Progress check in for those writing in this genre!

JEALOUS!!!! I've still got another 14 hours to go before I can start writing :(

~*Oh, let me warn you, sisters in Jerusalem,
by the gazelles, yes, by all the wild deer:
Don't excite love, don't stir it up,
until the time is ripe—and you're ready*~

Hey, I live in the same place as you! :D

Gee, my name sounds masculine. I'm actually a woman.

2007: Sick Bacchus (won!)
2008: Nocturne (won!)
2009: Like a Drug

Awwwwwwweeeeee - I have 11 1/2 hours before I can start, so my day will be spent getting ready...uh, chocolate, coffee, nuts, chocolate, water, chocolate.........I'm so glad we don't have many Halloween trick or treaters that come here!!!

As you believe...so shall you do...so shall you do.

Won 2005-An Appointed Time (completed novel)
Won 2006-A Gathering of Angels (completed novel)
Won 2007-A Rotten Thyme for Murder/A Patchwork Life (WIP)
Won 2008-Never the Same (completed novel)

Only 1:22 in the afternoon here, so can't start for 10-1/2 hours or so, and am not usually up after midnight.. not sure if I'm going to stay up tonight just to get a bit of a start.. that might send me to bed feeling like something had been accomplished!

Trusting in the Lord all the way for this since I don't yet have a clear grasp on what I'll be writing about.

living for His glory,
Karin

That's awesome. Nice to see lots of kiwis taking part.

I cheated and began early. By accident, I promise! I was outlining and sketching out some ideas... I decided to start writing some mock scenes (for stylistic reasons) and I think I may have stumbled upon the first 2,000 words of my story.

What is the proper reprimand for this? Don't make me skip a day!

Apologies for the above post taking it too far and/or overusing analogies.

I still have three more hours before I can start!

It's 12:20am here....and I have nothing to my name. But I'm just glad November's here. c:

I've done my 2000 words for the day, now I can sort through the garbage, yeah!!!

1764 words currently, hope to reach 2000 before I go to bed tonight.

I am at 1490 words! This my first time writing Fiction....I didn't break it up into chapters...should I have done that first?

I'm writing a Christian fiction novel and just completed chapter one, which is 1,064. I'm heading to bed for now, but later today I plan to get my 2,000 words in. This is my first NaNo, and I'm really excited!

Blessings,

Misti Sandefur, Christian Author

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I'm at 2,182 and I'm going to bed. I am dividing my novel into months rather than chapters - December-December, so 13 months. I am done with the first December and a paragraph or so into January. Some months will be wordier than others...

2008 - Finding the Words (epic fail)
2009 - Doxology (I can do this!)

Got up to 1520 before I went to bed last night... not sure I like how I started, so I'm doing a chapter restart, and I'll compare the two at the end of the month... I'm terrible for doing that.

Have a writing session to attend this afternoon... my goal is 10k before midnight tonight... let's see if I can do it.

~*Oh, let me warn you, sisters in Jerusalem,
by the gazelles, yes, by all the wild deer:
Don't excite love, don't stir it up,
until the time is ripe—and you're ready*~

Scene one finished (614) before church.

Back and ready for scene 2!

2009 -- A Hero Over His Head
2008 -- {sat out}
2007 -- {sat out}
2006 -- Power in the Blood (won)
2005 -- CUL8R (lost)
2004 -- {sat out}
2003 -- Nowhere Man (won)
2002 -- Soulmates (won)

At 5480...... just under 10k to go to hit my goal for the day.

~*Oh, let me warn you, sisters in Jerusalem,
by the gazelles, yes, by all the wild deer:
Don't excite love, don't stir it up,
until the time is ripe—and you're ready*~

In my case, I'm at 2423 (second chapter) and I hope to get a bit more out before I go pass out.

My total for the second day is 4020.. may write some more before bed if I can think of anything else I must add

I didn't start writing until today. After two hours, I am at almost 2800 words. This is my first year.

My first year, too. I wrote 3700-ish the first day, then edited a bunch back out, so now I'm way behind. How do you stop editing yourself? I have to break this habit, it is destroying me! Help!

-lesigh- Day Three of Utter and Total Insanity: 8,892

I've got one of the most difficult, complicated weeks I've ever had coming up, so I'm going to be aiming to get my Week One wordcount by tomorrow, at the latest.

The easiest way to stop your inner editor from deleting all of your hard work for the day/week/month during NaNoWriMo is to use page breaks. (Or at least thats what I use.) Once you've finished writing for the day, insert a blank page and promise yourself that you won't go back and read anything above that last blank page. It takes some willpower, but I find that if you ply yourself with chocolate, a nice, hot bubble bat, a nice dinner, or just a night of doing what you want to do, it'll get easier to ignore everything above that blank page.

~Cass

Ha, that's a good idea. I am also notorious for editing, since I'm a tinsy bit of a perfectionist. I just decided to use a fresh document for each "chapter." Probably a waste of kilobytes, but definitely worth the sacrifice.

Unfortunately the first was a SUNDAY, and Sundays are always crazy for me. Yes, that translates to no writing done. Monday I finished about 300-some words, and Tuesdays I worked an election from 5am-7pm and wrote another 700 words while there and when I got home.

So here I am oh-so-excited to be three days behind schedule. But I think I can handle that. Congrats to everyone who's already over 10,000. You amaze me.

In excessive Verbage,
Erica

Write a couple of bad sentences on purpose. Stare them down, and move on in the paragraph. Chris Batey suggests making the text white if you write a whole paragraph that you want to take out later, but that feels like editing. :) Remember, the point of this month is to get 50k words down. Terrible words! With bad grammer! Bad, bad writing! You can do it!

That said, I have to leave my spell check on. I tried. I just can't turn it off, or leave words with the squiggly red underline.

I have been pushing myself really hard this year.

Last year was my first year, and I made it to 53,000 :)

This year I am more interested in completing the story so I am aiming for more words.

Well done to all the first year people in here :)

Just keep writing, just keep writing, that's the key. If you get stuck somewhere, there's no reason why you can't change character or perspective if that helps you keep the words flowing. The editing is LATER, the goal now is to WRITE :)

Location : Somewhere on the far side of crazy, past the dark side of the moon, and on my way to becoming comfortably numb.

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I have been a few hundred words behind quota from day 1, but I knew those were gong to be pretty busy days and was just trying to stay within shouting distance of quota.

The next 3 days (Thur, Fri, Sat) are days I have plenty of time to write, so I expect (hope?) to get caught up, and maybe even a few words ahead!

Next week has some good writing times, as well. So I'm satisfied.

2009 -- A Hero Over His Head
2008 -- {sat out}
2007 -- {sat out}
2006 -- Power in the Blood (won)
2005 -- CUL8R (lost)
2004 -- {sat out}
2003 -- Nowhere Man (won)
2002 -- Soulmates (won)

Thanks to a 5k rush last night until 2am (who needs sleep?), I'm at 7253. This is my first NaNo, so I'm excited I've even gotten this far!

One interesting development, though. I hacked out perhaps the first chapter, but it was slow going and I just wasn't all that happy with it. Maybe it's because I'm continuously altering character attributes, jobs, and plots twists as I go. What I decided to do, then, was write out the one extended scene that I had perfectly planned out. Before I knew it, I had written in a small family, ten extra supporting characters, and this chapter just leaps off the page. Problem is that it's near the end of the book...and now I have to backtrack. With this one interaction, though, I feel like I have a much better grasp on the characters, though.

Anyone else finding that perhaps they're skipping about in time, much like how a movie is filmed?

Yes I a skipping about when I get stuck

I figure getting stuck means I just haven't worked out that bit yet, or that it will need changing or excluding after editing.

SO I don't need to worry about it this month at all, just keep writing the bits I do know and the rest will come :)

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