NaNoWriMo: Day 3

Yesterday's write-in was basically a success. I didn't get as much written as ... well just about anyone else. But that's okay. We had about 6 or 7 other people show up, 6 that I can remember anyway, but I felt like ther ewas more. There was mostly writing, we didn't even get to introductions until half the people had left. But there was some good discussion about kidnapping, Write-Or-Die, and when to kill your MC. At least those are the three I remmeber off hte top of my head. We went out to dinner afterwards, which was kinda dissappointing but it was food.

I'm about a day behind. I was 2k behind when I went to the write in, and 1.2k behind when I left it. I'm about 100 words behind yesetrday's goal now, so I'll be able to catch that up, but I don't know that I'll get the full 1667 on top of that I needed before heading off to bed tonight. We'll see how it goes though.

NaNoWriMo: Day 2

Yesterday was pretty fail as a writing day. I tried to write some in the morning, but I just wasn't feeling the chapter. I managed to make about 1000 words, so I have to play catchup today, but we're having a write-in at my university library. I'm hoping this will help me catch up, but we'll see tomorrow! As frustrating as yesterday was, I didn't feel the great need to quit already. In fact, if anything my goals have escalated. I had originally set a 25000 word goal for the month. However, since Monday was actually on track, I've decided that if I can end on track on Sunday, I will go ahead and aim for the full 50000. We'll see how it goes!

NaNoWriMo: Day 1

I've been absent from this blog for a while, but with the beginning of NaNoWriMo (www.nanowrimo.org) yesterday, I've decided to blog about the process. I've made good progress on plotting, I'm onto the last 3 sequences. I'm hoping by the time I get to there, it'll be either not November, or I'll have figured out how to get to the ending, and what the last few plot pinches are.

So yesterday was the first day. I probably broke some kind of record by almost giving up at 10am, with < 500 words written. Things were slightly better over lunch, when I took an hour or so to hit 830-some. This was my official goal for the day, since I was intending on only hitting 25k for the month, instead of the full 50.  Things were looking grim though, as I wasn't happy with the content of the writing at all. There was something missing.

After I was done with work (around 5pm), I went home for dinner, and started to revisit the writing. Rather than try and plow forward, I decided to go back to the beginning and add in whatever I felt was missing, reword / reorder some sentences, etc. I didn't completely axe any sentence, which probably fluffs my wordcount a bit since it's commented (doesn't appear in the final document), but it's in the NaNo spirit. I'm happier with it, even if looking at my writing buddies list makes me depressed. I tried to get more done this morning, but that seems to have not worked too well. Maybe I'll manage a good chunk of writing over lunch, since I won't have time this evening unless I don't want to sleep tonight.