Well, I've just hit 25k now, and I'm so happy! This is the fastest I've ever been doing nano, and apart from a bit in January last year when I didn't have college, I'm pretty sure this is the fastest I've ever been writing a story!!! The only trouble is, in my book, I've just started the second day. Now, 25k to describe one and a bit days is maybe a little excessive, but it's also quite exciting. And I still have plenty of story floating around in my head. And another new character (alongside the tiger cub who randomly turned up) who I may or may not have to kill off or just send away. Hmm, yeh. Anyway, I just thought I'd say yay :D (and I'll try not to do it twice this time...)
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NutmegAngel
Inspired by chocolate.
Fuelled by tea.
63,085 / 50,000
nov. 8, 2009 - 07 07
Heh, I hit 25k today as well. But, man, wow, just one day? Really? That's pretty damn impressive. I think the most words I ever wrote to describe a single day was something like 10k. In 27k I've managed to get through at least a month and a half (although my character was in a coma for 3 weeks of it...)
Anyway, good luck writing the rest of your story...at this rate, it sounds like it's gonna be pretty long! How many words you aiming for?
----------*~*NaNo2008*~* - 100,956words
*~*NaNo2009*~* - good luck!
77,987 / 50,000
nov. 10, 2009 - 08 30
Well I was hoping it would end up about 80000, and I have now modified it slightly so that it ends up that I'm currently on the third day of story. But they've still not reached the place where the plot I actually had in mind starts. Which is quite interesting. To be honest though, my stories do tend to end up covering a very short period days wise, with a lot of action crammed in. I was working on one before November started that covers something like a week (although admittedly in two different years in parallel and with three different sets of characters) so far and is already over 100000 words... Yeh. I might be cutting down a bit in editing.
----------NutmegAngel
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65,033 / 50,000
nov. 10, 2009 - 12 56
Well done, me too. Good luck hun.
Dawn
63,085 / 50,000
nov. 12, 2009 - 07 43
Heh, well, good luck then, you're gonna need it! To be honest, my stories always end up longer than I suspect as well! But that's usually because I go back and add lots of scenes after the intital draft, not the other way around. I don't tend to delete much, only change things around and add way more detail, since my intial writing it always rushed sounding and dialogue heavy. I also tend to skip to the interesting bits and abandon scene settings and important things like that XD sounds like you've got the opposite problem though! You describe everything. :P
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*~*NaNo2009*~* - good luck!
77,987 / 50,000
nov. 12, 2009 - 10 40
Actually, that's my other problem... I keep forgetting to describe the Moon. What with them being on it and it being a rather exotic location, I should perhaps stick in a little bit more description. I realised that when I thought that the entire Moon couldn't just have one sort of terrain. I just have too many fight scenes... :D
----------NutmegAngel
Inspired by chocolate.
Fuelled by tea.
63,085 / 50,000
nov. 13, 2009 - 00 41
Haha, fight scenes huh? I try to avoid those as much as possible, seeing as I feel they're much harder to describe. I'm much better at writing emotional scenes, and especially love to force my characters through multiple mental breakdowns and shouting matches with each other. Confrontations are my all time favourite. Drama lover, that's me.
but yes. setting is important. I always forget to have my characters doing things while they speak (apparently they just stand and stare at each other the entire time, heh) or even forget to mention where they are or what position they're in during my numerous scenes of constant dialogue.
speaking of which, my story really is just one long thing of dialogue. I tend to skip right to the part where my main characters meet up with each other again...then I suppose since my main character has nothing else to do with her time BUT meet her love interest...aw...damn...shoulda thought this one through more thoroughly beforehand.
*headdesk*
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*~*NaNo2009*~* - good luck!
40,000 / 50,000
nov. 15, 2009 - 05 05
I am nearly NEARLY at half way point. Or will be laters.
63,085 / 50,000
nov. 15, 2009 - 05 47
Well, good for you, because I'm still nearly 8000 words away from my own personal half-way point! 50k is the half-way point for me and I'm very much behind! Oh dear...
I'm gonna try but I've only got another hour left before midnight and somehow I don't think I'm going to manage 8k in one hour, no matter how fast I typer I am. >.<
But I won't give up, even if I'm behind schedule by 8k. I can make that up...somehow...
*rushes off to type more story, even if she's got no plot devices to use for the next 10k or so*
----------*~*NaNo2008*~* - 100,956words
*~*NaNo2009*~* - good luck!
35,036 / 50,000
nov. 15, 2009 - 08 08
Rar! 25k. Who knows, I might even get a little ahead with the rest of the day to spend on it :)
39,040 / 50,000
nov. 15, 2009 - 11 29
Hit 25k today on target. Brilliant! Actually if I added up all the other words I have typed this week for report writing, other stories and just general communications it would be much much more!
Y'know those pedometers that measure how many step you do per day, I need one for words typed! Nano this year has brough a major awarness of just how many words I communicate. I can do it, it is possible and all I need to do now is focus this into novel writing :-)
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1,827 / 50,000
nov. 15, 2009 - 16 02
I've got a bit of catching up to do ... I've just got past the 1,670 mark ... I can barely see any of you guys anymore, you're all so far off in the distance.
I'm not worried though. I am so the tortoise. I'm completely tortoise about it all : )
36,468 / 50,000
nov. 20, 2009 - 11 38
WOOOOOOO!
25K!!!!
Oh it feels good. It's like someone said in another thread. It's not about writing 50k words, its about keeping a promise to yourself. Good luck everyone else.
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33,468 / 50,000
nov. 20, 2009 - 13 33
I also hit the big 25k today. Officially the most i have ever written. Really struggling now as I am making things up as I go along with only a vague idea of where I want to head. Want to do some more action scenes but it feels wrong leaving out all the build up explaining how the characters reached those situations.
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