# NaNoWriMo 2013 **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [October 26, 2013, 11:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nanowrimo-2013/672338 "2013-10-26T23:33:08Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 5\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![araminty](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/b5e925/32.png) [@araminty](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/araminty)\ **Post date:** [November 13, 2013, 7:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nanowrimo-2013/672338/41 "2013-11-13T07:17:04Z")
I’m up to 17,266 total, which is just OK. I missed a day (went wine tasting on Sat, woot!) and haven’t really caught up, in fact, lost a bit of momentum over it. I did a write-in with the Nano interns on the YouTube channel the other day, which was quite productive. I mean, they were annoyingly perky and gave some terrible advice which I ignored - - but when they said, here’s a sprint, write for 10 minutes without stopping, GO, I did! I’m wondering if there are any more sprints I can hook into. I think one good, overachieving kind of day will put me back on track. I’m still very unhappy with my story, but that’s really not the point. The point is, to finish. Which I intend to do. 33,000 words to go in the next 19 days. Oof, sounds like so many… ---
**Author:** ![chrisk](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/6de8d8/32.png) [@chrisk](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/chrisk)\ **Post date:** [November 13, 2013, 2:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nanowrimo-2013/672338/42 "2013-11-13T14:19:52Z")
> [@araminty](#): > > I’m wondering if there are any more sprints I can hook into. Are there ever! 😉 [@NanoWordSprints feed on Twitter.](https://twitter.com/nanowordsprints) (Not active 24 hours a day, but pretty good.) [Word wars, sprints, prompts forum on the Nano site.](http://nanowrimo.org/forums/word-wars-prompts-sprints) Plenty of individual challenges here as well as group sprints. My current word count: 26,810! 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Lamia](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/8e7dd6/32.png) [@Lamia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lamia)\ **Post date:** [November 14, 2013, 3:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nanowrimo-2013/672338/43 "2013-11-14T03:40:57Z")
> [@Rodgers01](#): > > I’m about 800 words behind where I’m supposed to be, given the 1,666 word-per-day average. > > That’s not a problem - I can make that up. Much more of a problem is that I’m completely hating my book: the characters, the “plot”, the tone. Now, according to NaNo philosophy (or at least my own interpretation thereof) I can do something totally crazy within the story to essentially wipe the slate clean, **as long as I keep on writing**. But in practice I’m finding it hard to do something that drastic. I don’t want to live for 25 more days with these characters, but I don’t want to have them abducted by aliens either. And quitting is not an option. Gotta come up with some creative solution fast. 😕 How about the uncreative solution of just starting a new story? Keep your current word count (you did write all that during NaNo, after all) and just add the word count for the new story to that. ---
**Author:** ![chrisk](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/6de8d8/32.png) [@chrisk](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/chrisk)\ **Post date:** [November 27, 2013, 2:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nanowrimo-2013/672338/44 "2013-11-27T14:32:36Z")
So, check-in time, only a few days left in November! I crossed the 50k line on Friday. Still writing, though I’ve moved to drafting a new short story. Current word count: 55,853! ---
**Author:** ![elfkin477](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/a9a28c/32.png) [@elfkin477](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/elfkin477)\ **Post date:** [November 28, 2013, 9:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nanowrimo-2013/672338/45 "2013-11-28T21:33:43Z")
> [@chrisk](#): > > So, check-in time, only a few days left in November! > > I crossed the 50k line on Friday. Still writing, though I’ve moved to drafting a new short story. > Current word count: 55,853! Oh yeah. I ended up not going to work Tuesday, so I knocked out the last 6k, bringing me up to 50,020. As usual, the story isn’t complete at this length, but hey, getting to 50k is my real goal for November, and the rest will sort itself out later. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nanowrimo-2013/672338.md?page=2)