Hands hurt. Brain gone. Only added a little over 800 words. Grrr! Tomorrow I will be putting on the headset and tapping into my Dragon Naturally Speaking. I will catch up, I will catch up!!!
Category: NaNoWriMo
Not bad but still not caught up. 1667 X 11 should equal 18,337. I’m 2,893 words behind. But I got 2,604 words today and I feel pretty good about that.
I have to name a horse who is sentient and wants a people name. She is wise and loving and always knows how to help. Suggestions?
Please feel free not to read this post. I feel like whining. I have been flaring yesterday and today so word count has fallen behind. Not only that, but for some reason I managed to write a short story rather than a novel out of this batch of plot bunnies. I still like my basic idea but for some reason the exciting scene turned boring as heck. That’s what happens when the fog rolls in. I start writing like an unimaginative second grader with no vocabulary left in my head.
Look, I know, I know. I’ve done NaNo so many times and have gotten horribly behind. And I know that all I need for this draft is getting the ideas down. Rewrites and edits can bring it back to life. And journaling in my “Morning Pages’ can help me through the dark days so that I have plenty to write when energy and clarity come backย to me. Then I can make up for wordage.
Still, it doesn’t keep me from being discouraged and down. I’ll get over it. I always do. Guess I just need to wallow in it for a while. For the curious, I am at 12,149 words. Meh.
I can’t believe it! In spite of myself, I am still slightly ahead of where I should be. I have 10,709. The goal for the day is 10,002. So that’s good. The story is about to get very exciting as my two main characters are about to be shot at. But it is too late to get into that kind of scene and still be able to go to sleep sometime before 3AM.
I am always surprised at how much I love writing and watching a story unfold itself to me. The stories are almost more exciting than reading someone else’s stories—even better than a lot of TV shows. Most things I can predict where they are going. My own stories surprise me. It is like all I have to do is type and the story spills through.
Well, that’s how it starts. But I know that somewhere about week two and a half or three I will be screaming at the muse for deserting me and the story.
As for the word count. I don’t understand how some of the people in the groups are almost to the 50k within the first week. My fingers and arms would be falling off. Not to mention my head and eyes would be longing for the chopping block. But good for them. Glad they can do it. AND I am thankful for what I can get done.
Hope all of you are doing well with your projects.
Time for quietness. Good night.
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Well, at 6,009 I am finally getting to the story I want to tell. I had other plans when I started planning this mid-October, but the sidekick wanted a higher ranking. She wanted her own chapters of fame. I really like her, more than I thought I would. Her back story rings true. She will be great with my main character, the “Centaur” from the planet Equixia. Her sidekick will have to teach to read and write and figure out how to get along in this post-apocalyptic society. But that will happen AFTER said sidekick shoots her to win in a hunting contest. Yeah. Complications ensue!
4,189 Is my total today. By the way, I forgot to tell you that if you are doing NaNoWriMo you will find me there under Dars Haven. Sometimes you have to put it in as one word, other times it is two words. Wish I could have put in the apostrophe to show it is about my Haven. But oh, well, you get the idea.
How are you all doing? One of the people in my local group is already above 23K. Yikes! Her keyboard must be burning up! I can only do a bit to keep my fibro from flaring. But really if you can average 1667 words a day from November first, you can reach the goal of 50K on the end of the month. If you start today or later you might have to make a larger goal to catch up but it is doable. I know people that didn’t start until the last weeks. I have a hard time writing that much in such a short time, but it can be done. It does make me happy to create these stories.
There are many people on the NaNoWritMo.org site to give you help and encouragement. You may have folks in your own area to meet up with for write ins. I don’t go to those due to my fibro keeping me home. And I find I do better writing without a lot of people about. But I have friends that need that kind of social writing to keep their stories going.
Please friend me on the NaNo site so we can be cheer leaders for each other. ๐
So here I am, again, crazily typing another NaNo. I have been doing this since 2001. I haven’t made a whole novel every time, but I have had success, just the same. I have those years I didn’t finish as great ideas to work on some other time. Most of my attempts have ended with meeting the 50K goal and some with much more wordage and still not a complete novel. The most fun I have had writing have been about my sentient planet called Haven. I would say I have 13 novelettes with that universe in mind.
Last year I tried to find something else to write about. I got to the goal, but I wasn’t as happy writing it. This year Haven is calling again. I have a new planet that is proving lethal to its inhabitants. It was a planet of centaur-like beings. In this case many of the scientists takeoff to find other planets. My character lands on Earth post apocalypse. She doesn’t know the language. Her people are all gone. Even those that had flown with her had died of injuries incurred before leaving their planet.
Haven hasn’t gotten involved yet, but that’s Her way. She likes to let folks figure out things as best they can. It makes people feel better if they can work their way through problems. But sometimes we need a little help. Not now, say my planet.
I’ve written 2690 words so far. I like to get ahead as I can because I know fibro will take it out of me as winter comes on. In fact, we had warnings of our first snow this weekend. It did dust the nearby mountains. So we begin. At least my story keeps my mind off the pain.
Good luck to all of you who have joined in this word cyclone!
By the way, if you don’t know what it is check out NaNoWriMo.org. There are plenty of folks to help you get started and keep you motivated. The book, No Plot, No Problem by Chris Baty was what got me going. Chris was the originator of this fun. Joining within the first week can be easily doable. Later starts can be done but are very difficult. Try it. What do you have to lose?
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