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Any NaNoWriMo participants this year?

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  • #102
    Das Kitty
    Moderators, Arts Moderators Posts: 17,231 Mod ✭✭✭✭Das Kitty


    Epic day today. Just short of 3K and 16.5K overall.

    Probably will get nothing written for the next two days. I'm actually really happy with the way the plot it going. It's still scrappy but it's got a nice overall shape.


  • #103
    Turtwig
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 26,578 ✭✭✭✭Turtwig


    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lDK9QqIzhwk


    Yep half way there. Half-fricking-way there. :D
    (To the word count. Novel might take a LOT longer. )

    This is me right now.:D


  • #104
    Clockwork Owl
    Registered Users Posts: 165 ✭✭Clockwork Owl


    Ah, I'm tragic about this. Thinking about throwing the towel because, after a frantic and exhausting weekend spent keeping an eye on two hyperactive and accident-prone children (bless 'em), I'm three days behind. Add that to a slow start and a stubborn inner editor and I'm a grand total of 12k behind schedule, with no idea about how I'll make those words up. Not to mention I'm floundering over what's not in my plot, nit-picking at what is and generally despising and doubting everything I've done thus far.

    Le sigh.


  • #105
    Maisie Careful Logo
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    Clockwork Owl wrote: »
    Ah, I'm tragic about this. Thinking about throwing the towel because, after a frantic and exhausting weekend spent keeping an eye on two hyperactive and accident-prone children (bless 'em), I'm three days behind. Add that to a slow start and a stubborn inner editor and I'm a grand total of 12k behind schedule, with no idea about how I'll make those words up. Not to mention I'm floundering over what's not in my plot, nit-picking at what is and generally despising and doubting everything I've done thus far.

    Le sigh.

    It doesn't matter about making them up, just pretend you are on target, and keep at it :)


  • #106
    tigerblob
    Registered Users Posts: 262 ✭✭tigerblob


    I'm floundering in a major way. I'm still on only 7k. I'm getting really discouraged.
    The thing is, if I get started I breeze my way through the day's target. But it's really bloody hard to motivate myself to get started.
    Why am I so lazy? :(


  • #107
    Clockwork Owl
    Registered Users Posts: 165 ✭✭Clockwork Owl


    @tigerblob -
    One thing I've personally found helpful is to set up a little mini-routine before I sit down to write. I play a quick game of online Rummikub, grab some buttery toast, pile up the blankets, put on one particular song and away I go. I've learned to associate that song and that routine with starting to write, and it seems to make it so much easier!


  • #108
    [-0-]
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    I've failed this miserably. Just don't have the time at this time of the year unfortunately.


  • #109
    Das Kitty
    Moderators, Arts Moderators Posts: 17,231 Mod ✭✭✭✭Das Kitty


    [-0-] wrote: »
    I've failed this miserably. Just don't have the time at this time of the year unfortunately.

    That's a shame. :(

    I got into a good rhythm yesterday after falling behind by not writing for three days. Somehow managed to catch up and get back to a day ahead of myself.

    My notes to self document is also getting quite long!


  • #110
    Delirium
    Moderators Posts: 51,859 ✭✭✭✭Delirium


    I've been giving NaNoWriMo a go for the first time this year. I've managed to get just over 13k written so far.

    If you can read this, you're too close!



  • #111
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    Das Kitty wrote: »
    That's a shame. :(

    I got into a good rhythm yesterday after falling behind by not writing for three days. Somehow managed to catch up and get back to a day ahead of myself.

    My notes to self document is also getting quite long!

    It's a shame indeed! I am still going to write a novel however, just slower and with some edits. :pac:


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  • #112
    Das Kitty
    Moderators, Arts Moderators Posts: 17,231 Mod ✭✭✭✭Das Kitty


    [-0-] wrote: »
    It's a shame indeed! I am still going to write a novel however, just slower and with some edits. :pac:

    Ooh!

    Good stuff. If it's anything like your short stories you'll have a fan in me.


  • #113
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    Das Kitty wrote: »
    Ooh!

    Good stuff. If it's anything like your short stories you'll have a fan in me.

    Kind words, thank you. :)


  • #114
    Hrududu
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,711 ✭✭✭Hrududu


    How's everyone getting on? I fell a little behind last week. I just lost a lot of enthusiasm and took a few days off. But I'm determined to get it done so I'm back in the swing of things, trying to catch up. There's a danger that I'll finish the story several thousand words short so I might need to restructure a bit.


  • #115
    Das Kitty
    Moderators, Arts Moderators Posts: 17,231 Mod ✭✭✭✭Das Kitty


    Going fine word-count wise. Having trouble wanting to write though. I actually washed all the floors of the house this morning to avoid it.

    Here now in my slanket on boards instead of my document!


  • #116
    Das Kitty
    Moderators, Arts Moderators Posts: 17,231 Mod ✭✭✭✭Das Kitty


    My house is clean and I hit my target.

    I feel like a king, or some sort of domesticated royalty.


  • #117
    Blush_01
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,016 ✭✭✭Blush_01


    Yeah, so hah, for some reason every time I try to type something my brain explodes. It's messy. I'm going nowhere.

    Oh well, there's always next year. :D


  • #118
    Turtwig
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 26,578 ✭✭✭✭Turtwig


    Ok next year I'm definitely going to have a plan in place. It's all a bit hysterical when you're characters have first names like Patrick John, Ann Maria. No wait that wasn't the worst bit. The worst bit was trying to replicate a character like John Waters. That's sinking very low, but his waffling filled up soooooooo much dialogue.


    Novel wise not even near finished, not even sure there's a novel there but hey I'm 6,000 words short now. It's more a tapestry of scenes inspired by the more bizarrest of things that happened over the past month. Celtic Beating Barca and John Waters. Actually I wish I'd been inspired by him earlier. He's so good for your word count. Seriously!
    Non fiction project is a disaster 30k short and while I've no of material for it. One huge problem I have is how slow writing it actually is.:o


  • #119
    ahayzer42
    Registered Users Posts: 64 ✭✭ahayzer42


    If it makes any of the just floundering people feel any better, I've written just over 5,000 words and need to hit a daily target of 7,440 to finish in time. The rate I'm going at the moment, they're pipping June 2013 as my finishing time so to say I've failed would be an understatement!

    Then again, I could pull a humdinger of an all nighter every second night for the rest of the week and finish it but I think we'd be entering the 'loaves and fishes' territory of miracles...


  • #120
    Hrududu
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,711 ✭✭✭Hrududu


    I'm lagging behind too. I think I need to write about 2500 words a day until the end to make the 50,000. Doable but its so easy at the moment to just go 'argh I can't be bothered' at the end of a working day.


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  • #121
    Das Kitty
    Moderators, Arts Moderators Posts: 17,231 Mod ✭✭✭✭Das Kitty


    My biggest mistake at the weekend was planning to write lots so I'd have an easy jaunt to the finish line this week. One thing I hadn't accounted for though, life.

    :D

    I have 6k left to write. I'm going to get there.

    My current concern is what happens after November. I've actually worked out the bones of a fairly satisfying ending but there's a lot to go between 50K and that. I don't want to let the characters fall out of my head, it was hard enough to get a hold of them in the first place.


  • #122
    echo beach
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,252 ✭✭✭echo beach


    Das Kitty wrote: »
    My current concern is what happens after November


    What usually happens after November is December but you could put it on hold.
    Leave your calendar at November and continue the same routine for another week or two until you get there.


  • #123
    Das Kitty
    Moderators, Arts Moderators Posts: 17,231 Mod ✭✭✭✭Das Kitty


    echo beach wrote: »
    What usually happens after November is December but you could put it on hold.
    Leave your calendar at November and continue the same routine for another week or two until you get there.

    I could, but I can't afford a divorce!

    :)


  • #124
    Das Kitty
    Moderators, Arts Moderators Posts: 17,231 Mod ✭✭✭✭Das Kitty


    Last day!


  • #125
    Arlecchina
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 58 ✭✭Arlecchina


    Yeah, so, I'm a giant failboat. Thanks to general life mania, I managed to write two-and-a-half short stories for a total of 11,000 words.

    Good luck to everyone still writing today! Go, go, go! *waves pom-poms*


  • #126
    [-0-]
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    It's just as well I didn't give this a real go as my computer went tits up. I would have been raging.


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  • #127
    Das Kitty
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    https://us.v-cdn.net/6034073/uploads/attachments/5027/230930.jpeg

    It's going to take me another month to get over the fact that I followed through on something.

    That's 3/3 of my goals for 2012 fulfilled. What have I become?!


  • #128
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    Das Kitty wrote: »
    https://us.v-cdn.net/6034073/uploads/attachments/5027/230930.jpeg

    It's going to take me another month to get over the fact that I followed through on something.

    That's 3/3 of my goals for 2012 fulfilled. What have I become?!

    What were the other two? :)


  • #129
    Maisie Careful Logo
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    Das Kitty wrote: »
    https://us.v-cdn.net/6034073/uploads/attachments/5027/230930.jpeg

    It's going to take me another month to get over the fact that I followed through on something.

    That's 3/3 of my goals for 2012 fulfilled. What have I become?!

    Yayyyy :D


  • #130
    echo beach
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,252 ✭✭✭echo beach


    Das Kitty wrote: »
    That's 3/3 of my goals for 2012 fulfilled. What have I become?!

    You have become a person who achieves their goals, rather than a person who thinks up excuses why they can't. Well done. An inspiration to us all.


  • #131
    Das Kitty
    Moderators, Arts Moderators Posts: 17,231 Mod ✭✭✭✭Das Kitty


    [-0-] wrote: »
    What were the other two? :)

    Get to a healthy weight and stay there.
    Do well enough in my new job that they'll want to keep me on (even if they can't) -- they could, incidentally, and I've been given a new project to manage on my own.


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  • #132
    [-0-]
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    Das Kitty wrote: »
    Get to a healthy weight and stay there.
    Do well enough in my new job that they'll want to keep me on (even if they can't) -- they could, incidentally, and I've been given a new project to manage on my own.

    Fantastic. Congrats! I lost 40 lbs 2 years ago, I've put back on 17 lbs in the last year. Not happy! 2013 goal is to lose 20 lbs. Living in America makes losing weight so difficult haha.


  • #133
    Turtwig
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 26,578 ✭✭✭✭Turtwig


    I made my myself a deal at the start of the month that my word count would be evaluated by taking the average of the two projects I worked on and giving a double weighting to the non-fiction one. In other words how ever many words I'd written for the non fiction I'd divide that number by two before adding it to the fiction word count and then I'd take the average to get my total word count which finished up at 31,721. I'm chuffed with that. :D The non fiction one is something I've been constantly nagging myself to consider writing with over a year now and just kept putting it off. So in that regard Nanowrimo was the launch pad or excuse to finally get that thing started. Hence the harsher goal. I can't stop now either, it's December but I spent most of the weekend sans stable internet working on it. I didn't even know I had this in me! It's almost a self discovery of sorts! !:o

    Writing the work of fiction was so much fun. I don't even know what it is any more, describing it as a plane or bird would probably be just as accurate as classing it as a "novel". I was giggling to myself at times writing the most ridiculous stuff to fill the word count. I know some wrimos probably take the novel side of things seriously but I strongly suggest that everyone tries it and writes whatever crap they like it's ridiculous fun to just let yourself go, so to speak.:o Even if it's only to see what techniques you come up with to inflate your word count.


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