What a good job I kept a copy of yesterday’s instalment, for I shit you not, Google Docs has fucking lost it again. :mad:
Despite having a “Last Updated” timestamp of last night, and despite my checking last night that the addendum was in place.
Listening to Mal, I probably will never use Google docs for anything like this! I just put it on my thumb drive and bring it back and forth to work on when I can.
Broke the 20K word limit yesterday. I could have gone on, but I needed a break.
I got to 20k last night as well. I’d got ahead slightly over the weekend and then got side-tracked (New Pratchett book, antique furniture research book, child wanting food and attention - sigh) Ended up with just over 600 words for the whole day!
I have to save to disc - today. I’ve been relying on autosave, but I haven’t got an external copy. Oh no - there’s the jinx! Just over there, lurking in the hard drive. It looks hungry for word counts.
My brother! I just broke 5000 last night, thanks to insomnia and what I think is turning into a sinus infection. I’m currently at 5540 words, which means I finally met my goal of writing 2500 words in a single night.
Will tonight be a repeat? Probably not. I’ve been going all day, and I’m headed for a nap. Here’s hoping I dream up a plot.
20,650! Yeeeeeeeehaw!
Does anyone else have sections of their story that make them laugh and laugh and laugh?
I was reading what I’ve written over the past couple days, and I keep scrolling back to this section:
It’s not even that funny, but I think I’m laughing because Mrs. Stovington is becoming a nuptial-minded, drunken caricature of my mother. So really, nothing like my mother at all, since she’s neither an alcoholic or wedding-addled, but she’d probably react in a similar way if I compared her to a pony.
It’s my favourite line so far. The rest of the conversation is long and rambling - none of it may survive the first edit, but I do like that last line.
22296 words. One of my writing buddies has cracked 30k, another is on 28k.
Bloody hell.
Around 16500 (I have about 700 words trapped somewhere else and have been too out of it to transport them over to the main document).
I’m stuck. I know where I want to be at about 30,000 words - but I don’t have the plot to get there. I’m out of plot. Outlining hasn’t helped. And my word count keeps falling behind.
As of today I have cracked the 25000 mark. Now though I’m starting to run out of steam. I don’t know how much more to write about and I don’t know if I can pull 50000 out of this story. I guess I’ll be adding in more ninja soon. Actually I think I’m going to have my man do something different when he gets back from his current quest.
I found the Holly Lisle workshops to be great word generators.
www.hollylisle.com/fm/Workshops/
The character creation workshop gave me heaps of info I hadn’t thought I needed, but it turned out to be vital and introduced all sorts of new motivation and plot.
I don’t use the index cards she suggested, but the ‘designing a life’ section has been brilliant.
There’s workshops for all sorts of stuff, explore, have fun. There’ll be something that just works for you.
The notecarding thing seems like genius … for next year. I’m going to try it this year - but that will be harder having already started.
But, I’m going to try Designing a Life and see what happens.
I keep promising myself I’ll go back and try some of the other exercises - maybe for SoCNoC next June…
Circle of life - I’m pretty sure I found the website through SMDB last year!
Happy halfway point everyone.
I managed 2.3k today and got a full day ahead of the word count. 26.7k
I think I know the whole story now, just have to flesh it out and work out the bugs.
How’re you all doing?
What’s your lead character doing right now? Mine’s realising her secret is out.
Been sick. Falling further behind. sob
I’m at 29,822. Yes, I should have forced out antoher 178 words.
It sort of scares me. I’ve never been this far ahead of pace before. I think it means some disaster is going to strike…
As to my MC, things are going swimmingly: I’ve gotten him fired, his great scientific breakthrough is in danger of being lost, and he just came home to find an eviction notice on his door.
IOW, he’s up the tree and I’m pelting him with rocks. Everything is as it should be. 
Sounds like you’re passing on any potential disasters to your MC - as you should.
Was it Stephen King who said he wrote about the worst things he could think of, so they wouldn’t really happen to him?
jsgodess I know a couple of people who just started this week due to exams and such. You’re still well ahead of them. It’s doable.
I have 23,572. I was telling Malacandra over e-mail, I was getting disgustingly bored with my story and it was NOT flowing. So…I had my female protagonist kidnapped. 
Suddenly the story is fun again!
- Halfway through the month and halfway through my wordcount. Not bad. I’m a little afraid that I’m more than halfway through the story, though. Haven’t gotten the vampire in yet, but I’m going to work in a hooker soon.
My sister decided to start NaNo yesterday, though, and she’s already up to 4000 words.
Anyone else having trouble getting into the NaNo site? I went to update my wordcount, and the page won’t finish loading.
I’m at 29204 and am currently writing the vows for an Elvis wedding ceremony.
Coolness.
I’m at 34297 and trying to find any scene that will interest me for 703 words in a hurry.
I dropped 400-odd words last night (well, 2am this morning,) so tired I hit ‘discard’ instead of ‘save’. Thank Og for Autosave or it would have been so much worse.
ETA A pep talk from Neil Gaiman this morning! My heart is still going pitter-pat!