NaNoWriMo 2015!
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Man . . . I am totally off this year! First year I am pretty sure I'm going to throw in the towel. There is still a possibility I'll decide to start again, but this new promotion is kicking my ass hard core. I have little left after the work day. Ohhhh Freedom.
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You can do it Zarathustra! <insert cheerleader smiley with animated pompoms>
I have been completely neglecting all the forums and blogs I follow because I've been frantically writing every day, but today I pulled off a 8k word day and have reach 48k words! So I figured I could take a break.
I have been completely neglecting all the forums and blogs I follow because I've been frantically writing every day, but today I pulled off a 8k word day and have reach 48k words! So I figured I could take a break.
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I've hit a slump at 23k words! I really need to power through these next few days
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Final mad dash... I have 7,500 words to go. Can I do it? Will the kids let me?
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Get off the forum, slip the kids some Nyquil, and go, go, go!
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45,344.
My brain is FRIED. One day to go.
My brain is FRIED. One day to go.
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Excellent! I'm at 46,690. The final push is tonight.GandK wrote:45,344. My brain is FRIED. One day to go.
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50,019.
<slumps over in exhaustion>
<slumps over in exhaustion>
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Did I beat the broom wagon?
I thought I'd have no problem making it, but I had to bear down hard the last couple of days to get it done. OTOH, I edited over a million words this month which really ate into my time, and that doesn't include time spent on an ongoing editing project (I don't count words for that one because I'm not billing per word).
Congrats everyone!
I thought I'd have no problem making it, but I had to bear down hard the last couple of days to get it done. OTOH, I edited over a million words this month which really ate into my time, and that doesn't include time spent on an ongoing editing project (I don't count words for that one because I'm not billing per word).
Congrats everyone!
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Congratulations! I didn't make it, but I saw I wasn't going to early, and revised my personal target down to 25,000. I plan to keep writing at around 1000 words a day, 6 days a week.
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Never started up again, but kudos to everyone!! Next year for me for sure.
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I had trouble reading past the word "million."jennypenny wrote:I thought I'd have no problem making it, but I had to bear down hard the last couple of days to get it done. OTOH, I edited over a million words this month which really ate into my time, and that doesn't include time spent on an ongoing editing project (I don't count words for that one because I'm not billing per word).
You win.
I feel like a knuckle-dragging slacker now. Seriously. That's awesome.
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@GandK--Don't be too impressed. It's infinitely easier to point out the mistakes of others* than it is to craft something of quality myself. I'm just annoyed that I'm not allocating my time better. When I get insecure about my writing, I fall back into the editing because it feels 'safe' if that makes sense.
*DH says it's my sole purpose in life.
*DH says it's my sole purpose in life.
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I made it with 50,058. Now to hibernate.
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Fun for the programmers for next year: https://github.com/dariusk/NaNoGenMo-20 ... /README.md
Spend a month writing code that generates a novel of 50k words.
Spend a month writing code that generates a novel of 50k words.
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I've already written this code! Years ago, I was writing a pure fantasy and I needed a conlang for it. I took the syllables I wanted to use in the language and wrote a series of loops in that generated unique possible "words" out of them so I didn't have to create language-compatible words "by hand." I'm certain that 50k words of gibberish came out of that app, of which I selected the most aesthetically pleasing combinations for the words I needed. I believe I ended up with a dictionary of about 4k words at the end of that exercise. I even wrote a font for that language. I did great foundation work... for a novel I never finished.Quadalupe wrote:Fun for the programmers for next year: https://github.com/dariusk/NaNoGenMo-20 ... /README.md
Spend a month writing code that generates a novel of 50k words.