The I'm Writing Thread.... Celebrate your pages written etc

[The Deposed King]

50K

and its off to work!



always follow the dream guys.  I know you can do it!

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[The Deposed King]

51k

and

52k



Never surrender.  Writers of the world everywhere, Hold that banner tall!



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[Paynesgrey]

Broke 60K last night.  Lots of 500 to 1000 word nights, but I need a few of those days where I can just sit back and spend the day knocking out 3 or 4k in a session.  I know it all adds up, but those are the days where I can honestly feel like I really accomplished something. 

[The Deposed King]

Broke 60K last night.  Lots of 500 to 1000 word nights, but I need a few of those days where I can just sit back and spend the day knocking out 3 or 4k in a session.  I know it all adds up, but those are the days where I can honestly feel like I really accomplished something.

Stay hard after it PG you can do it!!!

I know the feeling.



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[the neurovore of Zur-En-Aargh]

Between work being once-in-four-years-grant-application crazy and having visiting family, I did indeed get no writing done this week either; have figured out some useful bits of world-building, though.

[gatordave96]

Broke 60K last night.  Lots of 500 to 1000 word nights, but I need a few of those days where I can just sit back and spend the day knocking out 3 or 4k in a session.  I know it all adds up, but those are the days where I can honestly feel like I really accomplished something.

I can empathize.  3k would be an amazing day.  I think I did that a couple of times when I was on vacation.  And you are doing well if you are averaging 500 to 1000 per night. 

Honestly, most of my work gets done on the weekends.  I actually looked back at my progress over the past year, and it looks like I have written about 100k . . . or about 2k per week.  Not exactly lighting speed. 

Up to 183k now.  Still working on the climax.

[meg_evonne]

Remember the tortoise!

indecision over, direction set. Raise the sails and hit the open seas.  Wait, weren't there hurricane warnings out there? 

[drewavera]

first day of NaNoWriMo, i figured id try it this year, i wrote 3496 words. i may write some more later tonight...

[meg_evonne]

Good progress this morning. And I'm only a tiny bit into a larger scene that is blocked out, waiting for me to get the words down.

[trboturtle]

first day of NaNoWriMo, i figured id try it this year, i wrote 3496 words. i may write some more later tonight...

As of right now, 2009 words for me....

Craig

[Paynesgrey]

5000 word storm holiday, and another 1,000 tonight.  Although tonight's stuff is a scene I haven't quite figured out how to work into the book. 

[THE_ANGRY_GAMER]

Doing NaNo - cheating a little, as I hit it running, intending to add 50,000 to my count. Midway through my second day (planning to do 2,000 a day, then if I fall a little behind, it's not the end of the world), and I'm at 8,480.

[the neurovore of Zur-En-Aargh]

4kwords so far today, taking a break for dinner.

[Paynesgrey]

Not doing the NaNoWriMo bit myself, I can work at a decent pace, but I can't get anywhere setting numerical goals/deadlines for myself beyond the basic "gotta average a minimum of 500 words a night."  Same reason I couldn't do illustration for work other than my own... my brain won't let me say "I'm going to paint a five."  I have to trick it and cajole it into doing what I want it to sometimes.  Like the 500 word average that works for making me average well over 500 words a night.  Don't do it every night, but when I sit down I'll usually do a bare minimum of 1000 anyway.  Didn't write last night, or the night before?  Ok, better open the laptop while I watch a movie... and I end up pausing the movie to peck out a hundred words... and then pause it again.. and again... and realized a few hours later that the computer's powered down while I knocked out 1500 words.  Which gets me to a scene that I'm excited about and take off on the next day when I get home from work...

Annoying darn thing, I have to give myself flexibility, which forces me to do what I can't force myself to do.

Does that make any sense? 

[the neurovore of Zur-En-Aargh]

And that was about a 6500-word day.  A whole new chapter, and a few bits and bobs added in to earlier chapters, of TIWTBWO #3, including one incidental detail that I've been wanting to get in since I basically had to cut a couple of chapters off the beginning of #2 for pacing reasons.  On the whole, pleasing. The next three chapters or so may get some chopping and changing, but after that we have a change of direction and it should be plainer sailing.  (This is not a book with one Big Middle so much as it is a book with a major thing a third of the way in and another two-thirds of the way in; I am looking forward to being past the former.)