I'm done! I won!...50,249 - Sooo cool, and the best thing is that I am not nearly finished my draft and I plan to keep going...I've never written anything this long in my life...I'm feeling pretty good...can you tell??
yes excessive use of .... is a common excitement symptom. CONGRATULATIONS! and with two whole days to spare.
Finished 50,888 words of one story on Nov.15 and 50,581 for my next WIP today. So I wrote 101K with less time on my hands than I had when I did 72K last year. Which means I'm in no doubt whatsoever I'll be doing NaNo in 2009 again. But perhaps just one full WIP.
Finished around ten minutes ago. 50K with eight hours to spare. A pat on the back well-deserved in my opinion.
well done everyone! This seems like a lot of fun. I've never done it because i always have essays due for the end of November. So what did everyone end up writing about?
So. This was my first NaNo and it was an epic fail. I know we had a NaNoWriMo count thread, but I thought a "who won?" thread would be good too. How many of you reached 50k words? Any secrets? What was your total word count? When did you break the mark? What's your story about?
I am really angry with myself! I can never get much past 10K without getting bored of my story to a point where i start again!!
Finished mine on the 28th - with a big sigh! Was fun, but even though i did finish it off, i feel meh cause most of it was done in only a few days. Never felt like i gave the whole onth a run. But nonetheless, im 50k more into my story then i was a month ago.
I gave up trying for the 50K mark fairly early. I don't have a lot of free time, and I really hated doing firehose writing and not doing any reworking. So my grand total at the end of the month was 12,434 words. It's a good solid beginning, though, and I plan to go ahead with it over the next few months. It has also spurred me to put more work into Neverending, which I had been neglecting.
I had the same problem as hellomoto, which was why I did NaNo and forced myself to finish. I wound up winning with a little over 65,000. I was pretty proud of myself!
I only reached 12,434, but I'm quite happy with it. That 12,434 starting point is still pretty substantial, and it's cleaner than I would have had with 2-3 times that quanity using the NaNo firehose approach. The "Damn the torpedoes, full speed ahead!" philosophy just doesn't work for me. After I've written a quantity of prose, my thouights will keep going back to it with things that I could have written better. If I don't go back and scratch that itch right away, I'm too distracted moving forward. So for me, NaNo may have been a failure in one sense, but it was worth taking a shot at. And in the process, I have given my muse a steel-toed nudge.
I went from having 10K on "the betryal" up to 105K this month alone...and none of it do I consider junk...just been writing away at it...
Count me as an epic fail, too. I think if it were the summertime, I would have fared better, but the pressure to write so much so quickly when there's not so much time kind of made me shut down.
How is any of it a failure? Whatever you accomplished is worth the attempt, is it not? And those of you who DID make the count, hearty congratulations!
I reached 50K in the afternoon of the 30th. Was a good day. It was my first nano and I hope to take part in many more.
I was fortunate that it's a complete rewrite of a previous story with the plot more fleshed out...it allowed me to writer more
It probably isn't. Considering I went with a type of writing that required me to do a lot of research and was something I wasn't used to writing at all. But, in my head, it felt like epic fail.
I didn't know what NaNoWriMo was until November 28 or something like that, so there wasn't much time for me to write anything, even thought I think I got 2k words that week in a short story/short novel thing that I'm writing. I'm kinda proud of myself because I haven't ever written anything seriously until now.
