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National Novel Writing Month 2019: When in doubt, write Nanomachines!
- Thread starter FlowersisBritish
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nicely done. I also got 5k words today so you aren't any closer to me :P
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WC: 33500
I turned my intended section climax into an anticlimax by having one of my characters forcefully point out that summoning isn't a free action, and that gloating while a guy with a huge ax is within swinging range of you isn't a great idea.
As a result, I got to write a nice scene that had my main characters enjoying a festival. Which also included some rather blatant foreshadowing.
I turned my intended section climax into an anticlimax by having one of my characters forcefully point out that summoning isn't a free action, and that gloating while a guy with a huge ax is within swinging range of you isn't a great idea.
As a result, I got to write a nice scene that had my main characters enjoying a festival. Which also included some rather blatant foreshadowing.
Even if you don't like what you've currently written or don't think you can finish the story or like where it's going, I'd say keep writing!
Even if it's something completely different that bears no relation to your previous 26K words with an entirely different set of characters or themes or whatever, just go for it. I think the actual act of finding time and space to write 50K is more important for this month than the actual cohesiveness or quality of the story. Just let your mind go wherever, you might find something in the next 24K.
In previous years I'd just splice in whatever was on my mind when I got stuck. Just to write.
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WC: 27200
I'm slightly behind but I finished Death Stranding so I'll get caught up soon enough.
I'm slightly behind but I finished Death Stranding so I'll get caught up soon enough.
WC:30,030
I'm still at chapter 6 and it has a noticeable effect on my writing. Every day I'm just trying to finish as fast as possible with some really sloppy writing just so I can get back home and squeeze a few hours of death stranding before bed lol
42,152. Probably be done by the end of week, and then I'm going to take a nice long leisure break
WC: 33,547
Great writing day today. It's almost time to beat up Ben Franklin. And I could not be happier.
Great writing day today. It's almost time to beat up Ben Franklin. And I could not be happier.
WC: 54256
Act two is finally in the home stretch. I think I can keep this up until this draft is finished.
Act two is finally in the home stretch. I think I can keep this up until this draft is finished.
WC: 26754
Past the halfway point. I'll be caught up to benchmark by the end of the week. I appear to be on track to actually end the story in the correct location this year.
Past the halfway point. I'll be caught up to benchmark by the end of the week. I appear to be on track to actually end the story in the correct location this year.
you got this easy now. you just need to average like 700 words a day now :P
just need like 2.5k per day to finish up on time. You've got this?
Easily. Every year is a pain in the ass to hit the halfway point then it's all downhill after.
4K a day is doable. 1.8K sometimes seems daunting to me, but doing like 2 1 hr sprints (love the timer on the nano site). I realized I can make it in time.
WC 38552
Still grinding, but slowing down.
Now past my word counts of the prior two attempts.
Still grinding, but slowing down.
Now past my word counts of the prior two attempts.
WC: 57968
Major chapter in the book. Really nervous how it's going to go over with my readers, but oh well. Stuff has to happen eventually right? Mysteries have to be unveiled even if they mightn't be as clever or exciting as people reading might hope.
Still ahead of my 2016 pace. I'm amazed I can write after days like today, where work, personal life, and other things, have been major disruptions.
Major chapter in the book. Really nervous how it's going to go over with my readers, but oh well. Stuff has to happen eventually right? Mysteries have to be unveiled even if they mightn't be as clever or exciting as people reading might hope.
Still ahead of my 2016 pace. I'm amazed I can write after days like today, where work, personal life, and other things, have been major disruptions.