Daily Word Count Goal?

I'm aiming for 200k this year, so my daily goal is 6,667. I'm obviously nowhere close to that right now. Considering doing a WriDay to write a clunker novel that's been bouncing around in my head for a while. It's my sell-out story. I don't particularly like urban fantasy (weres and necromancers are the only exceptions), but I've had this idea forever. I figure, I'm never going to write it if I don't write it while the genre is selling, because I'm not passionate enough about it to write it otherwise. I just don't want to spend a ridiculous amount of time on something that doesn't appeal to me personally. So I'm thinking I'll be ridiculous and aim for 50k in 24 hours with that one at some point, to take a huge chunk out of the wordcount that I need. That will make me feel more okay about focusing on my main story the rest of the month.

http://www.nanowrimo.org/NanowrimoUtils/MyMonth/95590-goal=200000-pc-day...
Ideal Goal: 200k
Minimum Goal: finish Only Child

My daily word count is set at 1668, but so far I have been exceeding that amount. I had one day where my word count was like 1200. That was becasue the first two days I have gone like 500 words over my daily count. When I go over I tend to slak a little, but I am trying to keep to my daily count no matter how much I write the day before, but the slacker in me finds it so hard some times.

I am tryng to keep the pressure on cause once I stop I am doom! Hopefully I can keep up the pace!

- What doesn't kill will probably make you wish you were dead -

You guys are awesome with your extremely lofty goals.....My goal was/is to average 2K a day. I want to finish what I"m calling a second first draft of this book before year's end. I was doing ok, staying on target for the nano goal of 1667 per day. Then yesterday happened and I only wrote 284 words. Work broke my brain and I didn't feel like writing so I sat on my couch and watched Coupling while I knitted and made weekend football plans. I plan on climbing back on the wagon tonight. Hopefully, I'll hit at least 2K.

Vikki

PS I'm really excited about going to an actual football game this weekend and don't care that I losing a big word count day. :D

Go Tigers!

I normally aim for 2k a day minimum and I normally write scenes at a time, so i can move them around latter, my outline has definently changed several times. I have really found that new things pop into the story occasionaly.

Bard kings bratty son with bad rhymes, Where did you come from?

The bad guys use zombies as a living wall for their concentration camps, creepy.

The only problem is then I want to go backwards and fix things I have already written I want to go and fix them throughout the story. I might do it after I hit 50k but until that point it's all going to happen in revesion.

I've decided revesion is this magical time where all my abstract thoughts, bad words, and total lack of anything resembling brilliance gets magically transported fixed and reloaded back onto my computer as a sort of thankyou that small time travelling aliens are doing for my help saving their species in the future. (I just hope it wasn't being a sacrifice to their volcano god.)
-Josh

I like to plod along at a steady pace, but I also prefer round numbers. I am aiming for 1700 words a day. I'm a bit behind at the moment, but I should be able to make it up easily this weekend. I don't mind feeling a little behind, but I hate feeling way behind, so a goal of "just enough" that's easy to do the math on appeals to me.

So far, so good. Enjoying this!

I'm also aiming for 1700 words per day. I haven't actually done that every day, but what I've been then trying to do is make up the difference the next day. Like yesterday, I knew that typing 1700 words/day, I should be at 8500. I had to do some extra writing to catch up, but I'm at 8510 right now. So it seems to be working for me.

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Dianne

NaNoWriMo 2009 - Ignoring June

My daily goal is 1667 words per day. The fact that I have yet to make that goal rankles just a little bit. :)

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I don't have a daily goal, because I don't write every day. I actually only have 14 days this month where I'm scheduled to write (ahhh, the joys of OCD and over-ambition intersecting during a month fueled by caffeine and Laffy Taffy) so my goal on those days is 3600 words. And then my revised goal on all the other days is to write enough words to catch up to where I should have been (but invariably am not) before my next writing day.

So far this system is not working very well... I may have to go back to a daily writing goal. That has worked well for me in the past.

~Nikki
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My daily count is 2000, although I lost two days, but I'll catch up. Sometimes life gets in the way. Can't control it. :-D But we can write about it. ;-)

fight that inner editor, man--do NOT do NOT go back and revise right now!!! you are binging and purging now--spew it out and keep going; later on you have plenty of time to revise...but for now, WRITE WRITE WRITE!!!
oz

OMG! I am 4300 words behind on my daily ogal and it is killing me. I either I don't have the time or I am too tried to write.
Oh and BTW, in case any of you decided to try and kill yourself by wirting like a mad person until you goal is reached I highly suggest that you don't because now I have run my juice out and and depleting my reserves. Something that started out so much fun has become a bother. I think that I am so focused on my word count that I am not inspired by my story any more! Ahhhh!!!

Any suggestion?

- What doesn't kill will probably make you wish you were dead -

Elaine, welcome to week 2!

Though I feel very cliche saying this, what you're going through is totally normal and happens to everyone. Everyone. Really. Don't worry; this feeling always happens when you get to about 10k. Your muse will come back. I promise.

My advice: don't think about how far behind you are. Don't focus on your word count. Don't stress yourself out about being behind your schedule. Just make sure to write a little bit every day so you don't lose touch with your story. You're doing great. Looking at your word count, you're actually doing fabulous!

Week 2 is hard for everyone, but if you keep plugging away, you will make it through and, trust me, week 3 is so much easier than week 2. It doesn't make sense, but nothing about NaNoWriMo does. Just go with it. You'll get through it.

~Nikki
http://www.nlberger.com

NaNoWriMo 2006 - Aundroma I: Memories
NaNoWriMo 2007 - Aundroma II: Missions (won!) AND Pineapple Upside-Down Cake
NaNoWriMo 2008 - Aundroma III: Momentum (won!)
NaNoWriMo 2009 - Death Makes A Lousy Dinner Date

I echo Nikki. Elaine, just don't throw in the towel on the story. If you want, tell yourself that during week 3 you can toss it from the window, while still keeping the words of course, and start something new. :)

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We all hit it -- I hit my "grar moment" on Friday, and I'll probably hit another one this week. Had to spend time plotting because pantzing just wasn't working for me. If you're falling behind, you can try a couple of techniques to catch up:

1: Make a higher goal for the days you know you have more time available (for me, that's the weekend, so I add more words to my goals on those days and lower my word count during the week)

2: Word war: Pushing them out faster than your editor can analyze them does indeed bring out some gems of unimpeded fiction!

3: Average out your remaining words: Reaverage your daily word goal so it doesn't look like you have to get 4k TODAY. Break it up between the rest of the days in November. If you get ahead, reaverage so it doesn't get scarier toward the end.

4: Relax. Soak in a bubble bath, do the laundry, go for a walk, play a video game, have a hot cup of tea -- whatever it takes to clear your head and get your mood back into "happyland". You CAN do this. Breathe and keep scribbling!

To know what you prefer instead of humbly saying Amen to what the world tells you you ought to prefer, is to have kept your soul alive. --Robert Louis Stevenson

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