secret_history: (NaNoWriMo)
secret_history ([personal profile] secret_history) wrote2005-11-09 08:00 pm
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Waah!

My wordcount meter is dead. Woe!

So I found another one, but it's not nearly as exciting:

20,573 / 50,000
(41.1%)



Current wordcount: 20,573


A few days ago 20,000 words seemed very far away. I have to thank [livejournal.com profile] ai731 for posting her 2,500-word challenge last night. Sure, I only got 500 words written after I got home, but today at lunch I sprinted my way through another 2,100 words, and then 500 more on my break, and then another 500 before the NaNoWriMo meetup.

Looks like a kick in the pants is all it took. Otherwise, I'd probably still be meandering around 18,000 words, convinced that all was okay because I was way ahead of my projected wordcount, oblivious to the burst of energy that was just waiting to churn out an extra 3,500 words. *shrug* Either way, I'm pleased.

(The selfish, small-minded, competitive part of me is also nancing around and singing "I'm fourth! I'm fourth!" in this dreadful off-key voice, but I'm trying to ignore her. ;) )


Also, I got chocolate and a gold star. This pleases me immensely. :D


I have an odd break in my story that I need to work through tomorrow. After going through about maybe 36 hours in 20,000 words, I now have to start making larger time jumps without it seeming really artificial. I'm also beginning to suspect that I can't tell this story in 50,000 words. I really want to finish it, though, so I may have to ask my friends who specialise in creative ass-kicking to keep me motivated to finish the novel after NaNoWriMo is over. But that's one bridge that I'll burn when I come to it.

For now, things are good.
ext_7500: (NaNo // Duelling Nanos)

[identity profile] terredancer.livejournal.com 2005-11-10 04:17 am (UTC)(link)
Yay, 20k :)

(And definitely woe on the death of the best progress metre)

Although, I will say this. Competition is the lifeblood of NaNo. I'm convinced that's why it works, and it's the drug that drags me back year after year. I want to be the best, I want to play the "you suck" game with [livejournal.com profile] caitlin. Encouragement and competition in equal turns.

Novel writing in the "off season" just doesn't have that same rush.

[identity profile] owldaughter.livejournal.com 2005-11-10 03:19 pm (UTC)(link)
I would like to take this oppotunity to sing in chorus with that competitive part of you, and to also point out that you're almost half-done and at only a third of the way through the month.

You rock, you rocking thing, you.

[identity profile] mousme.livejournal.com 2005-11-10 03:42 pm (UTC)(link)
I do, don't I?

*preens*

I'm trying not to do any premature poultry counting. 50,000 words is still pretty far away...