The Long Walk: 2024 edition

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magic cactus: Aug 3, 2019; We lied. We are not at war. There is no enemy. This is a rescue operation.

I'm gonna give this a shot. :toxx:

for 4k by 5/31/20

# ¿ May 1, 2020 18:02

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# ¿ May 13, 2024 22:30

magic cactus: Aug 3, 2019; We lied. We are not at war. There is no enemy. This is a rescue operation.

Done. 4,032. Attached pic for proof.

Gonna go ahead and :toxx:

for June. 4k again.

:grovertoot:

# ¿ Jun 1, 2020 03:54

magic cactus: Aug 3, 2019; We lied. We are not at war. There is no enemy. This is a rescue operation.

With that, June is done. Ended up sprinting at the end and going a touch over.

Gonna :toxx:

(probe, given the state of the forums) for another 4k in July

# ¿ Jul 1, 2020 01:22

magic cactus: Aug 3, 2019; We lied. We are not at war. There is no enemy. This is a rescue operation.

went a smidge over but i did it. probably not toxing for august because i'm gonna be extremely busy toward the middle/end of the month and i doubt i'll have time to write, so see you goons in September!

# ¿ Aug 1, 2020 01:43

magic cactus: Aug 3, 2019; We lied. We are not at war. There is no enemy. This is a rescue operation.

Gonna

for 4k in September, not counting thunderdome pieces as I want to work on my own stuff.

# ¿ Sep 1, 2020 17:42

magic cactus: Aug 3, 2019; We lied. We are not at war. There is no enemy. This is a rescue operation.

Made it. Somehow.

If this looks weird it's cause I cropped too much of my desktop while taking the screenshot lol

In for 4k in October.

# ¿ Sep 30, 2020 22:02

magic cactus: Aug 3, 2019; We lied. We are not at war. There is no enemy. This is a rescue operation.

Hit goal, forgot this was a thing. Will post proof later.

Edit:

This is basically everything I wrote for the month smashed up into one big document. The bulk of my writing was spent on outlining my Nano attempt and revising said outline. Final word total was 3,869 for that bit, the rest of the 4k was TD related.

I toxx'd in the Nano thread, but I might as well repeat it here.

:toxx:

50k words by 11/30/20

E: I'm just reposing my totals from the Nano thread as another way to hold myself accountable. If it gets annoying I will stop but:

~~10/31/20: 4k base ante~~ (Met on 11/4/20)

:toxx:

6k additional words to bring the total up 11,021 (in progress 11/4/20)

magic cactus fucked around with this message at 07:51 on Nov 4, 2020

# ¿ Nov 2, 2020 22:10

magic cactus: Aug 3, 2019; We lied. We are not at war. There is no enemy. This is a rescue operation.

magic cactus posted:

Hit goal, forgot this was a thing. Will post proof later.

Edit:

This is basically everything I wrote for the month smashed up into one big document. The bulk of my writing was spent on outlining my Nano attempt and revising said outline. Final word total was 3,869 for that bit, the rest of the 4k was TD related.

I toxx'd in the Nano thread, but I might as well repeat it here.

50k words by 11/30/20

E: I'm just reposing my totals from the Nano thread as another way to hold myself accountable. If it gets annoying I will stop but:

~~10/31/20: 4k base ante~~ (Met on 11/4/20)

6k additional words to bring the total up 11,021 (in progress 11/4/20)

Final Nano total: 8k

I burned out real hard :negative:

Seb please make my judgment swift and merciless tyvm.

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# ¿ Dec 1, 2020 18:50

magic cactus: Aug 3, 2019; We lied. We are not at war. There is no enemy. This is a rescue operation.

I'm back

4k for the month.

# ¿ Dec 2, 2020 07:15

magic cactus: Aug 3, 2019; We lied. We are not at war. There is no enemy. This is a rescue operation.

met my goal mostly trying to work on my aborted nano attempt:

for 4k in January

# ¿ Jan 1, 2021 22:47

magic cactus: Aug 3, 2019; We lied. We are not at war. There is no enemy. This is a rescue operation.

spent most of the month failing TD and working on my Nano attempt.

Feeling kind of unmotivated to write right now due to personal stuff so I'm gonna step away from TD/LW for the month and come back in March. Good luck everyone!

# ¿ Feb 2, 2021 03:24

magic cactus: Aug 3, 2019; We lied. We are not at war. There is no enemy. This is a rescue operation.

I'm back.

4k in March

# ¿ Mar 1, 2021 20:06

magic cactus: Aug 3, 2019; We lied. We are not at war. There is no enemy. This is a rescue operation.

sebmojo posted:

Also, magic cactus, how you doing?

Passed the total by 1k I think. I'll post proof in a little bit.

E:

Took everything I wrote for the month and smashed it into one doc. Final total 5,608 :grovertoot:

Pretty much all of this was working on my aborted nano attempt. I'm hoping to have a complete draft by the end of the year.

:toxx:

4k in April.

magic cactus fucked around with this message at 00:54 on Mar 31, 2021

# ¿ Mar 31, 2021 00:18

magic cactus: Aug 3, 2019; We lied. We are not at war. There is no enemy. This is a rescue operation.

Late Post but I hit 4,716 words so I'm calling it a win.

[timg]https://i.ibb.co/T2fq46t/Longwalk-May-2021.jpg[[/timg]

:toxx:

4k in May

# ¿ May 2, 2021 04:10

magic cactus: Aug 3, 2019; We lied. We are not at war. There is no enemy. This is a rescue operation.

Managed to pull 5,484 words absolutely out of my rear end this time around. they're not good words, but I wrote them, so they count.

4k June.

# ¿ Jun 1, 2021 02:32

magic cactus: Aug 3, 2019; We lied. We are not at war. There is no enemy. This is a rescue operation.

Sorry for the late post, been dealing with personal stuff and forgot to check in

Tried something new for this month, wrote 4k words of outline for some academic philosophy stuff I'm kicking around. I don't remember per thread rules if outlines/notes count so if it doesn't I'll eat the toxx.

4k July

# ¿ Jul 2, 2021 05:29

magic cactus: Aug 3, 2019; We lied. We are not at war. There is no enemy. This is a rescue operation.

Welp, made it through with more of my philosophy stuff.

4k for august. This time I'm getting back to my drat manuscript.

# ¿ Aug 1, 2021 04:07

magic cactus: Aug 3, 2019; We lied. We are not at war. There is no enemy. This is a rescue operation.

The bad news: didn't do squat as far as work on manuscript goes.

The good news: Barfed up 5k and change in lame stream of conscious stuff.

4k September

# ¿ Sep 2, 2021 02:39

magic cactus: Aug 3, 2019; We lied. We are not at war. There is no enemy. This is a rescue operation.

day late but I squeaked by with 4k and some change:

4k 4 spookymonth

# ¿ Oct 1, 2021 23:19

magic cactus: Aug 3, 2019; We lied. We are not at war. There is no enemy. This is a rescue operation.

made it.

so I'm gonna :toxx:

4k for November but I'm taking another run at NaNo this year. Seb would it be okay if I let the 4K stand as a proxy for my NaNo attempt? I write very slowly due to physical issues and highly doubt I'll be able to finish, but I want to try and the :toxx:

is a good kick in the pants. I guess if this is frowned upon I could just nut up and do the full-blooded :toxx:

# ¿ Nov 1, 2021 05:19

magic cactus: Aug 3, 2019; We lied. We are not at war. There is no enemy. This is a rescue operation.

Welp, last year I made 15k or so. This year I made.....

7k.

Although something is off because my tracker on the Nano website shows 12k written. I did suffer a computer crash that wiped out some stuff I had open without saving. So it goes :shrug:

I'm gonna give myself a break and come back to the thread in January. All the best to my fellow December Longwalkers and I'll see you in the next year!

# ¿ Nov 30, 2021 21:11

magic cactus: Aug 3, 2019; We lied. We are not at war. There is no enemy. This is a rescue operation.

gently caress it probably dancing with ghosts but I need to knock the rust off. In 4k September :toxx:

for oldtimes sake i'll just autoban if the thread is dead

magic cactus fucked around with this message at 02:39 on Sep 19, 2022

# ¿ Sep 19, 2022 02:37

magic cactus: Aug 3, 2019; We lied. We are not at war. There is no enemy. This is a rescue operation.

4,186 words.

https://ibb.co/TLBkbhh

:toxx:

4k October

magic cactus fucked around with this message at 15:49 on Oct 1, 2022

# ¿ Oct 1, 2022 07:12

magic cactus: Aug 3, 2019; We lied. We are not at war. There is no enemy. This is a rescue operation.

will post in a minute. hit target gonna go ahead and :toxx:

4k November

edit: 4133

https://ibb.co/j6gRfCM

edit: fixed upload

magic cactus fucked around with this message at 20:42 on Oct 31, 2022

# ¿ Oct 31, 2022 20:25

magic cactus: Aug 3, 2019; We lied. We are not at war. There is no enemy. This is a rescue operation.

Edit: disregard service outage is over, here is the November total:

https://ibb.co/dtw0gC3

4171

Anyway, target hit, :toxx:

4k for December.

magic cactus fucked around with this message at 20:18 on Dec 1, 2022

# ¿ Dec 1, 2022 17:18

magic cactus: Aug 3, 2019; We lied. We are not at war. There is no enemy. This is a rescue operation.

Ah goddamn it I just realized tonight is the deadline and I'm nowhere near my computer. I did hit the target, but I can't upload till I'm back home.

:sigh:

Seb do what you must, I won't be home until Monday probably.

# ¿ Jan 1, 2023 02:10

magic cactus: Aug 3, 2019; We lied. We are not at war. There is no enemy. This is a rescue operation.

sebmojo posted:

If you hit the target that's fine

Good to know, I'll upload on Monday.

# ¿ Jan 1, 2023 05:32

magic cactus: Aug 3, 2019; We lied. We are not at war. There is no enemy. This is a rescue operation.

So I ended up getting the flu Monday morning and couldn't really get out of bed until this evening but here's the December '22 total:

https://ibb.co/dbyr5LB

Target hit, :toxx:

4k for January. Thanks for the grace period.

# ¿ Jan 4, 2023 05:32

magic cactus: Aug 3, 2019; We lied. We are not at war. There is no enemy. This is a rescue operation.

Made it: 4819

https://i.postimg.cc/GcWhcKrN/Longwalk-Jaunuary-2023.jpg

I'm doing a bunch of editing for this stuff so I don't know if :toxx:

is the way to go for February, on the other hand this thread is like, the only way I can actually hold myself accountable to write so :toxx:

4k February I guess.

# ¿ Jan 31, 2023 23:14

magic cactus: Aug 3, 2019; We lied. We are not at war. There is no enemy. This is a rescue operation.

Somehow I totally blanked on it being the 1st of the month today, my bad.
https://ibb.co/jvtshWc

Anyway, hit the target at 4137/4k.

:toxx:

for 4k March

# ¿ Mar 2, 2023 00:37

magic cactus: Aug 3, 2019; We lied. We are not at war. There is no enemy. This is a rescue operation.

Long month but I made it at 4340 :grovertoot:

https://ibb.co/BN0XtMW

:toxx:

4k April

# ¿ Apr 1, 2023 19:23

magic cactus: Aug 3, 2019; We lied. We are not at war. There is no enemy. This is a rescue operation.

This month was a fuckin' slog but 4,020 words in the can.

https://ibb.co/zQrRvVN

:toxx:

4k 4 May

# ¿ May 1, 2023 19:32

magic cactus: Aug 3, 2019; We lied. We are not at war. There is no enemy. This is a rescue operation.

Took a break from my novel this month to try something different, did a collaboration romance thing with a friend and made deadline at 4,349

https://ibb.co/zZc7fRT

:toxx:

4k in June. I'm hoping to get back to work on my novel.

# ¿ Jun 1, 2023 18:45

magic cactus: Aug 3, 2019; We lied. We are not at war. There is no enemy. This is a rescue operation.

I hit my target but I'm traveling at the moment and things are hectic, can I get a 24 hour extension? I'm away from my main document atm, unfortunately don't have it on my gdrive or anything.

Edit: 4440. Target hit, thanks for waiting. Not longwalking this month as things are kind of crazy for me atm

https://ibb.co/jLFZ56t

magic cactus fucked around with this message at 18:56 on Jul 4, 2023

# ¿ Jul 1, 2023 15:45

magic cactus: Aug 3, 2019; We lied. We are not at war. There is no enemy. This is a rescue operation.

few days late but I'm jumping back in after a long absence. :toxx:

4k for March.

# ¿ Mar 4, 2024 11:13

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# ¿ May 13, 2024 22:30

magic cactus: Aug 3, 2019; We lied. We are not at war. There is no enemy. This is a rescue operation.

magic cactus posted:

few days late but I'm jumping back in after a long absence. 4k for March.

Seb can I get a deadline extension till Monday? I'm traveling for the holidays and away from my computer so I can't post my document just yet.

https://ibb.co/87qjgs1

Edit: Got in late last night too tired to post, but here is 4,105 words. Not a pleasant experience. My novel seems to be fighting me. I'm gonna take a break from the main project and maybe just work on short story/flash fiction stuff. Pledging 4k for April :toxx:

magic cactus fucked around with this message at 14:25 on Apr 2, 2024

# ¿ Mar 30, 2024 07:39

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