Thread: What's Your Word Count?

Originally Posted by Crimson Threnody

7633 and just started writing tonight ^,^

Damn! Well done, you.

18,691 words that are dripping with blood, sweat, and tears. No, not the rock group!

Currently at 12,366 after this evening's efforts. With no plans for the weekend, I may get up to halfway by Monday morning. Starting to skip around a bit instead of working sequentially, as the novel has all kinds of little interstitial bits; tv commercials, random incidents, a couple of parallel narratives, newspaper articles. And I've barely touched my snacks!
Starting to think I may have the wordcount in and the novel completed before the end of the month and am entertaining the idea of doing an edit and maybe another draft before the first of the year.
NaNo has been a boon for me so far. My production has been dragging since midsummer. At the very least it's rekindled my ambitions.

NaNo has been a boon for me so far. My production has been dragging since midsummer. At the very least it's rekindled my ambitions.

Amen to that. I haven't been this productive in about a year. And the crap I was writing a year ago wasn't readable, so... woohoo!

A year ago I was pulling 60+ hours a week at a job I hated and having pain issues. Couldn't write a thing. This is much better, and no Black Friday to face.

my writing has been sporadic at best this year, but this is the most intense I've been working at it and it's much more enjoyable

Up to 19,752 words now. I was hoping to hit the 20,000 mark today. I may be able to come up with 248 more words before midnight. If my MC hasn't gone to bed yet.

23,505. I missed writing yesterday, so I had around 6700 to do late tonight...or last night, depending on how you look at it.

There was one long crap scene, but there are two that I'm actually quite please with overall. Surprising what'll come out when you push.

I'm at about 10600, one day I lacked inspiration and I'm way behind. Gotta get like 4k till next week.

18,540 words now. Have gotten into the second section, moved out of the mc's living room and into the streets of 2020 Chicago. Much fun! I can see the city clearly in my mind's eye and am simply being a camera.
edit: Deep into second section now. Couldn't sleep and did 3500 words on one cuppa. Whole weekend still ahead, and it's gently raining outside which I love to write to. Breaktime...more coffee and some donut holes!

Woohoo, wtg moderan!

I'm still at around 17k cus I haven't written anything yet today. Going to shortly.

26,702 and I'm done for today. Got plans for the night!

19,069 and still counting. I've taken a challenge to write 10k before Monday. Only made 3417 of that so far.

I'm at about 19k, and I'm bound and determined to reach 20k before midnight. So, naturally, I'm screwing around on here even though I've only got 2 hours left.

LOL...my plush Cthulhu and the six-foot alien that stands next to my desk are conspiring to take over my novel as they're not in it. I actually found myself thinking it wouldn't be so wrong if I just let them pad the wordcount...the novel is still going exactly to my outline and the suspense of waiting for the other shoe to drop is just killing me. I figure if I just hijack the thing myself I can spare me that trauma *grins* haven't done any writing on the novel yet today but I just woke up a little while ago. Did do a flash fiction and three articles before I turned in though.