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Okay I am still trying to figure out how I came up with nearly 3,000 words with the day I have had! I really must have needed to write.... Posts: 17 | Registered: Oct 2006
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If we force ourselves to write, we will write.
I built out 3500 words and most of them were done when I was bleary eyed and basically falling asleep. I think I wrote about 2-300 words with my eyes closed and my hands just typing away, lol.
Well, todays a good day to write as well! Miserable weather leaves me no choice!
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I'm in too. I haven't posted here in forever, but if any of you know me and want to add me, your welcome to. I'm Deanna at NoteBored and DeaSis over at NaNo.
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In the last two days (the weekend when I thought I would get a LOT written) I have managed a total of around two hundred words, and am now 3,500 words behind with todays target amount to write too, which means I would have to write over 5,000 words just to keep up!
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It's okay, I'm behind, too! That's the name of the game, right? I didn't even have a story idea until right before. Now that I do, I still don't have a plot worked out, so I'm sort of winging it... Right now I have just over 5000 words, so I'm 3,000 words behind. But as long as you keep doing 2,000 words a day, you won't fall further behind, and you can slowly make up for the 3,000 missing words. If you still kept at it continuously, that's only just over 100 words a day! You can do it!
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I'm 16,000 words into my NaNo novel and I've thought of a great query hook:
Living with his alcoholic mother, Lenny could never have imagined a world in which the American war of Independance was ongoing, and William the Conqueror was beaten at the battle of Hastings, until he found himself there.
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Whoa! Your story sounds pretty interesting, darklight. And I think it's a tribute to your experience and growth as a writer that you can start thinking about your query hooks as you're writing. It seems like an important skill for a professional writer to be able to do.
I'm about 23,000 words along, but I'm running out of steam fast. I kind of knew I would, since I started out without a clear plan. But I've set my characters up to have complications and conflict, now I have to devise a way for them to get out of it!
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I finished with 53333 on day 27, I honestly feel like I can do anything right now. I hear there's an expedition leaving for Everest.
I'm also 1/4 of the way through my first editing pass. I'm doing the simple stuff of fixing typos and cleaning up really obvious stuff, making notes elsewhere on additional scenes to write, more significant jimmying of the text. As soon as I'm done w/my first pass I'm going to put it down for a while and pick it back up in the new year, but I'm optimistic. It turned out a LOT better than I thought going into it, and I'm excited to have a novel complete, even if it's just a first draft.
Congrats to other finishers. I know there are a bunch of Liberty Hall'ers who slipped over the finish line at the last minute - way to go!
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Finished last night with 51K, and half a plot. Which is OK since my intended wordcount is around 100K. Now to put the rest of the novel in good order Posts: 1075 | Registered: Sep 2004
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Alas, health and research and job and deep resentment amongst family members for the neglect I put them through last year combined to halt my progress. But now that the calendar no longer says November, writing won't be considered Nanowrimo neglect.
And I've done my research and have mondo bottles of pills.
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51300 or so. It has a plot...and an ending.
Alright, I'd be flat embarrassed to let anyone read it...but it is a good base for a nice 80k novel once I work out more of the things that got skimmed over in the rushed nano version.
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I finished with 56,145 words. Half a plot and another 3 at least to follow on with what I wrote. I'm actually happy that I was able to write as much as I have done, as it's also allowed me to expand my world a great deal as well as introduce a central theme to the world that connects it together.
I love it when things fall into place when you don't really mean them to
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