All right, Mainahs. It's the end of Week One, and we are getting ready to go into dreaded Week Two. It's time for us to kick in into high gear, so I think tomorrow needs to be Double Your Daily Word Count Day.
What is "Double Your Daily Word Count Day", you ask? It's a new regional holiday that has just been invented. Yup, just like that. It's a day where you write at least double your average daily word count, and thus give yourself a hefty boost to prepare for week two.
It works like this: Whatever your end-of-day word count is tonight (Friday night), you divide that number by 6. The result is your average daily word count, and your goal on Saturday is to write twice that many words. If your average is less than 1,667, and you are behind, then I challenge you to get to a grand total of at least 13,336 words- that's where you should be by Sunday, so if you make it there by Saturday then you will be a full day ahead.
Use this thread to post your magic number, the number of words you'll be writing tomorrow. Then, when you finish writing those words, post again to let everyone know that you are victorious.
There are no prizes for winning this challenge other than a virtual high-five, because this is a shoe-string operation after all. But you will have bragging rights, and you will get that warm fuzzy "Yeah I totally won that challenge" feeling. And if you don't get that feeling, then just keep writing until you triple your daily word count. Or quadruple it.
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2006: Three Wishes for Sadie
2007: Blood Sister
SF 2008: Flight of the Falcon
2008: The Marked Man
SF 2009: The Alliance of Delphia
2009: Lit
44,805 / 50,000
Nov 6, 2009 - 19 31
Haha, I love this! This would mean that I have to do about 5,450 words tomorrow. Oh man. I'll do my best! Good luck everyone!
----------60,124 / 50,000
Nov 6, 2009 - 19 34
Cool idea!
My magic number is 4910, but I'll round it up to 5000.
----------http://rjkeller.wordpress.com/
62,685 / 50,000
Nov 6, 2009 - 21 54
My magic goal is 7,386 \o/ Which is good, since I was hoping to get to 30k by the end of Saturday and now this little challenge will give me even more incentive =o
52,173 / 50,000
Nov 7, 2009 - 08 02
...That would put me at 10267. XD Aw heck, why not try. \o/!
----------75,721 / 50,000
Nov 7, 2009 - 08 07
7024 words is the raw goal, but I'll bump it up a notch to 7100! :)
----------Rebecca Susanne
Most Words in a Single Day - 8,335, Nov 1
# of Days with No Nanoing - 0
Body Count- 12
60,124 / 50,000
Nov 7, 2009 - 13 21
7136 words today.
----------And now I will collapse.
http://rjkeller.wordpress.com/
52,173 / 50,000
Nov 7, 2009 - 14 53
Good work, kellagood! :D I've only gotten 3,000 done so far. :( But I shall not fear, there's still plenty of hours left in this day.
----------75,721 / 50,000
Nov 7, 2009 - 20 09
7,133 for the day. time for bed. early morning. going to try for 8500 tomorrow, about 200 more than I did last sunday.
----------Rebecca Susanne
Most Words in a Single Day - 8,335, Nov 1
# of Days with No Nanoing - 0
Body Count- 12
52,173 / 50,000
Nov 7, 2009 - 21 50
I wrote 10,267 words today.
...I feel awesome.
----------75,034 / 50,000
Nov 8, 2009 - 05 26
Hey, could we have this challenge at the end of each week? *puppy eyes* I wanted to do it SO bad but had SATs, which always kill my muse for the day. :(
You all did awesome, btw. ^.^
----------~dreams come from within, let your imagination soar~
NaNo '09 - Past Illusion - pending
~'til all are one~
52,173 / 50,000
Nov 8, 2009 - 11 01
I'm actually down with that idea, actually, if everyone else is.
Unless we come up with different challenges at the end of each week? :D
----------40,230 / 50,000
Nov 8, 2009 - 11 09
But of course we can! :)
If anyone else has ideas for different challenges, please share them! Otherwise, I can just bump this thread back up every Friday.
----------2006: Three Wishes for Sadie
2007: Blood Sister
SF 2008: Flight of the Falcon
2008: The Marked Man
SF 2009: The Alliance of Delphia
2009: Lit
75,034 / 50,000
Nov 8, 2009 - 14 27
*whoops* Can't wait! :)
----------~dreams come from within, let your imagination soar~
NaNo '09 - Past Illusion - pending
~'til all are one~