As we near the end of Week One I realize that once again, I am epically behind. NaNo doesn't get any easier in Week Two. In fact it kinda starts to suck right up until around Week Three. (If you're new, pretend you didn't read that. You'll figure it out soon enough and I hate to destroy anyone's innocence when reality can do so much better a job at it than I.)
Back to the topic at hand: I propose a challenge. Anyone who's behind, catch up now; once you've caught up, keep writing (come Week Two, you will thank me). That means having better than 11,669 by the end of Day Seven. Anyone who's not behind, set your own challenge; once you've gotten there, try to do more than that.
Knowing that slow writers can do about 800 words of novel per hour--and fast writers can easily double that--and knowing approximately how many hours you can horde in the next couple of days, where do you plan to be on the morning of Day Eight?
And remember: If your imagination starts to falter and you feel like you can't possibly write another word. . . just add zombies. (Unless you're already writing about zombies, in which case you're on your own. Sorry.)
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4,718 / 50,000
Nov 6, 2009 - 18 54
I neglected to post my own goal. That's not very motivating, is it? =/
I will be playing the catch-up game, wherein I attempt to get better than 11,669. Let's set the bar low (real low) at 11,700.
38,038 / 50,000
Nov 6, 2009 - 21 17
While I am not as epically behind as you are, I also need to do some catching up. My personal goal is by Sunday evening to have 13,500 words so that I am at least caught up going into the week ahead
4,718 / 50,000
Nov 7, 2009 - 23 32
Well, I suck. =)
The upshot being that I also have tomorrow off so maybe I can play the catch-up game a little more successfully during the next 24 hours than I did during the previous 24 hours.
39,500 / 50,000
Nov 9, 2009 - 06 51
I have 10,350, with a potential 13,651 if you count something I wrote out of necessity -- something honked me off too much to write on my novel.
(Someone lamented the lack of free activities in town. This galled me to no end, as neither she nor her much-lamenting, self-aggrandizing club never works to put on said free events -- or even paid events -- that are available to anyone but themselves. However, they have plenty of time to come to the free events, and have a lovely time with their children, and they scrapbook about said lovely time. This is while those of us who put on these events are working and cannot have fun with our own children, these children who sometimes help with set up, and whose moms don't have time to scrapbook because they're at the meetings to put on the next event. Nor are these events free when the band alone runs $500-$1,500. Then again, my kids have a couple event shirts that they EARNED from helping on supposedly free events. Off of soapbox now.)
35,100 / 50,000
Nov 9, 2009 - 12 43
I caught myself up over the weekend. I'm taking today off, but plan to get back to writing tomorrow being only a day behind on average work count. My goal is to not fall behind any further this week and get to a write-in on Saturday. And if I really want to feeling like a writing machine, I'll get myself a few days ahead by next Sunday!
----------The man who in his work finds silence, and who sees that silence is work, this man in truth sees the light and in all his works finds peace.
--The Bhagavad Gita
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