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Ither posted:I've written ~7,000 words for a progression fantasy story I started recently. Going to add too that nice, I have an outline for a progression fantasy story and a bunch of drawings of locations 8)
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Oct 31, 2023 02:08
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4280 words down. Done for the night. Glad I spent some time noodling and outlining before this. Even then, my lil progression fantasy magical system and setting has had upheavals.
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Nov 2, 2023 04:52
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day 2: 3710 words total: 7990 words I'm pretty good at backloading stuff like this, but I fully expect it to droop down low within a week.
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Nov 3, 2023 06:04
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day 3: 3350 words total: 11341 words today's words were devoted to a single conversation, but i'm really happy with it. was it all expository dialogue? yes
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Nov 4, 2023 05:45
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day 4: 3081 words total: 14,442 still ahead of the linear goal, at least, even if the daily count is dropping fast.
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Nov 5, 2023 06:53
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day 5: 4287 words total: 18,709 words slow start, but when it started, boy did it. realized i really like writing dialogue.
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Nov 6, 2023 06:37
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Bobby Deluxe posted:How do all of you with jobs and lives manage to keep going with this? I don't have a massive amount of responsibility compared to the average person, but even then I'm having real trouble fitting it in with even the minor responsibilities I do have. i'm unemployed right now 
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Nov 6, 2023 16:02
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i feel much less alone in my unemployment, thank you all as for my own story, because i think it's neat: i'm writing a progression fantasy, where the mc is the child of a child prodigy/once-in-a-generation mage who died when the mc was an infant, and whose father basically refused to talk about her. so there's two parallel stories, kinda: the MC's own journey, and learning the story of their mother through other people's stories about her. and the main character then also has to deal with the big expectations of being her child, but ultimately, not being her. so far it's a lot of dialogue with family/family friends, switching between stories, ~magical education~, and reassurance that they'll be loved no matter what path they take. but it's a little light on conflict so far, ngl.
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Nov 6, 2023 20:11
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Tea Party Crasher posted:My Zen teacher has told me before that family karma is the most powerful and deeply felt in all of our lives, so I think learning the story of your family and finding your place in it Is something a lot of people can identify with and recognize the internal conflicts that come with that. Especially when there are expectations to live up to- It sounds like a great idea to me thank you, that's a good way to think about it. day 6: 2106 words total: 20,815 words didn't have quite as much time today (got covid/flu shots today! my poor arms), but still finished more than i expected to. also spent a couple hours reading/watching stuff about fighting and writing fight scenes, because i wanted a sparring scene, but my god, i have no idea how fighting works. i'm hoping, with time and practice, that writing them will feel a bit more natural. and now i have a first draft of Act I, now and i'm fairly happy with it, brief sparring scene included.
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Nov 7, 2023 07:41
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day 8: 2415 words total: 23,230 words zero words for yesterday due to post-shots sickness. i took a full-day nap and i feel better now, but whew yesterday sucked also, for people looking for ways to keep track of characters and stuff, i really like using scrivener. i haven't used it before starting on this, but it's been really handy for keeping track of characters and places so far, and outlining/organization in general. I'm just using the free trial, but I'm already set on getting a license.
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Nov 9, 2023 05:49
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day 9: 4827 total words: 28,057 did a lot of outlining and a couple scenes. hell yeah
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Nov 10, 2023 07:09
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day 10: 5029 words total: 33,086 despite the word count, i ended up booting a whole chapter of material out, because I realized it was a really dull plot point, and absolutely unnecessary. like, oh here's where the main character has a part-time job that i am 100% going to ignore for the rest of this story.
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Nov 11, 2023 09:30
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day 11: 4557 words total: 37,643 today the group meets another group, some people stare longingly, and then they fight each other. conflict!
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Nov 12, 2023 08:31
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today: 4715 words total: 42,358 words i feel like i've barely started the story tho 
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Nov 13, 2023 07:19
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day 13: 3203 words total: 45,561 words i'm really happy with the last couple chapters. it was fun to write and surprisingly fun to re-read.
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Nov 14, 2023 08:37
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today: 3568 words total: 49,139 words vibrating as i approach 50k, but ultimately the goal is to finish the actual book, so i'm shooting more for 100k anyway the story's approaching a fun midpoint, and i made a dumb joke that i keep laughing at even though it's my own dumb joke
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Nov 15, 2023 10:48
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today: 3727 words total: 52,866 words well that's a goal met, at least. still got a lot of story to tell still, but i did a bunch of outlining for the next few chapters today too, and i'm really excited for where it'll go. Bobby Deluxe posted:I am in awe of anyone writing more than 2k words a day, I just want people to know that. You are cool and I am jealous. i have the unlimited power granted by unemployment and hyperfixation from untreated adhd in part because of ye olde unemployment might as well put it to good use i guess!
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Nov 16, 2023 06:52
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Quote posted:Congratulations! I'm amazed. Enchanted Hat posted:Congratulations! It's incredible that you've completed the 50,000 words in just half the time! thank you for the kind words! day 16: 3247 total: 56,113 had the most galaxy brain idea i've ever had, and gave my sworddancer gogo boy character a job promotion into working at the progression fantasy tournament arc swords n sorcery version of a medieval times as a jobber
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Nov 17, 2023 10:09
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day 17: 4547 words total: 60,660 words felt less good about the chapters i worked on today. i think i kinda overcorrected into boring, after worrying that i was getting a bit too silly with some of the scenes.
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Nov 18, 2023 08:39
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day 18: 4883 total: 65,543 wrote the big climax chapters, so now it's just a couple of denouement chapters left. I still have some scenes and two earlier chapters that i just outlined and glossed over, but it feels good to see it coming together. and then the dreaded edit shall begin Waffle! posted:I'm proud of everyone for participating. Even if you don't finish, that's no reason to stop writing! I'm nowhere close to done, but I had a funny idea on how to wrap up my story and I've made lots of progress compared to last month. a werebear with a heart of gold 
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Nov 19, 2023 08:40
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day 19: 6232 words total: 71, 775 instead of finishing glossed over chapters, I went back and redid much of the intro. It's now certifiably svelte, but a lot less boring. there are some things I might add back in later, but it's kind of fun to re-write something when you don't have to worry too much about figuring out plot beats. still, i kicked out a bunch of material, but hey, words is words.
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Nov 20, 2023 08:01
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day 20: 3306 words total: 75,081 words I'm editing and rewriting a bunch of stuff now, and it's flowing a lot better in my opinion and more interestingly, but it's been kinda rough watching the actual manuscript word count go down so drastically (<50k now lol) as i boot out material that just didn't quite fit any more. it's for the best, but still, oof. but now i have more room to put in scenes that fill out their personalities better and stuff, and more importantly, i have a much better grasp on their personalities now. gotta give more props to scrivener, too; the interface is great for doing this kind of thing. i just wish the split-screen editor let me put more than two documents up at once. fake edit: i just looked it up, and if you right click on a scene or whatever, you can go to open -> in copyholder, and it basically does just that.
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Nov 21, 2023 09:21
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day 21: 5396 words total: 80,477 words deep in the re-write weeds now. i thought i'd end up re-using paragraphs a lot, but half the time i just have to rewrite them entirely. it's amazing how many goddamn dependencies pop up.
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Nov 22, 2023 07:39
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day 22: 4377 words total: 84,854 words feeling very tired i'm resistant about it, but i might skip tomorrow just to give myself some space from it. it's hard to judge what's good and what isn't right now, and i think if i step back a little and take some time away from it, it'll become clearer.
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Nov 23, 2023 06:51
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day 23: 3893 words total: 88,747 words totally told myself i'd step back for a day, which lasted about half a day. then i booted out a good 1000 words of what i wrote yesterday lol.
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Nov 24, 2023 07:50
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day 24: 4386 words total: 93,133 words just have a couple more chapters to rewrite before i reach the climax chapters again.
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Nov 25, 2023 09:18
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Enchanted Hat posted:
GarbiTheGlitchress posted:Day 25: 1682 congrats to both of you!!  day 25: 4000 words EXACTLY total: 97,133 words feeling very tired as the month approaches its end. 
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Nov 26, 2023 08:14
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day 26: 6566 total: 103,699 passed the 100k threshold. whew.
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Nov 27, 2023 08:26
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day 27: 5053 total: 108,752 after i finished writing i sat down and thought about some more character development goals and realized that one of the mains needs to change a bunch
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Nov 28, 2023 09:01
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day 28: 4785 words total: 113,537 words Xalidur posted:I have done it. Cranked out 3286 words today despite working and D&D to finish two days early. hell yeah good job 8)
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Nov 29, 2023 08:04
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day 29: 7245 words total: 120,782 words well if nothing else, i've discovered that i can write pretty consistently, so that's cool. unfortunately i realized that a main plot-progression-vehicle i built up is both boring to read and totally unenjoyable to write lol. welp!
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Nov 30, 2023 09:06
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day 30: 5805 words total: 126,587 words that was, without a doubt, intensely better than i ever thought i could do. i expected it turn into nothing but unhappiness and frustration somewhere in the middle, but honestly? i had a lot of fun the whole way through  i still have a lot of work to do to finish writing this thing, and i've learned a lot over the last month, but the most important thing i learned is that i am pretty alright at banging stuff out. that counts for something, i guess!
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Dec 1, 2023 08:13
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