Nooo! My NaNo just turned in a new, cheesy direction. Unplanned! Planned cheese is fine, but unplanned cheese?
Do I crush this uprising, or allow it to run its course?
I’ve added ANOTHER POV character. >_>
And the story’s definitely insisting on going in a different direction than I’d originally planned.
11,831 Words. Still I am loosing steam. Anyone want to read (or claim to have read) my work and offer encouragement?
I’m still reading it. So far I still like it. I’m just wondering where you plan on going with it, I haven’t seen any ninja or anything like that!
I’m at 7463 words. The Word Wars on the NaNo Forum helped me get that high (it’s high compared to what it was).
Gah!! Late start! An unexpected trip just wiped out the first week of writing – here it is six days in and I haven’t written a single word. Is there still hope? :mad:
Pick up that sucker and run with it! It’s a far better exercise for your writing skills. 
I’ve been avoiding this thread because it has been going so badly. When I start to write, it works fairly well - I’m just having a hard time getting started (much more than previous years). And I’ve had to make an outline.
So, now, I’m about 2 days behind (5500-ish words as of last night) and I’ll need an extra 100/day to finish in time. I really can’t slack off mid-month, now. And I’m not sure how long this plot really, really is. And the title is stupid.
I need to go away from my home and write. There are too many apartment distractions. Last night I nearly started re-organizing my bookshelf.
My plot is nowhere near fifty thousand words. So my characters are having a lot of pointless conversations and making fun of each other at every opportunity.
My problem is that I have a roommate, now, when I never have before during NaNo. I’m having trouble finding time to write, because I’ll hear her moving around and I know she’s doing something fun without me, damn her. 
12,058 words by NaNo’s own count. A good day and evening today have made up for writing nothing on Saturday or Sunday.
But if, having done that, you change your mind? Do not delete anything. Just change tracks and keep writing.
Dreams of Silence and Ice. There. Now my story has a title, one that I thought of months ago and never used for anything. Too bad it took until I was 10,000 words in to think of it!
I’m writing it on Google docs, and their word counter seems to be more generous than the NaNoWriMo one. I lose about 200 words in 10,000 when I upload for counting.
Currently at 11,851 by the good word counter, and I’m dreading the point where I cross 50,000 and still have to write 1,000 more words.
Absolutely. It’s reminiscent of Raymond Chandler’s advice about a story in which nothing has happened for half a dozen pages: bring in a man with a gun. What he’s up to, and why, can be resolved once you’ve given the reader something to keep reading for.
For the first time in Nano, I’m in danger of running out of plot too soon. As in, I’ve finished 1/3 of my planned scenes, and only at 1/4 of the word count. :eek:
Now I’m torn: should I try to add to the plot? Or just start padding with elaborate descriptions of scenery and everything else?
Or plow ahead and hope the words/scene ration will get larger. Most of hte really dramatic stuff is yet to come.
Or…I could always do a ‘what happened after that’ type epilog. Recap the rest of their life stories for every character in my story. Down to the goatherd they walked by back on page 4 if need be. 
Six pages of posts (and that’s with spill at 50)? Don’t you folks have writing to do?
<sits back on beach with pina colada, wonders where everyone else is>
Don’t pad. Add plot. You can always spot a writer who was getting paid by the word. Keep banging stuff down on the page and rely on last-minute inspiration; don’t be discouraged if you can’t see the end of the story from where you are.
I’m now at 15491 words. It might’ve been more if I hadn’t lost an hour’s worth this evening to a recalcitrant network. But it would surely have been less if my own computer were working and I could still be tempted by Medieval: Total War. I think I resurrected the lost scene in improved form, so not too unhappy.
My shtick for this one is no direct speech at any point. So far, I think it is working. 
REALLY??? :eek:
I think I’m running about 80% dialog with 15% description/exposition and 5% action.
Hmmm. Maybe I’ll ought to goose up the action, eh?
Anybody ever written a battle between a pack of rabid werewolves and a cemetary’s work of zombies?
No, but I can’t imagine it involving much dialog.
Clearly you’re not a fan of Laurell Hamilton