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Local Authors => Writing Group => Topic started by: JP Dogberry on November 11, 2004, 01:41:55 AM
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Ok, that thread was getting stupidly long so I locked it to be considerate to Modem users.
I'm right now on 17, 500, and the next 800 words to meet today's goal is feeling annoying and elusive.
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Isn't NaNoWriMo all about obnoxious length.
Makes me wonder if we could submit one of the long threads as an entry? Probaly not, but would be a avante gaurd thing to do.
So I'm at 14,748 right now. I still have some catching up to do. Hopefully tomorrow will be productive.
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16,153 for me.
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18, 186, and that's probably it, since if I write anything else, it'll be Paranoia adventures, not NaNoWriMo.
Yeah, I'm a little behind the daily goal, but I still wrote more than 3k today, so if I keep the rate up I'm set.
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Ick, I'm falling behind again. Dang it. I was doing so well, too.
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You missed me on the word counting for yesterday, SE. I had my post on the page before the one you collected from.
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I don't think I'll get any writing done today. I currently have a floorful of desk parts. But it'll be really nice to work at when I'm done!
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Prometheus - Sshhh....Since I locked the thread, he'll blame me for it.
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yeah, I blame JP
I can fix it mañana
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17654 is my count
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Day 11 stats up (http://www.writers-group.org/NaNoWriMo/2004). You will notice that for the first time in a week I have a post count that says something other than "I suck"
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Well, coming off of work, I'm at 17,520. I just might get caught up this weekend if I can stay inspired to write.
And I'm glad SE got something written. Congrats SE.
Having neither Fell or SE writing for the past couple of days was just depressing.
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I assure it was more depressing for me. I spent a lot of time staring at the screen.
Anyway, hopefully today I'll do some REAL writing. Like, breaking a couple thousand.
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I need to do a little catching up today as well. I fell behind last weekend & I'm still not quite caught up from it. If I lose resolve again this weekend it'll be bad.
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Well, I'm back . . . sort of. 200+ words so far today. Unfortunately, Mathias has been sick and cranky, which makes me cranky, and so I haven't been getting any writing done. I'm dedicated to this story though, so I'm going to stick with it, even though my chance of winning this year is . . . gone with the wind.
. . . or is that the sick child?
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only two people (me and 42) gave official word count totals yesterday, so the calendar looks king of naked (http://www.writers-group.org/NaNoWriMo/2004). but i updated it anyway.
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22,357 for me so far. Sorry about not posting yesterday.
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I forgot to post, but it's not like I'm gaining fast. 4529 so far. That's a little over half my goal, though, so that's pretty good. (My paper is 30 pages, which is roughly 9,000 words, right?) Most of the next week will be organizing and shaping, filling in what I've already got. But I still need to go through the second book, so I have a lot of research to do still.
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day 13 up (http://www.writers-group.org/NaNoWriMo/2004)
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I weep for my lost week. Maybe this one will be better.
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End of day 15. 23, 688 words.
I'm lagging behind a little, but nothing I can't catch up. I have a free day tomorrow, so I'll try to catch it up then.
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btw, no one sent numbers for day 14, so no update. I've done around 600 words so far today, and I've only been awake for under 4 hours, 2.5 of that involving being in a car or at work. which means I've had maybe one half-hour free so far. Go me!
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As of right now, I am more than halfway finished NaNoWriMo! Yep, 25 thousand words.
This is by far the longest thing I have ever written.
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Go JP!
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5359 for me. No more for tonight. I'm going to do something less brain-ful, like look for a cover artist or read about Arthur Levine's editorial vision.
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25,048 for me.
(Ookla called and distracted me from writing for a time, otherwise it might have been a little better.)
Anyway, to the gym!
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I'm at 18,020 at the moment. I'm not feeling very motivated to write.
there isn't much business. So hopefully I can get some good planning done this weeks so I can write a lot during the slow work hours. Course I still need to get a few thousand words written this week.
So EOUL, what keeps you motivated? Other than you being insane and all that.
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ok, i finally got around to uploading day 15 numbers (http://www.writers-group.org/NaNoWriMo/2004)
Some interesting facts.
For the first time, JP does not have the highest word count. It is also the first time he does not have greater than 100% for the d%
my d% is growing, which means I'm writing faster than the minimum and catching up. Go me! Morale is improving. I blame the drugs. I had my highest word count day yesterday, doing roughly double the minimum needed if I'd been keeping up all along. Of course, this still doesn't give me the highest word count for a given day, but it's a minor achievement that helps me out.
just those really. Feel free to post interesting achievements as well as word counts.
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woot! by end of lunch, with about 1.5 hours of writing time from this morning and small breaks today, I have 1800 words so far today! Make that morale 10 out of ten! go me!
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What keeps me motivated, 42? That's a tough question.
Part of it is the aforementioned insanity--which has partially been created intentionally. As I've said, I've made writing a habit, and if I don't do it, then something feels wrong in my life.
But, what kept me going during those seven years before I'd sold a book? Mostly stubbornness, I guess. I had decided to focus my life around this concept of writing. I had chosen something, and decided to become very good at it. (Or, as good as I could become.) I knew that all other things considered--talent, imagination, skill--the only thing I could really be certain of was my ability to keep on working.
So, I kept going. Writing became the thing I loved doing more than anything else. I had to tell myself that on the days when things weren't going well, but I always got through them by relying on my self-identity as a writer.
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Today is a good day. I'm already at 2800 and I haven't even left work. go me again! If I can write like I did last night, I'll have close to 5k for the day.
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Go SE!
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5850.
But major breakthrough last night brought good research today on the T. Lots of sticky notes that need to be turned into good content.
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Go Stacer!
30,670 here.
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30k? Woah...
It's obviosu whose the professional writer here. I still have 1k more words today just to get back on time, at 28, 333, and I'm a day ahead of you.
I consider this a challange to my rightful, 5k a day dominance.
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Amendment: went back and added a few paragraphs I'd been thinking about while brushing my teeth. So, count for the end of the night is 6129.
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Heh. Don't judge too much based on me, JP. The thing is, this is my job. I have a lot more resources to put into writing than most people do.
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Even more resources than most writers, sometimes. When you're talking about resources other than material. Like staying with it.
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I could only find numbers for day 16 for three people (counting myself), since JP's numbers appeared to be for his day 17. correct me if I'm wrong. Anyway, numbers are up. (http://www.writers-group.org/NaNoWriMo/2004)
All three of today's posters have a higher percentage of the daily goal than they did the day before. that means progress!
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SE, did you change the value for your daily goal? It seems that with getting over 3000 words a day, you should normally be getting over 100% on daily goal percentages.
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Incorrect - My day 17 number is 28, 353, give or take ten.
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Doesn't that make me RIGHT JP? That number is the only number I've seen posted for you since your day 15 numbers.
Stacer, no. The way the "Daily" goal % works is it measures where you are in relation to where you should be so far this month. So on day one, if you write 1667 words, you get 100%. To be at 100% on day two, you have to have written 3333 TOTAL words.
So the percentage should steadily increase if you get closer and closer to each day's "daily" goal, ie, you wrote more than 1667 words that day.
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I did mention I was halfway, at 25k on day 16.
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I put that up as a day 15 number. you have such a wonky time schedule, you need to tell me a day if you want me to get it right.
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Argh!! I've been so lazy!!!
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I feel your pain.
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Stacer, no. The way the "Daily" goal % works is it measures where you are in relation to where you should be so far this month. So on day one, if you write 1667 words, you get 100%. To be at 100% on day two, you have to have written 3333 TOTAL words.
Wait.
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Nevermind.
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/me waits
Nevermind.
I never do
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If you put that up as a day 15 number, then how come my actual day 15 number is on day 15, not the day 16 number you claim to have on day 15?
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6976. Well, it's not nearly enough. That's a page and a half of the draft, plus 19 pages of notes. I've been madly rushing through the research, but I think I've got way too much detail, even when I stopped trying to look so hard. And I'm still not done with the first book. I'm going in too many directions. I know the direction that I want to go, but I'm afraid of missing a detail that will support it. ::) It's just a draft; if I miss a detail I can go back and fix it. But I can't seem to think straight when it comes to this paper. I'm going to bed now, and getting up in about 4 hrs to continue the process.
The good news is that I did increase my scanning speed in searching for those details. I got through 110 pages today compared with 70 in the last two weeks. SE told me to count each page as 100 words. If I were to do that, I might even catch up with some of the best of you! That'd be 11,000 words today, not counting the actual written amount. ;)
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32,700 for me.
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JP, because i'm confused and don't know what I'm doing.
Stacer, I also told you that if you had 18 pages of details from half a book, that a panic over possibly missing a niggling detail is not rational.
I officially wrote over 6000 words yesterday, which is why I'm way behind on the forum. That is officially the most I've ever written in a single day. I think it's the most that's been written by any one person at TWG during NaNoWriMo 2004 Despite missing nearly an entire week and have several very low count writing days, I'm only 2 days behind now, and at this pace, I will finish in 8 days
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Right. Tomorrow I'm writing 6001 words to Spite you.
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Ok, day 17 numbers up (http://www.writers-group.org/NaNoWriMo/2004). I put JP on day 15 too, because, y'know, I'm an idiot.
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SE, I know. It's just really hard to break myself of the habit. I'm just... well, a little OCD when it comes to this paper. It's the first one of this length that I've ever written. (I've written 20 pagers, but somehow the extra 10 seems forbidding.) Now that I've had a few hours of sleep, I think I'll be able to make connections better than at 1 am last night. It just wasn't happening, and the stress level increased.
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Right. Tomorrow I'm writing 6001 words to Spite you.
actually, you'd have to write 6042 to spite me. Not that I said "over 6000," not "exactly 6000."
If you pull it off, that would be cool. I don't think I'll meet it again soon, but I'm sure gonna try.
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I now currently have eight pages of real-live paper that actually makes sense! Not just strung-together notes!
Yay!
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I am now at 22 pages and I have to leave for class. So, I suppose my draft is now 22 pages long. I'm going to read on the train and hope to glean just a little more before I print it at school (free printing is nice).
It didn't really come together completely, but 15 pages of togetherness and 7 pages of "I don't know where to put this" is a beginning, at least.
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"15 pages of togetherness" gives me a warm and fuzzy feeling.
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I did 16k in a day once....
(End of a book. By the time I get there, I know exactly what's going to happen.)
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well, i know it's not a world record or anything. But no one's posted numbers like that for one day THIS month in our group :)
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I'm going to cry. I want to write, dang it!!!
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Write small bits, MsFish. That's how the bulk of mine gets done. In 250 word chunks. You might want to do it in even less. Try 100 word chunks. Then take a break and do something else, but only oNE something else. Then come back and write another 100 words
I found after my first few "forcing to write" 250 words (which is pretty easy to do), my chunks got bigger without really noticing. I'd hit "word count" to see how much I got done, and i'll see numbers like 1132 or something. it sneaks up on me.
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Yeah, that's a good idea. The problem is that I got distracted with huge massive decisions like dropping my minor and being finished after this semester (!!!) and my roommates having crises and the story I'm supposedly writing for 518...and now I feel like I'm so behind that I'll never catch up.
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well, at 30008 I'm officially caught up with the minimum goal. Another 2k and I'm caught up with *my* goal of 2k/day excepting Sundays. I reckon I'll get another 4k tomorrow, putting me right on track.
I've written 17785 words this week, so far. Still have two days to work on it. I think I will have written half of my entire manuscript in one week before I'm done.
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Okay. So, I talked to a couple other classmates, who said they turned in NINE pages and 23 pages, respectively. So my 15 pages etc. is just fine. I really overstressed it. But at least I have that much done. And I'm not going to think about it till after FHE Monday night. I have a different assignment due on Monday, and you know what? Tonight I'm not doing *anything.* Well, I mean, I just got back from hearing Katherine Paterson speak, so that's not nothing, but it was relaxation.
Speaking of whom, I think I'll post my notes from it tomorrow--I think you guys will like what she had to say. Title of the talk was "Are You There, God? Asking Big Questions in Children's Literature." She wrote Bridge to Terabithia and Jacob Have I Loved, among others. It was really good--entertaining, uplifting, and a good deal of information on craft and expressing faith in that craft.
Anyway, my total for today (and I'm kind of cheating, because I'm counting my new draft because I had to really start afresh for form): 13118.
Which means 6322 for today. But it's combination editing/writing.
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My boss has given me pointless paper work to do while I'm at work. Doesn't he realize that my time at work is better spent on NaNoWriMo?
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When I worked the graveyard, my boss mentioned doing something like that a couple of times.
I told him--not as a threat, but as an honest expression of my feelings--that I would quit if he did. No questions. I would simply have to find other work.
In my opinion, they were paying me to throw off my sleep schedule and hamstring my social life. The payoff was that I got to have free time to write my novels at work.
If they were going to take away that advantage, then there was no use in working the night shift. If I was actually willing to WORK at work, I could get a better-paying job during much better hours.
This is not a suggestion. When I took the job, I took it with the understanding that I could write at work. My situation was different. However, I still don't think you should have to do paperwork all night.
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I'm blowing off a lot of the paperwork. Fortunately I work faster than most of the other employees when it comes to this kind of stuff. I'm definitely faster than my boss. The deadline isn't until after Thanksgiving and I have more than half done what was expected of me already. Got to leave some for other shifts.
Course, I've already started sending out my resume to other places I that pay more and don't require such odd hours.
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So I only got a little writing done, but it's better than nothing. Current 18,543 words. This week hasn't been too productive so far.
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Thanks for the word block suggestion, Saint. I think that will really help me.
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hey, it's what I"m here for. Like I said, sitting down and intending to write only a couple hundred words before moving on is how I've done my biggest word counts ever.
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37,423 for me so far.
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so it's been a few days since anyone has posted any numbers. That's probably largely my fault for not updating the calendar.
Sorry, the reason is that I've been writing
I'm creeping up on 43000 words, may hit it still tonight. Which means i have an excellent chance of hitting 50k before NaNoWriMo.org even activates the verification.
I'm well pleased.
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I haven't written anything in several days. No, I take that back. I wrote a quick paper for Monday's class. But I've been concentrating on the Monday class, and letting the Victorian class (the one with the big paper) rest for a few days.
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42,477 so far for me. Sorry for not posting totals for a few days.
Are we the last two hold-outs, SE?
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Nope - I'm about fifty words over today's goal. (The 25th) and on set to finish in time if I don't run out of plot first.
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I'm going to hit 50k today. I just need to make sure I realistically convince the "bad" guy he's wrong.
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I'll still be working on my paper this week and next. Not that I ever intended to hit 50,000. And I wasn't really writing all one piece. But, I'll still post numbers on days that I write. I've just been doing other things this week.
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You don't have to send in your story if it isnt 50K words right? School has been extremely busy the last three weeks, so after the first week I didnt get anything done until this week. So I have about 8000 words.