Even 5k words... I was caught off guard by a chest cold so I'm struggling with that... I'll blow past the word counts once I get back into a semi delusional state.
Just got in from church, then off to work so you probably won't see me catch up till later tonight, but I will! Gonna shot for 7-8k today. Also, I'm at a death scene, so good stuff.
I'm managing to keep up my style of rhumba writing - write a little, go back and tweak a little, write a little more. Which is good. I have to keep an eye on my word count though. I'm slow but steady - The little turtle that could. lol. I'm up to 5364. Managed a page before church this morning as I got up super early due to the fall-back clock change.
Awesome! Keep it up! I'm only still around 7k, so your zooming past me! Wow, great word count! Don't let up!
I just finished writing to 40,015 for the day, so I'm done for now. And no, I didn't NaNo last year. The last time I did win was with a story I can no longer find because I lost the flash drive years ago, but it took me all 30 days to complete.
Lol, I'm sorry that you feel like you're dying. As for how I did it? Ah...this will go toward my word count, right? I've had the novel idea in my head for years, but every time I wrote a chapter one, I would change it over and over and over again, until I finally came to love where I was going with it. During NaNoWriMo, that first chapter actually became a chapter seven or something. Anyway, The first four-five chapters I had to push myself through, because there wasn't much excitement going on through them. Not like within the second act of the novel, where the fun really began with all the minor characters. So while I wrote the first few, I kept reminding myself if I got through them fast, the good stuff would get going. Bear in mind I didn't have all the minor characters thought out for the middle (and still don't). I took the day off work so I could pull and all nighter, doing nothing but writing in my bed, because there's no television in there to distract me, nor any kind of noise. When I couldn't find the willpower to get through a certain part of my novel, I'd told myself before that I was also going to write a novel of short stories, and those were going to be about the minor characters that my MC would be running into. So for every character Rick runs into, I took the time to write a short story about them, as to how they came about following their god of choice. For an example of one of my minor characters, to prove why they're so fun to write, I looked at the NaNo boards where someone posted a truth or dare about a rubber duckie. I wondered how I could use that, and then thought it would be interesting to see a rubber duckie floating in a sink filled with water, and to think of it as a spy. The character who controls it happens to be a puppeteer, and he got this power by taking his left eye out of its socket and sticking it into a belly of a doll. He also cut off his eyelid, so he could always see out of a doll's eyes, but only if it had a left eye in tact. He has invisible strings attached to his fingers that can wrap around any kind of to with eyes and control it. Even when he sleeps, he sees things around him as if her were awake. So basically with that, what I'm trying to say is find something you really want to write about, and write about it nonstop until the scene is over with or the chapter is at an end. I literally just spent the whole day writing, occasionally popping on Twitter to do word sprints and to talk about my progress, but I was never on there for long. Also, I don't add paragraphing into my work. It's all one huge clustered paragraph with the occasional breaks to indicate new chapters or scenes. I was able to hit 40k because myself and another person were doing ten minute word sprints with one another and I was averaging 550 words per ten minutes.
The part about pushing past the beginning? That is my exact dilemma. I want so badly for them to be done so I can start the action scenes, but I feel that if they're not long enough I'll have trouble editing it later on. And what helps me write (I'm a pantser) is daydreaming about my novel whenever I'm not writing, getting every scene absolutely perfect in my mind before writing it out. But I'm thinking still on a major rewrite I need to do to my finished novel, so I'm not thinking about my NaNo one at all. I'm doing a rewrite of everything I have done so far (adding things where I forgot to do so, fixing errors, building character, etc) for today's word count, but while I do great at the starts of scenes, I end them too quickly and lamely because I want to move on! That's very interesting about how you don't use paragraphs.... For my character's flashbacks in my finished novel they aren't written in paragraph style either. And for the NaNo I'm not using chapters at all (Stephen King Cujo style). If I make no sense at all, I'm sorry. I'm really tired and am trying to make myself write for another hour before going to bed, so I am mentally drained.
just about, i did 3 hours of sprinting last night, id hit target yesterday morning before work... so last night was just to add and get ahead... and not i didnt write solidly for three hours, i wrote for 20 mins, had a 10 min break, wrote for another 20 mins, so on and so forth. the last sprint i knocked out 600 words but the rest were over 700 words a time.
You make perfect sense to me. When I'm not writing I'm daydreaming as well, but it's hard for me to sometimes put my daydreams down into words that I want them to be in. Like when you're watching a movie and you have no idea how to explain what just happened to someone if they were actually reading a book on that part. If you can't seem to make it past the beginning, then why not skip those scenes? As I said, write what you love, and if the action is what you're really wanting to get into, just get into it already. All of the scenes I've written don't go in any particular order, because once I have an idea, I have to write it right then otherwise I'm going to lose it. Unless the characters keep poking me like an obnoxious kid until I do write it, but not all my characters and their ideas are like that.
Wow, everyone looks like they're doing great! - KR, I nearly keeled over at your count over 40,000! I'm managed my goal of writing a little over 1700 a day - so far I'm up to 7554 with maybe a hundred more, I wrote two paragraphs after midnight last night before going to sleep. I suppose if I didn't go back and tweak things I could manage more but I'm glad to just be keeping up. I'm a little bit worried I'm going too fast, for twenty pages I've packed in a lot of stuff but I'm a rather skinny writer when I write action, so maybe it's for the best.