NanoWrimo 2015: Write Wrong Until There's Nothing Left To Write.

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POOL IS CLOSED: Jul 14, 2011; I'm just exploding with mackerel. This is the aji wo kutta of my discontent.; Pillbug

In again for 2015. I'll save my toxx for the LW November topic, though. Write more words, goons!

# ¿ Oct 4, 2015 21:33

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# ¿ May 13, 2024 22:09

POOL IS CLOSED: Jul 14, 2011; I'm just exploding with mackerel. This is the aji wo kutta of my discontent.; Pillbug

Oh yeah. My Nano username is the same as my SA username, so let's be ~pals.~

# ¿ Oct 7, 2015 14:01

POOL IS CLOSED: Jul 14, 2011; I'm just exploding with mackerel. This is the aji wo kutta of my discontent.; Pillbug

I've got a very loose outline at this point. Haven't decided all of the central actors yet. So basically I have a beginning and an ending, but I'm still in ???? mode about the middle.

# ¿ Oct 24, 2015 14:56

POOL IS CLOSED: Jul 14, 2011; I'm just exploding with mackerel. This is the aji wo kutta of my discontent.; Pillbug

Tiger posted:

Just the same escalating situation for the entire book.

Check out The Road sometime.

# ¿ Nov 1, 2015 02:32

POOL IS CLOSED: Jul 14, 2011; I'm just exploding with mackerel. This is the aji wo kutta of my discontent.; Pillbug

Bacon Terrorist posted:

1465 words total for The Wages of Tin and I'm slowly coming round to the whole 'ditch the inner editor and just churn it out regardless of quality' mindset.

Write now, edit later. Nice title, by the way.

# ¿ Nov 3, 2015 14:46

POOL IS CLOSED: Jul 14, 2011; I'm just exploding with mackerel. This is the aji wo kutta of my discontent.; Pillbug

Yeah, tense slip is something I struggle with when I'm trying to spit out loads of words in only a little time. It's hard to not go back and fix it as soon as I notice the error. (But hey, the gently caress up will still be there in December. Leave it.)

# ¿ Nov 4, 2015 02:14

POOL IS CLOSED: Jul 14, 2011; I'm just exploding with mackerel. This is the aji wo kutta of my discontent.; Pillbug

Parkour Lewis posted:

I just decided to do something very stupid in my novel, but I am now determined to do it, and am currently thinking of ways to pull it off and it maybe be not quite AS stupid.

Edit: Is there an IRC channel for this on Syn? I joined #NaNoWriMo but no one was there so I registered it if anyone wants to go hang out and talk about bad writing. Can't promise I'll be active there every second but I'll try to check it often as I can.

If you've entered Thunderdome before, there's #thunderdome. Otherwise, you might try #longwalk. It's quiet, but the people who pop in are either trying nanowrimo or have toxxed a certain wordcount for the month.

I fell a bit behind last night. Tonight will probably be the same story. I'm pretty wrecked this morning.

# ¿ Nov 5, 2015 13:18

POOL IS CLOSED: Jul 14, 2011; I'm just exploding with mackerel. This is the aji wo kutta of my discontent.; Pillbug

Ah, I'm a day and a half behind now. But I feel pretty recharged after taking a break last night. Pretty sure I'll be able to rock some words this weekend.

# ¿ Nov 6, 2015 14:24

POOL IS CLOSED: Jul 14, 2011; I'm just exploding with mackerel. This is the aji wo kutta of my discontent.; Pillbug

zonohedron posted:

Also, I am behind for the first year ever and I don't know how to deal with it

The power is within you.

Write more.

# ¿ Nov 6, 2015 19:31

POOL IS CLOSED: Jul 14, 2011; I'm just exploding with mackerel. This is the aji wo kutta of my discontent.; Pillbug

TequilaJesus posted:

Things aren't going well. I'm at under 5k words. My car blew up and work has been busy, so I've written next to nothing for days. I'm going to try and catch up today/tomorrow, but I have a feeling I'm not going to make it.

You'll be fine. Even if you had 0 words, you could still do it. Don't panic. Just write.

# ¿ Nov 8, 2015 01:42

POOL IS CLOSED: Jul 14, 2011; I'm just exploding with mackerel. This is the aji wo kutta of my discontent.; Pillbug

cash crab posted:

I didn't write for four days and I still managed to get back to a 1400 a day average. You can do it.

I'm doing the same. It's not a deep hole.

# ¿ Nov 9, 2015 17:47

POOL IS CLOSED: Jul 14, 2011; I'm just exploding with mackerel. This is the aji wo kutta of my discontent.; Pillbug

One tip for Scrivener that I think some people miss -- there is a project-level find and replace function! You don't have to go scene by scene.

You can also add project level notes and scene level notes.

Tags I'm still up in the air on. I haven't figured out the best way to utilize them.

# ¿ Nov 12, 2015 15:31

POOL IS CLOSED: Jul 14, 2011; I'm just exploding with mackerel. This is the aji wo kutta of my discontent.; Pillbug

magnificent7 posted:

I've got a long night ahead of me. I'm at 20,137 after skipping a few too many chances to write. I doubt I'll get up to 27K tonight, but I'm hoping to cut the gap in half, and pick up the difference tomorrow. Because I'm just that methodical after the fact.

Eyy we're at about the same point.

# ¿ Nov 17, 2015 04:43

POOL IS CLOSED: Jul 14, 2011; I'm just exploding with mackerel. This is the aji wo kutta of my discontent.; Pillbug

magnificent7 posted:

The biggest obstacle? "Imma get online for just a sec to update my word count hey what's up on FB/SA"

HOURS LOST.

Pretty much!

This is stupid, but the thing that has been helping me catch up is writing (well, typing) with my eyes closed or while looking away from the screen. Obviously you have to be comfortable with touch-typing for this to be useful. I'm too self-conscious to do dictation, so this has helped improve my speed.

# ¿ Nov 18, 2015 20:18

POOL IS CLOSED: Jul 14, 2011; I'm just exploding with mackerel. This is the aji wo kutta of my discontent.; Pillbug

Had a word war against Ravenkult and Angel Opportunity. Two 2.5-hour stings broken by a half hour break. It was pretty awesome. We all hit 8k. I'm back on track for the month at just over 35k.

:woop:

# ¿ Nov 22, 2015 04:18

POOL IS CLOSED: Jul 14, 2011; I'm just exploding with mackerel. This is the aji wo kutta of my discontent.; Pillbug

100,000 words per day seems, uh, unlikely.

# ¿ Nov 23, 2015 16:12

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# ¿ May 13, 2024 22:09

POOL IS CLOSED: Jul 14, 2011; I'm just exploding with mackerel. This is the aji wo kutta of my discontent.; Pillbug

Done at last!

# ¿ Dec 1, 2015 02:57

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