage the 2008 Newbies and hope some of you will join in. For now, on with the celebrations.