NaNoWritMoorDie - third deadline

[clauderainsrm.livejournal.com]

You survived a Presidential election, and the first two deadlines!

Will you survive the third?

I don't know. I don't have a crystal ball to stare into and see the future. Or do I? And if so, what am I seeing in your future, and why am I laughing so hard?


I know different people are going to go at different paces, and that's fine - as long as you end up where you need to be at the end! With that in mind, make sure you add 6,500 more words to your total by Sunday November 11th at 12:59pm EST! For those playing at home, that means you will be at least 19,000 words into your novel. If you have more? Great. If you have less, and your ultimate goal is less - fine. If you want to make the 50,000 by the end of the month though, you should be about there by the deadline though!

Get to it slackers!

Comments

[ecosopher.livejournal.com]

I think as far as NaNo goes, I've kind of set myself up to fail. I set myself a smaller target (25K) and I am working on a story which I've already written about 5K, and which is actually plotted out quite well. Before, I've always started fresh, and been so excited about the newness of the idea, and the scariness of the wordcount. This time it is... it's just work, you know? And I don't feel like working. Even though I actually still like the story.

[clauderainsrm.livejournal.com]

I hear ya.

It's one of the things that I hate about plotting things out too thoroughly. Is there any part of the story, or a subplot, you think you *can* tell now? Even if it's just playing around setting up some sort of backstory? Or the guy driving down the street who sees your characters when they are doing that thing that they do... :)

[ecosopher.livejournal.com]

I'm normally very much a pantser, too, so I think I have indeed plotted it out too thoroughly. I've just yesterday created a new event in the story which will reunite (and to some degree reconcile) my MC with her family, and I hope this'll pull me out of my rut.