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[majikero]

I'll post a excerpt tomorrow and see what you think.

[Scelly9]

Damn. Missed a day because of exhaustion, exceedingly behind.

[USEC_OFFICER]

I'm at... 2396 words right now. Yeah, I'm horribly behind and probably won't catch up any time soon. Mind you I had to chuck out 1000 some odd words when I started making a new book on the second day. The tone and pacing for the first novel just seemed weird to me though I really liked the story idea. Still, I am very inspired for my new book idea and that's what really matters (even if half of the thing is appendixes). Hopefully I'll be able to double the word count tonight, because otherwise I don't see me reaching 50,000 words by the end of November.

[EnigmaticHat]

My computer died literally 5 minutes before Nanowrimo started.

Suffice to say, productivity has suffered.  I can still work, kind of, by going on school computers and gmailing my work to myself.  But its distracting, most of the computers aren't available at night when I work best, and I keep getting distracted by things like hunger and noise that would be much easier to solve if wasn't stuck in one place.  Oh, and many of the school computers are macs that don't even have word(?), and I can't figure out how consistently to do the mac version of right clicking, so that's an issue.  My parents are sending over a crappy spare laptop, so hopefully that will help me improve my pitiful ~1,100 words.  Learning to turn off "agonize over every word" would definitely help.

[Sirus]

Been sick this weekend, haven't written a word since Thursday

[anzki4]

The fact that I'm not the only one way behind is quite a relief 

[majikero]

Here's a little snip of the intro. What do you think of the writing style?

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It’s an old book. The cover is red leather and there’s no title written on the front or the spine. In fact, there’s nothing written on the cover at all.

I opened it. Blank.

The pages are blank.

Hello.

I blinked and stared at the book. I stared at my sister. She stared back at me.

My name is Alice Tabitha.

It’s a girl’s voice, a girl’s voice from the book.

Wordlessly, I held it at arm’s length and tried to pass it to my sister.

Wordlessly, she jumps away from me, shaking her head.

Please do not be afraid.

Well, that’s reassuring.

I’m still holding the book at arm’s length. I pointed at her, then to the book. It was wordless command.

Talk to it.

With me holding it and her talking to it. It’s a compromise.

It's has a light novel feel to it though. That's unintentional.

[Scelly9]

Oh, nice. I like it, would keep me interested for long enough to find out what it was about.

[majikero]

I'm stuck.

I'm not sure how our hero will react accepting the summon from the fantasy world only to be told that only women can be the savior.

Will he react with sarcasm about the symbolism of that claim or will he just call bullshit and make snide comments about the world being doomed?

Both are equally in character for him so I can't decide. This is only the start of chapter 2 as well.

This is important because this will set the tone of how he acts for the rest of the chapter.

[inEQUALITY]

7830 words at the end of last night. Exhausted myself mentally from playing Magic the Gathering today (my LGS does tournaments on Sunday as well as Friday). Not sure if I'll get much, if any, writing done tonight before midnight. At least I'm ahead of the curve, but I'd like to get over 8333 by the end of the night so I'd have a day's worth of buffer still.

I'm stuck.

I'm not sure how our hero will react accepting the summon from the fantasy world only to be told that only women can be the savior.

Will he react with sarcasm about the symbolism of that claim or will he just call bullshit and make snide comments about the world being doomed?

Both are equally in character for him so I can't decide. This is only the start of chapter 2 as well.

This is important because this will set the tone of how he acts for the rest of the chapter.

Why not a little bit of both?  Maybe even have him monologue about it in a rant? Good way to pad word count, at the very least.

[majikero]

But the question now is, which one will be vocalized and which one be a monologue?

Both is always an option. Gonna waste more time thinking about this to get it right.

Also, what he's gonna say will be foreshadowing! Or is it genre savvy?

[monk12]

6905 as of now. I decided to take advantage of the elevator ride to do some characterization- plus, it's fun having these guys talk, and it really bumps up the wordcount. I really need to come up with a name for the MacGuffin, since I can't keep referring to it as "the book." Well, I could, and I could probably draw some comedic value from that, but I'm already doing that joke with the heroine's name.

[Un67]

10733. Just kind of maintaining a pattern of at least 2k a day.

[Dsarker]

Well, I decided to start this...ooh, an hour ago? Nearing my first thousand words now.

[SirAaronIII]

Don't worry, behind-people! I started a few days late and I was able to pull through!