I’m trying to bribe myself into writing the 8k I need to catch up by promising to buy myself the Sirena von Boo Monster High doll I’ve been eyeing off for weeks ONLY IF I hit 20k today.
LOL.
November 12, 2014
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It’s November Already?
Wow, so I seriously suck at NaNo blogging this year. (But then, I kind of did last year too, dropping blogging at day seventeen.) I didn’t even do any kind of prep blogging, which probably reflects my entire attitude towards NaNo this year.
It just kind of crept up on me. Like, the days are going by so fast and I’ve got so much other real life stuff going on, and I always think I have more time but I really don’t. I didn’t write an outline this year. I posted my synopsis to my NaNo page literally hours before NaNo started. Right now, I’m barely at 5k words written.
But I’m not even bothered.
I dunno, I decided to take a less serious approach this year. Well, at least that’s how it started out, haha. I’m writing a New Adult spec fic inspired by a text post I read on tumblr (via Facebook) and that whole Skeleton War thing that breaks out before Halloween. It’s turning out way more serious than I had planned, but I knew that would happen anyway, so once again I won’t be completing a novel this year, but I’m hoping to have 50K for the seventh year in a row at the end of the month. I haven’t really got the whole thing figured out to write a complete story anyway, so I’m just writing the scenes I currently do have in my head and hoping that I’ll be able to fill the holes along the way.
Anyway, today’s my RDO and I’ve plenty of hours left before midnight, so here’s to playing catch-up! (If I can focus, lol.)
November 6, 2014
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NaNoWriMo Day 17
i am currently sitting on 21,718. i should be at 28,333 by midnight tonight (ten and three-quarter hours away from now). today is epic catch up day.
(my daily best is 7,289 and i only have to write 6,615, so i should be fine.)
November 17, 2013
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NaNoWriMo Day 6
So, I’m on target… sorta. I mean, I have to write 1667 words today to stay on target, but I’ve managed to keep up, despite work and my debilitating lack of focus. Like I’m at that point where I’m really getting into the story and I have all these conversations between Elsie and Taye whirling around my brain and my body’s just like, “GET THEM ALL OUT NOW,” but I just… can’t. Well, not the narrative, anyway.
I know why, so we won’t go there. I’m glad I got a day-ish ahead on Sunday, because that gave me the freedom to not write as much the last few days, when I knew I probably wouldn’t. Like last night, I only had to write barely 200 words to keep pace, which I’m thankful for, because they were some of the 200 hardest words I’ve ever had to write.
But I didn’t beat myself down for it. I told myself that I could have the night off, that I could rest, go to bed and watch TV… but then I had to come back strong tonight and tomorrow (my RDO). I have a busy weekend ahead–Supanova on Saturday, which should technically still leave me with plenty of time to write that night, and work Sunday–so I need to take advantage of every truly free moment I have.
November 6, 2013
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NaNoWriMo 2013 so far…
- 4047 words at the end of day two
- one complete chapter
- not as far ahead as I’d like/had planned to be (I told myself I wanted 10K by the end of the weekend), but I’m happy just to be on target
- because I’m having trouble focussing, which is nothing new for me really
- Elsie’s just met Taye, though, which I was pretty excited to write, and he’s made quite a colourful first impression
- by colourful I mean he’s sworn at her a lot and made her mighty uncomfortable, and I’ll be honest here, she’s probably two seconds away from kicking him in the balls and running away
- but I’ll have to find out later because I’m going to bed
not long to go now!
Like, I’m talking just over an hour until it’s the first of November. (If I lived in another state, we’d be talking mere minutes right now.) And I think I’m in denial that it’s even November already. It only feels like yesterday I was writing Freya’s story, and now it’s Elsie’s turn. Seriously, it boggles my mind how fast time goes by.
I’m just so calm and ready for NaNo this year, and I don’t know why. Maybe it’s because I’ve done all the prep I need, having finished my outline a week ago, when normally I’m scrambling to complete an outline at the very last minute (or like last year, I didn’t even finish one, which may explain why I fell behind and had to play serious catch up).
Maybe I’m calm because I really need NaNo right now, to escape all the stuff that comes with being a ~*~responsible adult~*~.
Or maybe it’s just because NaNo feels simple this year. I can’t really explain it; it’s just like everything came together easily, like it was meant to be. My idea isn’t all crazy complicated, there wasn’t much research involved… I feel like I’ve gone back to basics with this one, which is good. Sometimes you just need basic and simple and easy.
I should be in bed. I have to be up early for an appointment, then I head to work for nine hours. (Thank goodness this weekend is my rostered weekend off!) But bring it on, I say. I want some words on the board.
October 31, 2013
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I HAS FINISHED THE OUTLINE.
You know, when I first conceived this idea, it was very basic. I had just the right number of elements to form a complete story, which I thought was great. One of my goals is to actually write an entire novel during NaNo, not just hit the 50K, and it seemed achievable this year (my sixth NaNo). Then I started writing the outline. Ideas came to me, fleshing out the plot and building up the characters (turns out Zev’s quite the badarse), and what should have taken a few hours to jot down at most turned into almost two weeks and six pages in my Moleskine.
When I say six pages, it doesn’t seem like much, but when I look at it and re-read it, it feels like the story exploded, lol. My writing’s smaller than normal though, and I get kind of detailed about some things when I outline, so maybe what seems like a lot is just an illusion.
Oh well. I’m done, and I’m happy with it, and omg I am so excited to get started. Hurry up, November!
October 25, 2013
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i am so good at this outlining thing.
My MCs this year–Elsie and Taye–look a lot like Caterina Scorsone and Brandon Jay McLaren, just in their mid twenties and if Caterina had curly hair.
