Nearly caught up and reached Nano's daily quota today. Only got 600 or so words to go until 20,000 words. But I'm really tired so I'm not doing anymore tonight. So close, yet so far away.. Bah, I'm going to get behind this weekend because I need to catch up on uni work too.
I was hoping to be 35K only managed 32K and have a lot to do at the weekend grr!! maybe get there tonight will try have an hour. Tonight Socrates is having a fight with his sister Ivory she is offended and has soaked him a bucket of ice water. He has thrown his wet clothes at her. (he is 130 she is 400)
Hey, I have a Katherine in my story. She's the zombie. Er. Back to the gay sex. First day this month I didn't write over the 1667 limit. I know I'm like 20,000 words ahead or something ridiculous like that, but I still feel sad. Need to get my act together and finish this thing! I'm the furthest ahead of all the people I have as NaNo buddies and I need to work hard to keep it that way... people are a creepin' on up...
NEVER! Never, ever, ever, ever, ever! NEVER! If nothing else, just write for the sheer pleasure of writing.
Haha my MC's name is Katie, short for Kathryn. Nice. And for any of you who are over 10k and feeling bad about themselves, console yourselves with the knowledge that I am currently sitting at 9,884 words.
I have no doubt that this is just the calm before the storm for you. Indeed, the earth shall tremble with each tap of your fingers whilst you catch up! P.S. Nate or Okami?
It can be done! Not by me, however, unless I was under great duress. But many people have shown the way. . . .
I do have a feeling to want and write something new. I have a handful of ideas that I've wanted to start for some time now (stupid epic fantasy trying to take all my time). Okay, I'm going to sit down and write out a beginning tonight. It's very humid here tonight. I'm sweating just watching television. hopefully a storm will come (love them) and help me out. *wonders which idea he should attempt*
To be honest, I started with an idea that I had thought about extensively a number of years ago. Then I did my (almost) best to create an outline of the story. And I found that I was ignoring that outline by the end of the third chapter. But that's been the best part of this NaNo for me. I've opened up and have come up with some really neat concepts that can be refined in future works. And P.S. I enjoy a good storm as well.
Apart from a brief outline, i don't usually ever go down that path. I have checkpoints which i prefer to pass, but anything goes in the middle.
Well then, as the elves would say in one of my past stories, "I hope your shadow never catches up with you." Best wishes!
Writing a plot would have saved me splitting my first novel into two, and having to add addition plots, climaxes and conclusions.. But yes.
Wow, how many words you write a day? I'll probably finish the challenge by monday/tuesday, but I had outlined and started on November first. I'm tired. It takes me too long to achieve my minimum of 3,000 words a day. I think it takes about 5 hours, and after it I am exhausted. Even though I have been writing my stories in English for some months now, it still tires me a lot. I forget words, and my head hurts. Having said that, I am quite happy with my novel so far. It is still a very rough draft, but I am enjoying it immensely
Tee hee, I finished this morning. Well, my friend stayed up all night and wrote until 49,000 words. I couldn't let that sit because I've got to go be busy for the rest of the day. So I forced out the 2,500 words I needed to get to the end all before lunch. Now I have to run. Wheeee. *freeeedom from NaNo!* I'm still gonna try and finish the story. I stopped right as my zombie was trying to kill off the main character's love interest. Not gonna let that sit.
Congrats on finishing! People like you make me sick. I kid, I kid.. I wish I could write so much in a short space of time.
LOL it is swings and roundabouts - right now I am managing between 3-5000 a day but am moving house so it is a bit slower than normal. Takes me a month to first draft, month to rewrite then six months to edit roughly Real life gets in the way sometimes. If my husband can take kids out tomorrow hope to get about 10,000 done to get me over the 40,000. Someone who writes slower probably spends less time in the edit stage. I now have a serious dilemma - this story was never meant for anything more than fun but it is turning out to be best I have ever written. However it is reading like Sarah Jane Adventures with sex and a very grown up emotional relationship as the central driving force lol It is kind of Goodbye Mr Chips meets Torchwood uncut right now Need to decide whether to be YA or Adult with it - any advice welcome?
Thanks for the encouragement. I'm almost to 12k now, trying to get as much writing done before I leave for work as I can, since I won't have any time to work on it for the rest of the day. And I'm leaning towards Okami. Jealous. My goal was to write at least 2000 words a day, but after going strong for the first four days while I was on vacation/off from work, real life caught up with me, and I've barely had any time to write since then. Arg.
Just a little hope for all those struggling to reach their counts: It took Dr. Seuss nine months to write "A Cat in the Hat", and it has only 236 words.
One of my characters is very protective and almost paranoid about losing her virginity. I am not even sure I can properly justify it. I suppose my character just doesn't have all her marbles... I mean it makes Artemis turning whats his face into a stag for seeing her naked completely sane. Well I think thats the general idea of the myth... or did I confuse Artemis with another Goddess? *shrugs*
Actaeon, and for the popular telling you're referencing it you've got it right, and yes it was Artemis. Why is she so protective- is she afraid? Is it a religious thing?
Oh well I only know what my highschool mythology teacher taught us. Definitely not a religious thing. When she was young her parents died and her older sister, about 6 years older give or take, had to find some way to help support them. This is also a fantasy story btw and so she became a whore. So every night she would see her sister take her client upstairs. Afterwards she would sometimes hear her sister cry at night. Not so long after this starts she makes sort of a vow to herself that if and when she does have sex she wants it to be with someone she truly cares about. Her older sister eventually gets pregnant and after birth she and her son get ill. She is saved, but the child dies. This group that saved her, further poisons my characters mind against males in general. Females are the dominate while males are only good if you can break them and enslave them. So I guess its a combination of all of this that sorta drives her to be protective. She sees most men as animals and will take what they want. Doesn't help her that she had recently lost most of her strength and comes very close to being raped. So she is even more on edge then normal. Actually that last bit goes a long way in explaining her paranoid state. ... Nothing like rambling about your charactes/plot to see get a better glimpse and understanding of things.
I agree - I find posting little questions on here and rambling a bit in threads is good a for a few thousand words lol Talking about my world, book and characters moves it on really well.
Emily, I love you. I made it to 13,500 before work yesterday, which would have bode well for the rest of the day if I'd had time after work to write some more, but I didn't...sigh. Perhaps I'll be able to chip away some more after work today.
