NaNoWriMo 2004, part 2

[The Holy Saint, Grand High Poobah, Master of Monkeys, Ehlers]

only two people (me and 42) gave official word count totals yesterday, so the calendar looks king of naked. but i updated it anyway.

[EUOL]

22,357 for me so far.  Sorry about not posting yesterday.  

[stacer]

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.

[The Holy Saint, Grand High Poobah, Master of Monkeys, Ehlers]

day 13 up

[Fellfrosch]

I weep for my lost week. Maybe this one will be better.

[JP Dogberry]

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.

[The Holy Saint, Grand High Poobah, Master of Monkeys, Ehlers]

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!

[JP Dogberry]

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.

[EUOL]

Go JP!

[stacer]

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.

[EUOL]

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!

[42]

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.

[The Holy Saint, Grand High Poobah, Master of Monkeys, Ehlers]

ok, i finally got around to uploading day 15 numbers

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.

[The Holy Saint, Grand High Poobah, Master of Monkeys, Ehlers]

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!

[EUOL]

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.