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Nighthand posted:Watching your word count skyrocket and you hit 50K by like, day 3, is a goddamn treat every year. I just wish I could see public reactions somewhere. Last year, I did a 24 hour write-in and one of the people I met there did something exactly like this. Hell, I think she wrote 50k words just during that 24 hour period, all while socializing with a bunch of us. It was this ungodly combination of being able to type as fast as she thinks and think as fast as she types. Oh yeah, I guess I'm doing this again this year. Woke up early, already have a thousand words written before noon. I'd like to clear 2k words before my friends drag me out to socialize.
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TequilaJesus posted:Same problem here. It's hard to keep powering through when I know the words behind me need editing. One of the main goals of this exercise is to minimize that habit. Anyway, I've already hit 1700 words and took a break to grab a beer with some friends. I'm gonna keep plodding along 100 hundred words at a time and see where I end up by midnight.
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Nov 1, 2015 23:59
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I continued to squeeze out about 100 words at a time, and wound up with roughly 3000 by midnight. Not a bad start but the beginning and end are the easy part. It's that middle mess that always trips me up.
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Nov 2, 2015 05:58
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J.A.B.C. posted:Day two. Don't sweat it! Last year, at the halfway point I only had something like 10k words. I went to a 24 hour write-in and caught up by somehow churning out 15k words in 24 hours. It was grueling, but somehow fun. I just barely managed to clear 5k words tonight, which puts me a full day ahead. I want to keep building up a buffer space, since I know there will be bad days where I just don't have time to write.
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Nov 3, 2015 05:54
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I just breezed on up to 6.6k and will probably continue to squeeze out a few words at a time to land on 7k for today. This seems a lot easier than I remember. I'm dreading the hurdle where I hit that great murky middle.
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Nov 4, 2015 02:19
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Ending today at 7.1k. Suddenly realizing that character development is happening way too quickly! Have to go back in time and write some more scenes for characterization. This will be fun.
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Nov 4, 2015 05:18
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Started strong in the morning, but I ended up phoning it in towards the end. Wrote just over the bare minimum with 1700 words, but at least it's still adding on to that buffer. Got ~8.8k right now, so I'm still well ahead of the curve. Local group is having a write-in at the library tomorrow, so I'm gonna show up to that and probably not get any writing done at all because those tend to be used more for socializing.
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Nov 5, 2015 03:30
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Wasn't feeling terribly well today, but I also didn't want to start burning up my buffer this early. Just barely managed to churn out 1700 words in the last three hours of the day. I swear, if I come down with the flu tomorrow I am going to be pissed.
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Nov 6, 2015 05:37
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It's a bad idea even when you are finished.
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Nov 6, 2015 12:00
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I think I'm slowing down a bit, but it's actually only 8 PM which is earlier than I started writing yesterday. How odd. Managed to crank out another 1700 words today, putting me at about 12k. I just know one of these days something is going to come up and I'm going to have to miss three days in a row, and I will be so drat thankful that I have a buffer.
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Nov 7, 2015 02:18
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I didn't write at all yesterday  Thankfully that's what the buffer is for, but I actually have to write quite fervently today to keep pace!
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Nov 8, 2015 20:53
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