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[Sirus]

Just 2.5 hours to go until November 1st!

[bucket]

You know, I think I should give this a shot. I'm going to (attempt to) write a 100-page short story in the mode of existential horror.

Here's a preview:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tulpa

[Talanic]

I started it an hour ago.  1000 words in.  I could start a thread here if people are interested - otherwise my current progress is here.

[Malt_Hitman]

I just started as well, a few minutes past midnight local time and racked up 1,023 total.  I guess I should plan for somewhere between 2,000 and 2,500 per day to keep on track barring the occasional setback.  I was hoping to get my protagonist killed before heading to bed but that will have to wait until after I wake up later today.

How are people considering approaching structure for their works?  I was considering trying to break everything down into 3 parts, with ~3k words per chapter which would give me around 16 or 17 chapters.  So 5 chapters per "part" and then maybe a epilogue to eat up whatever is left.  First time doing this so I think I might be sweating the smaller details more than I should be. 

[Sappho]

Hmm... I think I shall start a blog and post each day's writing for all to see. I'm not making a serious effort at writing an actual novel, just using this as a writing exercise, so this might motivate me to write more. Would anyone be interested in reading that? I know we're all pressed for time with all the writing we'll be doing, but it really helps keep me going when I know someone is waiting for me.

Actually, I'm just going to do it: http://meganleeprose.wordpress.com/

I've written an introductory post already. 500 words that don't even count towards my daily writing. I think I'm procrastinating wrong.

[Kadzar]

I just signed up as Kadzar. Probably should have done that sooner, but I'm a bit of a procrastinator, which is sort of why I decided to do this in the first place. So people can buddy me if they want, for whatever it's worth.

[Sappho]

Day 1 complete, at 2041 words. I'm going to shoot for 2000 whenever possible, so that on the days when I can't write at all, I won't fall behind.

http://meganleeprose.wordpress.com/

[Digital Hellhound]

I wasn't going to do this, but... I've been writing a lot these past two days, and inspiration just isn't stopping. So... maybe? But I shouldn't. Aaaaah. I know that if I joined, I'd go for VICTORY at the expense of everything important I should be focusing on right now.

hnnngh

[Caz]

Just realised 20 minutes ago that yes, it is November. Halloween has totally slayed my brain. Written 700 words so far and it reads like something that a practicing 4th-language-english-student of three days would scrawl while having a manic episode.

But... they're words right? They still count? Please?

[inEQUALITY]

2058 words today, at least for now. Falling short of the ~3.34k per day I need to hit my 100k goal, and even more so of the 4k daily count I need to hit for the 120k goal I was thinking of shooting for. But I'm running on a few hours of sleep and a half cup of black coffee today, which isn't the best shape to be in for this.

On the bright side, I easily passed the daily minimum for the normal 50k goal, which means I'm doing just as well as I was last year. So that's something.

[GiglameshDespair]

Gah. There's no way this is going to be possible... I am already having doubts as to my ability to write that much.

[Darkmere]

Gah. There's no way this is going to be possible... I am already having doubts as to my ability to write that much.

Everyone does. What do you lose by trying?

[Malt_Hitman]

But... they're words right? They still count? Please?

Everything counts if you're willing to write it down.  I woke up this morning, reviewed what I wrote, and had a similar feeling about the quality of my output.

Sappho, I'd like to thank you for putting your writing up on a blog.  I read a little bit of it and it certainly helped to motivate me.

My current count comes in at a little over 3,700.  Also, I threw this up as my novel excerpt on the site.  It's the "ending" to my chapter 1 so I'm not sure if it's good to represent but I think it's the best, and most recent, thing that I've written.  If exposure to another's writings will help or motive you in any way please have a look.  Tell me what you think if you'd like.

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

Circling his desk he walked up to the doctor and placed his hands reassuringly on the doctor’s shoulders.  With a broad grin on his face the High Admiral spoke with the tone of a reassuring father figure, “Please friend, speak freely now.  I can guarantee that nothing you say here will leave my office.”

At once the doctor’s expression changed from meek and cowering into a raging inferno, “What was that disaster in there?!  I can’t believe that you’d throw me into such malignant melodrama like that!  This isn’t what we agreed on when your proposal was offered!  You wanted a transfer done, fine, it’s done!  Good luck getting anything useful from that synth of yours after those biotech buffoons botched that job!  They cooked your little war hero or whatever he was and you’ll be lucky, damn lucky, to end up with a drooling, spastic, sex doll after that little ordeal in there!  I don’t care what that creature did to deserve that but it’s done and I did my duty!  My end was fulfilled and I have the data to prove it!  The subject was fine and cleared at the start of the procedure and the idiots that you handed the transfer off to were the ones to screw you over!”  Face flushed and breathing heavy the doctor threw his data pad onto the High Admiral’s desk and awaited a reply.

The High Admiral’s expression didn’t change one bit, “Doctor, I’m sorry that you weren’t fully informed of the procedure.  Please take to heart the fact that you’re continued service will bring great rewards.”

Rage once again poured from the doctor full force, “No!  I’m done!  Whatever this little exercise left you with isn’t alive anymore!  It’s a synth!  Call it whatever you like but those stupid techs are what you want now!  I’m done here!  Your human is dead and you have a robot with a fragged brain as your prize!”

“Doctor,” without breaking his smile the High Admiral turned and grabbed his personal data pad from his desk, “I have something here that will change your mind.”  With a gentle touch the High Admiral pressed the data pad to the doctor’s chest.  Suppressing his rage for the sake of his benefactor the doctor turned the data pad over and begrudgingly looked at the screen.  A key press to the following page, then another, page after page followed in quick succession.  His face changed, slowly contorting from rage to bewilderment to shock.  He couldn’t believe what he was reading.  It just didn’t make sense.

The High Admiral turned away and walked back to his chair, “With your specialty being xenobiology with a strong focus on the Korr and their bioweapons I’m sure you can now see your continued use in my little project.  That is everything you’ll need to continue your work.  Please take it and read it at your leisure.”

The doctor shuddered; it was unbelievable, truly unbelievable.  “You can’t,” the doctor stammered, “it’s…insane.”  He lifted his head from the data pad and turned directly to the High Admiral, “This will get you killed…you…by the Emperor.  You understand that, right?  You…a High Admiral.  It’s…”

The High Admiral leaned forward, placing his elbows on his desk and clasped his hands.  His smile turning into a broad grin running ear to ear making him look more like a demonic predator then a honorable servant of the Soh Empire, “Not if it works, my good doctor, not if it works.”

[Sirus]

Figures that the first day of NaNo would be a long, long work day as well.

Only got 344 words done in my short spare time, and I can't summon the creative energy to do more tonight. Not a great start to the month :<

[Kadzar]

Since November kind of crept up on me (as do most months and events, due to my natural inability to perceive the passage of time), I'm still working on an outline and coming up with characters. The outline apparently has 714 words in it, though, if that counts (I doubt it does, but it does have some dialogue in it because I do not know how to outline like a normal human being) and the characters' sheet somehow has 100 words to it. I should probably sleep soon.