11-05-2010, 12:44 PM | #61 |
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I'm sure I'd have more than I have if I didn't keep going back over the previous days' words - and re-writing them ....
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11-05-2010, 02:30 PM | #62 |
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I'm currently up to 7,365 words. Only 1,017 words to get down today to keep on schedule. Course I have a rough outline of basic scenes for just the first 6 chapters. May slow down as I work my way through that point.
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11-06-2010, 03:33 PM | #63 |
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I got through NaNo last year by steadfastly refusing to go back and edit the last paragraph, else I'd be wasting half my time and half my words. Just acknowledge that it's not perfect and keep writing. Drop in a note to yourself to fix it later if you must. Editing is next month.
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11-06-2010, 06:43 PM | #64 |
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If you ever feel you should rewrite a long block of text from scratch, I recommend you strike it (apply strikethrough format) and leave the block in there.
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11-06-2010, 08:04 PM | #65 |
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Lock the editor in a cage and forget about him til at least Dec. 1st. It's the only way to get to the finish line on time.
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11-07-2010, 10:03 PM | #66 |
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Yay! There's a fire in the writing forum again. I love NaNo. Congrats on everyone for sticking it through the first week. By my calendar, we should all be around 11,500 to keep in the game. As of last night, I'm sitting at around 22k, which is good because it finally lit a fire under me to forget perfection and just write Ashes. I hope to have it done before Thanksgiving. Mostly, I'm doing the slow chug on my workdays for the 1667 and going to town on my off days and lodging around 12k/week. I've realized though that there's no way I'll have this done in the 50k, its going to probably end up around 75k. Hopefully I can do it, all my plot line was pretty much thrown in the gutter, as was the first three chapters I had written prior to NaNo.
Now, I'm mostly doing a discovery write based on common sense and logic I'm also finding that this is turning into more of a Y/A than my usual gritty stuff, which should be interesting because I've never written this genre and haven't read it in years. |
11-07-2010, 10:07 PM | #67 |
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Anyone want to play the excerpt game?
First couple paragraphs from your NaNo..throw it up in all its original ugliness, or beauty, whatever. =) Spoiler:
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11-08-2010, 01:18 AM | #68 |
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Not my 1st paragraph, but where we 1st learn about the main character anyway.
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11-08-2010, 07:33 AM | #69 |
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Of interest to this thread I think:
A NaNo-Tech Cure for Writer’s Block by Henry Cribbs Interviews with successful NaNoWriMo authors S.A. Bodeen, Simon Haynes, Kathleen Kaufman, James R. Strickland, and David Niall Wilson.....: http://redstonesciencefiction.com/20...-november2010/ . |
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Interesting. Thanks for posting the link kennyc.
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11-09-2010, 12:47 AM | #72 |
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How is everyone who is doing NaNo coming along in their word count tonight? I'm at 14,170 at the moment myself.
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11-09-2010, 06:21 AM | #74 |
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I slipped to a daily total of 400 yesterday - but I'm still well above target.
A snippet .. Spoiler:
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Great job everyone!
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