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GarbiTheGlitchress posted:Day 25: 1682 congrats to both of you!!  day 25: 4000 words EXACTLY total: 97,133 words feeling very tired as the month approaches its end. 
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Done 4k words this morning so I'm now on 46k. I have decided I will try and push on to the 50k later today (about to go out) then I'm done. I won't be able to do any tomorrow, and Wednesday is dicey so if I can finish up today that would be great. It's the biggest load of rubbish though.
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Nov 26, 2023 12:01
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Enchanted Hat posted:
Congrats!  Thank you for making this thread as well! Doing this was a super awesome experience, and I think posting here helped me stick with it!
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Nov 26, 2023 17:17
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Day 26: 1,301 Total: 26,654 Started earlier today, didn't really help massively, stiil difficult to get going. It's weird, after spending so many years thinking about the technical construction of storytelling and wordplay this feels like going back go basics. I keep having to remind myself that instead of thinking about how to write what happens next, I should just write it. And then I write, and I have ideas that surprise me and occur to me as i write. And then I enjoy myself.
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Nov 26, 2023 18:41
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Yay, finished - 8000 words today and finished on 50027. What a pile of crud I have produced. Reduced at the end to a tale of possibilities involving swarfega.
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Nov 26, 2023 23:30
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Ain't no minute like the last minute, because I wrote 10 pages and over 3k words! My longest chapter yet, but it had lots of dialogue. I also made up 2 new characters just to move the plot, one of which was a rhyming magician.  I knew I wasn't going to finish going into this, but I'm glad for the opportunity to get motivated enough to try. Congrats to everyone that made it!
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Nov 27, 2023 07:48
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day 26: 6566 total: 103,699 passed the 100k threshold. whew.
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Nov 27, 2023 08:26
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Gnossiennes posted:day 26: 6566 Wow!
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Nov 27, 2023 08:51
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43991 with four days left. Theoretically EZ but I am tired and work is busy. I'll make it, just a matter of how much suffer sauce I need to spread!
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Nov 27, 2023 14:10
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Day 27: 1,655 Total: 28,309 Ooh, made myself a little bit emotional. The wording is terrible but there's a core idea there that is a good character moment, I just worry I haven't really built up to it enough. But that's for editing me to worry about. Onward!
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Nov 27, 2023 19:31
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day 27: 5053 total: 108,752 after i finished writing i sat down and thought about some more character development goals and realized that one of the mains needs to change a bunch 
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Nov 28, 2023 09:01
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Not really feeling anything I was writing basically made me give up for this year  It's something I'll keep poking at as I feel like it, at least.
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Nov 28, 2023 15:23
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KariOhki posted:Not really feeling anything I was writing basically made me give up for this year But I'm still going! Having the goal to sit and do it every day has helped in a way nothing has in the past, even though I have days like this: Day 28: 313 Total: 28,622 Took a big chunk, like 300 words out of yesterday's writing and redid it because I could not get the characters out of the argument they'd gotten themselves into. So have added less to the word count and more to the story, but more importantly left it at an easier place to get back into tomorrow. Gnossiennes posted:after i finished writing i sat down and thought about some more character development goals and realized that one of the mains needs to change a bunch
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Nov 28, 2023 23:02
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I have done it. Cranked out 3286 words today despite working and D&D to finish two days early. That makes my seventh conservative Nanowrimo completion. Now I can rest and never write anything again, until I remember that I should actually get around to finishing the book one of these years.
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Nov 29, 2023 05:13
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day 28: 4785 words total: 113,537 words Xalidur posted:I have done it. Cranked out 3286 words today despite working and D&D to finish two days early. hell yeah good job 8)
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Nov 29, 2023 08:04
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Day 29: 1438 words. Total: 50.157 words. I spilled over into material that wasn't that well outlined, which resulted in me losing steam as I entered the last week. Luckily I had a significant buffer, so I completed the 50k a day early. 3rd succesful NaNoWriMo in a row
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Nov 30, 2023 00:16
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Finished with around 50200 so I can go binge drink with my coworkers on what would be the final night. I'm honestly pretty happy with how this turned out. There are two independent, rational crimes that get unraveled in a logical manner, two main characters who are fairly well rounded and undergo change over the course of the story, and a wide range of side characters who are all fairly distinct despite them mostly being college students. My physical descriptions and my scene-level pacing needs work, and I'll have to write a proper denouement, but I'm looking forward to editing and actually publishing this under my real name. First task though is gonna be polishing up the final draft of last year's nano and slapping that up on the Kindle store. Keep writing! You can do it!
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Nov 30, 2023 07:08
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day 29: 7245 words total: 120,782 words well if nothing else, i've discovered that i can write pretty consistently, so that's cool. unfortunately i realized that a main plot-progression-vehicle i built up is both boring to read and totally unenjoyable to write lol. welp!
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Nov 30, 2023 09:06
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Took another mental health day yesterday, not fully processing how close I am to the finish line. If I can get 1,400ish done today, I will have met my midway mini goal! I was wondering, now everyone has hit / exceeded / doubled their goal, do we keep updating this thread? Is it okay to update later if someone - like E Depois - decides to later publish? Or if - like quote, tarnop & myself - we've spread it over 2 months for personal reasons, is that ok to keep doing the totals?
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Nov 30, 2023 13:24
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Bobby Deluxe posted:Took another mental health day yesterday, not fully processing how close I am to the finish line. If I can get I'm obviously somewhat biased here but I vote yes. The point of nano for me is to get you to write a book. Who cares if it takes two months instead of one for a first draft, it still provided motivation to do something we wouldn't have otherwise
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Nov 30, 2023 16:14
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Day 30: 1526 Total: 30,148 I did it. Month 1 and I hit my target, despite bad mental and physical health days. This is the most I have ever done on one project, and I love it. I mean there are individual parts which are going to have to be completely redone, sections i hate because i was concentrating on the events rather than the quality of the prose, but there are parts of it i actually love. E: summary of good / bad days and total word counts. 
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Nov 30, 2023 18:19
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day 30: 5805 words total: 126,587 words that was, without a doubt, intensely better than i ever thought i could do. i expected it turn into nothing but unhappiness and frustration somewhere in the middle, but honestly? i had a lot of fun the whole way through  i still have a lot of work to do to finish writing this thing, and i've learned a lot over the last month, but the most important thing i learned is that i am pretty alright at banging stuff out. that counts for something, i guess!
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So with November now over, congratulations to all the people who met their goals! You can now take it easy and spend the next eleven months talking about the novel you wrote~Bobby Deluxe posted:I was wondering, now everyone has hit / exceeded / doubled their goal, do we keep updating this thread? Is it okay to update later if someone - like E Depois - decides to later publish? Or if - like quote, tarnop & myself - we've spread it over 2 months for personal reasons, is that ok to keep doing the totals? Absolutely! Feel free to keep posting about the projects you worked on for Nanowrimo. I myself still need to write the last chapter of my Nanowrimo story, so I still have a little more work to do.
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Bobby Deluxe posted:Took another mental health day yesterday, not fully processing how close I am to the finish line. If I can get Echoing that yes, please continue to discuss your work here! All writers are welcome over in the Fiction Advice thread, of course, but there is no reason this thread needs to die if folks want to discuss and celebrate the development of their NaNo projects 
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I'm not going to do full daily wordcounts, but I gave myself a day off on the 1st as a little treat and was worried I would find it difficult to get back into on the 2nd. But then I wrote 1,220 words yesterday in about half an hour like it was nothing, so was pretty  for that.
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Got sick at the end of October. It wasn't COVID, but it lasted an entire month and came with a bad case of brain fog. So I didn't write at all during November, but I'm not giving up on this project.
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Mid month 2 update, have some stats:  I am not, unfortunately, doing well. I suspect partly the lack of accountability, and also my sleeping patterns and routine have taken a December-shaped battering. Still I continue under the axiom of "you haven't failed until you stop trying." Although the wife is off next week, so I am anticipating another huge dip in productivity.
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It may have taken me until February 2024 but I finally put my 2022 nano up as an ebook. It was distracting me from finishing my 2023 nano project, which is a more serious project i can put my real name on. While I'm not happy with the final result - it needs more conspiracy and investigation, and less detailed cunnilingus and cooking (like, 20000 words less) - it did feel nice to finally be done with it. 
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"The rain fell on the moist streets of a dark and lonesome city..."
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Bobby Deluxe posted:"The rain fell on the moist streets of a dark and lonesome city..." More poetic than anything in there tbh
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Seems Nano's done for. https://www.reddit.com/r/nanowrimo/comments/19dy3ho/no_more_nanowrimo/ More detail: https://the-nanowrimo-chronicles.tumblr.com/ https://docs.google.com/document/d/e/2PACX-1vSYcdosGLoPFI_Dc--vuC9Bl4-OUFGcmHgBRt2aHSRVWBPc6su4AMFY5iDgZGyC379Zm8C7zhBd2zuf/pub I'm still doing the RoyalRoad Writathon for April, though!
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