I looked at my nano-stats, and my actual bar is just under my goals bar, and that's okay. Then I realize in 25 days how far behind I can be at this pace.
I am excited, and having a blast. And feel like I am finally getting somewhere with my characters with an actual idea of a plot in my head and in my notebook. Although i do understand this won't be anything close to readable in December, and most likely never will be. But what a great experience.
And I get to kill off one of my characters with an icicle soon. in Savannah! Not sure the how of it yet but who and why are firmly established.
remember if you are not having fun with this, you are missing the point!
See y'all on Sunday.
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23,958 / 50,000
Nov 5, 2009 - 21 36
After last year's dismal failure, I'm very, very pleased to see that my novel this year is going SO MUCH BETTER than expected. I've broken so many NaNo habits with this year's story -- it's in a genre I've never written; it's about characters I am utterly unacquainted with; and it's constantly going places I didn't plan or predict. After six other years of doing this, I think this may be the first time I've REALLY written in the NaNo spirit of wild abandon. Definitely exciting. It feels pretty ridiculous and unrepresentable at the moment, but I'm really, really hoping, that for once, I will actually get around to editing this beast when it's done.
I'm sure I'll start to feel the full force of SCAD finals starting next week, so I've been trying to write as much as possible while I still have the chance, hence my appearance of being "ahead of schedule" for the while, haha. As I'm assuming five days of the month will be useless because of travel, I'm trying to finish the 50k words in 25 days. Again, I'm surprised at just how well this is going even if I'm kind of afraid one of my poor MCs might die before 15k. Not sure how this will turn out!
My NaNo goal bars are all out of whack since they count from midnight to midnight and I get most of my writing in between midnight and six in the morning so it still feels like the day before, lol.
----------2003: The Nipul-Suris (fail)
2004: Untitled (fail)
2005: Peter Pan Syndrome (epic fail)
2006: Shoot the Moon (WIN)
2007: Goodnight Moon (WIN)
2008: Urban Decay (epic, epic fail)
http://www.deadend-detour.com
39,331 / 50,000
Nov 5, 2009 - 22 19
So far my novel seems to be about a bunch of mobster factions duking it out with each other as they all try to get their hands on the same magic treasure box. That wasn't what I'd originally had in mind for this story at all, but since I'm having fun blowing up museums and mugging grandmothers, I'm not complaining. ;)
At the moment I'm 8 words over the standard goal. Funny story about that. I had 8238 at the end of the scene I was working on. Then I realized I only needed 100 more words to be right on target for a standard nano (8335). With 20 minutes to go before midnight, I flipped to the next scene of the mobsters storyline, which was a midlevel boss meeting up with the Godfather. I decided they were playing cards. Then I decided they should be playing mah jong.
About 80 words into describing their mah jong game, I suddenly realized that these were the Italians, not the Triad. o.O Well, it was too late to start over at that point, so now, umm, my Italian mafia is learning how to play mah jong. >.> But I got in the 100 words I needed. :D
----------WIP 2009: Birthright
Member of: SFFMuse, RPoL, UCF
Writer for: BrightHub, eHow
11,227 / 50,000
Nov 5, 2009 - 22 25
I can honestly say I am excited! I went in not knowing if I was even capable of doing the halfway mark let along planning to finish it. Now I am over 10K in just a matter of days and already trying to figure out why I made my MC such a whiny brat that is unsocial. Don't ask how that combination managed to come together.
I gave myself the night off for writing so I can plan, I kind of backed myself into a corner. I haven't been this excited with writing in so long!!!!
42,218 / 50,000
Nov 7, 2009 - 13 17
I'm happy to be regularly writing, and WISH I could keep myself this disciplined the other eleven months of the year. AND I'm keeping my word count on track! I was amazed last night when I realized we were already one-fifth through the month.
I'm mostly pleased with the content of what I've written this month also, although yesterday was kind of a 'rubbish writing' day, but maybe it's not SO bad--last year I thought much of what I wrote was rubbish, but then when I went back to revise, it wasn't bad at all, so I have hope. :)
Keep writing & keep enjoying it!
Hope to see a lot of you at the Bean tomorrow!
Julie
37,751 / 50,000
Nov 7, 2009 - 17 13
I passed the 10K point last night and I was SOOO happy! I am still a little behind on the word count as far as the nano bar says, but I also do my writing in the wee hours of the morning. I think that puts me behind in a way. Today, beings it's Saturday, I wrote an entire page in a few minutes. I am going to write more now as soon as I get off of this horrible web site that takes up so much of my time! LOL! (Go nano!)
Yesterday I was a little perturbed at my MC because he wasn't "going" anywhere. Just sort of loafing around and my story wasn't doing anything. I felt like I was stuck. I had to really rethink where I wanted the plot to go. Once I got that settled in my mind, I was once again ready to tackle the story.
So far, I'm pleased with it and I never thought I'd get this many words in 6 days (I didn't write a thing on day 3 because I was just too tired to sit up and type, so I put myself a day behind).
I plan to make up my lost day tonight.
Nancy
----------2009 - Fallen Arrow
(1st time participant)
7,750 / 50,000
Nov 8, 2009 - 15 49
A weird mix of excitement and despair here, as you can see I'm waaay behind on word count at this point, just barely over 5% complete. But, I have a pretty good feel for how I work, and it tends to always be slow going in the beginning-- so while I'm pretty sure I'm not going to hit 50,000 this year, I'm confident that I'm going to make good progress, and definitely get more writing done in a month than I ever have before.
19,100 / 50,000
Nov 9, 2009 - 12 49
Yeah, I'm mostly basking in my slackitude at the moment. I think I had a fairly slow start last year, but this has to be a slower start than before.
But I'll either rally strong, or I'll have the story of how after winning my first attempt at Nano, I failed so epically. Either one should be interesting. :P
16,800 / 50,000
Nov 10, 2009 - 07 45
I'm on pace for another failure, but if I get 20-30K out of it, that's more than previous attempts.
----------41,411 / 50,000
Nov 11, 2009 - 11 02
I'm a tiny bit behind in actual standard word count, but I had some busy days where I had other things taking up my time. One day I only managed to squeeze in 400 words!
I can make up ground quickly, though, if I put my mind to it, and I like my story and the way it's going - even in the MC is kind of a creep. Okay - no kind of involved. He IS a creep.
40,034 / 50,000
Nov 11, 2009 - 18 28
I vacillate between despair and excitement, usually depending on how much headache medicine I'm taking. Right now, I'm on track to get this sucker finished and I've got a pretty good idea where it's going.
My biggest thing is getting me to open the bloody file and work on the stupid thing. It's so much easier to do everything else.
2,738 / 50,000
Nov 12, 2009 - 17 42
So far this month, work has conspired against me. I am woefully behind in my writing. At least I don't have to write twice as many words every day, but I'm hoping I can start to make some headway now.
Last year I won in 28 days and was hoping to repeat that this year. I have a feeling I'll be right down to the wire.
On the good side, I still like my story and I think I can sustain to to the end of the month. That's promising. Well, back to the writing!
Onward everyone! You can do it!
----------Kenneth Larsen
"Turn not pale, beloved snail, come and join the dance!"
19,100 / 50,000
Nov 14, 2009 - 06 48
I have to say that things have been picking up the past few days. But best of all, I've really started to like the feel of the story I'm telling. So that gives me some extra incentive to see the story out to the end, even if that end comes up short of the word total. But we'll see. :)