Thread: What's Your Word Count?

Heh, I deviated from my outline some time ago. I'm still sorta kinda following it, but I've added a lot of stuff and changed a few things around is all.

Oh, and, 20k words -- boo yah!!

Nice. I put in three hours after dinner and am at 23,445
Plus I made a pumpkin cheesecake. I meant to make it for Hallowe'en but things got out of hand with the grandchild hanging about.
Still on outline. *shakes head* Almost halfway!

Nooooo!! I'm falling behind obviously! I just broke 10,000 words today. It's just been crazy. My boyfriend's off to South Korea for a year in like 2 weeks. Hard to gauge what's more important Kidding but still... must... write... more...

You're not that far behind. Just double up one day and you're right on track.

Yeah exactly... must... find... day... to... double... up....

I've reached 30,205, but more importantly, I'm liking the story! All of these neat little complexities I hadn't planned are coming out and interweaving together on their own.

By far, this is turning out to be my best NaNoNovel yet!

Yay! Wtg, Val. I'm actually liking mine too. Against my better judgment, I read over what I wrote yesterday, and actually said aloud, "Hey, this doesn't suck!"

22,607 words down, woohoo!

You're averaging 2,000+ words a day, T. Nice! Good stuff. I think I might take up a discipline like this nano thing - it might help me finish this damned fifth novel!

Edit: Shit! Val - you're averaging 3,000!

I think Val's going for 100k words, though. Which means she's braver and way cooler than the rest of us. I'm just planning ahead for laziness, which means I'm clever and, well, lazy.

You should've done Nano though, Sam. It's great fun. Plus, it's done wonders for my productivity, if not my social life.

One-hundred, Val? Damn! You don't like to make things easy for yourself, do you?

Maybe next year, T. Maybe next year.

I once wrote a 230,000 word novel in five months. I don't know what that averages out to. I suck at Maths.

Edit: I did it on the calculator. It comes to 46,000 words a month, on average. Just four-thousand shy of the nano target. Or fifty-four thousand short of Val's nano target!

I'm up to 21,453 words on the NaNo sit, but probably got another 1000 I haven't added yet. I'm so proud of us!!!!

HAHA! Thanks, Tiamat. Hardly, but I'm considering hiring you as my own personal cheerleader!

This is my 5th time around the NaNo Block, Sam, so I felt I needed a to up the anti a bit--hence the 100k goal. 3k isn't too bad (technically I have to hit 3334 to stay on track). On average I put in about 2.5 hours a day. On previous attempts, when I cared less about the story, I averaged about 5k, but I type very fast, so that gives me an edge, I think.

Two years ago I did it in 8 days (which is nothing compared to the 3 Day Novel Contest), but the story was shit. The 3k this year allows me to write something I can actually work with in an edit.

You should give it a try. It's a great experience, a lot of fun, and the community is great.

Yes! Everyone NaNo! 26,338 now...and six songs for NaSoAlMo. Over halfway and still on the outline...that's puzzling but why not? If I don't get to sleep I may have another pass at it this evening. I'm liking mine more and more as I go along. I like what I've seen of everyone's else's too. Go WF!

Originally Posted by valeca

HAHA! Thanks, Tiamat. Hardly, but I'm considering hiring you as my own personal cheerleader!

This is my 5th time around the NaNo Block, Sam, so I felt I needed a to up the anti a bit--hence the 100k goal. 3k isn't too bad (technically I have to hit 3334 to stay on track). On average I put in about 2.5 hours a day. On previous attempts, when I cared less about the story, I averaged about 5k, but I type very fast, so that gives me an edge, I think.

Two years ago I did it in 8 days (which is nothing compared to the 3 Day Novel Contest), but the story was shit. The 3k this year allows me to write something I can actually work with in an edit.

You should give it a try. It's a great experience, a lot of fun, and the community is great.

I guess you just go with the flow, then? No editing, no going back, just head down, fingers on keyboard, and whatever comes into your head you type? It also sounds like a really good way to convince yourself that there's no such thing as writer's block. If you can write 3K a day (doesn't matter what the quality is) you can write it everyday, November or not.

When it comes to writing, I think typing is a great skill to have under your belt. Thankfully, I did a class called Office Applications when I was in high school. They taught us how to type properly. You know - ASDF JKL; - and now I can type around eighty to ninety words a minute on a good day, and one-hundred when my fingers and brain are almost intuitive. It's a great advantage - especially when you can type as fast as you can think. No going back in your head to remember what you had thought.

There's twenty days left, which means I would have to average 2.5K a day to make the deadline. I don't think I could do it. It certainly sounds like fun. Maybe I'll just give it a go and see how far I get.

You definitely should, Sam - I think you would catch up no bother!