So, I’ve got my 50K. Yay me. But the story’s not finished. I could easily finish it in a couple days, but I feel my energy for it flagging. I can’t bring myself to submit it if the story isn’t complete. I’ve got the beginning, I’ve got the end, and I’ve got most of the middle, there’s just one part that’s missing … and I seem to have difficulty sitting down and writing it.
But, I have no plans for tomorrow, and no money with which to do anything, so it’s write or clean. I’m too lazy to clean. 
LOL! That sounds great! I look forward to reading it some day, when I don’t have the writing of my own novel eating free time.
Congrats on the 50k, and just wait until December to edit and revise.
I told you you’re smokin’. 
I’ve passed the halfway mark! I’m sure I’ll make 50K, but probably won’t finish the story, since I’m writing it linearly and have only done 4 out of 14 chapters (with one being the major exposition chapter, granted.)
I finally managed to whack my victim. A murder mystery without a murder isn’t very mysterious, but now he’s dead. I might have to dance on his grave a little before heading to bed.
I hit 34k plus change last night. Wahoo!
31,621 right now. I’m more interested in reading.
Only 18k or so words to go. I can do this, really I can!
Sorry, back to your normally scheduled substantive discussion.
Just broke 40,000 … nothing substantive in that, I just wanted to brag a bit.
Gah. I’m so far behind. Just broke seventeen grand last night, and I have a ten-page paper on Aristotle and Plato due Monday…
Things are not looking good, but I’m not giving up yet.
31465 right now, and if I reach 33340 tonight, I’ll have finally caught up to the 30-day 50k-word schedule.
I’m still bustin’ my ass at 18000 or so. That’s even with dream sequences and long drawn out thinking sessions thrown in! I’ve got to have some more action, that’s where it seems to flow! Wish me luck (behind but working on it!) 
Anyone else addicted to racing up the membership score board? I missed the first nine days completely, so when I posted my first word count I was all the way down on page 366 (18,260th place, to be exact). :mad:
Since then I’ve been clawing my way up the list. As of last night, I was on page 83 (4,146th place) – much better, but I’m not settling for that. 
This obsession is great for inspiring you to crank out just a few more words. As in, you decide you’re tired and want to quit, so you go the site, update your count, and find your new standing. Yay!
But… heck, if I’d written only 37 more words, I’d be on the next page up. What’s 37 words, a couple of sentences? So you do another couple paragraphs – and woohoo! you jumped up two pages! Take that, you hundred jumped over losers!
Of course, the first time you sign on the next day you find that eighty or so bastards have jumped over YOU. How dare they?? I’ll show them…
Okay, very juvenile, but those extra few paragraphs add up over time.
Off to write. Yesterday I finally passed the half way mark. Today’s goal: 30,000 or die.
I think today is the push for the summit for me. 50,000 or die trying!
And then, of course, I’ll have to keep writing, because I’m nowhere near done yet. But at least I’ll have my green bar to keep me company as I slog through the last 10,000 or so.
Your books all sound so much cooler than mine. Zombie Guy Fawkes? Snack cake porno? I’m in awe. I think I want to read everyone’s stories when they’re done.
I don’t know what the memebership score board is.
If you do an author search on the NaNoWriMo site, leave the author field blank and set the results to be sorted by word count. I think that’s what StarvingButStrong is talking about.
Yes, that’s it. Order the results by word count in descending order.
Then you find your own name: assuming you aren’t on the first page, click the arrow at the bottom of the page to go to the next page. You probably aren’t there, either, unless you’ve finished. You can take bigger jumps down the list by clicking the address in your browser: you’ll see it ends with a number, which is how many names down the list the page you see starts. Each page is 50 names long, so if you add 500 to the displayed number and hit go, you will jump down ten pages worth. Do that as many times as you need to, until the word counts on the page are close to what your is. Then you can use the jump links to move up or down by a page or two as you hone in on your word count.
Once you find your name, your ‘rank’ is (#of page you are on X 50) - (how many names are lower than yours on the page). So if your name was on page 100, with 13 more names below yours, your rank is 100X50 = 5000 minus 13, or #4987.
Time saving tip: once you find the page you are on, BOOK MARK IT.
Then, the next time you want to know your rank, do this:
Rinse and repeat until you really, really can’t write any more.
It may be an unhealthy obsession, but if you can develop it, it serves as a great ‘carrot on a stick’ to chase after.
Woohoo, I’m on page 36 now! (That’s after being on page 39 last night…movin’ on up…)
Then again, at this point, I don’t care about that much either, I just want to get this novel done and over with! Bah! The plot bunnies have eaten my novel and turned it into utter garbage, and I’m not sure it’s even worth salvaging anymore. Once I had Fred Phelps protesting outside Bert and Ernie’s bedroom window in some alternate universe, I knew it was going down in quality.
I am trying to keep up with this Nano spreadsheet I found though – I keep trying to make it say that I will finish on November 28, because I’m going to be busy the 29th & 30th.
Must…finish…novel…even if it sucks.
I hadn’t done that before … I’m on page 15, right now … woohoo!
And the end is in sight … not only am I going to reach 50k, I’m going to go on from there and finish the damn story. Which is a good thing, because my life mostly sucks right now, and at least this little bit of it is going all right.
(Just watch my hard drive crash, now I’ve said that … )
Well, I’m on page 26 now, after having spent most of the past three hours writing. Now we ought to set page competitions here and just start racing each other! 
38,324 right now, and I guess I might hit 40k today after all.
Now, Mr. Wright, you certainly know the value of backups. The heck with a hard drive crash!