National Novel Writing Month 2012

C'mon Creole Ned, you're so close!

Bill Dungsroman get in there and spit out those last 7000 words!

(I feel like I'm on the sidelines at the end of the Boston Marathon.)

Man, I've been seriously procrastinating on this thing, I really need to get started.

Hey, I'm not off living in the future like you east coast types!

Tonight I wrote 2061 words and just now validated with a total of 50,050 words. I am done and yet not done, because the story still requires many more words to be complete and a lot of the existing words need to be rewritten or buried in a landfill, never to be seen again.

But as far as this NaNoWriMo thing goes, I'm now 2 for 4. Not bad.

I shall now put my novel away for awhile and go back to my previous effort at a pace I like to call 'not insane'.

RAWR knocked out all but the last 1400 today.

I'm gonna do it!

I am currently brewing a cup of the blackest tea to get me past the last 7358 words before November ends at the stroke of midnight, which will be in, oh, approximately less than nine hours. I have not slept since 9pm last night. NO BIGGIE.

Quick! Change your time zone to Pacific!

Hah! Been there, done that. I fell asleep while writing this afternoon and when I woke up it was too late, so I caved and changed my time zone to CST. (To be fair, I started three days late, so I DON'T COUNT THIS AS CHEATING.) On the upside, I have over 47000 words right now! Which means it'll only take me about a couple 1500 word sprints to finally get this done. Yay!

/I am a horrible person orz

I can only cheer you on here, Anabanana, because you never shared your NaNoWriMo identity, so you never made it on my buddies list.

Also, I'm still writing, because this is me:

THEY STOLE MY FANFICTION IDEA D:

not really mine is way cooler and features Loki ok

Aaaaand I finally finished! 50,046 words written and story validated! That took way longer than it had any right to...

But yeah, looking forward to actually finishing and revising this thing so that it becomes a marginally less crappy piece of crap. But that can wait till tomorrow. For now, SLEEP.

51,458 as the site calculates it.

AW YISS.

Yeah I got to edit mine too. Having scholar and gentleman Troy Goodfellow critique it.

I didn't finish. I always assumed I wouldn't finish because I would write slowly, or I would get distracted. I never considered that my father would go into the hospital, get surgery, go to rehab, and then die from a pulmonary embolism. In hindsight, that I made it to 20,000 words was a miracle.

That's awful news, Jason. Condolences on your loss.

And 20,000 words is better than I did in NaNoWriMo 2010 and 2011!

I'm so sorry Jason.

That first week you were going gangbusters and I was sure you'd win. Then shit happened.

Again, sorry. I hope you someday come back to the novel with as much enthusiasm as when you started.

Got 40,000 this year. Avoiding this thread all month helped my productivity, but not enough, apparently.

Grats to all the champs!

I'm sorry for you Jason. I lost my dad two years ago, and though it wasn't sudden I've kinda been there.

Any plans on continuing with the 40,000 you've already written?

I'm now back to my 2009 effort, having imported it into Scrivener. It's nice to be back to editing mode after writing furiously for the past month.

I'm going to let it fester for a while. I'm doing research for a bunch of other projects at the moment, and in true NaNoWriMo fashion working on this thing gave me the idea for a completely different novel that I want to try writing.

I will absolutely be returning to my novel. I have the outline and a bunch of really good chapters. My bizarre method for writing this time around (I wrote the prologue, then the last chapter, then the first chapter, then the next to last chapter, and so on) resulted in fairly solid beginning and end. However, I'm setting it aside for a couple weeks at least because I'm writing a series of short stories/articles about my father collected from my own memories and things that were shared with me about him over the last week as we laid him to rest.

Condolences, Jason. Glad to hear what you got down is worth revisiting.

Condolences, Jason.

I am already back at this novel I wrote, doing the second draft. Adding a lot of stuff. It might top 100,000 by the time I am done with it.

The day after I finished (the 30th) I ported my 2009 novel into Scrivener for its final draft. When that's done I'll ask a few people to read it and provide feedback. The thought frightens me.

I then took the rest of the week off from writing to decompress, recharge and eat short bread cookies.

I resume writing on the weekend and will continue with a one hour minimum per day but no hard word count target. I'll probably shoot for around 1,000 per day but won't race against the clock NaNo-style to meet it. 30 days of that per year is plenty for me.

And festering is better than abandoning, Tracy! I didn't come up with other ideas while writing this year but the urge to get back to my previous novel got pretty strong toward the end.

My pace has slowed way down because I took some days off. If it were still November, then today I should've been at 74,000 words, but I'm at 63,000. I'm still hoping to finish this draft by January when school starts up, but not having to crank out 2k every day is kind of a relief.

I just want to get to the end.

Yesterday I was cranking away and my wife started vacuuming. The circuit breaker tends to blow if you vacuum at night because there are just too many things on, so I freaked out, saved and quit writing. It made me grumpy for the rest of the night, and I would've gotten angry except the house really needed vacuuming.

This is me. I haven't touched the piece since November ended, I needed some distance. Now the challenge is re-charging and getting back to at least an hour a day.

Sounds like you could use a laptop, or an iPad, or a notepad and a pen.

Yeah, I'm a whiny bitch looking for excuses not to write my novel.

Ah, but you are working on your novel. Just tell people (and yourself) that it's composting at the moment.