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I agree, my Inner Editor is being very irritating. I'm just trying to keep going and ignore him. No idea if it will get easier as I usually only get to 3000 words when I start projects!

I've only just managed to break the 3k barrier after a couple of not very productive days. My experience of doing NaNo for the first time last year is that your motivation and belief will ebb and flow as the weeks progress. Just keep going, and when you get to the end of the month give yourself a little breathing space before you go back in and start editing.

As for the inner editor, if you're using a computer try turning the screen off. If he can't read over your shoulder he can't nitpick. Try it. It does help.

Hey there, Knicki. *waves* You've already produced double what you normally do. You know you can do this. Just keep on writing, hon.

~ The pages are still blank, but there is a miraculous feeling of the words being there, written in invisible ink and clamoring to become visible. Vladimir Nabakov ~

Screnzy 2009: 'The Haunted Holiday' (failed horribly)
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I've just passed 15, 000 myself, and it's been kind of up and down. Some parts I feel are alright though the rest is tosh. I can only think that it'll be downhill from here...

I'm trying to lock Mr. Inner Critic inside the broom cupboard, but he's refusing to collaborate. Still, 6.600-and-something words up to the moment. For my standards, that's good progress...

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VOICE OVER - ScriptFrenzy 2010.

Haveta agree with everyone trying to poke their inner editr/critic back into submission. xD that little fella just won't stay down!

Anyways, Sunday was good, and I'm enjoying the chapter I'm in the middle of writing right now. Chapter 2 went on FOREVER, though, which annoys me a little. xD ... but nah, not too badly. It's more just finding the TIME to write everything I WANT to write, then I have to stop, go to bed, go to college, and forgt properly where I was. Ah well. Hoping to break 20,000 tonight and be halfway by the end of the week.

"Paper is flame retardant."

I tend to edit as I go along - not so much going back, which would delay things too much, but just continually tweaking as I write each sentence. It's the way I've always written - although I'll go back once I'm done and do a proper editing job as well.

Having just come off a 6 year slog to finish my first novel, so far I'm thoroughly enjoying nanowrimo. The 50,000 target is a third the size of the novel I recently finished, so doesn't seem too daunting, and so far I'm keeping ahead of the word count targets, despite being crazy busy at work.

I think it helps that I'm surprisingly pleased with my story, which is proving a lot more entertaining (to me) than I expected.

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I do the same, and I find it works quite well, leaving me fairly happy with what I've done. Sometimes in the re-wording of it, it ends up longer as well.

I'm starting to worry that my novel will fall short. Due to the nature of my plot, I'm sure I could make it go on longer but I worry it will get very, very repetitive. I can see it getting to 30,00 and then I'll end up just sitting there, not knowing what else to write to make it longer.
I hope not, seeing as how I quite like my story.

Word Count wise, I'm doing well I think. Up to 6038, having done no writing yet today.

Hope other people are having success =]

It's not going too badly so far. Word count is behaving itself and I don't tend to have a probelm with the fabled inner-editor. Maybe mine is just too stupid to notice bad writing? :P

My characters are unfolding nicely, but I can't say the same for what they're supposed to be doing. My outline has them setting out on their road trip at around about 20k, but I keep second guessing myself and wondering if they should be out there on their journey across the country. I'm happy with where they're at, what they're doing, and what they're talking about, but something inside me says they need to get in the damn car already!

I'm going okay - though I forsee problems ahead when I run out of my scene-by-scene outline at the end of the current section and get into the vaguer territory of the next one. ^^;; I'm hoping to get some more planning down before that happens though. Especially as I suspect it's going to happen in the middle of The Dreaded Week Two Lull. ...which would be the point when most people find it harder to keep going, to answer the question. ^^;;; Week one is alright, week two the slowest thing in the world, week three is kinda a blur in my memory (disbelief I was still going, I think) but week four is good. XD I get smaller day-by-day and hour-by-hour ups and downs, but the weeks that Chris Baty talks about ring true too. ^^;;

I'm trying to do AT LEAST the daily word count every day this week, no matter what my total - I'm hoping to get a cushion of extra words in dribs and drabs which will see me through the hardest parts. ^^ I've got 1000 or so at the moment, hopefully I'll keep on like this!

...I'm not thinking about what I've actually WRITTEN. That's irrelevant! XDDD Though I am pleased with the amount of time my main character is spending in a skirt. (He's a guy. ...He has very good legs. XD)

I've just about broken the 11k barrier, but wow it gets hard after you've started. The start is definitely the easy bit, the problem is on the first day i went mad and wrote 10,000 words - and now i've used up my creative juice. Aghh well will have to try and find some inspiration :L

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I'm planning to keep just about the word count during this first working week, then really push ahead at the weekend. Each weekend will hopefully give me a big boost so that by the time I get the final week I'm a good amount ahead.

That's the plan, anyway. :P

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I'm going to find this difficult I think. I think I've written about a third to a half of the story I had in my head already, and it's less than a fifth of the wordcount! Either I'm going to have to put in a lot more plot twists, or a lot more description. And I go back to work next week and haven't got ahead yet like I thought I would this week. Ah well, onwards and upwards!

On target, with a little bit of a buffer to allow me to slip behind for a day.

I've just realised that, in my novel so far, I've used the word 'sad' seventeen times, and the word, 'happy' only twice. One of those times was preceeded by the words, 'not very'.

Why do I hate my characters so?

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2007- 50k =)
2008 - 20k =(
2009 - TBC =|

If it does fall short, don't worry, just start another one!!! And don't do what I did last year and lose the 2nd story in a bowels of a pc crash a week after NaNo finished!!!

I've had terrible trouble, this year, finding an idea I can run with and so far 10k words have gone straight into my discard folder, to be brought out at the end of the month as part of the verifiable word count. Today, I'm enjoying my writing, at last.

The editor sticks his nose in, here too. Am not sure if he's responsible for the discard folder having more in it that my current project (the 4th started since Nov 1!!)

Happy tapping everyone

I've cleared away every single distraction I could. But Leif left his lighter here, it makes fire, and now I've lost half an hour of my day to giggling inanely at a very small flame...

Just passed the 7000 word mark tonight. It didn't start off being as much fun as I had thought it would be, as the quality of what I was writing was so much worse than what I had expected. However, it's starting to feel very slightly less awful now, and I am getting to the point where the really interesting stuff starts to happen, so the words seem to be flowing a little more easily. I am not sure whether or not I will succeed yet, but I feel reasonably optimistic so far.

I'm not doing very well at all, I've been distracted lately and I keep forgetting to write so it's going very slowly. Still I'm getting it done. I just have to write a ton to catch up XP.

Hi there

I've got a similar word count to you. Still, I'm doing more writing than I've done in ages so, even though I feel guilty about letting the side down, I'm fairly pleased with myself.

I only really got inspired with an idea very late on, so I'm already massively behind and have a heck of a lot of catching up to do, however, I'm rather chuffed with my 1400-odd words so far. I am worried that I will get sick of the writing style I have chosen, though. I'm writing it in first person, present tense, and the character has a slight accent which I have written into the narrative. Am I crazy?

Aside from this... I think I have made a drastic mistake. I am a Creative Writing student and had an essay deadline that just happened to coincided with NaNoWriMo... so I submitted my first 1400 words as my essay! I am terrified. XD

If Back Up Your Novel Day yesterday didn't remind people, can I remind you all that backing up is a very very good thing to do :P
I back up my novel to google docs at least once a day, and I generally back it up again to my flash drive just to be safe. You never know when a computer can die, especially when it's a Dell. (Bad experience with dells...)

Broke the 10,000 word barrier today, but I hate the thing again. It's crap, and not nearly as much fun to write as I had anticipated a silly adventure story being.

Don't worry, Paul, I found the exact same thing last year. I started out writing a comedy (maybe a slightly black comedy, but ah well), but ... it wasn't really that entertaining to write - but I got to the end of it eventually. xD if that helps any of course ... it isn't fun when something funny turns out to .. not really be. x_x

Doing okay here, though I'm starting to have second thoughts about the chapter I'm writing, and beginning to think I need to introduce something more to it. It seems a bit bland, though that could all change I suppose ... I guess there's a key element of the plot introduced here though, so on with the story! Aiming for at least 33k by the end of tonight, hoping for a good 35k. Meaning the chapter'll be finished. Which prolly won't happen. xD

"Paper is flame retardant."

I'm a bit stuck! I spent ages on the beginning part, and now I have got to the bit I was looking forward to writing and I don't know where to begin! I don't feel I am succeeding at all in creating the atmosphere I was planning...I thought the story was going to be fun but it has ended up being a bit serious and depressing.

Hi y'all. I just broke the 10k mark today, but that was after 3 days of nothing but despair and trying to work up a good enough excuse for why I won't possibly make it to the finish line. But, after this evening forcing myself to write junk - just to get past that creative hurdle - I'm hoping I've got another few smooth(er) sessions before the next inevitable crisis. Feels quite nice for the moment though - the 10 thousand mark being a bit of a nice landmark (double digits, 20%, all that jazz).

I feel a bit better today - have done nearly 3000 words so far this afternoon, and finally the story has kicked into gear a bit as the eponymous character (the book is called "Robin Hood and the Holy Grail") has finally appeared in the story, meaning it has a bit more life to it. It's difficult, admittedly, to try and do anything with him that people haven't done before, but I just want to shy away from the Jonas Armstrong-type crapness of recent versions, really, and have him as an ubsubverted, conventional, four-square English hero.

So, I just had a bit of an inspiration about where I can go with the rest of my novel, the only problem is that it makes the first few thousand words not quite right. I'd need to edit it all. I really don't have the time to go back and do this now but part of my is screaming out to...

What do you think, carry on with it not making 100% sense (it'd still be plausable, just not exactly what I want) or edit the rest of it which will take me hours?

I know it's not really in the Nano-Wrimo spirit but I think you should take a few hours to get your concept right.

I think you can only really enjoy writing when you're reasonably sure you're going in the write direction.

Mind you, perhaps you should seek advice from someone with a higher word count.

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I changed my mind about part of mine, and I just continued writing as if the changes had already happened and I plan to go back later and correct it. I would say leave it until you have got a bit further but make a note of what you want to change.

ETA: I am back to enjoying my writing! This certainly is an up and down process! I feel I am getting more into the dialogue and description now that I have established the characters and setting and have more people interacting with each other. It's going nicely again!

I'm still struggling to add things in. I realised a few days in that there was no way I'd get 60k out of my current plot, so I'm going back and adding in more details and stretching out sentences. I'd like to get to 25 or 26k before I carry on moving the plot forwards, and I'd like to be at 35k by the end of the weekend.

A little disappointed in myself. I was hoping I could reach 50k by midnight, but damn that last 2k. Damn dad for taking over the computer too. xD

Understand about stretching the plot out, though; I just realised my fight scenes are really pretty shitty, need a lot more detail and length, and that I should probably start taking Martial Arts lessons again before the end of November. Surviving on caffeine right now, and damn my wrist's going to sleep, but otherwise, still enjoying my writing ... just a little concerned over contest in terms of audience. Though I still don't know who my audience is really gonna be. =S

"Paper is flame retardant."