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 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:
-Take your end-of-day word count tonight (Saturday night)
-Divide that number by 7
-The result is your average daily word count. Your goal on Sunday is to write twice that many words.
That may take some doing if you're a wiz-at-word-count. But for those who are behind, we need this push, and more.
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.
What do you win? Bragging rights, and that warm fuzzy "Yes! 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.
Meanwhile, write like crazy until tonight.
Let's go, KanMoWriCo!
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poetT / Teri
ML in the black hat
72,178 / 50,000
Nov 7, 2009 - 06 01
Ugh, I'll have to write 7,000 words, perhaps more.
Not a cool day for me.
67,876 / 50,000
Nov 7, 2009 - 06 37
Well, poetoffire, you wrote more than that last Sunday. You can do it!
----------poetT / Teri
ML in the black hat
47,385 / 50,000
Nov 7, 2009 - 07 17
Probably not happening here. My current average is about 2670 and that's after my best day ever yesterday. 5K plus words on a Sunday between church and Bible Study is highly unlikely. I'm aiming for 500 more than I did on Sunday Day 1.
100,001 / 50,000
Nov 7, 2009 - 07 27
clear the path - whiners and excuse givers....
I'm in.
Double your pleasure, double the fun.
Evil, Catboy, Firegirl, Blades - keep up if you can.
they can take our lives, but they cannot take our freedom!
well, we could fall asleep - but that was so last night.
Write On!
mike
88,888 / 50,000
Nov 7, 2009 - 19 12
Does that mean I should fudge the numbers by storing up all the good, fun to write bits for tomorrow? I'm good at fudging numbers.
25875/7*2 = 7393
I will be done. I have mandated it.
Hehe, mandate.
----------To victory!
12,744 / 50,000
Nov 7, 2009 - 09 14
Ummm...maybe about 2000 words? DON'T KILL ME! (ducks from angry mob)
----------"What are you doing here? I thought I killed you yesterday!" grumbled Albi quite racistly.
"No, Albi. You didn't kill me with your dragon flames. I crawled to safety, but you did leave me very badly disfigured," laughed the boy.
-Flight of the Conchords
67,876 / 50,000
Nov 7, 2009 - 17 31
(11711/7)*2=3346
Good thing we have a write-in tomorrow night!
----------poetT / Teri
ML in the black hat
67,876 / 50,000
Nov 7, 2009 - 17 37
Well, Meow, it all needs to get written eventually, right? The order doesn't matter.
I have marked certain kinds of scenes and bits that are best for word sprints or wars. (That's often when the monkeys and rats come out. These rats were bringing a monkey mummy to life in one version...)
We need to be sure to do some sprints tomorrow night at the Writers Place.
----------poetT / Teri
ML in the black hat
37,764 / 50,000
Nov 7, 2009 - 17 46
Even though I am sure to write more today after posting this & it'll change my number, I'm in! I need to catch up & add a little extra to my wordcount.
100,095 / 50,000
Nov 7, 2009 - 17 56
Okay, I'm in. Not done for the day but the way it looks my goal will be somewhere around 9000 tomorrow, so I'm planning on going to the gym and starting at midnight. Be prepared for a surly teamevil at the write in.
67,876 / 50,000
Nov 7, 2009 - 18 09
What other kind is there? The kind who will play that piano for us? heh
----------poetT / Teri
ML in the black hat
23,143 / 50,000
Nov 7, 2009 - 18 14
I'm in, of course...
(The only question is, will I be doubling my average-daily-wordcount, or will I be doubling my total wordcount. Either way...)
37,764 / 50,000
Nov 7, 2009 - 20 08
Instead of dividing by 7, multiply and totally forget the 2? :D (Yeah, that's evil...)
34,136 / 50,000
Nov 7, 2009 - 20 13
This is an excellent idea! I've been having a woeful time of writing this year for some reason (hence my absence from the NaNo boards), but tomorrow I've got a write-in ft. a series of word wars with some of my twitter buddies, so hopefully it'll be a turning point.
So, I'll be shooting for at least 2575 words tomorrow. Good luck to everyone! :-)
Cheers,
----------Ditty
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"Sometimes the only sane response to an insane world is insanity." ~ Fox Mulder, The X-Files
53,442 / 50,000
Nov 7, 2009 - 21 46
I'll have to write 3400 words tomorrow.
I'm totally up for that.
31,702 / 50,000
Nov 8, 2009 - 03 19
2,489
... That shouldn't be TOOOOOOOO hard. Consider I wrote 1,200 some odd these past two or so hours{including the few hundred I wrote off and on before I started seriously writing tonight.}
EDITATION:
I WAS WRONG! I wrote another 1,000 + words since then and now my goal is at: 2,803. :3
----------NaNoWriMo 09: Grasps Of Reality
NaNoWriMo 10: The Child Inside {GoR Prequel}
Important Characters: 8
Character Deaths: 1 planned
Dares used: 6
Dream sequences: 3 or 4
Species Used: 5
Beverage Of Choice: Coffee <3
33,847 / 50,000
Nov 7, 2009 - 23 23
I could go for a good challenge.
My number: 2686
I might even go so far as to round it to a nice even 2700. Here goes!
43,063 / 50,000
Nov 8, 2009 - 05 04
3384 words. I'm fairly confident I can get that. Sundays are my good writing days (well, except for last Sunday, when we were out with family the entire day and I had to stay up till like midnight to get my first day's word count goal in).
----------All writing begins life as a first draft, and first drafts are never any good. They're not supposed to be.
- Patricia T. O'Conner
26,719 / 50,000
Nov 8, 2009 - 05 36
Roughly 3000 for me. It shouldn't be too hard actually, and if I make it I'll be back on pace.
----------“Luke: What's in there?
Yoda: Only what you take with you.”
18,248 / 50,000
Nov 8, 2009 - 11 04
Let's see, that's only 2518 for me. Shouldn't be too hard, especially with Write or Die.
----------Oh, yeah. I went there.
27,611 / 50,000
Nov 8, 2009 - 11 22
2914 for me, although I'll need to write more than that to catch up to where I'm supposed to be. Boo hiss.
52,153 / 50,000
Nov 8, 2009 - 11 42
3918, so nearly 4000. I can do it... maybe... heh
----------18,248 / 50,000
Nov 8, 2009 - 14 03
Ah, write or die is a beautiful thing. I'm only three hundred words behind, instead of several thousand.
----------Oh, yeah. I went there.
12,744 / 50,000
Nov 8, 2009 - 14 40
Actually, I think tonight's write-in might help me achieve the goal today. Plus, I get great wordcount from characters going insane and guess what I get to do to Vicky? I think I can, I think I can, I think I can...
----------"What are you doing here? I thought I killed you yesterday!" grumbled Albi quite racistly.
"No, Albi. You didn't kill me with your dragon flames. I crawled to safety, but you did leave me very badly disfigured," laughed the boy.
-Flight of the Conchords
47,385 / 50,000
Nov 8, 2009 - 19 52
I didn't double up, but I made my personal goal of five hundred more words than I did last Sunday. 532 more to be specific. :)
37,764 / 50,000
Nov 8, 2009 - 20 49
Let's see:
(10,019 / 7) * 2 = 2,862.5ish
And I am now at 13,595.
13,595 - 10,019 = 3576 words total written today!
Phew! Caught up!
I never got around to the scene(s) I had planned to write today -- a new character decided to show up (and he was most welcome to!) -- so I have some things I can work on tomorrow.
33,847 / 50,000
Nov 9, 2009 - 01 39
Soooo......do I still count as finishing Double Your Daily Word Count Day if I finished around 3 on Monday morning?
67,876 / 50,000
Nov 9, 2009 - 05 32
Absolutely, Darah. Up until you called it a day!
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I needed 3346 and got 5010
which is double what my avg daily should be for my goal of 75K, so I won two ways...
poetT / Teri
ML in the black hat
36,308 / 50,000
Nov 9, 2009 - 06 08
Sunday's total was 3,072--darn close to double my daily. I think I would have made it had I remembered my power cord. Although it was an unplanned and kinda interesting write or die thing to try and get my word count in before the battery went to reserve power ;)
26,719 / 50,000
Nov 9, 2009 - 07 44
I doubled my double word goal. My daily pace has been about 1500; I wrote 6000. Back on track!
----------“Luke: What's in there?
Yoda: Only what you take with you.”