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day 18: 4883 total: 65,543 wrote the big climax chapters, so now it's just a couple of denouement chapters left. I still have some scenes and two earlier chapters that i just outlined and glossed over, but it feels good to see it coming together. and then the dreaded edit shall begin Waffle! posted:I'm proud of everyone for participating. Even if you don't finish, that's no reason to stop writing! I'm nowhere close to done, but I had a funny idea on how to wrap up my story and I've made lots of progress compared to last month. a werebear with a heart of gold 
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Day 19: 1,224 Total: 19,474 Took a day off yesterday, partly because I needed it and partly because the wife needed the laptop for something else. I am still discovering the necessary balance of self-motivation between 'you need to sit down and write' and 'don't punish yourself if you don't.' Somewhere along that fine line is a day like today, where it was hard to get started and resist distraction, but I managed it and actually enjoyed it once I got going. I have also discovered how disasterous letting myself enter edit mode is to production mode. I am happy where I left off, and am looking forward to picking it up again with tomorrow's fight scene. Gnossiennes posted:and then the dreaded edit shall begin
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Nov 19, 2023 18:15
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Bobby Deluxe posted:
I struggle with this as well. The only thing I'm allowing myself to do is alter a single word here and there, in cases where I've used the word again in a following sentence and the second use is better.
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Day 19, 34,128 total words. My themes and motifs have fallen by the wayside. Only extraneous dialogue remains. Every sentence seems to start with a character's name. The guy who unintentionally got the gears going on a robbery and a murder got pointlessly beaten up at a bar thus internally absolving him of guilt. A drum circle and an extrajudicial murder are in the immediate future. Ither posted:November is halfway over, and I've only written 477 words. how about you write 477 words now? this post is 20 anyway, that'd put you almost at 500.
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Nov 19, 2023 21:08
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Day 18: 1977 Day 19: 2215 Total: 40051 Ended up writing a pretty silly over-the-top dream sequence today. Close to the end of the plot of my story now, but still have a lot of parts I kind of just skimmed over, so can elaborate on those.
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Nov 20, 2023 01:50
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I started taking notes on my progress but the daily counts gets fuzzy because I'm a night owl and usually write a bunch after midnight, and then the whole last week and change was kinda miserable for me and some days I didn't write anything and other days I wrote a lot, so finally reporting: Nov 1-2: 1236 Nov 3-4: 1404 Nov 5: 1800 Nov 6-18: 10,967 For a total of 15,407 words so far, which is way behind where I wanted to be. Buuuut I'm taking all of Thanksgiving week off which means I'll have some time to sit down and write while also not fretting about work, which will be nice. So hopefully I'll be able to catch up and maybe actually hit 50k or at least beat what I managed last November (38k towards the previous draft of what I'm currently working on). The words I'm writing are pretty drat shoddy and I think most it will need to be wholly rewritten before I share it with anyone, but the huge upside of forcing out words regardless of quality is that it means I'm forging ahead into some new areas of the story that I hadn't written in before and getting closer to some of the scenes that have been bouncing around in my head for quite a while now.
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Nov 20, 2023 02:13
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day 19: 6232 words total: 71, 775 instead of finishing glossed over chapters, I went back and redid much of the intro. It's now certifiably svelte, but a lot less boring. there are some things I might add back in later, but it's kind of fun to re-write something when you don't have to worry too much about figuring out plot beats. still, i kicked out a bunch of material, but hey, words is words.
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Nov 20, 2023 08:01
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I have written well over 1,000 words today. Unfortunately all of them were forum posts and not part of the novel. 
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Nov 20, 2023 18:31
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Bobby Deluxe posted:I have written well over 1,000 words today. Unfortunately all of them were forum posts and not part of the novel. Just copy paste them into your book. Hiro Protagonist logged onto the something awful forums. "<copy paste here>", he typed.
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Nov 20, 2023 19:04
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Day 20: 1,050 Total: 20,524 I enjoyed writing today, and despite two fail days am still on track for my mini target! I have decided (though will probably not keep updating the thread) that I am going to try and keep writing 1k a day over december as well, the idea being to end up with about 60k over 2 months. I may even *gasp* do a bit more later. Today was a good day.
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Bobby Deluxe posted:Day 20: 1,050 Hello here I am. Didn't know this thread was here. I see Tarnop also suggested copying and pasting your words into your nano doc.
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Nov 20, 2023 20:21
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I've got an excel spreadsheet for characters and wordcount, you'd be proud of me.
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Bobby Deluxe posted:I've got an excel spreadsheet for characters and wordcount, you'd be proud of me. Very proud  I'm just pantsing, stream of consciousness, it's a load of rubbish but I needed to force myself to do something. I have written 3-4 novels before over the past 12 years during nano. 22000 words end of 20th Nov. 28000 to go and 9 days to do it (writing off one day when I go back to work next week). Btw I just use the Word wordcount. At the end when they have the formal wordcount thing I'll type as many extra as I need if any. Jaeluni Asjil fucked around with this message at 01:43 on Nov 21, 2023 |
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Nov 20, 2023 20:48
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Oh I also didn't know this thread was here! I am a chronic lurker, but I am happy to briefly crawl out of the dank crevice I hide in to tell everyone I'm incredibly pleased to read all these progress reports. Hearing about all your trials and tribulations makes me proud that we are all in it together, and I'm sure I would be grateful for even half of any of your talents. Hang in there, everyone! You're doing great. Day 20: 33,361
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Bobby Deluxe posted:Day 20: 1,050 We have identical goals! Let's keep rocking into December, writing buddy. I'm realizing that I gave my protagonist a strange power in the first few paragraphs of the story and then haven't let her use it again for 20,000 words. Sort of a pacing problem, though in my defense in that same time she did get kicked out of art school, learned that her brother died, got evicted from the dorms, and got caught in a lie that's made her best friend decide to distance herself. Busy gal! I'll hammer it out in a few months when it comes time to edit. Day 20: 1,423 Total: 21,569
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day 20: 3306 words total: 75,081 words I'm editing and rewriting a bunch of stuff now, and it's flowing a lot better in my opinion and more interestingly, but it's been kinda rough watching the actual manuscript word count go down so drastically (<50k now lol) as i boot out material that just didn't quite fit any more. it's for the best, but still, oof. but now i have more room to put in scenes that fill out their personalities better and stuff, and more importantly, i have a much better grasp on their personalities now. gotta give more props to scrivener, too; the interface is great for doing this kind of thing. i just wish the split-screen editor let me put more than two documents up at once. fake edit: i just looked it up, and if you right click on a scene or whatever, you can go to open -> in copyholder, and it basically does just that.
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Gnossiennes posted:and more importantly, i have a much better grasp on their personalities now. Scrivener sounds interesting.
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Scrivener's one of the reasons I went for nano this year despite being time-poor! Tried loading my old scrivener (talking 2014 here) onto my new laptop but it wasn't having any. At least with nano you get a big discount (20% off) if you buy it! I used to use it for all sorts of things not just writing books! Done 3000 words this morning so just hit 25k - half way there (livin' on a prayer). Words are flowing faster today than they have been the past few days (decided to use writing prompts as I ran out of things to say) so I might see if I can do another 3k later. Finished for today on 27k. So did 5k. Was seriously running out of steam for the last 1000 even with prompts. Jaeluni Asjil fucked around with this message at 00:34 on Nov 22, 2023 |
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Day 21: 1,148 Total: 21,672 Almost didn't write today. But did. And enjoyed it. 2nd half of a fight in an alleyway. Tomorrow, torture! Wish I could have kept going, but my hands are knacking after housework. Still proud of what I managed.
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Day 20 - 1418 Day 21 - 1971 total: 43440 Been finding that it's been harder to find places to write new scenes in my current story, since I've exhausted most of the ideas in my head for it. Definitely going to be having to delete a few parts of it in editing. May try working more on another story if it continues being hard to add scenes. Still feeling confident that I'll make my 50k goal regardless.
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day 21: 5396 words total: 80,477 words deep in the re-write weeds now. i thought i'd end up re-using paragraphs a lot, but half the time i just have to rewrite them entirely. it's amazing how many goddamn dependencies pop up.
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Today: 1,726 Total: 22,993 Maddeningly close to 23k but I just feel completely drained of words today. I have yet to hit my 2k goal any day this week, which will throw off my entire project calculation if I don't gain some ground. Focusing on the fact that I'm maintaining the habit. I'm still very happy and even more surprised that I'm still here. EDIT: Went back to the well and ended with 2155 for the day. Also, Novlr's Project word count doesn't always update immediately so my total was wrong before. I'm sitting at 25,060 right now. Quote fucked around with this message at 02:29 on Nov 23, 2023 |
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Total so far 30055 so I have done 3055 today. Need to push to do 4000 tomorrow through to Sunday but I'm out tomorrow evening so might not get that many done, so will only really get 2 days next week to clock up any extras.
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Day 22: 1,293 Total: 22,965 Fuuun fun fun fun! Normally I hate leaving it late to start but I really had fun, I wish my hands weren't hosed and I could keep going.
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day 22: 4377 words total: 84,854 words feeling very tired  i'm resistant about it, but i might skip tomorrow just to give myself some space from it. it's hard to judge what's good and what isn't right now, and i think if i step back a little and take some time away from it, it'll become clearer.
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Bobby Deluxe posted:Day 22: 1,293 As we mentioned Scrivener a couple of days ago, I just checked the offer. Just being in nano you can get 20% off, but if you manage the 50k words & be an official Winner, you can get 50% off (this won't appear until you are an official winner so at the end). It's $59.99 normally so $30 is a hefty discount in real money terms.
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That would be cool, but I don't think there's any chance of me personally making the 50k in one month goal. In previous years I've let that put me off doing it entirely, so this year I've set myself the lesser 1k a day target to try and make 60k in 2 months. I would love to be able to do more (yesterday for instance), but executive functioning issues, RSI injury and autistic burnout are a wicked combo that means I need to be a bit more careful about how I approach it if I want to do it at a sustainable pace. Speaking of: Day 23: 978 Total: 23,943 So close! Again though, I feel like I left it at a point I'll be happy to continue from tomorrow. And I'm still over par on my own target. Got to describe a pretty gross cultist transformation into a demonic monstrosity though, which was fun. Bobby Deluxe fucked around with this message at 18:40 on Nov 23, 2023 |
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End of today 33000. Theoretically I could crank out another 2-3k tonight but I'm too devoid of imagination. 17000 to go - just under 3000 per day (excluding Monday when I will be shattered out after a day back at work on about 2 hours sleep).
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day 23: 3893 words total: 88,747 words totally told myself i'd step back for a day, which lasted about half a day. then i booted out a good 1000 words of what i wrote yesterday lol.
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Turns out, for me, the NO in Nano stands for NOVEL CORONA VIRUS. Couldn't even lift my head off a pillow yesterday --breaking my streak. Feels loving awful.
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I haven't updated for a while, and it's been hard going mental health wise. I'm thinking of adopting something like Bobby's plan: I'll aim for 30k this month and then go for the remaining 20k next month. Day 23 (yesterday): 21,124
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I have not had a good day for an entirely stupid reason but am hoping I'll climb back on the horse tomorrow.
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Now at 37k (as of close of 24/11). 13k to go.
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Day 22: 1622 Day 23: 1724 Day 24: 1544 total: 48330 While the pace has been a bit slower than earlier, due to having less ideas, as well as being slightly distracted by steam sale games, I should be on track to finish tomorrow! I continued my work on another fic throughout the last few days, and been slowly adding to the initial one as well. GarbiTheGlitchress fucked around with this message at 04:33 on Nov 25, 2023 |
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day 24: 4386 words total: 93,133 words just have a couple more chapters to rewrite before i reach the climax chapters again.
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When planning the outline I forgot it was 3rd person limited POV so my climax is reduced to two paragraphs where the MC realizes what happened and has a minor breakdown. Now it's time to write the twin falling actions that actually inspired the book. My laptop is out of battery but I think I'm a little shy of 43,000. Have a decent chance at finishing tomorrow
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Finishing up today on 42000 words so having started on 15th, finally went over the total target for someone who did it perfectly from day 1 (which would be 41667). Hoping to crank out another 5k tomorrow so I will only have 3k to do next Tuesday.
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 Just crossed 50,000! The story is still not done, there is quite a lot of plot left, but now I will take it easy and probably finish this draft sometime in December. Now let's see some more nanowrimo winners!
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Day 24: 0 Day 25: 1,410 Total: 25,353 Still over par (under par? Whatever the good one is). The bad days are mostly sprung by not starting early, so I am going to have to be more vigilant about that. Almost gave up at about 900ish words, but had a cup of hot chocolate which seemed to do wonders. Ended the writing session after having managed to fit some owlbear erotica in there. And I am at least 70% certain nobody else has had to resort to that this year.
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