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Congrats! I know a few people here were using Nano to finish stuff like that. I've just popped 9k total. Still ahead of the curve but not as far as I'd like to be, which is making me grumpy. I have an outline, I feel like I should be going a lot faster than this.
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1733. My "smallest" day so far, but it was also my busiest and I had to run errands and stuff. It's still above target though  Congrats to everyone making progress!
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Nov 7, 2017 02:32
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1899, my first day over goal. Really feeling the story open up now, I don't think I'm going to have a problem meeting goal for a week or two
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Nov 7, 2017 04:05
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Went a touch under 2.5k. Total sitting at 18,888 because I like pretty numbers. I've spent a lot of my focus on the 2009 Nano rewrite, which I'm doing from the bottom up. (Printed out Draft 1, made a bullet point list, and then rewrote the outline.) It's nice making things a little more subtle than I did before. But I've put a couple thousand in 2012's massiveness and some in 2016's/last year's.
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Nov 7, 2017 06:05
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I clocked in at the end of this night at 10800, surpassing my first 10K milestone, so yeah I'm doing way better than the other few times I've tried this.
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Nov 7, 2017 08:20
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Just about to cross 20K. So close to double the daily goal but I don't have another 1667 in me tonight.
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Nov 7, 2017 13:07
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Missed yesterday but I got back on the wagon and did another 1700. I just have to keep going at an okay pace and I should be okay.
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Nov 7, 2017 13:31
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11846 as of last night. The buffer I made over the weekend was not as big as I wanted it to be, so it will only take one bad day to put me under. Still, I will persevere.
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Nov 7, 2017 14:37
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Took a little time off yesterday to watch an episode of "American Gods" and barely made the day's quota as the price of my laziness. I'm about one full day ahead of the game, word-count-wise, but I want to keep pushing forward so I won't feel beholden to write a lot on Thanksgiving.
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Nov 7, 2017 16:32
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oh christ I forgot thanksgiving exists, and I've got a wedding I have to go to this month too, naturally for someone I barely know. guess I'm gonna need that 2-day buffer I've got going on... I've been pretty bad about writing during the day but have managed to get about 2000 words done in two or three hours in the middle of the night. I normally struggle just to do 1000 in that amount of time, so I'm pretty happy I've been able to achieve some consistency. And I haven't reached the point yet where everything in the story collapses on itself, but I'm just waiting for it... Side note, if you're in the US consider taking a break and going out to vote!!
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Nov 7, 2017 18:35
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melodicwaffle posted:Side note, if you're in the US consider taking a break and going out to vote!! Done! Even though it was just for mayor and city commissioner of my tinyass podunk town. At least I got the sticker. I managed to pop out 1920 words in under two hours today. My total is 16455 which means I'm about three days above par and I'm happy with that. I would really love to widen the lead even more just in case.
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Nov 8, 2017 02:31
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2189, second day above average. Hoping to utilize more writing sprints on breaks at work and keep the solid late night sessions rolling.
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Nov 8, 2017 05:34
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melodicwaffle posted:Side note, if you're in the US consider taking a break and going out to vote!! Vote By Mail > Everything Else. Sitting at over 21k.
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Nov 8, 2017 06:51
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I wrote a thousand words yesterday, using up my tiny buffer. I'm gonna have to really get cracking today if I want it back up.
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Nov 8, 2017 18:38
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Alright, 1653 words today. It's a tiny bit off goal but I'm coming down with a cold and also I reached the end of a scene so I decided to call it a night.
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Nov 9, 2017 02:56
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Been doing terrible, word count the past couple days has been under 1000. Not for lack of time, it just feels like I'm slamming my head into a wall. I'm still overall above par but I won't be for long if this keeps up.
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Nov 9, 2017 03:28
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Just ran out of my cheat sheet of what I had planned, so now I actually have to do planning on what I'm going to write next. This is gonna hurt, and I really wish I had more of a buffer so I wouldn't have to worry.
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Nov 9, 2017 04:06
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I have 8000 words so far, so y’all’re doing better than me. I really wish I’d done more prep work, I still don’t really know what this book’s about.
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Nov 9, 2017 04:10
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26200. It was 26199 but one word to a nice round number? Yes plz. Or as CantDecideOnAName said: ooooooh you're halfway there OOHHHHHH WRITING ON A DAAAARE 
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Nov 9, 2017 04:52
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lifg posted:I have 8000 words so far, so y’all’re doing better than me. That's 8000 more than a lot of folks have, at least!
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Nov 9, 2017 05:30
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10,560, making this the longest thing I've ever written for fun. I ended up stopping in the middle of a scene, which I wasn't a huge fan of but it was time to stop for the day.
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Nov 9, 2017 10:39
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It's better to stop in a place where you know exactly what's going to happen next. That way when you next sit down to write you can finish up that scene to build up your momentum for the rest of the session. That's how it has worked out for me, anyway.
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Nov 9, 2017 10:41
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Just passed 15k. Couple of days of lazy eroded my buffer so I'll have to work to get it back. Also loving the usual random Nanowrimo pep talks from authors you've either never heard of or thought were dead. Today I learned that Dean Koontz is not only still alive but thriving and sporting a luscious mane of 2009 Justin Bieber hair.
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Nov 9, 2017 16:12
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Hit 16,667 last night. Third of the way there! I've been setting writing milestones the way some joggers set running ones. Hit 1,200: Okay, it hasn't been easy, but surely I can poop out another 400! Hit 1,667: Yeah, I'm at the daily goal, but what's another 333 at this point? Meanwhile, my Switch with Super Mario Odyssey lurks at the edge of my peripheral vision. One of these days, baby.
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Nov 9, 2017 17:58
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I'm past the 15K mark and I'm going to try to get in another 1.6K words before the end of the day to really keep the lead on this thing. Luckily I'm getting to the part of my story where things are getting more interesting.
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Nov 9, 2017 20:40
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Right now I've passed the 27k mark, hoping to hit 30k soon. I've been hitting at least 3k a day this past week, up until last night, which was only 2k.
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Nov 9, 2017 22:35
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Wrote 1847 words today bringing me to a total of 19,955. So close to that 20k.TheArchimage posted:It's better to stop in a place where you know exactly what's going to happen next. That way when you next sit down to write you can finish up that scene to build up your momentum for the rest of the session. That's how it has worked out for me, anyway. I actually have a hard time doing this because I'm so forgetful that I just forget the rest of scene entirely if I try to stop halfway through.
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Nov 10, 2017 02:32
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13,166 after day 9, and that's with not writing a single word last Saturday or Sunday. I've been about to punch out around 2k words a day otherwise, nibbling off at the deficit. What the story about? No idea, I'll let you know when I do. So far I've blown up a giant water reservoir in Siberia and melted a gym bunny somewhere in the US. Now we're off to the Paris opera...
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Nov 10, 2017 04:53
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25313 in the main project (which is taking over) and 29123 total. I've broken the "less than 1k a day to finish by the 30th" barrier. I always feel several good "this is going well" points during Nano that the site doesn't always doc. The first moment of rolling into 10k, the 12.5 "quarter mark", the first time that it goes over 20k (but not yet 25k), and the moment I have "you need less than a thousand words a day to hit goal" are the ones I've got so far.
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Nov 10, 2017 07:12
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I think I hate my main character. She's such a snobbish jerk.
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Nov 10, 2017 12:17
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Figured out how to sync my work on scrivener for editing elsewhere, so I've been on pc during the day and on jotterpad at night in bed. It's been a tremendous help and I was able to pick up the pace last night, bringing me to about 18.5k total.
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Nov 10, 2017 14:25
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I...planted some veggies. That I am going to eat instead of junk food because they will be more convenient than a food app. In terms of making general positive progress in my life, this is my most successful NaNoWriMo yet, so I refuse to feel like I've failed myself. Heck, there's still a chance for the novel/game/fanfic (you see one of my problems) until the 1st of December slams into the present, yes?
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Nov 10, 2017 14:40
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2081 today! I'm at 22,036 total and I'm feeling good about getting to the halfway mark this weekend.Nethilia posted:and the moment I have "you need less than a thousand words a day to hit goal" god, this is SUCH a good feeling.
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Nov 11, 2017 02:40
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Arivia posted:I think I hate my main character. She's such a snobbish jerk. Why's she so snobby? My guy just started turning to alcohol to help sleep through the shame of his failures, and now he's about to receive a lot of praise for "rescuing" someone who he was actually going to let die (He just happened to be around when the help arrives). He does not feel great about it. I'm sticking with the daily minimum, going to hit over 16,667 words total tonight and it feels great! I've never written this many words on a single project in my entire life, I'm pretty sure.
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Antiquated Pants posted:Why's she so snobby? She's literally a spoiled princess. Luckily her lady-in-waiting seems to finally be getting through to her (they're cooped up in a thieves' guild underneath the capital city after a revolution marched on the royal castle and slew the rest of the royal family.) I'm at 12,600 myself.
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Nov 11, 2017 04:49
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Arivia posted:She's literally a spoiled princess. Luckily her lady-in-waiting seems to finally be getting through to her (they're cooped up in a thieves' guild underneath the capital city after a revolution marched on the royal castle and slew the rest of the royal family.) It'd be easy to ask, "Why hasn't this made her harden up and grow up?" But the way I see it - albeit from this limited description - it's precisely because she's lost everything that she might double down on her insufferable behaviour. It could be the one part of her routine she's desperately trying to keep normal as a method of keeping herself together. If she has to (for example) brush her own hair, it's because something bad has happened. If her lady-in-waiting brushes her hair, it means things are or will be okay. Therefore, she insists that her hair be attended to. Denial is a hell of a drug.
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Nov 11, 2017 06:03
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I just dipped to 988 words per day to finish on time. 
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Nov 11, 2017 07:36
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I was burning the midnight oil and got up to 18,3K. If I get 20K done tomorrow (or later today, rather) then I'll have successfully lapped this baby! :iamafag:
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At 18, 507 words right now. I keep swinging back and forth on the daily requirement, writing less one day and making up for it the other. poo poo's fun tho. Gone from wondering if I can even put words together this year to actually doing this NaNoWriMo-thing pretty well. This is my profile link if you want to add me (please fill up my empty friends list) https://nanowrimo.org/participants/message-delivered
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2248 today! That brings me up to 24,284 total and I'm super ready to hit the halfway point tomorrow. This year is less of a struggle than it usually is. I always win, but usually it's a lot more pain than it is this time around. I think it's because I'm working on a piece that was already in-progress when November hit, so I've already done most of the plot and am zeroing in on the ending. Thanks for that rule change, NaNo!
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