One Week Down

Well, I have certainly surprised myself. Looking at my daily stats my output, although small by comparison to some (mentioning no names - Michelle) seems to be increasing exponentially.

After a shaky start of deciding to kill title, plot and characters -( I realized, too late there had been two films made under the same name) - I re-named the thing.

This led to a prologue and two quite good chapters before I got back to something like my original idea. Now I'm confident I'll certainly pass 50k and may even increase it to 70-80k during the tidy-up period.

Now the aggresion is starting... Second week? C'mon - bring it on!

I want to die peacefully in my sleep, just like grandpa. Not screaming and panicking like his passengers.

I rather enjoyed week one, though I fully intend to keep the pace of about 10k a day for the rest of the month (helps that I have a couple of other projects to do as well) Week two is looking good so far. I am now at the halfway point of the books (which is running longer than I expected by a good 10k) and I am right in the thick of thins now so it should flow fairly well.

bring on the death and destruction.

My first week has gone worse than expected, coursework and a new PC game have distracted me far too much! Hopefully i can catch up in week 2, who needs sleep anyway?

Cliched fantasy, bad dialogue and emo characters a specialty.

I need sleep. I got 4 hours last night, and somehow managed to pull in another 7k in words today... the only reason I managed the last two k is because I entered a charity word challenge. One of the lasses that I know in the fandom I write fic for was donating 1 cent to alexslemonade (a childrens cancer charity) for every word that we all wrote in one hour. I wrote 2571 in a single hour, and helped to raise money, but now I am dead, I am done for the day, my brain has died and my hands need a break. On the plus side, we helped her to raise 700 dollars for thw chairty :)

Chelle

Hi guys :)

Well, this is my first yr taking part (I've been writing for as long as I can remember though) and so far I'm really enjoying it. I began without even a clue about my characters or plot or anything really. Just the idea of writing something, anything, and seeing if I wanted to go with it (I figured if by 5k in, if I wasn't feeling anything, I'd resort to a story idea I've been thinking on for a while - without deleting any of those useless first words though ;)

Well, I'm about 16k words in so far, and the story has surprised me by jumping into a genre I wasn't expecting, I think I'm in love with my main character (which is a good thing, because I want to see what he feels like doing next ;) and I'm quietly confident I'll reach the 50k goal (you all have my permission to laugh very loudly if I don't btw, and point and go 'ner ner!' ;) even though the story won't be finished by then.

I've thought about taking part for the past several yrs, but never been 'brave' enough to take the plunge, but I'm so glad I have this time round. It just felt right this yr. My next big assignment for uni (I'm a part-time student, and a full-time daydreamer) isn't due until jan, so I figured 'why the heck not?'

And it's so liberating, just sitting and writing and not beating myself up for too many adjectives etc. That fact alone has thrown up some pleasant surprises.

I've heard that the end of the second week and third week can be tough going though, so I may have to come in here and cry a little bit so you can all spur me on to the end. Because I really do want to reach the goal. Just to prove to myself that I can, you know?

Anyway, I will shut up, for I do have an annoying habit of yammering on and on ;)

xx

And sometimes when you fall, you fly

I'm exactly on track. I'm not behind, which is good, but I'm not ahead either, which is also good, as I am determined to pace myself this year and now overdo it as I have in the past. The story maybe needs to catch up to the word count right now, that is I should be further on in the story at this point. But it's not miles out and I think I'll still finish it around 50-55k.

I'm confident I'll make it to fifty k though I have no idea where the fic is going, it's just writing itself, the muses wont give me any clues as to where it's all headed. Took my notepad to work today and ended up writing an entire new subplot which I've yet to type up, and I've been too-ing and fro-ing about how it all will end. I'm a little behind that where I wanted to be but with a day off tomorrow I'm hoping tonight I'll get caught up and back on track. I'm not panicking, I think the next two weeks will be the worst as I try to figure out what the middle of the story will be. but I've got the week off at the end of November which I hope will in part be celebrating reaching my goals of taking part in nano for the first of I hope many years to come.

I did have a mini drama last week when my laptop charger had a mini fireworks display in my room, thankfully fic is saved to usb stick but I'm laptopless and relying on my old PC to write, not my perfect writing companion, it has an evil keyboard which is playing havoc with my spelling and generally I prefferred the freedom of being able to write anywhere in the house with my laptop whereas I'm confined to one place with the pc, BUT, I carry on regardless and wish everyone else the best of luck with their goals xx

Nature's first green is gold,
Her hardest hue to hold.
Her early leaf's a flower;
But only so an hour.
Then leaf subsides to leaf.
So Eden sank to grief,
So dawn goes down to day.
Nothing gold can stay.
-Robert Frost