So, we're about halfway through the month. I'm noticing that some people aren't quite as far in their word counts as they'd like to be. Looks like I'll have to get the whip out at the next meeting. Heh. >:)
But that's not what this thread is about!
I'm wondering how your stories are going. Looking at your word count, has your story progressed to where you think it should be? Personally, I'm somewhat ahead of schedule. Things have happened in my novel which i was hoping would happen later. So are your novels where they should be story wise?
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Down The Pants of Insanity
50,695 / 50,000
nov. 13, 2007 - 04 13
its funny that you posted this topic, because no, mine is not.
I'm 22k in, and almost nothing has happened. well, to be fair, i've had a death, a wedding, a hard ride across the plains while being persued by evil demonic wolf things, a new found magical skill and an injury - but in the sceme of my plot, these should have all been tiny details swallowed up in the grand order of events. My plot suddenly looks huge and unattainable...
i'm not sure whether to hurry up a little or just conceed defeat to the fact that my plot is too be told in 50,000 words...
51,152 / 50,000
nov. 13, 2007 - 04 15
I took a different approach this year, and I didn't know where my story was going. I had a starting point, some characters, and some ideas for events.
I knew it was going to be about robots. I was planning to set up the world, and kinda show how everything wasn't perfect, but it wasn't bad. People were happy enough. Then there's a war against robots. Lots of fighting, and strategy and death.
I'm 23k words in, and three bullets have been shot. These bullets have been neither shot by robots, or towards robots. But one robot has just been caught reading MC's diary. He was not impressed (It was the second time she's done it), so MC's cousin is going to take above mentioned robot apart. The robots are pretty tame, so I don't t think that'll cause any robot/human friction.
It looks like this book might end up being a prequel, to the robot wars. Maybe next year :)
7,127 / 50,000
nov. 13, 2007 - 05 32
Or another idea... why stop at 50k? Win nano and then you've got your 50k, which funnily enough is more progress than you would have if you didn't do nano :D
I think 50k ends up being around only a hundred pages in a "real" book anyway.
7,127 / 50,000
nov. 13, 2007 - 05 35
I'm kinda stuck. I had a rush of wc last night when I tried a different scene, one towards the end of the nano and squeezed a nice amount of words out of that... the problem is that that kinda seems to be atleast two scenes at once, so I'll probably have another look at that down the track.
What I might keep doing though is jumping from part to part until it starts reaching atleast some form of completion.
50,695 / 50,000
nov. 13, 2007 - 14 00
yeah, i think thats what i'll end up doing. we all know how huge most fantasy books end up being...
50,227 / 50,000
nov. 13, 2007 - 15 02
I'm just under 30k and by the looks of it I shall not be anywhere near finished by 50k. I suspect some parts of my story will not have even been touched because I am having way too much fun with the other bits. But this is what I was hoping for - I knew it would be easier for me to reach the goal if I had more than enough material to get me there. The challenge will be to maintain the impetus after November to get the whole things finished. Am I on track plotwise? Yes, I started with a fairly fleshed out plan, which doesn't mean a few surprising things have not happened, and some characters have revealed more about themselves than I had thought they would. The other day I even got a bit teary!
50,181 / 50,000
nov. 14, 2007 - 20 15
I'm not doing so well xD 15k is all I have. My story is going pretty well though I think, just enough plot for how many words I have =]
21,039 / 50,000
nov. 14, 2007 - 22 22
Don't ask ^^;;
I've had lots of fun, like another carrier stealing my home phone number away from Telstra without asking, then disconnecting. Couple that on top of days at work where all our IT systems kept failing and I haven't had the energy to write. Sounds so slack, I know, but sometimes you just can't bear to look at another computer again.
At times like that, I'd switch to hand written, if it didn't take me three times as long to try and then copy it back to the computer. Is it bad that it takes me so long to make sense of my handwriting? Where are some embarrassed emoticons when I need them?
Still, being 10k behind isn't as bad as I was fearing. I will try and make it up before the end of the month. I'm feeling very good about this novel, despite the slow progress. It might be the first one that keeps me writing through December, January and so on...
50,037 / 50,000
nov. 16, 2007 - 06 26
I'm not stuck. I can keep on writing crap for hours and hours. But I panic whenever I look at the Word document my novel is in, and that's why I haven't written anything for days. I think I have some sort of problem.
23,055 / 50,000
nov. 16, 2007 - 07 33
I've been trying a new thing. Rather than writing in one long linear structure I'm taking scenes from various parts and just seeing what happens when I write them. So far I am thinking that what happens is mostly rubbish and for every ten words I write, I will have to cut 9 from the finished product.
But it is an interesting process so I'm enjoying it whether I make it to 50k or not this year.