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NoNoWriMo...
Submitted by Lothere on Mon, 11/02/2009 - 05:06.
...or "Not-a-Novel Writing Month". Just for fun -- and to shame myself into writing more -- I decided to do word counts for myself in the month of November.
Tip: If you're doing NaNoWriMo, and you see me getting ahead of you, then you know you're not writing fast enough!
November 1st: 894 words. Cedric is well on his way.
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November 1st: I see your 894
Submitted by Van on Mon, 11/02/2009 - 06:51.November 1st: I see your 894 and raise you 2,121
Albeit, my 2,121 are probably somewhat lacking in quality. I'm still on my prologue, and prologues have always been a horrible weak spot for me. Oh well, it's all about speed here, right?
Don't worry about getting it
Submitted by Lothere on Mon, 11/02/2009 - 20:41.Don't worry about getting it right, just get it written!
Nov. 2nd: 1340 words! If I could keep this up, we would get through January in no time.
Heheheh... I think I'm
Submitted by Van on Mon, 11/02/2009 - 22:15.Heheheh... I think I'm running out of steam somewhat today. Granted, I'm almost at my daily quota of 1700 and I do still have two hours, so... maybe?
Daaaaamn, after all that writing to pictures, actually describing how things look is weird. To think, I used to do this all the time
3,330 words. Whee! It's
Submitted by Cassie on Mon, 11/02/2009 - 22:18.3,330 words. Whee!
It's tough, though. Maybe I can throw in some tedious backstory and unnecessary details?
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I'm romantic, literary, cynical, and a diehard Alred Sebright groupie.
I would love to know what
Submitted by Ann on Tue, 11/03/2009 - 03:16.I would love to know what you guys are writing about. Or even better: read it! ^^ Although I guess you wouldn't want to have anyone read it.
Or I'll do my own inofficial NaNoWriMo. ^^
Pity is I couldn't even offer you mine to read, because I'm not doing NaNoWriMo. I realized that I have a gazillion of plot-holes I have no idea how to fill.
Oh well, maybe I'll work it out till next year.
Teehee, Cassie, I quoted
Submitted by Lothere on Tue, 11/03/2009 - 04:52.Teehee, Cassie, I quoted you!
Nov. 3rd, 204 words.
Submitted by Lothere on Wed, 11/04/2009 - 05:07.Nov. 3rd, 204 words.
6845 total. At this point,
Submitted by Van on Wed, 11/04/2009 - 17:11.6845 total. At this point, I'm mathematically on track... but just barely
Nov. 4th, 197 words, for a
Submitted by Lothere on Wed, 11/04/2009 - 20:31.Nov. 4th, 197 words, for a total of 2635. Oh dear oh dear. (I should start counting all the words I write and then delete too!)
But I often start out this way with a new chapter: the first day or two I spend a lot of time sitting in front of TextMate, just thinkin'. The phenomenon is probably all the worse when I'm making up the storyline chapter-by-chapter as I go, as I am with Malrua.
Just out of curiosity, have
Submitted by Van on Wed, 11/04/2009 - 20:38.Just out of curiosity, have you decided whether or not she's dead? Not asking if she is or isn't, just curious as to whether that particular point is set in stone yet.
Yes, I have decided. Edit: I
Submitted by Lothere on Thu, 11/05/2009 - 05:07.Yes, I have decided.
Edit: I guess I should say it has been set in slowly hardening concrete, rather than stone. I may still change my mind. So far I have tossed heaps of already-taken pictures as this storyline has gone off in ways I hadn't intended. Nothing is set in stone till the definitive chapter is published.
You love doing this to us,
Submitted by maruutsu on Thu, 11/05/2009 - 08:09.You love doing this to us, don't you?
I like it a lot better when
Submitted by Lothere on Thu, 11/05/2009 - 08:17.I like it a lot better when at least *I* know what is going to happen. I'm on the edge of my seat as well.
Hmm. I think I prefer my
Submitted by maruutsu on Thu, 11/05/2009 - 08:35.Hmm. I think I prefer my position. At least I don't have to deal with making the angsty decision and with the consequences that follow. And by the consequences, I mean the angry readers chasing you with pikes and torches.
Nov. 5th: 135 words, for a
Submitted by Lothere on Thu, 11/05/2009 - 20:51.Nov. 5th: 135 words, for a total of 2770. I know! I know! But on the bright side, I had several rather intriguing story ideas today. So I am not unhappy with myself overall.
Today in NoNoWriMo.... 1163
Submitted by Lothere on Fri, 11/06/2009 - 20:19.Today in NoNoWriMo....
1163 words! Ha! I should be able to wrap this one up tomorrow.
Total for the month... 3933. At this rate it should take me two and a half months to do one NaNo. :-/
Nov. 7th, 1035 words. (If
Submitted by Lothere on Sun, 11/08/2009 - 10:51.Nov. 7th, 1035 words. (If you fix the "his his" that François pointed out to me.) If only every day could be a 1000-word day! *goes to take pictures*
I'm seriously considering
Submitted by Van on Sun, 11/08/2009 - 11:09.I'm seriously considering quitting mine (fortunately for me, I never actually signed up at the site). The thing is, I like my idea, and I hate to see it brutally murdered through all the frenzied speed-writing, and with the deadline and the minimum word count, it's really starting to seem more like a homework assignment than anything. I don't usually have much trouble getting blog posts up because I know I don't have do to them--but I want to do them. At first, I wanted to do NaNoWriMo, and I was off to a good start, but a few days in, it really feels like more of an obligation than anything. Maybe this is why I've never liked school--putting deadlines and limits on anything just sucks the fun out of it for me. I can't begin to tell you how many school projects I've been assigned that I hated doing, but probably would have enjoyed if I'd thought of them on my own and done them independently. *sigh*
...I'm sooooo going to have to be self-employed
Well, if you like your idea
Submitted by maruutsu on Sun, 11/08/2009 - 21:54.Well, if you like your idea and you don't like working on a deadline, then don't pressure yourself into doing this! Either pick another idea (so that you don't quit NaNoWriMo) or just quit entirely and focus on your story without the pressure of a deadline.
Nov. 8: 0 words. ZERO.
Submitted by Lothere on Mon, 11/09/2009 - 05:53.Nov. 8: 0 words. ZERO. However, I took pictures for a scene, redecorated a room in Nothelm and a room at Ramsaa, made some wound-related CC, and spent hours with Google Earth and Wikipedia and rates-of-travel calculators working on my outline for the next two months.
THIS is why KoL cannot work as NaNo material.
Van, it's up to you. You're in college so you know all about meeting deadlines, and you are constantly writing all year round without the prodding of NaNo, so it isn't as if you needed something like this to force you into the chair to write. You might want to do as I did, and analyze what you might get out of NaNoWriMo, and ask yourself whether that's something you need as a writer. The big benefit in doing it -- that I see -- is that you will be forced to JUST WRITE. That leap between wanting to be a writer and JUST WRITING is the one that most people never take. And you and I are both perfectly capable of JUST WRITING. And yeah, 50,000 words in one month isn't a recipe for quality.
The only argument I am not sure about is the unwillingness to waste your good idea on NaNo. I do understand it, but I don't know that I agree. Lots of authors have returned to shitty first drafts they wrote years before and pulled out the good chunks and reorganized them and rewrote them into good novels.
You could even consider the 50,000 words not as a first draft, but as a sort of long, exploratory free-writing exercise that you would use to test whether your ideas are sound and can be put together into a working story. In software development we call little hacked-together proof-of-concept programs like that "throw-away prototypes". Could the idea work? Yes? OK, chuck that guy and write a real first draft. *wonders whether real authors ever write that way*
Nov. 9th: 212 words starting
Submitted by Lothere on Tue, 11/10/2009 - 05:46.Nov. 9th: 212 words starting the next chapter. I begin to detect a pattern...
Catching up here: Nov. 10th:
Submitted by Lothere on Wed, 11/18/2009 - 18:55.Catching up here:
Nov. 10th: 35 words
Nov. 11th: 276 words
Nov. 12th: 0 words
Nov. 13th: 757 words
Nov. 14th: 0 words
Nov. 15th: 768 words (finished "Flann sees Ice") + 262 words (on "Matthew has a Christian Reason")
Nov. 16th: 453 words
Nov. 17th: 819 words
Nov. 18th: 754 words (finished "Christian Reason")
Nov. 19th: 381 words Nov.
Submitted by Lothere on Mon, 11/23/2009 - 21:29.Nov. 19th: 381 words
but seriously I heavily modified a lot of the stuff from the day before, so...)
Nov. 20th: 976 words
Nov. 21st: 12 words (
Nov. 22nd: 540 words
Nov. 23rd: 1343 words
This chapter is already over 3200 words long and I've not yet reached the climax. I easily could have broken it in two, but I didn't want to lose the emotional momentum built up in part 1. So it's going to be like Life in the Household of Dru, in Three Acts.
Nov. 24th: 1726 words to
Submitted by Lothere on Wed, 11/25/2009 - 06:12.Nov. 24th: 1726 words to finish the chapter. That's 4978 in total for that chapter... one of the longest I've ever writen. *pants*
But it was totally worth it.
Submitted by Tiffany on Wed, 11/25/2009 - 10:02.But it was totally worth it.
Finishing up the month! Nov.
Submitted by Lothere on Mon, 11/30/2009 - 20:55.Finishing up the month!
Nov. 25th - 0 words (pictures, though! and building!)
Nov. 26th - 83 words (poor Egelric)
Nov. 27th - 0 words (more pictures! more building! see why Nanowrimo doesn't work for me?)
Nov. 28th - 792 words
Nov. 29th - 804 words (finished "Gunnilda prepares her piece")
Nov. 30th - 1155 words (finished "Gunnilda meets the so-called King")
Total for the month: 17,116 words. 1/3rd of a NaNo. But I have pictures!
I count 7 completed chapters for the month. "Ris makes a sound" was super-long. Still, I wish I had written more.