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NaNoWriMo 2018

Tags: #Crying  #coffee  #wine  #oh gods here we go again  #my fingers hurt  #breaking your keyboard 
  • Member
    November 6, 2018

    Hworra said:

    Also Legion is bak? Wawahway!

    Eyup. I'm back. 

  • November 11, 2018

    Alright, got in another few thousand words. Been a struggle, doubt I'll finish, but I only have one PoV left before this next chapter can go up. 

  • Member
    November 16, 2018
    At the halfway mark, my count is 27,310. Not bad, but I meant to do more, to account for Thanksgiving and the writing I’m not going to get done next week when my daughter is home from school. I may not make my word count, but I don’t feel too bad about it, and I’m really loving my story, so far. Can’t help but feel good about it all so far.
  • Member
    November 19, 2018
    42,528 words. Holy crap, that went fast. I’m really glad I chose to do the rough draft without editing, and have done that. Because just as I thought it would, almost everything in the last third of the story has changed from the way I outlined it.
  • November 19, 2018

    MVP!!

    Meanwhile I didn't get any writing in the past few days. I'm vewwy asshammedd~

  • Member
    November 19, 2018
    Accolades!!! Yeah, I won’t be able to do anything from about Wednesday to Saturday, so I needed to get ahead of the curve. I’m having a blast, doing the writing, though. This is the most fun I’ve had in some time. I hope you at least had a good time while you weren’t writing. That’s about 50% of what college is for, anyway. :)
  • November 19, 2018
    Yeah, lol, I’ve been playing Fallout 76 with my husband. My plan is to get another chapter of Straag out this weekend. I won’t “win” NaNo, but I’ll be writing regularly again.
  • Member
    November 19, 2018

    The Long-Chapper said: Yeah, lol, I’ve been playing Fallout 76 with my husband. My plan is to get another chapter of Straag out this weekend. I won’t “win” NaNo, but I’ll be writing regularly again.

    yeah, but if you meet your own goals, which you totally have, it’s pretty much a win. I mean, it’s not like you actually win anything with Nano. Your own personal goals are a much more valuable measure of success. 

    My goal is to do something I‘ve never done, ever, which is finish the rough draft of a novel. So, even if I do meet the Nano word count, I won’t feel really good about the whole thing until that’s done. I’m about 2/3 done so far. 

  • Member
    November 20, 2018
    50K! And first draft done. Now, to take a little break before getting back in for the 2nd. I’ll be expanding dialogue and description and adding some backstory. Also, there was a lot of (insert battle scene here) and (insert romance here) type things. So that needs to be filled out. But the story arc is done, and it makes sense and it’s consistent. So I feel good about it.