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[Caz]

A winner is me.  On the morning of day 28 I was able to validate with just a little over 50k in words.  I watched the video, downloaded that thingy, and clicked a link or something.  Now I need to figure out an outline thing to keep going and make this hot mess of text start making some sense.

Words for the word count desu!  Text for the text document desu!

Excellent man, well done. Now next job is editing the damn thing!

Congratulations!


I've still been limping along with under 1000 words most days this week. This weekend is going to be rough, but I'll make it. I think I still have about 8000 words to write...

You can do it. Buckle down the last couple days. Double buckle-down. Triple. Write, even if it's complete balderdash. Write, write, write!

[Darkmere]

Excellent man, well done. Now next job is editing the damn thing!


You can do it. Buckle down the last couple days. Double buckle-down. Triple. Write, even if it's complete balderdash. Write, write, write!

+1 to both of these!

[Sappho]

In order to finish on time, I need to write at least 3500 words both today and tomorrow. Good thing it's a weekend, and I don't have to work. I certainly write that much in a day for work, so I'm calling this a home office day. I have a deadline. Meals and breaks will be scheduled, complete with video games. Here's the plan (the word counts are minimums):

1. Breakfast
2. Write 1000 words
3. Video games
4. Write 500 words
5. Lunch
6. Write 1000 words
7. Video games
8. Write 500 words
9. Dinner
10. Write 500 words
11. Video games
12. Party

Edit: I just wrote 1000 words in 15 minutes. Awwwww yiss. Posted the first half of today's writing on my blog. Will post the second half later on. I think I can get 4000 words done. It helps that I know what's going to happen next.

Edit2: Just banged out another 1000 words. I am on FIRE.

[inEQUALITY]

Edit: I just wrote 1000 words in 15 minutes. Awwwww yiss. Posted the first half of today's writing on my blog. Will post the second half later on. I think I can get 4000 words done. It helps that I know what's going to happen next.

Edit2: Just banged out another 1000 words. I am on FIRE.

Wooh! Get it Sappho! You got this.

I've got about 3300 words left total. I think I might just write all the rest of it today and use tomorrow to celebrate a bit. If I'm lucky, I can pump that out in two hours - I've been managing ~1700 words an hour lately, when I really buckle down, so to speak.

[Sappho]

Yeeeeeaaaaahhhhhh! Over 4000 words today, and it wasn't even that difficult! Thank the gods for the epiphany that let me realize how my story should end, so I didn't have to agonize over what to write.

I'll have less than 3000 words to write tomorrow. Easy peasy.

Now, to donate $10 in celebration of being sure to finish. Gettin' that donator halo.

[Arx]

Epic space battles are much less fun in third-person limited than third-person omniscient.

Nearly four thousand words! I wrote something like a thousand of those in the last hour, so I'm reasonably happy actually.

[Sappho]

Epic space battles are much less fun in third-person limited than third-person omniscient.

Try using it to create tension. That's easier to do with limited perspective than omniscient. It's what you don't know that keeps you reading. Try using all the details available to the characters you're following and having them try to get a clear image of what's happening outside and plan their strategy, Captain Kirk style. It'll be all the more gratifying when they succeed -- and then you can always pull out a surprise attack at the last second that ruins their plans and makes the reader go "whaaaaaat!!!???" and desperately turn the pages to find out how the hero gets out of this one.

[Arx]

Oh, it's not without its advantages. It's fun writing the MC, who's only connected to the world outside his room by a targeting computer and a less-than-helpful commanding officer, or at least it's fun writing his reaction to sudden changes. Hopefully it'll be interesting on a personal level, which is actually the main point of the novel.

It's a good thing Ibott's not a real person. He'd probably shoot me if he realised that his mind works the way it does because it amuses me.

[Sappho]

FINISHED.

Posting the last part on my blog now. Wrapped up the story nicely, I think, though on the second pass I'll have to remove a few random things from near the beginning that I never got back around to. And make it a little more consistent in general. Still... I just wrote a whole goddam novel in one month. And it even has an ending.

If you'll excuse me, I'm off to cry tears of pride.

[Arx]

Woo!

[Caz]

FINISHED.

Posting the last part on my blog now. Wrapped up the story nicely, I think, though on the second pass I'll have to remove a few random things from near the beginning that I never got back around to. And make it a little more consistent in general. Still... I just wrote a whole goddam novel in one month. And it even has an ending.

If you'll excuse me, I'm off to cry tears of pride.

*claps*

[Xantalos]

Awesome job, everyone!

[WillowLuman]

Maybe next year. Maybe next year...

Congratz to everyone who made it! To everyone who's close, keep at it!

[Arx]

3972 words. That's close, right? Considering I've written for about three days, in effect...

[inEQUALITY]

So thanks to discrepancies in OpenOffice and NaNo's word counters, I had to write 400+ words more than I had thought I needed to, but 1980 words down in a few hours and at 1:55 PM, I finally finished up NaNo for this year. The novel is only half complete, really, but at least NaNo is over. I can finally relax. Oh man it feels so good.

Congrats to everyone else who finished up already! It's nice to join the winner's circle with you guys today, at last. Two years in a row now; hopefully, there will be many more to come.

To everyone still struggling: keep going! You can do it!

And to those who won't make it: there's always next year! Hell, there's always next month. So don't despair! A writer's calling never ceases. Don't be afraid to answer it again, just because you didn't do this crazy challenge for the month of November!