Katzaniel Posted November 4, 2005 Report Posted November 4, 2005 Well, I've been planning on and off to participate. I've got 5 classes this semester and a 4th year project to worry about, so I'm not totally serious, but I finally did decide today to sign up and just try it. NaNoWriMo, for those who don't know: National Novel Writing Month. You write a 50,000 word novel in one month. Or try, at least. You win by succeeding. This will be my first year in. If I'm correct, Zadown participated and won last year. My first three days went wonderfully: I was struck so sick the night of Hallowe'en that I missed classes, could not study for a midterm, and was not even able to enjoy not being able to do anything. Bah. Definitely no writing getting done. Total wordcount, 10% of the way through November: 0. I've spent today catching up. It doesn't look so bad when I blithely count off that I intend to do 2000 words each Monday, 5000 on Fridays, and 1000 most other days. But when I look at my average words per hour and calculated hours per day for the remaining days, it's not so great. (6 hours every day!) But that's probably because I'm spending time doing things like spreadsheets to calculate my hours per remaining day. At least, I hope that's why. So. Current Book Title: Spik (Yes, the same Spik as in the Assembly room, but I'm starting from scratch, as per the rules.) Day: 4 Total Words: 1575 (There will be more today. But I must resist the urge to keep updating y'all.) Mood: Hopeful Also, the forums at nanowrimo.org are quite helpful. There's a forum for general questions that you need for your story. I've already asked a question and had a helpful response. S'all cool. Anyone else who's participating this year, it would be awesome to hear from you at least once this month.
Mira Posted November 5, 2005 Report Posted November 5, 2005 I've know for a while that my current school load was not going to let me participate in NaNoWriMo to any real extent, though I would like to produce a couple good length short stories before the 30th.
Katzaniel Posted November 5, 2005 Author Report Posted November 5, 2005 Ooh. Well, let us know how that goes. I'm having a good old time, at the moment, and in the sort of mood to attempt to convince everyone they should be doing this, so I know I'd better not. (If you're writing but having difficulties, don't feel like you want to strangle me. I will have troubles as soon as the weekend ends.) At the moment, though, it's like, "How come no one ever told me how *easy* first-person is?!" and *man* am I having fun writing this scene. These are fun characters. Nathan has gotten them in a gay bar, pretending to be partners, and this (huge) guy is trying to pick up Nathan now. Not sure how they're going to get out without getting beaten up. Title: Spik Day: 5 Wordcount: 4644 Mood: Amused
Elvina Posted November 6, 2005 Report Posted November 6, 2005 I did NaNo last year and won. Doing it again this year was a given. I'm quite far behind right now, unfortunately: I'm only about 6,000 words into it at day six. I have to write at least 4,000 words tonight at the very minimum - 6,000 to get me to where I'd like to be. NaNo is just awesome! It challenges you as a writer and pushes you to find out what you're really made of, and get a 50,000 word novel out of it in the process! Elvina
Katzaniel Posted November 8, 2005 Author Report Posted November 8, 2005 Sweet, I didn't realize we had another winner here. I keep thinking we need 30,000 words because that would fit so nicely with the 30 days deal. So when I'm just about at 10,000 now, I'm thinking, "And it's not even the 10th!" And you, 6,000 words at day 6 - perfect! It would work out so neat, though, wouldn't it? Title: Spik Day: 7 Chapters: 4 Emergency Plot Overhauls: 1 Wordcount: 9971 Mood: Getting Tired
Katzaniel Posted November 14, 2005 Author Report Posted November 14, 2005 Title: Spik Day: 14 Chapters: 8 Wordcount: 19609 Mood: Worried I skipped Rememberance Day to go to the service in my mom's hometown. I was supposed to write 4,000 words that day. I have tried and failed each day to make up the difference. Chipping away at it very slowly, but that and the fact that I'm starting to get very worn out by the eating/writing/sleeping/writing/homework/writing routine, well, I'm getting worried that I won't make it. Still proud of what I've succeeded in doing so far, though. Appendum: That, and the fact that I'm running out of planned plot. Not panic time, yet, but soon.
Katzaniel Posted November 23, 2005 Author Report Posted November 23, 2005 Okay, so maybe panic time. Actually, no, because I've virtually decided that I can't/won't win this year. Maybe I'll try for 40k. Maybe I'll try for 30k. But I can't wear myself out trying when I have a major project due on the 30th, among other things. Next year, I won't have school to worry about, so I'll try harder to win, then. Title: Spik Day: 23 Chapters: 9 Wordcount: 22956 Mood: Strangely Calm Sorry, Sweetcherrie.
Sweetcherrie Posted November 23, 2005 Report Posted November 23, 2005 Hey, you're still a winner for trying
Elvina Posted November 25, 2005 Report Posted November 25, 2005 (edited) That's a bummer, Katzaniel. I'm at about 38,000 right now. I have to write about 2,300 words a day for the next five days and I'll make it. The bad thing about this is that I can't seem to write until about 11:30 at night. Maybe because there are no TV shows on for me to use as excuses to procrastinate. I end up staying up until around 4am just to finish because I don't start writing until it's so late. I wish I could just zap the story from my head into the computer. Bah, ah well. Anyone else still hanging in there? Elvina Edited November 25, 2005 by Elvina
Elvina Posted November 30, 2005 Report Posted November 30, 2005 Well, NaNo is over for me, and I've finished it smashingly. Anyone else celebrating? Elvina
Yui-chan Posted November 30, 2005 Report Posted November 30, 2005 Congratulations on finishing, Elvina. I hope you enjoyed the experience and can get a massive boost from your victory. More, I hope you can reread what you wrote and love it. (Heh. I never could, which is why I chose not to do NaNo, this year.) All the best, ~Yui
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