I just wrote the final scene in my story. Still lots of missing scenes all the way through, but it feels amazing to have written a beginning, a middle, and an end.
Silly, because I am the author, but I was so happy today when my lovers finally got back together.
I've made a huge mistake. I'm writing my book for charity, I'm 8k words short with 3 days to go, and somebody just literally, in my real life and close to me, died. I'm not going to be able to finish because this weekend is... well, gone because of this, and anything I do write is going to be useless. I've used JustGiving to accept donations and raised nearly £2.5k. I don't know what to say to the donors. Fuck
I've made a huge mistake. I'm writing my book for charity, I'm 8k words short with 3 days to go, and somebody just literally, in my real life and close to me, died. I'm not going to be able to finish because this weekend is... well, gone because of this, and anything I do write is going to be useless. I've used JustGiving to accept donations and raised nearly £2.5k. I don't know what to say to the donors. Fuck
First, my condolences. That is very sad news.
Second, don't worry your donors will understand. They gave money to charity, not to you, it's not like you are stealing their money. But I'm sure everyone would love to see you finish, even if it isn't in November. Maybe pledge to write the last 8k words on the last 3 days of December instead?
That's unbelievably cool. Your new name is cool guy. Let's have sex.
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Brovid Hasselsmof[Growling historic on the fury road]Registered Userregular
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<3k to go here. I might actually finish today!
edit: Well, got to go to work now and I've just got past today's target, after writing 2.8k today. Shouldn't have let myself fall behind again. Oh well, at least I'm on track to finish before the deadline.
edit: also, yesterday and today I feel like I'm writing a bit better. So yay. :bz
That's unbelievably cool. Your new name is cool guy. Let's have sex.
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FishmanPut your goddamned hand in the goddamned Box of Pain.Registered Userregular
Tomorrow, or the day after, I'm going to go through my story and just list off all the ridiculous bullshit I pulled in this caper during the writing to date. It'll only be, like, 10 things, and only 3 of them are any good, but come on; silk cannon.
It feels really weird waking up and not feeling like I have to slot writing ~2000 words into my day.
I want to take a moment to say something about this
NaNoWriMo is wonderful because it gets people to write when they might not do so otherwise, but at the same time I am always leery of it because it makes people conditioned to only writing in November, like a diet plan guaranteed to work in four weeks, or a stint at summer camp.
For everyone who participated in this and loved it and is looking forward to next year: you do not have to wait. You do not have to look forward to anything.
Every month can be NaNoWriMo if you want it to be.
Wyborn on
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Brovid Hasselsmof[Growling historic on the fury road]Registered Userregular
edited November 2013
I do not want every month to be Nanowrimo, personally, I found it a chore at times. I am going to try and keep up the writing habit, but today was a day for doing all the things I've been putting off over the month because of Nanowrimo.
My 50,000th word was "Nobody." However, I was using Open Office's word counter for mine, and when I validated it using the Nano website, I lost four words, so I guess that makes my 50,000th word "of" instead.
I technically finished two short stories (though both are going to need heavy rewrites before I show them to anyone). I also got over half of two other short stories done, along with a few random scenes from other projects I would like to work on. Plus some silly stories like Rex Dinofist when my brain wasn't working.
Overall, I'm glad I was able to finish, though next time I hope to work on an actual novel instead of a bunch of short stories (though some of my 'short' stories are turning out rather long so I'm debating expanding them into short novels instead). It is my hope that I can continue writing every day, though I'm going to scale back the requirements. I'm currently thinking of aiming for 1,200 words or three pages of editing/rewrites a day. It may be a little harder to keep motivated without all the little Nano bars to fill up though. Does anyone know of any kind of widget like that I could use year round that would let me set my own daily goals and such?
Chat sprints and this forum were a big help, so thanks to everyone for that.
Good luck to everyone else.
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Speaking of sprints, head to the IRC now if you want to do some.
Me too, but I want to keep plugging away at this novel concept, even if it is just a few thousand words a week. I need to figure out my large plot and the smaller character arcs though, because I am mired in those areas. I guess the detective lady does her job because it is her job, but I don't have anything for my protagonist beyond the most general. He wants to find his brother, and there a ton of obstacles in the way.
I feel like the detective should have deeper motivations too, because it is hard work, but I am drawing a blank. I think I am too much of a misanthrope to really write her as being compelled by a sense of duty to save what she can of the society, but I guess I can give it the old try.
Welp, November was crazy-town, unmotivated month. So I've managed 781 words. Wow. Blergh. Ah well. My real goal has been 1000 words because I started with barely a concept and no prep work, and that's a 1000 words more than I managed last year. Last year I managed zero words. haha. I have had a 781% improvement! Here's to making it a 1000% improvement tomorrow!
I do like the idea I've been working with, so I think I'll keep throwing words at it after this. And maybe figure out an actual conflict/resolution to solidify the plot.
I also feel like November is pretty much the busiest month, next to maybe December, and wonder why whoever picked that particular month for this thing.
I'm brainstorming, and thinking about the brothers in my story. I'm thinking about exploring a sort of one-sided relationship-- post-catastophe, the one brother ended up on a sort of post-apoc super deadly wildlife planet and sort of became a fairly big deal warlord, conquering territory while searching for a space ship to go to looking for the other brother-- and maybe he doesn't want to leave when his brother finds him.
I have this unfair assumption that we're dealing with a lot of dragon books here and I want that to disspell that.
I understand not everyone wants to get into the nitty-gritty of their thing (lord knows I don't), but I am curious what drives you folks. I gotsta know.
Natalie, a fairly ordinary 24 year old, meets Alex Rojas a latin crossover pop sensation. They dislike each other, lust after each other, almost sleep together, have a huge fight, avoid each other, work together, become friends, become lovers, date in secret, get outed in the tabloids, break up, and get back together. Roughly in that order. Plus Natalie's sister is involved with a sex tape scandal, Alex's sister gets appendicitis, Natalie's best friend Sadie is dating Alex's best friend Nico throughout, and Natalie's other friend Jenna ends up married to a sycophantic CEO that Natalie and Alex work with.
I skipped over quite a bit after they become friends and just wrote the big highlight scenes because I really wanted to get to the ending by the end of Nano, which I did achieve. But now I need to go back and fill in lots of missing bits. And then edit. A lot.
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Silly, because I am the author, but I was so happy today when my lovers finally got back together.
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Second, don't worry your donors will understand. They gave money to charity, not to you, it's not like you are stealing their money. But I'm sure everyone would love to see you finish, even if it isn't in November. Maybe pledge to write the last 8k words on the last 3 days of December instead?
edit: Well, got to go to work now and I've just got past today's target, after writing 2.8k today. Shouldn't have let myself fall behind again. Oh well, at least I'm on track to finish before the deadline.
edit: also, yesterday and today I feel like I'm writing a bit better. So yay. :bz
Black Friday scares me around here, so instead of leaving the house I stayed in and got some writing done.
... by which I mean I am nowhere near done. But yay, arbitrary number reached!
That is... delightfully anticlimactic.
Uncanny Magazine!
The Mad Writers Union
Time for a big fight scene!
I love sci-fi.
My 50k word was 'man'.
Well done, all of you!
pheeeeeeeeeeeeeeewwwwwwwwwww
I want to take a moment to say something about this
NaNoWriMo is wonderful because it gets people to write when they might not do so otherwise, but at the same time I am always leery of it because it makes people conditioned to only writing in November, like a diet plan guaranteed to work in four weeks, or a stint at summer camp.
For everyone who participated in this and loved it and is looking forward to next year: you do not have to wait. You do not have to look forward to anything.
Every month can be NaNoWriMo if you want it to be.
Writing seriously is work and it feels like work
My 50,000th word was "Nobody." However, I was using Open Office's word counter for mine, and when I validated it using the Nano website, I lost four words, so I guess that makes my 50,000th word "of" instead.
I technically finished two short stories (though both are going to need heavy rewrites before I show them to anyone). I also got over half of two other short stories done, along with a few random scenes from other projects I would like to work on. Plus some silly stories like Rex Dinofist when my brain wasn't working.
Overall, I'm glad I was able to finish, though next time I hope to work on an actual novel instead of a bunch of short stories (though some of my 'short' stories are turning out rather long so I'm debating expanding them into short novels instead). It is my hope that I can continue writing every day, though I'm going to scale back the requirements. I'm currently thinking of aiming for 1,200 words or three pages of editing/rewrites a day. It may be a little harder to keep motivated without all the little Nano bars to fill up though. Does anyone know of any kind of widget like that I could use year round that would let me set my own daily goals and such?
Chat sprints and this forum were a big help, so thanks to everyone for that.
Good luck to everyone else.
blank scrivener document says my 50,000th word was "thread"
(weird.)
Uncanny Magazine!
The Mad Writers Union
(ugh staring at that number, that is so low for me, but there is slightly less garbage this draft than there is normally, so whatever)
obligatory Loki gif goes here
Uncanny Magazine!
The Mad Writers Union
Me too, but I want to keep plugging away at this novel concept, even if it is just a few thousand words a week. I need to figure out my large plot and the smaller character arcs though, because I am mired in those areas. I guess the detective lady does her job because it is her job, but I don't have anything for my protagonist beyond the most general. He wants to find his brother, and there a ton of obstacles in the way.
I feel like the detective should have deeper motivations too, because it is hard work, but I am drawing a blank. I think I am too much of a misanthrope to really write her as being compelled by a sense of duty to save what she can of the society, but I guess I can give it the old try.
I do like the idea I've been working with, so I think I'll keep throwing words at it after this. And maybe figure out an actual conflict/resolution to solidify the plot.
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Steam wishlist
Etsy wishlist
I'm brainstorming, and thinking about the brothers in my story. I'm thinking about exploring a sort of one-sided relationship-- post-catastophe, the one brother ended up on a sort of post-apoc super deadly wildlife planet and sort of became a fairly big deal warlord, conquering territory while searching for a space ship to go to looking for the other brother-- and maybe he doesn't want to leave when his brother finds him.
Uncanny Magazine!
The Mad Writers Union
I've heard that before, and I haven't had the time or the fortitude for the past six years.
I have this unfair assumption that we're dealing with a lot of dragon books here and I want that to disspell that.
I understand not everyone wants to get into the nitty-gritty of their thing (lord knows I don't), but I am curious what drives you folks. I gotsta know.
(It turns out they're pretty much organizationally incompetent.)
Why I fear the ocean.
I skipped over quite a bit after they become friends and just wrote the big highlight scenes because I really wanted to get to the ending by the end of Nano, which I did achieve. But now I need to go back and fill in lots of missing bits. And then edit. A lot.