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Tiergan
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Yep.
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Not gonna for probably the next week. Working up a serious outline for Nano - 4k words so far, but it doesn't count toward this Well, see you in November!
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574 today.
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Nothing over the weekend, but 3500 yesterday, and a lot of editing.
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1400 yesterday and a good bit of editing
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1200 today and a load more editing.
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I've written about 1700 words over the last few days.
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1500 today and some more editing.
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Had a day off yesterday but finished my editing and wrote 2500 today
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2100 today and very close to finishing this first draft. I've got the next one outlined and an initial edit done on the last one. Once I've finished this draft though I want to do a couple of shorts before I start the next novel WIP. I've also got the query and synopsis do for the last one and good bit of trimming to do on it.

I'm finding this thread very helpful for keeping to my targets, so thanks once again for starting it.


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Finally. I can say yes I am again. 3500 words today. Thank you Nanowrimo.
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2568.

NaNoWriMo did the trick it seems...


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3400 and hoping to have time for more today, but we'll see.
Go NaNo!

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1300 today and three more scenes to go
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NaNo: 7730 words yesterday (11/1)
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NaNo 5,150 today.
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2100 yesterday and hopefully just a couple more days will finish the current WIP.
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5,152 on 11/3. Two words more than yesterday.

I'm always posting a day behind since my writing time is from about 8 pm to midnight.


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1300 today and all finished.

Tomorrow I'm going to start a short.

Thanks for this thread, it's really kept me going.


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I forgot to post that I wrote 1000+ words yesterday.


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Tiergan
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Been a fool the last 3 days. 746 on Thursday, Editing Friday, and 517 this morning.
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3,504 on Friday and 8,241 on Saturday. Is that fool enough? My wife sure thinks I'm one.
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501 and man it was tough. I have the scene, just seem to sit down to write it and freeze up. Not sure how much of it I will keep, but when I edit it at the end, a full sheet of words is easier to edit then just sitting here waiting for the perfect words to come.
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About 6,000 words today. Ain't Sundays grand?
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630 words.

I want to try for 1000 words a day, but I need to 'warm-up' to that level of work.


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569
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Just shy of 1k today and about 500 yesterday. Not a bad start to a short.
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558. Another story complete. Now the editing begins on this beast.
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650 yesterday and 550 today. Day job encroaches.
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Tiergan
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552. Again it was pulling teeth. I started on a scene in 1 story, but couldnt get it flowing-only 35 words. Switched to another, that I thought I was feeling, but nothing not a word. Opened a third file and the next scene came out 517 words. So pretty happy overall.
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886 today.
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Just to catch up:

8th 2,381
9th 2,282
10th 4,296

All due to NaNo


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Tiergan
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500 exactly. I thought for sure deleting the last paragraph meant I was going to be short, but nope, 500 exactly. I like that, not as much as say 900 or a 1000 but not 501 or 517 but 500. Now I can get that sleep I have been craving.
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3,204 tonight (11/11)
2,085 (11/12)

[This message has been edited by Owasm (edited November 13, 2010).]


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Tiergan
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The weekend catchup here. Friday - nothing. Saturday and Sunday editing, more hours than I care to admit.
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2,200 yesterday 11/13
4,074 today 11/14

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It's been a busy week this week so I've not had much time to write, but I managed to do about 800 words last night. So I was pretty miffed when I managed to delete it before I backed it up.
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Go Ken.

NaNo or not, that's impressive.

Axe


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Rewrote the 800 I lost and added another 800 on top, and backed it all up properly this time
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The Fool wrote 3,740 on 11/15 and 5,267 on 11/16

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500ish.....alright 495
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Tonight 3,703 words. Now my count will go down since I've finished my NaNo draft.
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950 words on my iphone while sitting at the back of a course (work related).
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Nimble thumbs, Skadder.
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Bionic thumbs...
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1k yesterday
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1K for me today.
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1600 yesterday
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600 yesterday. Just sat down to start today...
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A thousand yesterday.

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