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Accountability, author's timecard, word count written, feeling lonely out there?
Kali:
Last year was actually my first try. :) I'm hoping to do it this year too, but I decided today that it was more important to me to finish the current novel. It's such a learning experience about writing, plotting novel-length fiction, that I don't want to toss it away to start a new fast first draft. So if I finish by November, I'm in for this year. If not, not.
That said, 8600 words today on the Grace story. I only stopped because a) my fingers feel funky and b) I need to check something with the book and it's in the bedroom. If I lie on the bed to get the book, I'll fall asleep on my face. So I'll finish off the Grace story tomorrow, send it off for beta reading, and then have no excuse not to write the Rachel story.
jeno:
--- Quote from: meg_evonne on September 04, 2010, 03:09:31 AM ---I'm always amazed when people manage to complete NaMo (am I right on the nickname for it?)
--- End quote ---
It's called NaNo, usually. People who participate on the forums call themselves Wrimos.
the neurovore of Zur-En-Aargh:
4700 words, today, breaking the 50k barrier.
If I could do that for the next nine days in a row, I could finish this blessed thing before the new job starts.
(Technically it's after midnight, but I have recaffeinated and am giving serious thought to having a whack at the next chapter right away, as the last one, for the first time in the book so far, dropped a totally new plot element on me out of nowhere*, and in the paragraph before the big change-of-direction/twist/everything-suddenly-gets-much-worse which is nominally two-thirds of the way into the plot, too.)
*For values of "totally new" meaning "I knew this was a logical consequence of the shape of this universe but I was not expecting it to hit the story until after a pile of other stuff that is several novels further down the line." Then again, every thing that surprises me makes me less worried that the plot shape of the thing is totally derivative and will instantly appear to all the readers as a rip-off... this is why I avoid TV Tropes.
the neurovore of Zur-En-Aargh:
...and a thousand more words last night before I fell asleep.
The notion of finishing this book in the next week is actually looking credible even though I have had some sleep and thought about it sensibly. I am going to get a walk in now, quickly, before anything hurricaney hits, so that my back is prepped and warmed up for another day of lying in bed typing like frenzy, and if today continues productive like yesterday did, I think 30,000-word-deathmarch is go.
(Which will mean I'll probably not be around much anywhere else on the forum.)
the neurovore of Zur-En-Aargh:
..deathmarch day 1, add another eight thousand words, we have broken the 60kword barrier. With six chapters and a not-epilogue to go. I am less worried about total length here than I have been for a bit.
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