Ego! Ego! Ego!: NaNoWriMo Archives
November 30, 2007
NaNoWriMo: Day 30! DONE!WOOT! FINISHED!
Final word count: 50,149.
What a year. I learned a lot about my writing style in comparison to Twon's, and had a ton of fun. WOOT. Masochist that I am, I can hardly wait to do it again next year!
November 29, 2007
NaNowrimo: Day 29
WOO! NEARLY THERE!
November 28, 2007
NaNoWriMo: Day 28
WOO. Only 4k to go! Got a lot of writing done today, but not as much as I'd hoped. I'm just not feeling it this evening, writein or no. Feh. Hopefully will do well tomorrow and Friday.
November 27, 2007
NaNoWriMo: Day 27
Man. Was busy Sunday and wrote 0 words. Was depressed and tired Monday (because I finished the damn plot and had 10k left to write) and wrote 771 words.
Today I am back on track and wrote 2299 words! How, you may ask, is this possible, since I finished the plot and kind of suck at adding padding after the fact?
I'm writing a story one of the characters in the Real Plot can read at some point. Or something. I'll work it in if I feel like it. I've outlined it and everything. It's a big dumb fantasy short story, loosely in the style of Fafhrd and the Grey Mauser. Good times. And I'm being wordy as hell, which I somehow find easier in a fantasy setting than in a modern day one. This year's NaNo has been full of educational tidbits like that.
November 23, 2007
NaNoWriMo Day 23: WOO!
WOO! Over 5k written today! GO ME. Failed utterly to write ANYTHING yesterday, so I had to catch up.
I am, however, having the same problem I have every year: when I am trying to book along and make good wordcount progress, my scenes get shorter and shorter. GRR. I am looking at running out of plot damn quickly, and it is pissing me right off. I gotta get better at translating wordcount panic into padding instead of brevity. On the bright side, I did manage to work a rewrite of the entire Nieman Marcus Cookie Recipe forward into the text.
November 19, 2007
NaNoWriMo: Day 19
WOO! 25k Reached! Been too busy to post, but not too busy to write the last few days. Go me. Excerpt below.
November 15, 2007
NaNoWriMo: Day 15
Grr. I think this may well have been my least productive and most rage-inducing writein ever. I swear, this entire coffeeshop is full of noisy people with penetrating voices. I only got about 2500 words written and I feel like punching something.
No excerpt today. I am too angry and just want to get the fuck out of here. Grrrr.
November 14, 2007
NaNoWriMo: Day 14
Woo, crossed 15k!!!
November 13, 2007
NaNoWriMo: Day 13
WOO! Doin' good. I busted out the NaNo Report Card I used last year and tweaked it for this year, and that's helping me out a bit, I think. I'm also having a lot more fun now that I'm back in the groove, pumping out words at 1500 or so an hour. Go me. Excerpt below.
November 12, 2007
NaNoWriMo: Day 12
WOO! 10k crossed! Nevermind I'm supposed to be at 20k today.
November 10, 2007
NaNoWriMo 2007: Day 10
Still chugging along slowly. Woo.
November 08, 2007
NaNoWriMo 2007: Day 8
Bleah. Crummy day. Only wrote about 500 words. Better than nothing. But no excerpt today. Feh.
November 07, 2007
NaNoWriMo: Day 7
Crossed 5k, woo! Go me. Gotta keep plugging, though. Long way to go to catch up. Siiiigh.
Today's excerpt below...
November 02, 2007
NaNo progress = sad, sad, sad.
Well, yesterday I never managed to add to the 1000 words I wrote at the first-minute writein.
And today I have been so busy that I've only managed to get the outline I'm working on about two-thirds-done.
Worse: This weekend is going to be VERY VERY BUSY, and I will be out of the apartment and Doing Things from 8am-10pm both days. So much for catching up at a writein or something.
So. Wordcount: 1000. Until Monday. Not an auspicious start to the month.
Gotta get myself to a buncha writeins next week, I guess.
October 31, 2007
NaNoWriMo approacheth!National Novel Writing Month starts tomorrow! WOOOO!
I am psyched.
After dithering in previous years, I've decided to merge my old NaNo blog with this one. I'll be posting here about my NaNo progress instead of there. When I have time, I'll port the old entries over.
WATCH THIS SPACE.
In other news, my halloween costume this year turned out great, clusterfuckitude notwithstanding. Behold!
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