Elizabeth85
from The United States is reading Jurassic ParkOctober 22, 2015 - 10:42pm
@Natso--- Maybe it is just me, but I can never find people by their username. Do you mind hyperlinking your username, so I can go directly to your page?
Mr. Mousai
from Saint Louis is reading Darkmans by Nicola BarkerOctober 25, 2015 - 1:51pm
Anyone want to start peer-groups for the pending doom that is November? I already know of local ones but it'd be awesome to have some writing peers online here that can send each other ideas and excerpts. Thoughts?
Also, I am @Mr.Mousai on NanoWrimo, you guys should add me! I have no friends on there, lol. Or here, lol. I'm new at this.
-- Mr. Mousai
Dwayne
from Cincinnati, Ohio (suburbs) is reading books that rotate to often to keep this updatedOctober 25, 2015 - 8:20pm
@Mr.Mousai - I added you.
Anna Gutmann
from Ohio is reading American GodsOctober 26, 2015 - 2:33pm
@Mr. Mousai - I tried to find you on the NaNo site but I couldn't! My user handle on there is RaineWinters, so if you want to add me I will then add you back :-). and if you haven't signed up on the nano site yet, just go to www.nanowrimo.org and create an account. You can track your progress and other buddies' progress along the way.
L.W. Flouisa
from Tennessee is reading More MurakamiOctober 26, 2015 - 6:08pm
I wonder if Nano could be applied to interactive newsletters?
Mr. Mousai
from Saint Louis is reading Darkmans by Nicola BarkerOctober 27, 2015 - 6:18pm
@Anna Gutmann it is @Mr.Mousai on there, no spaces between the "r" the "." and the "M" lol. I am trying to figure out how to search for people as well, it's kind of an odd set-up on that site.
Anna Gutmann
from Ohio is reading American GodsOctober 27, 2015 - 6:25pm
Awesome! I've added you :-)
UnderTheRise
from Calgary, Alberta is reading complicated science textbooksOctober 28, 2015 - 9:48am
I too am among the ranks of NaNo-ers! I actually came back here specifically for NaNo but will definitely continue afterwards. Last year I had too much work to even think of writing, but this year will be good.
I have the same username over at NaNoWrMo: UnderTheRise, feel free to add me.
Dwayne
from Cincinnati, Ohio (suburbs) is reading books that rotate to often to keep this updatedOctober 28, 2015 - 9:15pm
Won't let me add you man!
tim lara
from Texas is reading Servant Of The BonesOctober 31, 2015 - 1:52pm
L.W. Flouisa
from Tennessee is reading More MurakamiNovember 1, 2015 - 3:34pm
I have an account, but hardly ever log in.
Anna Gutmann
from Ohio is reading American GodsNovember 2, 2015 - 3:28pm
Hope everybody remembered to write today! :-). I struggled a lot to get it done but still managed to complete my word count goal for the day. Hope tomorrow goes better.
Elizabeth85
from The United States is reading Jurassic ParkNovember 3, 2015 - 12:17am
Way to go Anna! I've managed to reach my word count too. I wasn't sure if I would for a moment. But, today is a new day, and I get to start all over.
Good luck everyone.
Anna Gutmann
from Ohio is reading American GodsNovember 3, 2015 - 5:18am
@Elizabeth85 - good job!!!!! :-D Hope you nail today's word count too! Thanks for the encouragement!
jyh
from VA is reading whatever he feels likeNovember 4, 2015 - 5:51pm
I've started a book. I'm not on the NaNo site, and I'm not doing it by word count. Rather, I'm trying to fill a brand new composition book by the end of the month. 80 sheets at 29 lines per side comes to 4640 lines. Lines containing anywhere from 1--16 words (or more?), that could potentially be around 50k words.
I'm already doubting that the particular story I've started will last that long. If it doesn't, I'll just write some other stuff.
Anyway, good luck to everybody.
TheScrivener
from Seattle is reading short stories November 5, 2015 - 12:22pm
What percentage of people just burn up and stop before the month ends?
Dwayne
from Cincinnati, Ohio (suburbs) is reading books that rotate to often to keep this updatedNovember 5, 2015 - 4:50pm
Locally about 3/4, but many of those get in 20,000 great words so that isn't as bad as it sounds.
Hetch Litman
from Somewhere in the mountains of the Pacific Northwest is reading The Violent Bear it Away by Flannery O'Connor November 5, 2015 - 7:51pm
Last year I had 50k by the 15th. This year I don't think that is going to happen. My username there is the same as my username here. I also do all my writing on a typewriter. This year I've used 2 so far. An IBM Selectric II and an Olympia SM3. If you happen to use a typewriter there's a good group of writers up there with thier (our) own thread in the nano-tech forum called the typewriter brigade.
Hetch Litman
from Somewhere in the mountains of the Pacific Northwest is reading The Violent Bear it Away by Flannery O'Connor November 7, 2015 - 12:34pm
(Edited for double post)
Hetch Litman
from Somewhere in the mountains of the Pacific Northwest is reading The Violent Bear it Away by Flannery O'Connor November 5, 2015 - 7:54pm
Last year I had 50k by the 15th. This year I don't think that is going to happen. My username there is the same as my username here (link: http://nanowrimo.org/participants/hetch-litman) I also do all my writing on a typewriter. This year I've used 2 so far. An IBM Selectric II and an Olympia SM3. If you happen to use a typewriter there's a good group of writers up there with thier (our) own thread in the nano-tech forum called the typewriter brigade.
Chacron
from England, South Coast is reading Fool's Assassin by Robin HobbNovember 6, 2015 - 3:15pm
Hetch! Good to see you again; I was trying to remember who it was from last year who told me they did it all on a typewriter. I remember you beating me to the 50 by a couple of days last year.
L.W. Flouisa
from Tennessee is reading More MurakamiNovember 6, 2015 - 5:10pm
I'm not doing Nano officially, but managed to get a couple of knew stories written not including the one from a week ago. That adds up to Cycles Of Life, Stars As I Can Give. and Nothing Else Left.
Which uses the style of the 'flashback in rewind' as a sort of 'life before your eyes' effect.
Hetch Litman
from Somewhere in the mountains of the Pacific Northwest is reading The Violent Bear it Away by Flannery O'Connor November 7, 2015 - 12:36pm
Chacron!
Also good to see you again. I think this might be a tough month for me. Normally I have an outline. Not this month. This month I decided to garden. We will see what happens. How's your story coming along a week in?
Hetch Litman
from Somewhere in the mountains of the Pacific Northwest is reading The Violent Bear it Away by Flannery O'Connor November 7, 2015 - 12:37pm
My apologies. I'm having double posting issues on my new phone it seems.
Chacron
from England, South Coast is reading Fool's Assassin by Robin HobbNovember 7, 2015 - 5:02pm
Hetch,
Knowing how you handled it last year, not having a plan should be the least of your worries. My story's coming along fine thanks, just passed the 15,000 barrier tonight. I'm working on the first draft of book 3 in my series, and although I'm mostly a pantser I already have a pretty good idea of where I'm heading with it all. Running out of ideas isn't going to be a problem for me this year, I've got stacks, so all I have to do is keep the discipline going. Only wrote 1000 words today but I'm still ahead. So what are you working on?
Elizabeth85
from The United States is reading Jurassic ParkNovember 7, 2015 - 7:51pm
Day 7~ 25,000 words down; 25,000 more words to go.
Hetch Litman
from Somewhere in the mountains of the Pacific Northwest is reading The Violent Bear it Away by Flannery O'Connor November 13, 2015 - 7:55am
Hey Chacron, Yeah so far it's turning out to be a grit lit style book about a couple motorcycle clubs in the appalachian mountains spanning a couple generations. It's got a larry brown /Cormac McCarthy feel going. Pretty damn violent so far.
Crossed 35k tonight and feel pretty damn good as to how it is Turing out.
How is everyone else doing?
Chacron
from England, South Coast is reading Fool's Assassin by Robin HobbNovember 13, 2015 - 1:22pm
Got to 25,000 tonight. This year is a slow burner compared to last year when I finsihed on day 19. Looks like if I keep things up I'll finish on the 26th.
jyh
from VA is reading whatever he feels likeNovember 13, 2015 - 8:33pm
Pretty sure I won't be filling this book completely by the 30th. But I've written stuff.
Hetch Litman
from Somewhere in the mountains of the Pacific Northwest is reading The Violent Bear it Away by Flannery O'Connor November 16, 2015 - 4:37pm
50,028!
I figure that my story is a little over one half finished. My target is 85-90k. We will see how close I actually get.
Elizabeth85
from The United States is reading Jurassic ParkNovember 19, 2015 - 5:39pm
I've reached 50,000 words, and on my birthday too!
Chacron
from England, South Coast is reading Fool's Assassin by Robin HobbNovember 20, 2015 - 1:56pm
Congrats to the pair of you! Knew you'd beat me again Hetch, you jammy motherfucker =P I'm on 39,612 as of this evening. I'd won by this time last year, but I'm still ahead, and 11 days to get 10k is easy.
Hetch Litman
from Somewhere in the mountains of the Pacific Northwest is reading The Violent Bear it Away by Flannery O'Connor November 20, 2015 - 9:34pm
Chacron,
You are slaying it. How far along in your plot do you think you will be at 50?
I just passed 60k on day 20 and I feel like I could write another 60 to have the story told the way it needs to be. Of course I'll never do that in the rest of the month.
I think I will go ahead and outline the remainder and see how much more I actually need. I'm not sure I'm a fan of this whole pantsing deal but it's kind of growing on me for sure
Chacron
from England, South Coast is reading Fool's Assassin by Robin HobbNovember 24, 2015 - 6:43am
Winner! 50,101, and validated!
TheScrivener
from Seattle is reading short stories November 24, 2015 - 2:37pm
43K. almost there.
Dwayne
from Cincinnati, Ohio (suburbs) is reading books that rotate to often to keep this updatedNovember 24, 2015 - 7:40pm
28,000 ish
jyh
from VA is reading whatever he feels likeNovember 25, 2015 - 3:25pm
Congrats to everyone finishing up! I didn't. Haven't been trying that hard, to be honest. (If you couldn't have assumed as much from my other posts.) I do have a sort of admiration for people who can just go and go and go for quantity. It's not how I operate, and although I wish I could just flip a switch and be in that mode, it doesn't work like that. Realistically, I could probably speak 50k words into a recorder over the course of a month more easily than write them. On the page, I'm too used to editing as I go.
Hetch Litman
from Somewhere in the mountains of the Pacific Northwest is reading The Violent Bear it Away by Flannery O'Connor December 1, 2015 - 8:58am
Well, ended up with 85k. I would say about 4 or 5 scenes short of a completed novel.
I wow the beginning, both major plot turns, the black moment, and the climax and resolution all in their entirety . The majority of the middle is done as well.
A few plot holes and to complete the protagonists part (who in this case is not the main character or the hero)through letters and it should be finished.
How did everyone else fair? Oh, and what is the title you went with?
Working Title:
Where The Bright Seraphim in Burning Row
post a synopsis
Dwayne
from Cincinnati, Ohio (suburbs) is reading books that rotate to often to keep this updatedDecember 1, 2015 - 10:57am
I won, congrats to those who are happy with how things turned out. I have not quite 51,000 word and 7 hand-written chapters I need to transcribe.
jyh
from VA is reading whatever he feels likeDecember 1, 2015 - 11:39am
Questions: In how many sessions did you (anybody) manage to write that much in a month? Was it lots of 1--2 hour sittings, or were you doing 10--12 hours in a day here and there, or a mix? On how many days in November did you write nothing?
I ask because I went over what I wrote (which I dated page-by-page, each session was no more than two hours long) and, by looking at the word count, I determined I could have written 50k words over the course of the month if I had set myself to it. (I don't take any pride in this fact, just saying.)
TheScrivener
from Seattle is reading short stories December 1, 2015 - 1:06pm
I'm not a fast writer. I only skipped writing two or three days in the whole month. I had a few days where I spent a good 4-6 hours in front of the computer, and many days of 1-3 hours.
Dwayne
from Cincinnati, Ohio (suburbs) is reading books that rotate to often to keep this updatedDecember 2, 2015 - 12:38pm
Several one or two-hour cram sessions, a few longer one, several just jumped in and wrote a little bit on days I would have been WAY too busy to normally.
Hetch Litman
from Somewhere in the mountains of the Pacific Northwest is reading The Violent Bear it Away by Flannery O'Connor December 4, 2015 - 9:24pm
I made sure I wrote everyday. More often than not that ended up in a 2500-3500 word day. I did have a couple 4-5 hour Sundays, though, that I wrote 7k.
@Natso--- Maybe it is just me, but I can never find people by their username. Do you mind hyperlinking your username, so I can go directly to your page?
Anyone want to start peer-groups for the pending doom that is November? I already know of local ones but it'd be awesome to have some writing peers online here that can send each other ideas and excerpts. Thoughts?
Also, I am @Mr.Mousai on NanoWrimo, you guys should add me! I have no friends on there, lol. Or here, lol. I'm new at this.
-- Mr. Mousai
@Mr.Mousai - I added you.
@Mr. Mousai - I tried to find you on the NaNo site but I couldn't! My user handle on there is RaineWinters, so if you want to add me I will then add you back :-). and if you haven't signed up on the nano site yet, just go to www.nanowrimo.org and create an account. You can track your progress and other buddies' progress along the way.
I wonder if Nano could be applied to interactive newsletters?
@Anna Gutmann it is @Mr.Mousai on there, no spaces between the "r" the "." and the "M" lol. I am trying to figure out how to search for people as well, it's kind of an odd set-up on that site.
Here is my URL everyone: http://nanowrimo.org/participants/mr-mousai
Awesome! I've added you :-)
I too am among the ranks of NaNo-ers! I actually came back here specifically for NaNo but will definitely continue afterwards. Last year I had too much work to even think of writing, but this year will be good.
I have the same username over at NaNoWrMo: UnderTheRise, feel free to add me.
Won't let me add you man!
I'll be doing it this year too...
http://nanowrimo.org/participants/stoutcity
I have an account, but hardly ever log in.
Hope everybody remembered to write today! :-). I struggled a lot to get it done but still managed to complete my word count goal for the day. Hope tomorrow goes better.
Way to go Anna! I've managed to reach my word count too. I wasn't sure if I would for a moment. But, today is a new day, and I get to start all over.
Good luck everyone.
@Elizabeth85 - good job!!!!! :-D Hope you nail today's word count too! Thanks for the encouragement!
I've started a book. I'm not on the NaNo site, and I'm not doing it by word count. Rather, I'm trying to fill a brand new composition book by the end of the month. 80 sheets at 29 lines per side comes to 4640 lines. Lines containing anywhere from 1--16 words (or more?), that could potentially be around 50k words.
I'm already doubting that the particular story I've started will last that long. If it doesn't, I'll just write some other stuff.
Anyway, good luck to everybody.
What percentage of people just burn up and stop before the month ends?
Locally about 3/4, but many of those get in 20,000 great words so that isn't as bad as it sounds.
Last year I had 50k by the 15th. This year I don't think that is going to happen. My username there is the same as my username here. I also do all my writing on a typewriter. This year I've used 2 so far. An IBM Selectric II and an Olympia SM3. If you happen to use a typewriter there's a good group of writers up there with thier (our) own thread in the nano-tech forum called the typewriter brigade.
(Edited for double post)
Last year I had 50k by the 15th. This year I don't think that is going to happen. My username there is the same as my username here (link: http://nanowrimo.org/participants/hetch-litman) I also do all my writing on a typewriter. This year I've used 2 so far. An IBM Selectric II and an Olympia SM3. If you happen to use a typewriter there's a good group of writers up there with thier (our) own thread in the nano-tech forum called the typewriter brigade.
Hetch! Good to see you again; I was trying to remember who it was from last year who told me they did it all on a typewriter. I remember you beating me to the 50 by a couple of days last year.
I'm not doing Nano officially, but managed to get a couple of knew stories written not including the one from a week ago. That adds up to Cycles Of Life, Stars As I Can Give. and Nothing Else Left.
Which uses the style of the 'flashback in rewind' as a sort of 'life before your eyes' effect.
Chacron!
Also good to see you again. I think this might be a tough month for me. Normally I have an outline. Not this month. This month I decided to garden. We will see what happens. How's your story coming along a week in?
My apologies. I'm having double posting issues on my new phone it seems.
Hetch,
Knowing how you handled it last year, not having a plan should be the least of your worries. My story's coming along fine thanks, just passed the 15,000 barrier tonight. I'm working on the first draft of book 3 in my series, and although I'm mostly a pantser I already have a pretty good idea of where I'm heading with it all. Running out of ideas isn't going to be a problem for me this year, I've got stacks, so all I have to do is keep the discipline going. Only wrote 1000 words today but I'm still ahead. So what are you working on?
Day 7~ 25,000 words down; 25,000 more words to go.
Hey Chacron, Yeah so far it's turning out to be a grit lit style book about a couple motorcycle clubs in the appalachian mountains spanning a couple generations. It's got a larry brown /Cormac McCarthy feel going. Pretty damn violent so far.
Crossed 35k tonight and feel pretty damn good as to how it is Turing out.
How is everyone else doing?
Got to 25,000 tonight. This year is a slow burner compared to last year when I finsihed on day 19. Looks like if I keep things up I'll finish on the 26th.
Pretty sure I won't be filling this book completely by the 30th. But I've written stuff.
50,028!
I figure that my story is a little over one half finished. My target is 85-90k. We will see how close I actually get.
I've reached 50,000 words, and on my birthday too!
Congrats to the pair of you! Knew you'd beat me again Hetch, you jammy motherfucker =P I'm on 39,612 as of this evening. I'd won by this time last year, but I'm still ahead, and 11 days to get 10k is easy.
Chacron,
You are slaying it. How far along in your plot do you think you will be at 50?
I just passed 60k on day 20 and I feel like I could write another 60 to have the story told the way it needs to be. Of course I'll never do that in the rest of the month.
I think I will go ahead and outline the remainder and see how much more I actually need. I'm not sure I'm a fan of this whole pantsing deal but it's kind of growing on me for sure
Winner! 50,101, and validated!
43K. almost there.
28,000 ish
Congrats to everyone finishing up! I didn't. Haven't been trying that hard, to be honest. (If you couldn't have assumed as much from my other posts.) I do have a sort of admiration for people who can just go and go and go for quantity. It's not how I operate, and although I wish I could just flip a switch and be in that mode, it doesn't work like that. Realistically, I could probably speak 50k words into a recorder over the course of a month more easily than write them. On the page, I'm too used to editing as I go.
Well, ended up with 85k. I would say about 4 or 5 scenes short of a completed novel.
I wow the beginning, both major plot turns, the black moment, and the climax and resolution all in their entirety . The majority of the middle is done as well.
A few plot holes and to complete the protagonists part (who in this case is not the main character or the hero)through letters and it should be finished.
How did everyone else fair? Oh, and what is the title you went with?
Working Title:
Where The Bright Seraphim in Burning Row
post a synopsis
I won, congrats to those who are happy with how things turned out. I have not quite 51,000 word and 7 hand-written chapters I need to transcribe.
Questions: In how many sessions did you (anybody) manage to write that much in a month? Was it lots of 1--2 hour sittings, or were you doing 10--12 hours in a day here and there, or a mix? On how many days in November did you write nothing?
I ask because I went over what I wrote (which I dated page-by-page, each session was no more than two hours long) and, by looking at the word count, I determined I could have written 50k words over the course of the month if I had set myself to it. (I don't take any pride in this fact, just saying.)
I'm not a fast writer. I only skipped writing two or three days in the whole month. I had a few days where I spent a good 4-6 hours in front of the computer, and many days of 1-3 hours.
Several one or two-hour cram sessions, a few longer one, several just jumped in and wrote a little bit on days I would have been WAY too busy to normally.
I made sure I wrote everyday. More often than not that ended up in a 2500-3500 word day. I did have a couple 4-5 hour Sundays, though, that I wrote 7k.