NaNoWriMo! Chat Thread!

[Shaliken]

*pokes dusty WIP fantasy novel*....maybe I should attempt to finish editing this month. I'd love to whip this thing into shape and start working on another of the stories bouncing around my head....>__>

~Shaliken

[Storybelle]

My account is Storybelle but my joint account that I'm using this year with my friend is Novel Darlings. Please feel free to add me/us.

[Al-1701]

I think I got a little too ambitious with mine.  It's proving to be a much more complicated story than one you can shove a few thousand words a day through.

And I'm Al-1701 on there as well.

[Silver_mirror46]

I got with a couple friends and we are trying to write at least 1k words a day. I've fallen behind a bit, but this sure is tons of fun!

I'm continuing a Fantasy novel I started on February my outline is looking pretty solid thanks to the NaNoWriMo and I'm already at chapter four.

[Storybelle]

We're about 5k behind.  Anyone else falling behind too?

My best friend was in Iceland for the first five days and did no writing so now we're trying to get our word count up. We have a legit excuse! Sort of... 

[Al-1701]

I am, because I'm changing horses in midstream.

[Pokeyonekenobie]

I'm behind.  But when I get in a writing vein I can get about 5,000 words in a couple of hours so I'm trying not to force myself just yet because that's when my writer's block digs in hard. 

[Storybelle]

Yeah, when you have a good day, it's really good. When it's a bad day, it's really hard to hit that word count... 

[Shaliken]

I haven't restarted my edits yet....my toddler has decided that suddenly sleep is for the weak, and I only write dreck when I'm this tired....ugh, lol. 

~Shaliken

[Dragonflitter]

Just went through and added everyone who posted their username here!

I've fallen very much behind, for a few rl issues. :\ But I'm working on climbing back! I did 8k this weekend and I'm hoping to keep it up for the rest of NaNo at this pace so I can finish at the deadline.

Also figured out how to add a NaNo widget to the Arena sig. -pokes sig-

[Storybelle]

Well, my bestie and I decided we're gonna push through and try to finish. I am taking on more of her words though. We were splitting 25k evenly but with her RA work, her actual job and her PHD work she's finding it hard. It's more 30/20 atm and may even end up 35/15. She might push it out though, when she sits and write she can do a couple of k at once.

Good luck everyone! Final stretch now! 

[Al-1701]

My plans fell apart.  Work has decided to sap all of my energy.

[NovelNerd]

I start every year but never finish as I'm always crazy busy reading the kids papers then I don feel like working on my own stuff after reading 90+ essay papers.

[Pokeyonekenobie]

I'm not quite to 25K yet.  But it's more than I had at the beginning of the month.  It would be nice to actually "win" this time, but unless I spend all weekend on it, I don't know that I'll be able to catch up and I'll admit that I really don't want to spend my days off writing (at least not all day.)

I have found that setting a timer for about 10 minutes and doing a word sprint helps me to get my word count up.  I can hit the daily total in about half an hour that way.

[ladybastilla]

I've won before, but this month's isn't gonna happen. That's okay, though. I have about 25k written, and I'm also working on outlines for the other books in this series when my mind tries to wander. That'll prove very useful moving forward. My other series is on pause because it needs massive edits from not knowing how important that would be.