31,506. I’ve almost finished the plot I’d planned out, which means I’m going to have to find about another 16,000 words from somewhere…
George Eliot cleaned my bathroom?
I’m at ~27000, which isn’t bad, but isn’t good. And I’m finding it hard to write more than 1600 words/day - which, if I had done so every day, I’d be fine. But I haven’t, so now, I need to average about 2300 words/day and those last 700 are killer.
I think I need to go somewhere friday and trap myself there until I have finished 10K, or can’t use my right arm anymore, whichever comes first.
I wish George Eliot had been around to clean my bathroom tonight.
A child’s projectile vomit does *not *improve one’s word count. Poor kid, at least she felt better afterwards.
And I still managed my 3k for a total of 46347. Maybe I’ll even get the 50k tomorrow.
- I have created one last little sub-plot, and then I should be ready to wrap things up.
Less than 9000 words to go!
35,000-odd and the preplanned plot has indeed run out. Need some more…
Done it! 50k.
The green, she is so pretty.
applauds
What’s your genre? Maybe we could suggest some plot bunnies.
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maggenpye**, Woo hoo! Congratulations!
Think I mentioned this before - I’ve rewritten Treasure Island as seen through Long John Silver’s eyes. Now I’ve finished, so I’m going to intercut it with an account of how Silver became a pirate in the first place, and some reminiscences of his career, to bring the wordcount up.
It was that or try to find 15,000 words of padding… :eek:
Thanks for the comments on my little ol’ paragraph, everybody! (Procrastination turns me into a Southern belle, apparently.)
Congratulations to everybody closing in on their goals, too. I am both proud and envious of you. I just reached 15,000 yesterday, which is making 50,000 look farther away every day. But no! I can still do this! I just need to get 2,000 more words before noon, and then 3,000 tonight, and keep doing that every day I can.
My mantra failed, by the way, and it’s entirely George Eliot’s fault. I picked up “The Mill on the River Floss” and got sucked in. Gave me lots of stuff to think about for my writing, though.
Please, send her round to clean my bathroom. We’ll both be better off.
Malacandra Flashbacks and backstory are exactly what I would have suggested. I got 20k out of them last year when I ran out of plot.
This year it’s the unifying theme that’s causing problems - and the fact that my bad guy has no redeeming features whatsoever - they’re supposed to gradually lose their trust in him, but everyone hates the guy as soon as they meet him!
It will have to wait for editing.
38,396. Looking doable. Two episodes of Silver’s backstory has seen the end of his career as an honest sailor, and there must be another 12,000 between his time under two pirate captains. 
I’ve been on vactaion for over a week at the beach. It’s actually been helpful for the most part. I’ve gotten up to 41000 just today and seeing the end in sight. I need to make it to 45k before I leave in a couple of days though.
This has been a real challenge. I’ve gotten sick twice this month, and I never get sick. Once I was in the hospital for a couple of hours. But I’ve just kept plodding along and I’m pretty sure I can make it now.
I just passed 40K – only four digits of words left to ‘win’, yay!
My goal is to get to 45k by bedtime Sunday.
But I’ve got waaaaay more plot to do. I’d say I’m only about 65% done, meaning December will have to be NaNoFiMo again this year. 
I’m at 46095. I just spent a good four hours or so on the car ride home on my laptop cranking out words. Unfortunately, I can feel the book starting to wrap up, and certain scenes that I had planned did not take as many words as I had hoped. I may need to go back and add a little “padding” once the story is done! I was able to get my MC together with the guy who I had planned her to be with all along, so that’s good. I also added a sex scene, which pretty much guarantees that no one I know will ever read this novel.
So, I’m breaching 20,000 words tonight, which makes me fairly confident that I will not reach 50,000 words, especially with my parents heading out of town next week, which means my brother and I will be on our own for barn chores. (Twelve hour days starting at 5:30 AM. Hooray!) But I will try, dammit.
I’ll still swap with anyone who wants to read my incomplete work of silliness in December, though.
Also, George Eliott has yet to clean my bathroom, so I can’t send her to your place maggenpye. No jaunts halfway around the world until the grout is clean.
Well, I managed to clean it myself anyway.
I’ve been taking a half hour break every thousand words and the bathroom was one of those. I had cleaned it at the time, but had to do it again - thoroughly.
10k for the weekend, which means 10k to go.
60k in total so far. I did 70k in June for the SoCNoC, cannot do less for NaNo.
I’m impressed with everyone else’s big jumps in numbers, too. It’s great to see.
My dad took my darling child away for both days of the weekend and when she threw up for him, it was outside. He gets all the luck!
In related news, my mother spent this weekend finishing her Teacher’s Aide papers.
Had to share, I’m just so freaking proud of her. We have the same writing style, which is why my dad took my kid and they both stayed far, far away from the crazy writing women!
If I’ve counted right (right now, this novel is spread between 3 documents and two computers), I’m at 37219 - which is still behind, but much less behind than I was 3 days ago. The end is in sight, and a couple of great days will get me there.
In other news, still waiting for George Eliot to show up, and does she do windows, too?
49059! Less than 1000 words to go, and I think that I am just barely going to make it. It might even happen today. I’m pretty excited!
40,536. Back on track. I need four more 2500-word instalments to get there and I have five days to knock them out in. 