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National Novel Writing Month 2019: When in doubt, write Nanomachines!
- Thread starter FlowersisBritish
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Hahaha, it's also for selfish reasons. The real life consequences got me to a higher word count than I have ever before and I must pay out otherwise I know I will not maintain the lessons I learned this month. The only times in my life I've truly made progress was when there were finally real consequences.
I mean if you are looking to punish yourself and to do so would involve giving me $10 then I won't say no :P
my steam is the same as my era tag and the same as (rambles for 30 minutes as every account is zulux21 lol) The 21 is so that my account is almost never taken on any site :P
I forgot that this was even a thing. I don't really use Steam much so I don't really need it, but if you're sure, I think I added my Steam ID to my profile.
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It took me two days and a lot of writing but I finished this Novel at 56828 words. Its kinda weird how it all evolved away from me, how details I threw in there for shits and giggles came in to play in clever ways later on. When I did the first of this fantasy series for last years nano, I kinda assumed it would end after the first but I had so much fun I wanted to come back to it again this year and I'm glad I did. Its nowhere near any of my best writing, but the ideas were definitely coming together in fun and interesting ways. Even though I am well on record for hating series, I guess I'm writing a fantasy series. I'm hoping next year will be the end and maybe Gael Darkson of the Darkson Brigade will save the world from a waking god, or maybe I'll go with my original idea of God waking up and just destroying it all? Question for October I suppose.
At the very least, I hope to finish a different novel before then.... one without the horrifying monthly timeframe.
At the very least, I hope to finish a different novel before then.... one without the horrifying monthly timeframe.
Congrats on finishing the Novel and I wanna say thanks for all your work in organizing this thread and keeping the WC updated (must have been fun :P) and all the other active members with all their words of encouragement. The annual Nano threads were originally what got through the scare of writing a large amount of words and ignoring my own shortcomings so thanks for keeping them up year after year <3
So I assume it went through? Ya earned it. Looking forward to seeing you guys in the CWC more. Still waiting for zulux21, FlowersisBritish, and PKthndr 3 days to be up to send. Haven't heard from most of the others on that list. May PM them when I have time later.
Grats on making it! And I'll echo what Grudy said, thanks again for all the hard work in doing regular updates!
Mine just came through, so thanks again Midramble - a surprise to be sure, but a welcome one!
Nope, I'm midramble on steam. It'll take 3 days of friendship before it can be sent. Apologies for how shady that sounds...
Cool, will be able to get The Shadow and the Blade DLC then
So who else hasn't written since nano ended :P
at 6 days without writing it's my longest streak since august 2017 without writing. the longest I had before this was a 4 day period in 2018 when family and friends were in town and it was too much of a pain to write without them noticing :P
at 6 days without writing it's my longest streak since august 2017 without writing. the longest I had before this was a 4 day period in 2018 when family and friends were in town and it was too much of a pain to write without them noticing :P
I haven't, but I've still found myself thinking about the world of my story now and then and want to write more. That didn't happen to me with either previous NaNo I completed.
I've been meaning to do what I wanted to do during nano, but I have to write like 1.5k more words to finish what I worked on for nano first which I don't want to do... so I haven't been >.>
plus I was backing up, building and setting up a new computer since sunday so that's gotten in the way lol.
I've mulled around an idea for the CWC but I probably wont actually write outline words until my flight tomorrow
oh don't procrastinate. in the time you took to write that you could have written a sentence of outline for the story.
so do that :P Just one sentence to start with :P
Son of a... you're not wrong. Now I've got 50 words done and a solid-ish idea.
Camp officially starts!
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Quick reminder to people that today Camp Nano officially starts today!
For those of you who don't know, Camp is basically regular NaNoWriMo only you set your own goals so it's a little more relaxed (if you so choose to make it relaxed). Camp happens in April and July and really you can do anything you want. Plan on adding to your novel? Go for it. Editing an old novel you wrote for November? Hell yeah! You can pretty much do whatever you want. For example: I've currently set a goal to do 25k words by the end of the month. If you have any questions, feel free to check out the official website.
Anyway, for people doing Camp, feel free to use this thread to talk about it and your progress.
For those of you who don't know, Camp is basically regular NaNoWriMo only you set your own goals so it's a little more relaxed (if you so choose to make it relaxed). Camp happens in April and July and really you can do anything you want. Plan on adding to your novel? Go for it. Editing an old novel you wrote for November? Hell yeah! You can pretty much do whatever you want. For example: I've currently set a goal to do 25k words by the end of the month. If you have any questions, feel free to check out the official website.
Anyway, for people doing Camp, feel free to use this thread to talk about it and your progress.
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We do not get enough attention on Camp to justify a new thread. Its usually a handful of posters at best. That said, of there is a lot of people doing Camp I'm open to making a dedicated thread to it but until then we'll just use the previous Nano thread.
Hey everyone :)
I participated in camp last July, started a new project, and I'm still working on that story. I'm currently at 85k words which I'm pretty proud of. I'll join you for this camp too. My goals are split between editing and writing. With so many daily disruptions happening at the moment what with corona I decided to be easy on myself and set myself a goal of 20k for the month.
Good luck to the rest of you!
I participated in camp last July, started a new project, and I'm still working on that story. I'm currently at 85k words which I'm pretty proud of. I'll join you for this camp too. My goals are split between editing and writing. With so many daily disruptions happening at the moment what with corona I decided to be easy on myself and set myself a goal of 20k for the month.
Good luck to the rest of you!
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Eh, guess I'm in for Camp NaNo. Not signing up for it officially, but I'm aiming for 30k words this month. It kind of snuck up on me, so I don't have a big idea that I feel comfortable working on right now, so I'll be using the words to finally write a few short stories I've been meaning to work on for a while now.
I've never done Camp Nano this year, but I'm doing it this year (I've got so much extra time due to Covid). I was gonna try one of the Writing Challenges but I keep chickening out putting it off, so I'm gonna have a crack at this instead.
My goal is to finish a bunch of unfinished stories. The first one is a retooled version of my (failed) Nano 16 novel. Current progress is 517 words out of 5,000 words.
My goal is to finish a bunch of unfinished stories. The first one is a retooled version of my (failed) Nano 16 novel. Current progress is 517 words out of 5,000 words.
I'm currently at 1.2k words. I actually tried a "write a monologue from the perspective of your character" exercise to get warmed up since I've found it oddly difficult to get writing. The exercise helped, though I had to exclude it from the word count.
I also just want to say: I hate how much of a hassle it is to update my Camp Nano project on the official site. It's way more annoying than it was last November
I also just want to say: I hate how much of a hassle it is to update my Camp Nano project on the official site. It's way more annoying than it was last November
Just completed my first goal (reached 5012 words on this 5k word draft).
My next goal is to edit one of my stories from last Nano. I'm editing it down from 13k to a clean and coherent 6.5k word draft. The final version of that story probably won't be 6.5k words, this is just so my second draft isn't overly wordy / is straight to the point
My next goal is to edit one of my stories from last Nano. I'm editing it down from 13k to a clean and coherent 6.5k word draft. The final version of that story probably won't be 6.5k words, this is just so my second draft isn't overly wordy / is straight to the point
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Holy shit that's a big edit!! Kinda nuts! Any reason youre aiming for chopping off half?
I'm really bad at overwriting and waffling on, especially with first drafts
Every writing teacher I've ever had has told me at one point, "yeah, no, this story does NOT need to be this long"
I'll probably go past 6.5k words for the final version, this is just so I'm cutting out the fluff from the first draft
I finally started on the second (and possibly last) project of this Camp Nano. The actual project is a bit different from what I initially planned, as I ended up cutting out way more than half of the draft. Most of it was overwritten, but I realized a good chunk of the story was just straight up boring, so I decided to salvage the good parts and re-plot the whole story. I'm currently at 1.8k words out of my 10k word goal
270 words from reaching my 110K goal., cant believe I finished with several days left in the month
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You can do this! Keep up the good work!
Damn DTL. I'll be honest, didn't think you could do it but you really went crazy there. Good job!
There's no way I'm hitting my goal by tomorrow, but I'm currently at 2.7k words
Damn, congrats on hitting (close to) 110k words
Damn, congrats on hitting (close to) 110k words
Thanks
Forgot to update since then, but I've done a few more thousand after that, slowed to around 1K words a day.
Quite close to finishing this first part of my trilogy
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One day left! I hope people are doing a good job and are going to hit their goals! It'll be close, but I'm hoping to hit mine tomorrow.
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Holy shit that's awesome!! I'm glad you're moving towards your final stretch. If its not too much, care to share one of your illustrations?
I'm not going to hit my goal. I stopped writing around ten days (and 10k) in, intending to get back to it sometime. But I was writing smut this time and a genuinely sad thing happened a few days ago and now I don't feel like writing smut anymore for a while.
One of my cats got very sick and had to be put to sleep. The vet said it was either late-stage cancer or, more likely, wet FIP, and in either case the prognosis was that she couldn't be saved. That really sucked. I'd had that cat for almost thirteen years and bottle-fed her from the time she was two weeks old (her mother was a feral cat who got hit by a car; I rescued all of the kittens).
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Thanks, I appreciate it. That was the first time I discussed it online (which means with anyone outside of immediate family these days) and getting it out feels like it helped a little bit.
Finished with 117K words, several thousand higher than my goal. Story probably needs one or two chapters to conclude this arc.