NaNoWritMoOrDie - Day 2
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therealljidolIt’s the second day into NaNoWriMoorDie. How are you doing?
What obstacles have you faced? Have any of them included barbed wire? If not, why not? What kind of wimpy obstacle course are you running anyway?
If you are doing this “novel month” thingee, but not for the word count, doesn’t that just mean you happen to be writing a novel this month? Is that kind of like the Home Game version?
Regardless of any of that though, it’s good that you are writing, regardless of why or how. Writing> Not Writing.
Remember to post your word count on Sunday, November 4th at 11:59 PM http://therealljidol.livejournal.com/607371.html so that people can laugh, point and possibly throw rocks at you. Why? Because that’s what people like doing! Geez, are you trying to take away all of their fun????
What obstacles have you faced? Have any of them included barbed wire? If not, why not? What kind of wimpy obstacle course are you running anyway?
If you are doing this “novel month” thingee, but not for the word count, doesn’t that just mean you happen to be writing a novel this month? Is that kind of like the Home Game version?
Regardless of any of that though, it’s good that you are writing, regardless of why or how. Writing> Not Writing.
Remember to post your word count on Sunday, November 4th at 11:59 PM http://therealljidol.livejournal.com/607371.html so that people can laugh, point and possibly throw rocks at you. Why? Because that’s what people like doing! Geez, are you trying to take away all of their fun????
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Date: 2012-11-02 04:20 pm (UTC)My biggest challenge so far is that I got the worst sleep ever the night before last. Yesterday, I was super grumpy and writing was hard. Then I managed to get a nap at the end of my workday and things got better.
Wooooo!
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Date: 2012-11-02 07:17 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2012-11-02 05:00 pm (UTC)I just woke up now, I'll have to get a little job searching in first and them ill write. If I can get in at least 2,000 words today, I'll be happy. Hopefully I get more though again. I like being ahead for days where writing is less likely to go well ;)
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Date: 2012-11-02 05:40 pm (UTC)Where it falls in the crap spectrum is up for grabs, but you are writing. Go you!
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Date: 2012-11-02 05:46 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2012-11-02 06:03 pm (UTC)You don't have to, but it helps. ;)
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Date: 2012-11-02 06:15 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2012-11-02 05:36 pm (UTC)Is anyone else doing dares?
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Date: 2012-11-02 07:10 pm (UTC)WARNING - FORUM IS A TIME SUCK!
The novel I'm writing this year was one I originally took a (very weak) stab at in nano 2004. That year I spent way too much time in the forums, but there was one challenge where a bunch of us all agreed to use the word "mockernut" in our novel. I ended up naming my tree farm "Mockernut Tree Farm" but I'm pretty sure the name will be changing this year. :P
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Date: 2012-11-03 03:54 am (UTC)no subject
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Date: 2012-11-03 03:54 am (UTC)And yes, yes it is! I'm actually impressed with myself at the moment. I never thought I could write nearly 9k in two days. Yeesh.
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Date: 2012-11-03 03:57 am (UTC)My story has absolutely no sense of structure, and I don't care yet. I know I will when I try to edit this, though.
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Date: 2012-11-03 12:23 pm (UTC)Mine does, but that's because I'm borrowing heavily from what I've written before. But then a whole different plot line appeared a couple of weeks ago and it's warped everything. Oops.
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Date: 2012-11-02 05:46 pm (UTC)I woke up in the middle of the night again last night, but I was able to get back to sleep. Perhaps I shouldn't have done so and would have had an even more awesome word count today if I had forgone the extra rest?
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Date: 2012-11-02 07:38 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2012-11-02 05:59 pm (UTC)Biggest obstacle yesterday was lack of sleep. And yet I churned out 4k words yesterday despite that. Go me?
I'm doing a higher word count goal than NaNo requires (90k). I'll be sure to post my word count on Sunday. I think I'm going to a write-in tomorrow, too. And meet other NaNo'ers in person. :D
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Date: 2012-11-02 06:36 pm (UTC)Managed three hundred words for
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Date: 2012-11-02 08:19 pm (UTC)I'm tired of rain :(
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Date: 2012-11-04 12:32 pm (UTC)*is also not NaNo-ing*
Wooo, slacker party in the corner! *\o/*
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Date: 2012-11-02 08:41 pm (UTC)But these extra hassles are making me feel uninspired. I got a good start yesterday, although I don't know my exact word count, but haven't (yet!) done anything today. Any help, please?
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Date: 2012-11-02 08:53 pm (UTC)So, if you're part-time on the computer, and part-time on the notepad, then just periodically count your words on the notepad and put them in the word count, but wait until you have time (or December) to transcribe them into your WIP. It'll still be a bit of a pain, but if you're not writing in story order, and can keep this bit of the story here and that bit of the story there, maybe it won't be a problem.
Go you! Rah Rah Rah! :)
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Date: 2012-11-02 10:01 pm (UTC)I was under the impression I had to have 50 000 words typed, and uploaded to NaNo's site by 30th November, in order to win. Am I wrong about that? Is there more scope for dealing with that later? Brilliant, if that's true, but I thought if it wasn't submitted by the deadline, then how do they know I didn't cheat and write it later? :?
But if I can keep the entire thing together in a notepad and write it all up later, I think that's a win for me!
So far I have been writing in story order, and why splitting is more of a hassle. Also, there are points that have cropped up in these first few pages that I want to include later, so remembering all of those also seems like a chore. I have been concerned it wouldn't "join up well" if I wrote out of order, or is that more of the internal editor I need to keep at bay?
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Date: 2012-11-02 10:17 pm (UTC)-- add scene at attorney's office here --
because your scene is going to be longer than six words. :)
As far as the word counter goes, it's true you ahve to upload your words by Nov 30; HOWEVER, it's all on an honor code, and as I said to Theafaye, you don't have to use your actual words. I mean you can substitute X's for all your letters in the document and turn in "Xxx xxxxxx xx xxxxxxxxx'x xxxxxxx xxxxx." By that same logic, you could just copy/paste a section with enough words to stand in for the ones you've hand written.
There are no nano ninjas or cops. No one reads the documents when they get uploaded. It's all automated.
The important thing is to do the writing. Remember, it's like Idol in a way, it's about the experience and an icon. That's it. Make it work for you, whatever that means.
:)
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Date: 2012-11-02 08:50 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2012-11-02 10:35 pm (UTC)Good luck to all the other maniacs, masochists and general crazies.
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Date: 2012-11-03 12:26 am (UTC)God bless deadlines :)
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Date: 2012-11-03 12:32 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2012-11-03 06:27 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2012-11-03 12:32 am (UTC)And jesus how am I ALREADY 4,000 words short? I've got 1,000 words written and I think by the end of the day I'm supposed to have 5,000. Crap crap crap.
Nanowrimo!
Date: 2012-11-03 12:51 am (UTC)Also I was going to say I think this is the first time I haven't been abroad during November but then I realized that wait... I AM abroad.
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Date: 2012-11-03 04:09 am (UTC)The downside is that I'm meant to be writing a novel that is completely daunting because I will never get it out of my head in the same strange, beautiful state that only the possibility of it will be. Instead I'm just writing Dick Grayson/Bucky Barnes fic for my roommate. Every time I sit down to finish it it gets longer. That's really annoying, actually, because I never really encounter that in my original writing. Pfah.
Also, for anyone interested, I'm posting picture prompts every day in my journal. Just in case you need a little extra inspiration. This is the tag for that. (http://momebie.livejournal.com/tag/worth%2050000)