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Slower than I wanted, but still a step up from recent years. Victory.
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Congrats! 50k in 11 days is amazing! I'm at 19,313, slowly getting nearer to my personal best of 27k~ from I think 2016. I really think I have the ability to do it this year!
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Nov 12, 2019 00:45
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1k words behind. I've come back from bigger deficits before, but the weekends are the only times I have to write and in previous years my weekends haven't been as busy as this year's promises to be.
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Nov 12, 2019 01:50
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McTimmy posted:Slower than I wanted, but still a step up from recent years. Victory. Hell yeah, way to go! I'm sitting at 21K words, gonna take the 15th off to celebrate halfway through nano!
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Nov 12, 2019 05:51
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25k! 
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Nov 14, 2019 05:52
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Hit 35k just now, and now I'm more worried about what I'm going to do after I hit 50k than actually reaching it. Because hoo boy, there's a whole lot more left to write.
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Nov 14, 2019 11:08
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Pikestaff posted:25k! Same! andipossess posted:Hit 35k just now, and now I'm more worried about what I'm going to do after I hit 50k than actually reaching it. Because hoo boy, there's a whole lot more left to write. Also the same! 26k words in and I might hit the end of Act 1 some time soon?
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Nov 14, 2019 13:28
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I just hit 20k, running behind but still going.
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Nov 14, 2019 17:56
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Bam, hit the halfway point. 25K.
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Nov 14, 2019 18:04
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hollylolly posted:I just hit 20k, running behind but still going. This is exactly me too. I'm rolling. Weekend is coming up!
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Nov 14, 2019 19:06
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Cracked 22k. Still behind but not nearly by as much as I was afraid of, and the weekend is fast approaching.
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Nov 14, 2019 20:44
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oh hey there was somewhere I forgot to tell about it--SA!  I hit my 50K across both projects on the 12th. That would be my 15th Nano win (in a row) and this year ties with 2013 for my fastest Nano Win. (Look, let's be real here unless I get super crunk, nothing's going to top that 2012 win time.) I'm still writing though. Will I hit the elusive 100k in a month? Let's find out together!
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Nov 15, 2019 06:03
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I have 8k words left to try and squeeze the rest of Act 1 into the 50k goal. At this rate, unless I figure out how not to overindulge in slice-of-life scenes and just do actual plot, my first draft will be 150k words, which is about twice the recommended length for a YA novel. But sometimes you just gotta write that two thousand word trick-or-treating scene that advances a minor subplot. You know, just to get it out of your system.
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Nov 18, 2019 10:34
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andipossess posted:I have 8k words left to try and squeeze the rest of Act 1 into the 50k goal. At this rate, unless I figure out how not to overindulge in slice-of-life scenes and just do actual plot, my first draft will be 150k words, which is about twice the recommended length for a YA novel. Haha that's awesome! It's daunting to see how much you've written, and yet how much there still is. I just wrote a small snippet which changed my ending, though I enjoy it a lot more. I hit 32K!
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Nov 18, 2019 15:45
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andipossess posted:I have 8k words left to try and squeeze the rest of Act 1 into the 50k goal. At this rate, unless I figure out how not to overindulge in slice-of-life scenes and just do actual plot, my first draft will be 150k words, which is about twice the recommended length for a YA novel. See me, circa 2012. though I'm pretty sure that scene took up 3 or 4 k on the page.
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Nov 20, 2019 08:51
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Unfortunately I think I'm about to fall off this horse. It's not the writing itself, which I always enjoy, it's the narrative. The story I was writing is officially defunct and now I'm writing non-sequitur crapola just to keep up the count. It seems pointless to continue. Fun while it lasted, though.
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Nov 20, 2019 20:49
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I think my story's gonna wrap up around 45k, which is fine, because I went in knowing my idea this year was more fitting for a lengthy short story or novella than a real big novel so I was kind of prepared. I'm okay with filling in the remaining word count with other projects, because hey, it's still 50k total words of fiction, right? Anyway, I'm at 38,767 right now and pretty happy about my pace.
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Nov 21, 2019 03:59
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Just under 20k, have sat here for over a week now. Oops. I would like to try to get another 7k-8k words done just to have my best NaNo performance because it would feel good, but I don't know if I'll be able to finish this story overall. Hard work!
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Nov 21, 2019 15:32
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Omnikin posted:Just under 20k, have sat here for over a week now. Oops. I would like to try to get another 7k-8k words done just to have my best NaNo performance because it would feel good, but I don't know if I'll be able to finish this story overall. Hard work! I believe in you bud. If ya want we can do some sprints on Saturday, talk about your story? (Dunno if that helps, some people it does). Im sitting at 36K, got a day buffer.
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Nov 21, 2019 16:49
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Finally pushed past 30k. The sticky middle bit is trying to take me under. Everything is terrible. 
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Nov 21, 2019 18:01
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Just managed to rush past 50k before midnight putting me at a day 21 finish for my first NaNo! And it'll probably be the best I'll ever do! And I've still got two thirds of a novel to go! I think I'll probably end up writing other things for the rest of the month and then attempt to get back into the headspace of this novel. Good luck to everyone still pushing through. hollylolly posted:Finally pushed past 30k. The sticky middle bit is trying to take me under. Everything is terrible. You can do this!
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Nov 22, 2019 09:07
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I just finished my first book ever at 50,022. Somehow I had just barely enough content planned to inch over the finish line without having to go back and add some filler. Now I can focus on gorging myself over the long weekend.
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Nov 26, 2019 22:17
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I fell a bit short on my writing, so I filled out my very last 4k with planning. Lots and lots of brainstorming and notes for what I need to fill out. It still counts! And with that I managed to get 50k exactly! Honestly, I'm not sure if I'll keep writing past today. I've been experiencing major burnout and a lot of stress to hit my word goals-- I got stuck a lot, and had to skip around in my outline just to stay where I wanted to be. I'm not a huge fan of the fact that every year after I win I just stop writing, even if there are more days left to go, but I don't know if I can keep going, or if I even should. I did what I set out to do, and I feel good about that. I now have a fresh draft that I can edit further and get more feedback on that will hopefully be more relevant to my final vision of the story than my first draft blather. I'm happy with what I've done. I'm proud of myself for not giving up even when I desperately wanted to. It's been a productive month. Thank god it's over.
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Nov 27, 2019 01:55
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Maybe writing a novel just isn’t the right creative outlet for you, and you should try drawing, or screenwriting, or whatever else. You sound like how I used to be with running. I could do marathons, but I didn't really like the running itself. I’d sign up for a race if someone else I knew did, train enough to finish it, be happy about finishing, but then stop. Eventually I stumbled onto climbing, and now I’ll go climbing just for the fun of it, which I would never do for running.
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Nov 27, 2019 03:56
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Nov 27, 2019 21:34
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Took a bit longer than I was hoping for due to hitting a major burnout wall this last week, but. 50k. Eleventh win in a row. I'll admit I'm kind of in a similar moment of "is this all really worth it" brain fog, unlike a lot of people who participate I have no interest or ambition in becoming a published writer or anything; I started doing NaNo years ago initially because it sounded fun and then it just sort of became a self-challenge to Not Break the Win Streak. But hey, it does feel good to finish something, and I'm sure I'll be back next year, ahaha. Congrats to all the other winners!
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Nov 28, 2019 21:54
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My last three days of the month were/are way too hectic to write so I am tapping out at 41k but it’s also the closest I’ve ever come to winning.  Congrats to the winners!
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Nov 30, 2019 03:37
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Boom, hit 50K 
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Nov 30, 2019 18:49
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Done! The latest I've left it by far and it required over 10,000 words today to make it but I've finally hit 50k.
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Dec 1, 2019 02:37
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I meant to keep more regular updates on my progress, but given I was behind for nearly the entire month it probably would have given me even more anxiety than the month already did. Anyway, I made it to 50k right under the wire.
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Dec 1, 2019 02:51
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nevermind that's not as good as previous babyses (USER WAS PUT ON PROBATION FOR THIS POST)
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Bam, 50k on the last day. Quick thoughts on doing a ttrpg for nano: 1) Sketch outlines and just slam out random thoughts on mechanics as you have them. I heavily recommend having a section at the end that's just for jutting down notes. The lack of a narrative structure and sequence of chronological events is really good for this. 2) With that said, do not actually try to write out or balance any specific mechanics unless there is something really clever that you want to get down exactly. Balancing and mechanical tightness do NOT translate into word count (and properly done will probably lower your word count), and this really tripped me up for about the first third of Nano. I would have finished by the 20th if I had the pace I ended with (which was very doable for me specifically, around 2.5 - 3k words a night). 3) Using the opportunity to write lots of setting material is both good for getting that kind of foundation structure down, but is also good for influencing and figuring out the kind of game you want to make. When writing setting and flavor material, I found myself often getting into a place of either refining a mechanical idea I had that reflected well in the world, or the setting would reflect into mechanical ideas and give me some inspiration there. While writing some things I'd find that I didn't actually care about an idea or concept, and that it not feeling right for the setting made me realize I was just carrying around some sacred cows that I could then happily slaughter when I identified them. I'll carry this forward into the "finish our projects" thread we have in games for ttrpgs after this, I like the basics of what I have down and finally getting in there and chewing on the idea has made me decide it actually has some potential legs to it if I can get them stepping one in front of the other.
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This was my first nanowrimo and I hit the 50k last night. I hadn't written much fiction since college (15 odd years ago) so it was rough getting started, but I was surprised to find after the first week I didn't have too much trouble hitting my words in an hour or two. The 'just write' mantra does really help get past my natural tendency to keep hammering away on a single sentence without advancing (I think it was Vonnegut who called that 'bashing'). I didn't really write a novel since I'd guess I have 20 or 30k more words to wrap it up in any way. I'm not sure if I'll continue with it since it definitely isn't very good and I'd need to spend plenty of time editing and rewriting once I actually finished it. Usually I spend my extra productive time working on indie games and November obviously stole most of that and I'm not sure I want to give up another month to my (poor) writing. Still, I understand the enthusiasm for nanowrimo. It felt good to get in a writing groove and it feels beneficial to any writing I may do in the future.
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Congratulations to all winners.
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yeah, I think the best part of NaNo is sort of teaching yourself how to shut off the inner editor and slam down 50k words in a month. It's a valuable skill for the writing toolset, and at the end of the month if some of what you wrote can be salvaged into something better, then that's icing on the cake.
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Found this thread late. Been doing NaNo for multiple years, usually use it as a production forge for stuff I edit later in the year. Is anyone involved in their local groups? I'm one of the Municipal Liaisons for Cambridge in the UK (like a mod only worse and you have to do stuff in real life as well). We've ordanised writing events throughout the month, and usually keep them rolling throughout the rest of the year as well at a slower pace (first saturday of the month in a local cafe) plus pub socials. It's a good way of keeping people involved for next year, as well as giving a year round writing excuse.
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I went to some of my local write-ins, and our group actually has a discord, which is handy because I never go to facebook and the nano site doesn't ping you in the group chat thing. This group also does regular meetups-- weekly, I think?-- but they meet up too far away for me to bike there easily. I might make more of an effort if I didn't already have the Write Write Write discord server.
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