hmm... i don't know then.

also, i think i have three or four scenes left.... and then on to the Epilogue!!

I picked one and just started writing. I don't even have to write the SCENE linearly. Heck, I can just do in medias res and then use the frame story to touch on what came first.

EDIT: Finished the scene. Once again realizing just how long 1700 words is... Currently at 3608/5000 words of what should have been my quota so far. But tomorrow's Saturday, so maybe I'll have more of an opportunity to catch up.

Blah. 170 more words. I feel like I'm hammering screws.

Apparently someone here just gave the local Starbucks a heads up that there are writers lurking so they have their place set up as an all day sort of drop in. People can sit and write all day and wont get pestered by staff to leave.

Considering I didn't even know that particular Starbucks was there, maybe they want the extra crowd.

cool, Coda!

and Quiet Man - i know what it's like when the words/ideas just aren't there....

I was misinterpreting it. Thanks for clarifying for me.

I can sort of understand. Growing up, I lived on a hill and it would frequently take 3 times of trying to drive up that hill before we could make it all the way up.


On another note -
Our Super Powered Write In was a huge success! We filled the room, had 7 donated prizes to pass out to people and wrote over 138k words all told. We've been invited to use the space every year too! Yay!

i'm on the last scene of chapter 20!!

(chapter 20 is the last one, and then the epilogue)

i know i'm double posting, but.... i'm DONE CHAPTER 20!!!!!

i just have my two-part epilogue now....

2190 words today; 7710 total since Nov 1. =D

Double-posting isn't against the rules. :P (Triple-posting is.)

yeah, i know....but it seems weird for me to double post most places. XD

Another chapter up!

800 words per Robot Master? I wasn't TRYING to make them the same length. But at this pace I'll need to write two battles per day to maintain my quota and squeeze in at least one more to catch up.

I could be stretching these battle scenes out more, but I don't have the knack for keeping it interesting. I'm not sure it would be good for the flow of the story anyway; these fights are only a couple minutes long each, and if I spent too much time in the descriptions it would feel like they were dragging on instead of being rapid back-and-forth exchanges.

yaay for writing more!

the joke is that December is National Novel Editing Month....where you edit the crap out of what you wrote in november, including those rambling scenes where it sounds like it's dragging. November i all bout the word count, so i say go for it!

When I did my first NaNo, people said MARCH was, and it wasn't a joke then.

I'm usually too fried from NaNo to even think about editing in December. Plus all those tasks like Christmas shopping and year end bookkeeping have to happen in December, so it's always next year for me.

Congrats on all of the word counts, everyone!

Good to know that double posting is okay. Never been on a site like that unless it was a brand new thread where you needed to make double posts to get it going and set it up.

actually, Coda, you're right - NaNoEdMo is March. =)

and wow, my typing is horrendous on my phone... which was where i typed post #251...

My word counts remain pathetic so I'm just working on writing every day. Today, my attempt at a story is actually starting to look a little like an attempt at a story.

well that's just as awesome, Quiet Man! =)

That's kinda where I'm sitting right now. If I can tell a complete story, I'll call that a win even if I don't hit 50k words. I've wanted to write this story for MONTHS now and NaNo is just the motivating impulse I needed to get on it.

Great way to use NaNo Coda and Quiet.
This year, I'm using NaNo to practice writing humorous scenes. I had a story, but it's not really working out in a smooth and linear pattern. But using this month as practice so I can go back to a previous novel and add in humorous passages sounds like a great plan.

and another way to use NaNo - finish a story that's been hanging around a while.... i'm done!! i'm donei'm donei'm donei'm done!!!!!

XD

only 630 words for me today, but i've written 8430 so far for NaNo, and that's, interestingly enough, on par for day 5! XD

also, final count for my novel is 57,085 words!

Finishing your novel is worth celebrating, Trys!

*Throws confetti*

yaay!

*throws more confetti*

More words! And something maybe, sorta, resembling a story.

More words! Yay!

Story can be edited later. ;)

Ugh, I didn't manage to get an update out yesterday, and despite my best efforts I wasn't able to do so this morning, either. I'm disappointed with myself.

I have no idea if I'm going to be able to get a double release out, either... ._.

On the bright side I got a really good critique over on Sufficient Velocity, so that'll help.

good critiques are good things, actually. years ago when those of us in my writers' group actually wrote things (LOL!) someone had offered some criticism about my Duke in Timeless Dance - and what she said made a lot of sense, which is why the Duke character acts, behaves, and thinks as he does in the story.

"It sucks," on the other hand, is not a very good critique. LOL!

See for yourself if you want:

https://forums.sufficientvelocity.co...mo-2017.43047/

See? Good, useful critique!

yes, definitely good input!

Blaaah. I'm up to 5258 words now (I haven't posted the update because it's not done yet, but that's where I'm leaving off) which puts me done with day 3... at the end of day 6... x.x I mean, yes, I'm not going to sweat it at the end of the month if I don't make it, but I at least want to TRY!

woo! yaay Coda!

Okay, there we go! That's over a day's worth of quota! Now I just need to catch up. New chapter posted.

yaay! more writing!

Right now I'm behind on my word count too, albeit not so far I start to worry about it. 1700 words are much, especially when you have a real life too. Do NaNovelists have a real life in November?

I know I didn't, my first time!

i've been able to figure out having somewhat of a life in November.... this year has been great! XD

but it's why i didn't do NaNo in 2015 - i was working on my HollyDay crochet, and didn't know how much time i'd actually need. i also didn't have an idea then either, and was still lazing around with Timeless Dance... XD

My area even has that one overachiever who already hit 58k. No friggin' idea how that works, I couldn't even put out 8k a day if I wrote while eating, drinking, shitting and sleeping. This is insane ^^;

i suppose it could be possible... without all that eating and sleeping. LOL

edit:

i looked up my NaNo word count spreadsheet (yes, i have one of those.) XD

these are my word counts as of Day 7 of NaNo for:

2011 - 18900 words
2012 - 10245 words
2013 - 13350 words
2014 - 14680 words
2016 - 21321 words

but nowhere near done!

One of our wrimos is an amazingly fast typist. She's been known to get over 24K words in one day. I saw her do it and it was actually distracting hearing how fast the clicking was coming from her keyboard. XD

I can be an excruciatingly slow writer, yet in 2013 I had over 32K words on day 7. I've known people who actually wrote (without cheating) 50K on their first day. Fast typist, fast thinker, great outline and few breaks for 12 hours. Not anything I could do, but still possible.

And this whole idea about a life during NaNo - Let's just say my hubby is used to being a NaNo widow during November. :P

Zen, my thought is these wrimos are probably planners and have outlines and character sketches in their head and know exactly what they want to say and where the story is going.

me? i'm a pantser for the most part. sometimes i plan, but only to leave a few bread crumbs as to where i want the story to go. but, yeah, i'm about a 95% pantser. XD

I pantsed the first time I succeeded. I planned the time I failed. This time around is... sort of neither. I have a plan but I didn't intentionally plan it; it was more of a huge inspiration that kinda spewed itself out.