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Bump for the weekend updates.
After caving and going to the doctor on Saturday morning, it turns out that I write much better when I don’t have a raging fever. I started yesterday on 3k - yep 3k for the whole week. I added 2k last night, another 3k during today and I should (after dinner and getting the kid to bed) add another 2 or 3 k tonight.
Partial total for today is 8k - half of what I should have - WOOT! That’s such a big improvement! By Wednesday (when my working week begins) I should be ahead of schedule again.
It’s finally starting to make sense!
Thank Og for antibiotics.
I’m holding steady at between 400 and 800 words ‘behind’ every single day. Which isn’t too awful, but I really think I’m going to have to spend today doing plotting/outlining which will make me quite a bigger hole to tackle tomorrow. 
Well, after a strong first two days start, I’m now (according to the excel chart that I keep adding bells & whistles to), 3 days, 13 hours, and 23 minutes behind. My goal for the end of the day is to be only 2 day and 12 hours behind.
On the other hand, I’ve learned a bunch about where to find stuff on Excel2007 - so not a total loss.
18,000 words.
I’m behind too-just under 8k and going to play catch up until the 21st, when I’ll have another busy weekend that will take me away.
My biggest obstacle is battling the “Oh god this is so dumb” response and wasting precious typing time editing. The only thing I have going for my story is plot, I feel like the characters are about as fun as a cardboard cutout. CRAP. Hopefully they develop personalities soon or I’m going to toss them off the ship on their way to the West Indies.
19k - But a free day ahead of me to catch up - as soon as I get off the Dope.
It’s getting better - the gaps are filling up with actual plot and there’s only one character that I’m actively avoiding (well, one and a half - I’m writing scenes for the half but I’ve no idea what her plot arc or motivation is).
If I do 4.25k today I will be on target for the first time. I’ve done 8k a day (last years SoCNoC) so I could even get ahead - Now watch me stall and spend the day playing peggle.
I did a good 2k catchup this morning, but the SO is home and wanting his computer for WOW :P. I have my birthday money though, so may head to Best Buy and get a cheap computer so I can keep up the word count. Need one anyways…
I am laughing at myself. Maybe next year. The election doomed me.
I’m standing at about 17k. Work has consumed me and keeps coming back for more.
I’m coming into an extended weekend again so assuming I catch up on my sleep I’m going to try for 5000 words a day to push me through.
I’ve found an episodic nature is helping me. Move the characters quickly from one problem that can be confronted and overcome to another fast. If I keep turning things like that I may finish…
I just cleared 10k words today at lunch.
So, 20% of my word count at 50% of the allowed time. Good thing I work better under pressure. Oh wait, I don’t. :smack:
Caught up to yesterday’s word count (23340) at 1 am this morning. Writing time for today and tomorrow is being sacrificed to family (darned family!)
I surpassed my fifty percent mark just a few hours after the half way mark of the month. If I can continue my pace tomorrow then I’ll be just four full days effort away from success. With one full weekend to work with, time to steal from several days and a four day weekend before it comes to an end I think I can pull it off.
I can proudly say that my work sucks. The pacing is all wrong, the prose is so obviously first draft material that I would not inflict it on anyone, and my tone shifts so often it would give you whiplash. And yet somehow I cannot bring myself to simply excrete words like some nanowrimo participants can. I think if I followed that strategy I’d wind up burning out my plot fast.
Yeah, my work ain’t anything to be proud of right now, either. I’ve had four attempts at the opening, which are now tacked on to the end as the final ‘crapter’ so I don’t lose the word count.
I nearly fell for the week three pep talk this morning and updated (I’m over 25k, but slightly behind the pace again). Virtual confetti and cash would have been nice!
I bet when you review afterwards, even with the style faults, you’ll find the bones of a damned fine story. Og knows, it’s what I’m hoping for.
Just over 27,000.
Actually, I don’t think it’s all that bad. However, it’s a rough draft. I’ll qualify for the NaNoWriMo award, but then I’ll set it aside and edit it later.
It’s also probably a bit TOO fast paced, and the editing process will likely involve fleshing a few scenes out; the scene about four scenes before the one I’m on now is just too quick and underdescribed. It’ll end up being a 75000-word novel stuffed into 55000 words, and I’ll add the other words inthe second draft. (50,000 words is a very short novel.) However, I’ll follow Stephen King’s advice and avoid editing as I go.
As a story I think it’s actually pretty good so far.
Ha! You wildly overestimate me!
The issues of tone would have to be addressed and depending on which way I fell I’d wind up scrapping two-thirds of what I’ve written and starting over to make it match. I had worried about being consistent early on but now I’m just writing what I’m in the mood for when I touch the keyboard.
I got wildly behind and this morning in part of my all day write-a-thon, I realized part of the problem is that I was trying to do it from a weird point of view.
So, there’s a shift in narration and I’m able to write again. We’ll see where I am at the end of today, and whether I can keep writing for the rest of the week.
I’ve learned a couple of things during this novel. Maybe next year will be my masterpiece year. This year, I’ll be lucky to finish.
I did 9 thousand word over Fri-Sat-Sun. On the good side, for the first time this month I am a few words above minimum pace. On the bad side, I feel all written out.
Oh, and five thousand of those nine thousand? Long, loving description of a serial killer dismembering one of his victims.
Yummy.
I wish I had a serial killer… sigh.
There I have an advantage. I pick a nineteenth century American figure, shoe horn them in doing something crazy I can fill a couple of pages with, and move on to the next. (“Great, how do I end this… I know! Alexander Hamilton will swing in on a rope and have a sword fight with Aaron Burr!”)