25349! I've less than half way to go in terms of word count. I'm thinking I might actually finish this challenge. Unlike the 100 Pushups... that got real old after failing week 5 for the forth time.
Go Luke and Günter, and anyone else that I haven't mentioned who's still in the race!
I just got back from an all night write-in, and though I'm rather punchy from the lack of sleep, it was a very productive evening. I wrote about 5400 words, which puts my total to 47235.
Also, it's a little late in the month, but I totally forgot to ask. Did anyone besides me celebrate when their word count crossed the 9000 threshold?
As a reward, I'm taking the hardcover edition of Watchmen that Amazon was mean enough to send on time, throwing it into my closet, padlocking the door, and hiding the key until I reach 100k.
Yesterday I was really pushed for time so only got a 300 words written. Thankfully I was ahead by 1588 words so I've no catching up to do to still hit 1666 words per day. I should pass 30,000 by tomorrow night.
I just hit 30,000 words. Only two fifths of the way to go now!
Unfortunately all I'm a bit further ahead of where I thought I would be in my planned plot. Which means I can now do two things: - continue at the current rate and end up with a completed first draft of about 45,000 words but fail the NaNoWriMo challenge. - add another twist before the end that will take 5,000 extra words to resolve.
Maybe I'll pick the first option, but then go through the novel adding as much to what is already there to push my word count over 50,000 so the novel covers what I wanted but still gets me the little gold star.
Either way, I'm looking forward to December when I can get my free time back!
I just hit 30,000 words. Only two fifths of the way to go now!
Unfortunately all I'm a bit further ahead of where I thought I would be in my planned plot. Which means I can now do two things: - continue at the current rate and end up with a completed first draft of about 45,000 words but fail the NaNoWriMo challenge. - add another twist before the end that will take 5,000 extra words to resolve.
Maybe I'll pick the first option, but then go through the novel adding as much to what is already there to push my word count over 50,000 so the novel covers what I wanted but still gets me the little gold star.
Either way, I'm looking forward to December when I can get my free time back!
Why not write a big epilogue? It makes the end of the novel less predictable and epilogues are awesome anyway.
Why not write a big epilogue? It makes the end of the novel less predictable and epilogues are awesome anyway.
Good idea! I don't think there is place for an epilogue, but as time travel is involved I maybe I could write an appendix setting out what happened when and when other things happened that aren't described in the novel.
I'm really struggling at the moment. As of last night I was way behind at 37,430. However, I can still make it by churning out 2095 words a day until Sunday.
I'm just short of 48,000 words. Unfortunately what I feared might happen has happened! I've finished the story! This novel idea has been knocking about in my head for years and now I've finally managed to get every idea onto the page. That is the good thing, but now I need an extra 2000 words. Tomorrow I plan to read through and add another two short chapters to flesh out the protagonist's character a bit more, and maybe show his main relationship develop into the thing that later has such an impact on his life.
But it feels like now I'll just be writing these 2000 words just to get a little purple star by my name. I've written the damn novel, it was just a bit short as required by some dumb website. Ah well.
50,033 word! FUCK YEAH! I WROTE A (very rough first draft of a) NOVEL! I'M DONE, BITCHES!
Tomorrow I get to read the novel back for the first time and weep at how much time I'll need to spend editing. The good thing is there's no deadline for that. I can have my life back now! I can read novels instead of trying to write them. My girlfriend is no longer a NaNoWriMo widow. I can put out podcasts again to stop people emailing me. I can concentrate on learning German again.
Congrats, Günter! I just used the name Günter for a minor character as a tribute to you for the mini competition we had that kept me pushing on. Congratulations also to Misakyra, good job on winning even if you didn't hit your goal of 100,000 words.
Thanks to Eryn for suggesting the challenge and for recommending Jers Novel Writer. I'm certainly going to send Jer some cash as the program has been amazing.
Day and date are obvious. "Target" is where I should be if I did exactly 1666 words per day. "Behind" is how many words I still need to write that day, so negative numbers means I am ahead. "Catching Up" is the remaining words I need to win divided by the days I have left (or something) so a minus number means I was catching up to the target and a positive number means I was falling further behind. Confusing, but in both minus numbers are good, ok? "Sessions" are the writing sessions each day, "Today" is the total word count and "running total" is obvious. Sorry about the formatting.
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I just got back from an all night write-in, and though I'm rather punchy from the lack of sleep, it was a very productive evening. I wrote about 5400 words, which puts my total to 47235.
Also, it's a little late in the month, but I totally forgot to ask. Did anyone besides me celebrate when their word count crossed the 9000 threshold?
Also, yes, I did do some yelling once I realized I was above the 9000 mark.
As a reward, I'm taking the hardcover edition of Watchmen that Amazon was mean enough to send on time, throwing it into my closet, padlocking the door, and hiding the key until I reach 100k.
Yesterday I was really pushed for time so only got a 300 words written. Thankfully I was ahead by 1588 words so I've no catching up to do to still hit 1666 words per day. I should pass 30,000 by tomorrow night.
Unfortunately all I'm a bit further ahead of where I thought I would be in my planned plot. Which means I can now do two things:
- continue at the current rate and end up with a completed first draft of about 45,000 words but fail the NaNoWriMo challenge.
- add another twist before the end that will take 5,000 extra words to resolve.
Maybe I'll pick the first option, but then go through the novel adding as much to what is already there to push my word count over 50,000 so the novel covers what I wanted but still gets me the little gold star.
Either way, I'm looking forward to December when I can get my free time back!
But it feels like now I'll just be writing these 2000 words just to get a little purple star by my name. I've written the damn novel, it was just a bit short as required by some dumb website. Ah well.
Either way, I'm stoked!
Congrats man!
Tomorrow I get to read the novel back for the first time and weep at how much time I'll need to spend editing. The good thing is there's no deadline for that. I can have my life back now! I can read novels instead of trying to write them. My girlfriend is no longer a NaNoWriMo widow. I can put out podcasts again to stop people emailing me. I can concentrate on learning German again.
My NaNoWriMo info page.
Congrats, Günter! I just used the name Günter for a minor character as a tribute to you for the mini competition we had that kept me pushing on. Congratulations also to Misakyra, good job on winning even if you didn't hit your goal of 100,000 words.
Thanks to Eryn for suggesting the challenge and for recommending Jers Novel Writer. I'm certainly going to send Jer some cash as the program has been amazing.
So, anyone up for trying next year?
My final word count tracking spreadsheet: Day and date are obvious. "Target" is where I should be if I did exactly 1666 words per day. "Behind" is how many words I still need to write that day, so negative numbers means I am ahead. "Catching Up" is the remaining words I need to win divided by the days I have left (or something) so a minus number means I was catching up to the target and a positive number means I was falling further behind. Confusing, but in both minus numbers are good, ok? "Sessions" are the writing sessions each day, "Today" is the total word count and "running total" is obvious. Sorry about the formatting.