I was on that other word count envy thread and I decided that all of us with less than 5000 words should have a thread. Just don't even comment if you have more. Just be happy on your own. Because we are envious of you. Just....no. You cannot understand our situation. Don't even bother.
Envious of those fast writers? Be envious here.
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"I'll be out of my mind, and you'll be out of ideas pretty soon." ~Owl City *Hot Air Balloon
So true, so true.
Yeah, I regret my username too. Don't shun me for my past mistakes.
20,559 / 50,000
Nov 3, 2009 - 16 47
Gah. I'm stuck around 3700, because I can't decide why I just made my mc walk outside.
I'm super jealous of the ones that are already halfway done! Freaks of nature...lol.
----------All the people look so happy, safe beneath their plastic skin
Get a rise from another’s tragedy, but tip-toe so nobody can get in
14,256 / 50,000
Nov 3, 2009 - 17 02
*clings to thread, sniffling*
I was all pumped up at getting 4k, went in the Shoutouts forum to have my brief moment of 'YAY!!!' before I got back to it, and half the first page was people celebrating 25k+ word counts.
Way to take all the joy out of my 4k guys, thanks for that.
Now I'm not even sure I want to write any more of this damned thing.
*hugs chocolate and sniffles*
----------Amongst philitres and melissas
'Midst the grease of strangled men
And eldritch truth, elder ill-omen
Elizabeth came to life, again
~Thirteen Autumns and a Widow
40,025 / 50,000
Nov 3, 2009 - 17 05
I've only barely broken a thousand. So at least you're all ahead of me! : )
12,054 / 50,000
Nov 3, 2009 - 17 58
I'm so happy to be at 4k that I can't even look at other wordcounts right now. 25k? What are you people, mutants!?
Gah. I'm gunning for 5k tonight or bust!
----------Oh yeah? Well that looks like a golden shiny wire of hope to me!
1,200 / 50,000
Nov 3, 2009 - 18 31
I'm in Australia, so we're halfway through the 4th of November now. And yesterday was a public holiday so I should have been writing. Don't even talk to me about word count :(
33,043 / 50,000
Nov 3, 2009 - 18 45
Who am I kidding, at this point I envy every one of you! My characters and plot didn't introduce themselves to me 'til this morning. Right now my novel is about 5 sentences long, less than 200 words. And I don't know where to go. *headdesk*
1,239 / 50,000
Nov 3, 2009 - 18 47
I'll be lucky to break 1000 words tonight. I just started today, but I still have hope.
----------"Say what you will, but you have no idea who you associate yourself with because anyone can hide their true selves if they wish." ~ Shadow
2007 NaNo Imprefectionist - 14K words
2008 NaNo Half Breed - 16,689 words
2009 NaNo Break
39,237 / 50,000
Nov 3, 2009 - 18 47
For me...it all started well enough. I managed to meet my word count on days one and two. But today I was gone for about ten hours...and now that I am back I just can't think of what to write. I don't know how to get my characters out of the mess they are in. I've thrown them into TOO MUCH conflict. Gah, I hate this. But I have told myself I will stay up as late as it takes tonight. I need to hit that 5k! Preferably more because I know week two is going to kick my butt.
----------2009: The Rescue (37,585/50,000....so far so good!)
Characters killed: 5
Times given up: 1
Number of times amazed by a spark of brilliance: 2
Number of times things have gone splat: 3
Current sanity level: 83%
19,000 / 50,000
Nov 3, 2009 - 19 14
If I manage to write 900 words in the next 2 hours, I'll be at 5k!
----------... But I just really don't feel like doing it.
I am so hopeless. ;~;
40,065 / 50,000
Nov 3, 2009 - 19 45
Just got past 4000. I haven't been in the writing mood today, although I just sat down about a half hour ago and typed out about 500 words, a lot more than I thought I'd get done. My plan for tomorrow is to go to Starbucks and stay there until....well, I'm not sure. But I will work!
13,287 / 50,000
Nov 3, 2009 - 23 56
I just don't have a single idea of what is going to happen now in my "novel", and actually, somethings really needs to happen. I wish I would be this kind of people who has 26 584 plots in their head. Well, at least one.
42,415 / 50,000
Nov 3, 2009 - 23 59
I have discovered just how difficullt it is to write 1,667 words a day. Currently, the most I seem able to write is 1,000. Maybe it's because I'm prioritising a good night's sleep over NaNoWriMo...
----------Everyone has an inner geek. Mine is just a bit less 'inner'.
31,250 / 50,000
Nov 4, 2009 - 00 11
as far as those odd folks that managed 25,000 words in three days - what are they gonna do after they finish their novel IN THE FIRST WEEK? Write another 3 novels?
Just curious - can you hear the envy in my typing? Sheesh, I'm barely half way to 5,000!
5,464 / 50,000
Nov 4, 2009 - 00 13
Yeah, I managed to do basically nothing over the last three days and I'm not expecting today to be more productive. I'm beginning to hate this novel even though the synopsis I wrote for it months ago is still, I think, amazing. What happened between planning and execution?
Now, I'm thinking of another story I want to write that might be better, but I'm four days in...and I don't want to start again.
----------Icon by cylonish on lj.
2005 - FAIL
2006 - FAIL
2007 - FAIL
2008 - Don't Tell Mom I Can See the Future -- FAIL (but fun fail)
2009 - The Healer's Academy -- ???
3,063 / 50,000
Nov 4, 2009 - 00 20
I just... don't seem to be motivated this year I guess. In years past, I've been able to sit down and crank out 3-4k in one sitting if I set my mind to it. They weren't always a good 3-4k, but they were there. Now I'm sitting here in the first few minutes of Day 4 and I just broke 3k and the words are. not. flowing. At all. I'm fighting for every sentence. This is not fun at all.
I'm keeping at it though. It'll get fun eventually. I just need to get past this first... not-fun part. On to the adventures part.
Maybe that's why I feel so envious of people with 25k+ word counts. I feel like I SHOULD be able to do that, I just can't concentrate lately. I'm currently unemployed, so it's not like I'm doing anything but play facebook games and calling people to beg for jobs all day anyway. I should have plenty of time for NaNo.
----------"Nothing encourages creativity like the chance to fall flat on one's face." ~James D. Finley
539 / 50,000
Nov 4, 2009 - 01 25
Oh my god...I've actually been working on this thing for three days and I'm STILL stuck at 500 words. I don't know how in the WORLD I'm going to get this thing done. I've restarted the whole thing like four times because I can't come up with a plot. Now...I have plenty of ideas for plots. But I have never ever appreciated how hard it is to actually EXECUTE a plot...this is the hardest thing I've ever done.
41,688 / 50,000
Nov 4, 2009 - 02 01
I want to catch up today D: My mom is writing faster than me!
33,652 / 50,000
Nov 4, 2009 - 02 21
God, I feel accomplished just for managing my measly 3k. I learned the hard way last year not to even touch the shout out forum. Gah.
Last year, take-off was the easy part. It was halfway through where I crashed and burned. I'm burning already! My words are on fire! And not in the good way!
My metaphors are kind of crumbling, too. I think I should probably make a resolution to try to avoid looking cool at 5 in the morning. >.>
----------The search has begun, this is page one. Man meet your maker, I give you... the Author. --The Author, The Academy Is...
17,600 / 50,000
Nov 4, 2009 - 02 34
..and I'm proud of being at 1.700. I used three days on writing 800 words, and today, in one school class, I wrote 900 words.. *headdesk* I need to WRITE...
----------NaNo 09 - Catalyst Spirits (in process)
35,937 / 50,000
Nov 4, 2009 - 05 48
I'm proud of being right around 2k...missing the first day and then having a rough start left me at about 1k last night. Write or Die is my new best friend.
----------961 / 50,000
Nov 4, 2009 - 05 55
I have no excuse other than I simply haven't written anything. I've had ample time to sit and write, but I've just neglected to. I'm rather envious of anyone who had written more than 1k words right now. I'm going to try and make it to at least a couple of thousand tonight. Of course I told myself that last night too :)
If you're feeling down about being behind, just look at my word count of 305 and know that you are at least not me!
0 / 50,000
Nov 4, 2009 - 06 45
294 words. On day 4. And around 200 of those belong to the Department of Redundancy Department. If I'm struggling now then I'm really going to be struggling towards the end. Sigh. Ah well, on with the "you will sit there and write!" attitude. It's got me this far, lets hope it gets me to 50k.
----------Sarah
"The first draft of anything is shit." - Hemingway.
1,806 / 50,000
Nov 4, 2009 - 07 06
I...added a 1 in front of my word count to make myself feel better ;_;
----------But then I kicked my ass and wrote a ton so that it would be true and I wouldn't be lying to everyone, haha
Writing is not necessarily something to be ashamed of, but do it in private and wash your hands afterwards.
-Robert A. Heinlein
35,150 / 50,000
Nov 4, 2009 - 07 27
My inner editor got me yesterday. I fell into a deeeeeeep pit like what a shit I'm writing that noone's going to read it, not to speak of enjoy it!
Couldn't get one word down! Today I'm struggling to go on but, god, this is real hard! Especially when my writing buddies around the corner just don't stop wirting!
I'm just devasted.... psychicfairy28
----------Do not meddle in the affairs of Dragons, for you are crunchy and taste good with ketchup.
21,387 / 50,000
Nov 4, 2009 - 07 26
I don't know what I'm doing!
----------I feel like I really rushed the beginning and need to go back and describe stuff more, but I also need to get on with my plot. But I'm also worried that my plot/characters are cliched. And not sure on the names. Basically I suck.
'09 - Schrodinger's Box
7,834 / 50,000
Nov 4, 2009 - 08 05
*Whimper*
I'm hovering around 1500.
Last time I did this, I didn't start until the 13th, and knocked out 8k words on my first day. Shouldn't I have been able to hit at least HALF of that by now?!
And I just realized that I keep going off on descriptive tangents, and have no dialog yet.
*dies*
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"I sought the Lord, and He answered me, and delivered me from all my fears."
1,062 / 50,000
Nov 4, 2009 - 08 13
I didn't even START until today. I have barely over a thousand words now, which is about one-fifth, at best, of what I was hoping to have so far. Hopefully I'll make it to two thousand by the end of the night; if I do two thousand words a day for a while, I should be caught up in... eleven days or so. *headdesks*
842 / 50,000
Nov 4, 2009 - 08 29
I just want to break 1,000. I didn't start until yesterday and my genius plot idea has turned into a stodgy slow starter. I have a day off work tomorrow so I'm not declaring myself completely screwed yet, but if I'm still not past 5k by Friday then I'll really start panicing.
----------I'm a seasoned veteran and I'm currently deep in the brown stuff. How (and why) have I done this 5 times before?
1,639 / 50,000
Nov 4, 2009 - 08 44
I started the evening of November 1st, but have really been slacking and avoiding my story. I think I lost my spark and motivation for writing a long time ago. I'm doing NaNo as a last ditch effort to see if it'll come back, but so far things are not looking good.
27,507 / 50,000
Nov 4, 2009 - 08 50
I've had the hardest time because my schedule's been crazy right off the bat. Of course my father from the next state over has to visit me on the morning of the 1st and stay through monday night. Add to that a work schedule that inccludes leaving the house at 7am and returning around 5.30/6pm and I'm finding it so hard to sneak in time to write. I'm sure I'll be able to pump up my word count once the weekend swings around again.
I've been having to sit down and type up half a page at a time just in the spare moments I can find while the pasta water is boiling or whatever else needs to get done is suspended. Does anyone else have to do this and find it difficult? I much prefer to get into the swing of things and just write for hours. This stop and start stuff really has me feeling discouraged.