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Congratulations Jules and GZ and anyone else who has crossed into the winners circle already! yyyYYYAAAAAYYYyyy...yyyYYYAAAAAYYYyyy...yyyYYYAAAAAYYYyyy...yyyYYYAAAAAYYYyyy yyyYYYAAAAAYYYyyy...yyyYYYAAAAAYYYyyy...yyyYYYAAAAAYYYyyy...yyyYYYAAAAAYYYyyy yyyYYYAAAAAYYYyyy...yyyYYYAAAAAYYYyyy...yyyYYYAAAAAYYYyyy...yyyYYYAAAAAYYYyyy This wave is for you!!!
For those of you not quite there, keep pushing forward. You're all very brave souls for attempting this, and you are now so close to the end. There will be plenty of time to procrastinate in December!
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I crossed the finish line last night around 10:00! 50,139 words at the end of Chapter Twenty-four. I think I have three-four chapters left to write. Woo-hoo!
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Wow! Now I'm all, like, dripping envy. In puddles. Gonna have to block out next November, and spend the time till then learning how to type faster!
Well done!
quote:MaryRobinette Member posted September 16, 2004 12:55 PM
I'm planning on doing the NaNoWriMo too, but I've had problems writing since I got out to Iceland so it's a little more frightening than before.
The only thing we have to fear, is fear itself, of bugabears and things that go Bump! in the night: of the dreaded "No operating system found.", the endless whir of hard drives seeking, seeking, and the headlines "Multiple suicides sweep the Nation! NaNoWriMo site self-destructs under the onsluaght of purple prose! Reykjavik residents stunned as a lithe woman clad only in a strange-looking belt runs through the streets waving a hard drive in the air, screaming "It fried! It fried! It's not my fault!"!
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I'm back! I'm sorry but I don't have time to look back over the conversation I missed so you'll just have to hit the highlights for me if anything really interesting happened. In any case, I've got 14k more words to complete and I sure hope I can do it.
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Aargh! The fates have been conspiring against me. My parents didn't give me any free time to get typing done, so I started to get scared but thought, "No, no, I've still got time." I get home and get a whopper migraine that lasts from Friday to Sunday night, and in tandem with that, my baby has developed a habit of waking up every couple hours while at my parent's house.
So, the end result is I still need 9,000 words, I have no idea how to tie up all my plot points and make the end of the book work, I have things happening until 10pm tonight which I can't get out of, and basically that leaves me with a little time tonight and tomorrow to finish, assuming my little one and my head do not explode.
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Don't feel like you need to tie up the loose ends! Just type, type, type. You can do it!
Go Christine! Go autumnmuse! Go Beth! The finish line awaits. And remember, you have till 4am PST on December 1 to get it validated. You can sleep after that.
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I can empathize with the migraine woes, autumnmuse. Mine struck me yesterday and today, and here I'm already a day behind going into Sunday morning. A couple of sessions sandwiched between a couple of very long naps seemed to help some. I might even finish tonight, if I can hang in here and the meds can hold the banging in my head at bay.
Edit: Just staggered over the finish line and collapsed in joyous exhaustion. Congratulations to all who preceded me in crossing over that line and all who are right on my heels about to cross it yet.
Now to let it cool off for a little while and go on to outline the first and third novels that bookend this one before I tackle any rewriting chores (it needs much!) fleshing out a number of chapters I made an effort at before bypassing for the ones that were ready to be written first, and fix that shoddy, cliched working title.
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I did it! I haven't posted in so long because it feels like all I've been doing it writing. I just finished. I wrote 8k in two days. I reached 2k (my daily quota) and just thought, "what the hell" I'll go for it. I feel so relieved. I did it. That's all I can think right now. I did it. That's probably one of the hardest things I've done in...a really long time, maybe ever. I told people I was going to do it, they said I was crazy. but I DID IT! What now? I mean they'll still think I'm crazy, but hey...I pulled it off and now I'm like...more of a novelist than before.
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I have to concede defeat on this one. I'm still really proud, with about 41,000 words, but unfortunately didn't quite make it past the finish line. Being the mother of an infant was just a bit too much of a hurdle for me, she's been kinda sick the past couple days and waking up nearly hourly. So, knowing that circumstances beyond my control were the cause helps me feel a little better; at least I didn't slack off.
I fully intend to do it again, and keep writing in the meantime.
Hurrah to everyone who made it! And also to people who at least tried! I still ended up writing a ton more than I ever have before.
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Congratulations to all of you that made your goal on NaNo! Autumnmuse, you have EVERY right to be proud!! 41k is a phenomenal accomplishment in its own right!
Sorry I was unable to cheer you all to the finish line: my computer chose this rather inopportune time to die. Bleh!
Armed with a brand new laptop, I am back again and congratulating all that participated in NaNo this year, even if a bit late.
Cheers all, happy rewriting and editing, and here's to next year! *G*
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I did finish my novel, like that actual story, Dec 1. But now I'm trying to decide whether to get rid of a few characters.
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My story still isn't finished, although I've written the climax to one of the major plotlines. Now I just have to get a couple of characters out of the fix that the climax has left them in, and then deal with the consequences of a few of them having disobeyed orders to help the MC. Discharge & exile, I think. Posts: 626 | Registered: Jun 2003
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I just finished writing the last chapter of my NaNoWriMo effort! Hurrah! Dancing for everyone! 59,625 words. Thirty-one chapters. Yay, yay, yay!
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Alas, I haven't written a single word more on mine. The end of Nov. and all of Dec. ended up being really busy for me. I have started reading back through what I wrote and making notes about what needs to be expanded and repaired.
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