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Samba
11-11-2007, 04:23 PM
I am at 1100 something words. I have a few hours to write before I have to leave.
SundayMorning
11-12-2007, 01:28 PM
Well I was doing great until it came time to really solidly introduce the antagonist element and I sort of went "mehhh" and gave up for the day. I have a little bit of catching up to do.
And by the way I am totally addicted to writing in Starbucks. If that makes me a bad person, I'm prepared to live with that.
Yekhefah
11-13-2007, 09:22 AM
Doesn't make you a bad person at all!
I know it's lame, but I write better at home. I go out sometimes if there's something really distracting at home, but I find too many distractions in coffee shops. I write well in bars sometimes, though, I just have to bring my iPod.
I hit a snag yesterday too and haven't quite broken 12,000 words yet but I will today. The NaNoWriMo forum is a wealth of information! It got me totally back on track. (Ha ha, track. My novel is called "The Track.")
SundayMorning
11-13-2007, 12:25 PM
You have a title! *reeks jealousy*
I said this in the Random thread but I totally love my husband. He's been the most awesome one-man support group ever.
Ugh I'm at 18k but to catch up I need to end at 22k today. I have great ideas that need fleshing out but my heart just hasn't been in it for the past couple of days. Need more peppermint white chocolate mocha! Or Mocha BK Joe with no ice! Or a ghostwriter!
On the neat side, I heckled my best friend in Korea long enough that he just signed up....he said he was giving me a 16k head start. I love the competition!
Back I go. Keep up the energy, Yek! Budai my buddy, how you doin? Everyone still kicking? Band together, team! We're in the Week 2 slump, we can pull through this! [/pep talk]
Yekhefah
11-30-2007, 07:15 PM
I know I made it, and Sunday made it. Who else crossed the finish line with us?
I had no idea that finishing the very ROUGH first draft of a novel would affect me the way it has this evening. I took a bath to relax and celebrate, and I started to laugh, and then I burst into tears, and then I started laughing while I cried. I have a stronger sense of accomplishment right now than I had when I finished my Master's degree. This stupid, insane little exercise has had more of an affect on me than anything else I've done. It's amazing, and I will definitely do it next year, and I will absolutely be doing Script Frenzy (the screenwriters' equivalent) in April.
I can't believe I wrote a novel in a month. This is incredible. The high is way better than cocaine.
RoseWhite
11-30-2007, 07:20 PM
CONGRATULATIONS!!! That is a huge accomplishment.
SundayMorning
12-01-2007, 12:09 AM
I know I made it, and Sunday made it. Who else crossed the finish line with us?
I had no idea that finishing the very ROUGH first draft of a novel would affect me the way it has this evening. I took a bath to relax and celebrate, and I started to laugh, and then I burst into tears, and then I started laughing while I cried. I have a stronger sense of accomplishment right now than I had when I finished my Master's degree. This stupid, insane little exercise has had more of an affect on me than anything else I've done. It's amazing, and I will definitely do it next year, and I will absolutely be doing Script Frenzy (the screenwriters' equivalent) in April.
I can't believe I wrote a novel in a month. This is incredible. The high is way better than cocaine.
Never tried coke but I feel like snorting up little white lines of parchment. Whee! Nothing, even the manchego-cheese-during-oral post-Nano celebration, has ever felt as good as completing a 30 day novel. It's MINE. A product of my brain which I'm so fucking proud of (even though I didn't take very good care of it tonight, I'm still drunkish). I set a deadline and I met it and I have something at the end to show for it. This is pure unadulterated, uncut exultation.
Cheers Yek and all other winners!
Budai
12-01-2007, 12:30 AM
:worship: Congratulations, Yek! :worship:
While I fell miserably short of my personal goal, I'm inspired by your success and grateful for your feedback earlier this month! ;D
Yekhefah
12-01-2007, 02:30 AM
Yeah, Budai, WTF happened? You were off to such a promising start!
yinyang
11-27-2012, 12:43 AM
I just won!!! Ahhh!
I tried in 2009 and didn't make it, but this year i tried again and I did it!
It was easier this time... i've been keeping a daily journal for a while now, so I just wrote for this everyday in stream-of-consciousness, like journal entries. I figure I'll go back into it and change names and details later. It qualifies as semi-autobiographical literary fiction!
Did anyone else try it this year? If you didn't, you should try it next year! More stripper novels written by strippers!
"Overheard in the Dressing Room" should be our collaborative piece, like the Vagina Monologues! Ha, ha, ha...
Djoser
11-27-2012, 02:16 AM
You won? Congrats on that, glad to hear it!
summerbre
11-29-2012, 02:35 PM
I participated this year but am no where close to reaching the 50,000 mark! Congrats to those of you who were successful. YinYang, an "Overheard in the dressing room" collaborative piece is actually a BRILLIANT suggestion. That thread is fantastic! Seriously it would be a crime to deprive the world of that hilarity.
yinyang
11-29-2012, 07:25 PM
Do you think you might try again another year? If you do, good luck! Maybe it will be easier the next time around.
I'd be willing to compile posts from that thread, but I bet it'll be a nuisance to actually publish, even as an independent, self-publication... I'd have to contact sooo many girls to get permission, wouldn't i? Or maybe I just contact moderators? I wonder if that whole thread reaches 50,000 words.