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McAnally's (The Community Pub) => Author Craft => Topic started by: jeno on October 04, 2010, 10:09:37 PM
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National Novel Writing Month is almost upon us!
So who's doing it this year? I'm using October to plan everything out. Might even bump my word count goal up to 100k. Hey, it could happen.
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For NANOWRIMO do you have to start in November?
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The only rule for NaNo is that you have to write 50,000 words in the month of November.
Most people take this to mean 'start a new project on November 1st and finish it at 50k words on November 30th.'
Personally, I'm working through October (and December and January...), but I'm really focusing on getting words out in the November rush. There are a lot of writing groups that form in November to host sprints and brainstorming sessions for NaNo that can be very helpful, too.
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I'm planning on doing it again this year--have my outline about 50% complete.
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Oh okay, then in that case I'm on board. I think that comes out to 1667 words per day.
Not too incredibly hard.
or ~2300 if you're like me and can't work on weekends.
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Technically, the goal is to write a 50,000 word novel in November, not just 50,000 words of anything. To truly qualify, you have to start writing on November 1 and stop on November 31 and have a complete novel. You shouldn't, like, start writing now and then just add 50,000 words to the project in November.
Which is a bummer 'cause I'm writing Book 2 now and I'm about 20k in. So I can't use it for NaNo. My plan is to get as much of the rough draft of Book 2 done in October as I can, and then use NaNo to work on a completely different project. Then in December I can go back to Book 2 with a clear head and edit the rough.
Not that it's going that well right now, but... hey, that's the plan.
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PSSSST Kali...November is 30 days.
Although your post makes perfect sense and makes me a little sad, because I don't think I can write a fifty thousand word novel.
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PSSSST Kali...November is 30 days.
Although your post makes perfect sense and makes me a little sad, because I don't think I can write a fifty thousand word novel.
Ok, in my defense, I never could remember that stupid little song.
And you can. Thousands of people do it every year. Most of them suck. Mine sucked. But it was a complete story, with a beginning, a middle, and an end. And it was just over 50,000 words. 1,667 words a day for 30 days, and presto! 50,000 words.
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Technically, the goal is to write a 50,000 word novel in November, not just 50,000 words of anything. To truly qualify, you have to start writing on November 1 and stop on November 31 and have a complete novel.
Not necessarily.
NaNoWriMo is what you make of it. The main purpose of NaNo is to get words out, to just write and write and write with no breaks for editing. As long as what you get out is new material, I see no problem with bending the official rules a little.
(not to mention that 50k isn't near enough to be considered a novel. a novella, maybe. xD something to keep in mind.)
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My problem is that it normally takes longer, so I don't think I can finish it in a month. And have it be good. I'd like it to be good.
OT but I like your site Kali.
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From the NaNo website:
Because of the limited writing window, the ONLY thing that matters in NaNoWriMo is output. It's all about quantity, not quality. The kamikaze approach forces you to lower your expectations, take risks, and write on the fly.
Make no mistake: You will be writing a lot of crap. And that's a good thing. By forcing yourself to write so intensely, you are giving yourself permission to make mistakes. To forgo the endless tweaking and editing and just create. To build without tearing down.
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Bah, there are plenty of novels that are right around 50k words. That's the reason why Chris Baty picked 50k as the goalpoint; he grabbed a skinny novel off his bookshelf, checked the pagecount, did some math, and said "So, ok, 50kish. Works for me!" Novels like "Flowers for Algernon", "The Great Gatsby", and "Brave New World" clock in right around 50k so it totally counts.
And, if you look at the rules for NaNo, it's to start a novel on November 1 and finish it the last day of November (ahem). Now, there's no one monitoring you. You can, if you want, "cheat" to your heart's content. There's absolutely nothing stopping me from writing 50k words in Book 2 and adding it to what I've got, then at the end of the month claiming my winner's bar. But them's not the rules and so I won't 'cause that's just me.
My problem is that it normally takes longer, so I don't think I can finish it in a month. And have it be good. I'd like it to be good.
OT but I like your site Kali.
The fun of NaNo is freeing yourself from the need to write something good. ;D I had editing disease something *fierce* before NaNo. I never finished anything truly long because I kept editing, wanting every sentence, every scene to be just right before I'd go on to the next. With the result that I almost never finished anything of any length. Just learning how to turn off my inner editor and get the words down was such a great experience, it was worth donating even though I was nearly broke last year.
And thanks! Having a site at all, with actual details about myself, was harder than I thought. I'm an immensely private person, almost paranoid about it. But I have to get over that if I want to have any kind of a writing career at all, so... It's out there. For what it's worth, it's there. I freak a little every time I see the counter go up, honestly, but that's what Valium is for, right?
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Novels like "Flowers for Algernon", "The Great Gatsby", and "Brave New World" clock in right around 50k so it totally counts.
And when were those published again? :D
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I don't have editors disease, or world builders disease, I'm fairly disease free.
I think I'm going to go for my locked room mystery if them's the rules. Besides I want my shiny new Scrivener 50% off. Is it against the rules to do prep work before 11/1?
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Sure, they're very short novels, but they are novels. Middle Grade novels run long at 40k (though there are exceptions). Young Adult novels are long at 80k, 50k is just about right (again, there are exceptions). "Hitchhiker's Guide" is around 50k, though I'd guess you'd argue that's an old book too. Ditto for Anne McCaffery's "Harper's Hall" trilogy.
Heck, Google it. ;) Most sources agree that a 'novella' is somewhere around 20-40k, and a novel is longer than that. I don't have editors disease, or world builders disease, I'm fairly disease free.
I think I'm going to go for my locked room mystery if them's the rules. Besides I want my shiny new Scrivener 50% off. Is it against the rules to do prep work before 11/1?
Nope, do all the prep work you like! The only thing you 'can't' do, according to the rules, is write any prose that you use in November.
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*shrug* I don't think so. Plenty of people I know outline before November.
Honestly, do what works for you. If you're worried about the spirit of the Challenge, then follow the rules to a T. If you want to focus more on what you're churning out, do a kind of modified-NaNo.
But whatever you do, DON'T EDIT IN NOVEMBER. It is the one unforgivable sin. ;)
omg, that Scrivener offer has me drooling. I'm dl-ing the beta when it comes out, but I'm not sure if I'll use it for NaNo. Too many distractions. :D
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i no rite?!
Seriously, if it weren't for that Scrivner offer, I'd blow off NaNo this year and just focus on Book 2. But I'm poor, and 50% off for writing 50k words in a month? I'm there.
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Dammit...I'll have to keep my opening line in my head for another 27 days...that should be easy right?
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;D Ya'll make me laugh.
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No it is you who makes me laugh...I think.
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I already have Scrivener, though. Hehe.
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2.0 is coming out soon for Macs.
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Yup, later this month, I believe.
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Not for Windows.
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Scrivener for Windows will have some similar properties as 2.0 for Mac. I forget exactly what without going back and reading the blog post about 2.0 and the announcement of the Windows version. But it'll be sort of a 1.5 that Mac never got.
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Just popping in to say, I'm going for it this year with NaNoWriMo. Catch y'all later! ;)
Raven
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I'm thinking about it, but at the same time I'm finally in the home stretch with my main project, and it has taken me a while. I'm pretty concerned about not finishing it up before moving on to something else. If I can somehow finish the first draft by Nov, I'll do it. :)
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If you did it last year, do you have to sign up again, or are you automatically in their system?
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There's signing up? I thought you just wrote.
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I was still registered on their site when I went to it. But I think you still need to refresh your profile or something to get the local peptalks, etc.
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I signed up. We'll see what happens. I have a tendency to over edit until I bog down. Maybe the frenzy of trying to write 50 thousand words in a month will help me break through.
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That's the idea!
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So what are everyone's NaNo names?
Mine's still Enjorous
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Just signed up, but we'll see if I participate. If I do, I'll still be 'prophet224'. :-D
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I'm Gimmemocha over there, as I am a lot of other places.
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I didn't find you Kali.
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Well, I really am quite stealthy... But no, that's the right name, the right spelling and everything. I don't have any novel info up for this year (and don't think I'll be putting any up) but I'm there and active.
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Huh, weird, because I searched you by your name.
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Thumbelina137
...as usual
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I'm ceitean. :)
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Huh, weird, because I searched you by your name.
Can't help ya, woogums. It's there, I'm active, I'm searchable. Admittedly, I only tried it the one time, but... *shrug* Typoing? Dunno what to tell ya.
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First off: woogums?
I guess I'll shrug and attribute it to a glitch, because I'm copying and pasting what you put up here.
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First off: woogums?
Smoochiepants?
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I think Scarlet might have a problem with that one.
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I'm registered as Apochralypta.
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I am still OZ.
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I am still Gunns,
Last years novel has been submitted, but the turnaround time is 9 mo to a year. (Space Opera) This years is a Fantasy....
Pre outlining is good even recommended, but don't let the outlining chain you down.
Regards,
Kevin
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Well I'm going to give it the college try this year. Just got WriteItNow, and looking at Scrivener's Demo when it comes out in time for NaNoWriMo...
So we'll see...not sure what I'm going to write yet, most likely going to be some flavour of Urban Fantasy, though may just give traditional fantasy a go...wait an see I suppose what mood strikes me when the time comes :)
Username Vince.Kingston at the NaNoWriMo site for those who care ;)
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I'm still not sure what I'm going to do. I'll either cheat and work on Book 2, work on a project I've had in mind for awhile now but never quite managed to get off the ground, or work on a more traditional fantasy story. I probably won't decide until November 1 when I sit down and start typing. ;)
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Nice, and I figured out a way to legally get out my first line (well a less awesome version of it anyway). I just used it as my "novel excerpt." 8)
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I have several short story ideas that have been floating around in my head for a while. I am thinking of trying to rough draft them, one after another.
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I did NaNo during 2006,2007, and 2008.
I loved it!
It was fun.
I even finished one year!
But I am NOT doing it again. I already have four WIP that I need to finish.
52,000 words into Book Six
28,000 words into Book Seven
14,000 words into Book Eight
8,600 words into Book Nine
I suppose I could NaNo the rest of book seven ... heh
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dooooooo eeeeeetttt!
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I just may allow myself to get talked into it ...
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Dooooooo eeeeeeeeeet! :D
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Doing it this year as I've done several years past.
Like last year I'm doing several short stories... actually most of this years efforts are going up on my blog.
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I'm not doing it; I'm still reeling from 45,000 words in 8 days in September, and my plans for the next little while depend a lot on various feedback that I am expecting within this month or so.
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did this last year without an outline, without a plot. joined exactly on November 1, 2009, and I blame a friend for it. I didn't win, but it was so. much. fun!
So I'm joining again this year with an actual plot + outline + character sheets + whatever else I can think of. I'll be ready this time! woohoo!
if anyone's interested, I'm also "Jaeh" there, so yeah. ^^
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Wow, procrastination is a killer. Six days and I only have two points on my outline.
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You're further along than I am, then again I've been waiting to get Scrivener before trying anything.
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There is just NO WAY I'm going to be able to do this this year. I've been working 9 days straight and will be working through to Friday, maybe Saturday. I don't think I'll have any time in November...
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Sigh,
I have a new submission for the GG, and I am tryin to get the edits done before Monday....
Regards,
Kevin
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can't really afford to do this, going to be a very busy November
will probably try and fail horribly again, though
Nanowrimo hates me.
Some of my fanfic writing proves I can get about 50k words done in a week, week and a half, but it's hard to do it when I'm thinking about and have other things to be doing
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Woke up this morning. Wrote 4000 words in three hours. Still have the rest of the day to go. Awesome.
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Awesome Jeno 10 AM and I've already hit 1200!
They really need to update their servers, it take a year an a half just to get onto the front page.
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Second day for me, it's 10 am, and I'm on 5k+ words. I'm pretty happy with that. I need to leave around one to study for school -_-, but I think I can manage a lot more. hurrah!
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I kicked butt yesterday writing around work and today the ADD monster has hold of me. I'm head of goal for day two, but not as far ahead as I'd like to be. I want 5K by the end of today. I'm about 1280 short. grrr.
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Got 3600 words my first day. This story is by way of an experiment of me--for the first time I'm writing with no outline or clear idea of where the story is going. I know who the characters are and have some set pieces in mind that I want to include, but have no clue about the main plot.
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5036 and still pluggin' away.
*sets out coffee and cookies for all*
Caffeine and sugar...good for writing. Keep it up y'all!
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Jeez. And I've only JUST broken 1500. I'd better get my fingers moving.
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Growl,
It is the third day grind. My MC is undergoing Basic Training, dredging up memory’s thirty years old...
Regards,
Kevin
6418
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6883
MC just had to identify the body of her grandmother, and only living blood relative.
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17218 total by day 3.
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wow I feel slow
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lmao, don't. I spent all of October getting ready for NaNo - in planning and in writing stamina. This time last year I was lucky if I could get a thousand words a day. Don't get discouraged!
If you want to start beefing up you wordcount, I'd suggest WriteOrDie or a comm that hosts writing sprints. I know the NaNoWriMo community on LJ hosts sprints through out the day on AIM. ;D
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Mostly I'm happy to get the count I have around two jobs, rehearsals, taking grandpa to doc appointments and a hubby. ;)
And I did spend October planning and writing character sketches.
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8100 last night.
My MC started out naked on a twelfth-story ledge of a hotel in an ice storm. I'm really having fun so far. And this just showed up in my mailbox and is totally cool: ;D
ANOTHER REASON TO FINISH YOUR NANOWRIMO BOOK -- A FREE COPY.
A few people asked if NaNoWriMo would be arranging for you to get a bound copy of your NaNoWriMo novel this year. The answer is...YES!
The Office of Letters and Light has collaborated with a company called "Create Space." Once you've "won" your NaNoWiMo goal, you can go to Create Space's website, upload your book, enter a title and choose a cover, and they will send you a free bound copy of your book. The finished product looks like a real "trade" paperback (and will make a really awesome Christmas present for your mother).
Someone asked if this counted as a "first printing" of a book. This person intends to submit their book to be published by a royalty-paying publisher, and wanted to make sure that, by ordering a copy, she was not violating the publisher's rule that the submitted book is new, unpublished work. The answer is, no, until you are issued an "ISBN," the number that indicates your book has a copyright, this is considered a proof copy only.
So, what the heck! Get a copy, and you can show it to your friends and say: "You know what I did in November? I WROTE A BOOK. What about you?"
On the other hand, once you've set your free Create Space account, you'll have the option of selling copies of your book through an assortment of channels, including Amazon!
I'll send information about how you can sign up for this fun program closer to the end of the month. In the meantime...
WRITE! WRITE! WRITE!
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little over 12k currently, and I know I won't really be able to write this weekend or next so I have to pad my word count while I can.
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I plan to get started today! I'm behind, but I don't think I'll have much of a problem catching up. For now, I'm busy running around everywhere with my sister, but this afternoon is set aside for Borders and laptop time. The beginning's all plotted out so that'll make for some fast writing.
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It has been a real struggle. My MC is undergoing basic training, that dredges up memories I thought long lost...
Regards,
Kevin
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Kevin- hopefully you can use some of the emotion to give a 'realness' to your character and how they experience the situation.
All-woohoo! You rock! Keep it up!
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fourth day, 13500+ words! woot!
on a side note, I was trying to get in some more words earlier. I was really sleepy, so I was just tapping and tapping and tapping until I fell asleep. after a while, I woke up, and looked at what I typed.
"This is our new management system. If anyone doesn't answer, at least we have r5, r5, and boba fett on our side because of the insessment."
I'm writing a mystery story set on fictional earth, fictional reality, fictional philippines. Someone please tell me what this means?!?!?!
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Not officially doing NaNo, but using it to force myself to take account for my various writing projects:
Day 1 - 5.3k words on fanfiction aimed at drawing readership to website
Day 2 - 5.4k words on two author-notes files for Bystander, one on metaphysics of certain class of beings, other on limits and abilities of Lucretia herself, needed to be done
Day 3 - almost nothing done, aimed at Greenwater, erased most of it
Day 4 - 3.7k written on Greenwater, enough for one chapter, thinking of stretching some parts to make it into two chapters, however.
Day 5 - not started yet (my writing time is 12am to 5am)
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Passed the 10K mark last night! If I keep up this pace, I'll finish before Thanksgiving and have some time left to edit! ;D
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fourth day, 13500+ words! woot!
on a side note, I was trying to get in some more words earlier. I was really sleepy, so I was just tapping and tapping and tapping until I fell asleep. after a while, I woke up, and looked at what I typed.
"This is our new management system. If anyone doesn't answer, at least we have r5, r5, and boba fett on our side because of the insessment."
I'm writing a mystery story set on fictional earth, fictional reality, fictional philippines. Someone please tell me what this means?!?!?!
Writing while asleep/zoned out is always fun to see what you end up writing. I used to do that, though it hasn't happened in a while. :D
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I'm not done writing for the night but I broke 11K. At this pace the website says I can finish before 11/23. This is good. Hubby has a birthday at the end of the month.
Another personal victory today: wrote a fight scene. A whole one. All by myself :) Feels good even though it's awkward and I will hate it next month, it's there. It also means I have more confidence for the BIG fight to come. woohoo!
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We are doing Okay, my wife is also NaNoing, and we have a goal of finishing early due to LosCon in LA at the end of the month. So I really need to get in to the 2500-3000 range per day....
At least this year it looks like there is enough plot outline to keep the writing going with out a pause to plot along the way.
Regards,
Kevin
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At my first write-in in the new city, sitting across from Inkslinger. Hi, Inky!
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Hi Kali! :D
Also at my first write in, but I've lived here for my whole life (minus the 3 years we shall call the dark period in Savannah)
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I am officially taking a break today. But considering I've written 30k+ so far, I think I can let it slide this time. :P
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17431.... had a good session
Kevin
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I'm only up to 11k so far. I need to step it up, but for having such a writer's block, I'm doing well.
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23sommat thousand as of yesterday...dunno if I'll be able to finish.
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Second week slump?
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Second week slump?
Take a look in the not awesome thread.
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Take a look in the not awesome thread.
Use it!! Trust me, it can actually help a lot.
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Yes, it does help, but it gives me an idea for other things, not my NaNo. I really don't feel like writing right now about anything even close to a novel.
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Ah. Understandable.
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Yes, it does help, but it gives me an idea for other things, not my NaNo. I really don't feel like writing right now about anything even close to a novel.
Even so. Find whatever scene that it might lend itself to, and write that. Or write other stuff. You can always go back to your NaNo later. But seriously, use it. Even if it's just a journal entry pouring it all out. That could be helpful later on. I found myself going back to a 5yr old story to put my mind back into the mindset I needed for part of my novel because the emotion I was trying to recall was so far removed that I was having trouble writing it with the impact I wanted.
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Yeah, right now I'm trying to keep focused on school. I'm gonna give it another day and go back and try to write.
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20,457! I can hit the halfway mark by Wed. I can, I can Ican!
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Passed the 21K mark tonight. I'm starting to get an idea of what this thing is all about. Off to bed now...
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You guiys are all doing so great! Keep up the good work!
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I broke 25K today!
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Passed the halfway point last night!
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Same here!
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I didn't! I'm nowhere near it, in fact. But with a 5k day yesterday, and a 2600 day today, I think I can catch up. According to the NaNo stats page, at my current rate I'll finish on January 3rd. I need to write 2253 words a day to finish on time. Piece of cake, sez I! I'm sitting at just under 10k.
Last year, I wrote 10k on the very first day.
My life is really in a very different place than it was last year...
Onward!
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Climactic battle not quite finished, it is hard to kill personalities you have spent so much time developing....
Regards,
Kevin
23,473...
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28K and something. Right now my protagonist has just woken up handcuffed back to back with a porn star in a sleazy hotel room, and assumes (rightly) that someone is trying to discredit him. He's managed to knock the phone off its cradle, and is going to call...someone.
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A sprint, a sprint, a veritable sprint.
Had a real good day, the drive was finishing the first story arc for the primary view point character. Two more arcs to go and I can start editing them together.
Regards,
Kevin
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Made it over 30K. This is getting tough. My ADD is creeping in.
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I've been stuck at 43k for three days. -_-
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Yeah, but you're at 45k!
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\o/\o/\o/
50k!!! *dances*
...too bad I'm nowhere near done. But considering I've been aiming for 100k this whole time, I think I'm making some good progress. :)
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You could easily make 100k at this pace Jeno!
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'Grats Jeno. I kind of hate you and I say that with all the love possible. *goes searching for her muse*
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Nice going, Jeno. I just made it past 31K last night and thought I was doing well. ;D
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:'( I'm only at 18k
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Pick it up WJM. 10k Push go go go!!!
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Right now I am at 42140, about mid way through the second MC arc. After a whole arc demonizing the bad guys, I am now returning the favor for the people of the first story arc. I worry that I won’t have any credible bad guys. It seems to be a great method for consistency, as each story will be written from the POV of the central figure of that side. I just wonder how it is going to work once the arcs are braided together.
Regards,
Kevin
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I'm also attempting NaNoWriMo under my normal handle, Lanodantheon. Word count needs serious work this weekend, but I write in bursts of insanity. Seriously, when I can manage to concentrate I am a machine that forgets to eat...
My entry for this year is a Genre Bender simply called, The Wizard With No Name.
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I've just disturbed myself by writing a scene that I don't want to google because I know Rule 34 is in effect. *shuddershuddershudder*
All because I had to make the character earn his nickname.
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I've just disturbed myself by writing a scene that I don't want to google because I know Rule 34 is in effect. *shuddershuddershudder*
All because I had to make the character earn his nickname.
This really makes me wanna ask what you did.
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A minor character is named Randy Andy who owns a supernatural type strip club. He was uh..."auditioning" a female lycan (wolfman style not traditional werewolf) and a female vampire. Throw in some ropes and a fake ahem and a gag and you begin to get the picture.
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A minor character is named Randy Andy who owns a supernatural type strip club. He was uh..."auditioning" a female lycan (wolfman style not traditional werewolf) and a female vampire. Throw in some ropes and a fake ahem and a gag and you begin to get the picture.
Dude...... seek help........NOW !
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I felt the need to shower after I wrote that. And vomit. And brush my teeth.
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I felt the need to shower after I wrote that. And vomit. And brush my teeth.
Wuss. ;D :D
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Uhh...yeah just a little bit.
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:D Besides, did the scene move the story further? Or was it just filler cause it's NaNo?
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Oh no, it was necessary to get the information to acquire the last member of the crew. And I had to justify giving him the nickname Randy Andy.
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I'll give you the first, but the second is a bit debatable.
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Well it's not as important for this novel as it will be for the rest of the series, in which they will eventually bring down the slavery ring responsible for supplying him with "talent"
Besides, I have the whole of SF's Tenderloin, I may as well make the location extra tenderloiny
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But....But how's that explain the nickname? Randy doesn't mean kinky-weirdass-fetishist.
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It's the nickname of an English character who's euphemizing for just that. Mostly it boils down to a promise I made at the time for comedy that I then had to fulfill on camera.
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I suppose it might make sense in context.
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It makes more sense in context. I can't say it makes perfect sense, at least not now. I'm sure eventually I'll off him.
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approaching 41K.
By all rights I think my MC should be dead, but she's not. I have no idea how I'm getting her out of the hell she's currently in, but durnit I intend to.
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Two words Inky...1) Plot 2) Ninjas!! ;) :D
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Two words Inky...1) Plot 2) Cross-Dressing Ninjas!! ;) :D
FIFY! ;D
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Psst...that's now 3 words :P
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I pushed over 42K last night. And I got her out without cross dressing ninjas. Plot is rolling along nicely. :)
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Yeah, ignore this. Mind no worky now.
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Well done, Tink.
And don't mind the cross-dressing ninjas thing. My NaNo group had a guy say he'd give $10 to whoever worked in Cross-Dressing Ninjas. Four of us instantly set about doing it. Now I just have to finish the 50k to get paid.
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That's funny. I'm considering the traveling shovel of death, but I think I've killed off everyone I'm going to kill off...
My goal is to make that last 7700 words in the next 3 days. I can doooo eeeeet!
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I passed 42K last night, but these last few days have been somewhat of a struggle for me. I do know what's going to happen now, but I think the possibility of not actually finishing the story by the end of the month has thrown up a mental block for me. (I don't think I'll have any problem meeting the 50K quota, though.)
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Passed 50K on the 22nd.
About 3/4ths of the plotline has been used, Should hit 100+K when the editing is done. Another one in the pipeline.
Regards,
Kevin
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I WON!!
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Hurray!!!
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I won--passed 51K tonight and am on the home stretch! I just have to finish up the big climactic fight and get in a handful more scenes to wrap everything up. Haven't validated yet, though.
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I'm a "lose" this year. Not that upset about it; given what's been going on in my life, just walking around is one in the "win" column as far as I'm concerned. ;D I've been writing the "OMG apocalypse!" part of my post-apocalyptic novel, even though my original intent was to write a story set 10 years later. Still, I think I'll keep writing this. It won't be what I submit, I don't think (assuming I ever do), but it's good to know. I kind of like knowing what happened and exactly how, rather than just having this vague "Oh, this bunch of stuff happened" notion.
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Well done everybody that won. I lost. 35k. That's it.
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You have 2 days...Rally WJM Rally!
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And a rather large research paper that's 30% of my grade coming due. Unfortunately, that means the novel gets placed on hold. But I did get a good bit of it done!
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Oh fooey! I hate when crap like that happens!
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November 30 - Congratulations everybody who WON!
And Congratulations everyone who made an effort! You placed higher than me!
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Okay,
I have finally cut the three main story arcs together. Track three needs a lot added, that is the story from the big read headed farm boy POV, because it is so tightly woven with track one (the runt dragon in exile), it needed to be cut in to see where add-ons were needed.
Tracks four and four A have yet to be plotted, but need to exist to explain why a war happened. (Conspiring self interest on the parts of the "big money" folks in both kingdoms.)
Hacking away,
Kevin
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Okay,
I have finally cut the three main story arcs together. Track three needs a lot added, that is the story from the big read headed farm boy POV, because it is so tightly woven with track one (the runt dragon in exile), it needed to be cut in to see where add-ons were needed.
Does that smell a whole like the Wheel of Time series...
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Grin,
I am not yet up to fifty parallel plot lines.... The series arc is still fairly open ended, but this first novel is to give me a place where I can write sorcery and six guns stuff. Steam engines and dragons, maybe even hot air balloons with organic burners.
Regards,
Kevin
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Is anyone planning to take advantage of the offer from Create Space? Also, have you used this service in the past and if so, what is it like? I'm definitely planning to get the single copy of my manuscript, and am also considering making it available for sale as an e-book/trade paperback, but I need to investigate more thoroughly first.
My principal concern is that using a self-publishing service for this one manuscript might scuttle any chances I have of submitting another, unrelated novel through more traditional publishing channels. (FYI, I have no illusions that I would make a fortune doing this, or even get a lot of exposure, but I figure that if I can get the occasional price of a cup of coffee out of the thing, than what the hell?) Thoughts?