Thread: NaNo 2011 Progress!

Didn't do anything yesterday, was out with freinds on friday night so saturday was spent lazing aroud, then went and half played poker with freinds that night. I learned how to play old maid though so I did someting productive!
I'm hoping to catch up today.

I'm really quite proud of myself for squeezing out 1949 words today, considering that I spent about three hours running errands, and then a further three hours raking an acre of leaves. Not to mention tidying up inside, dealing with a dog that needs to go out every hour (because she has a UTI), and people texting me nonstop (about stupid crap). Yes, quite proud of myself indeed.

Nicely done, Tia!

I'm still stuck at 3K.. Can't get over my plot issues, so I'm stuck after writing myself into a corner :\ Hopefully I'll have figured out the solution to the puzzle soon. I won't give up on it!

Don't give up! In fact, if it were me, I'd say the hell with the issues and just keep on writing. You might stumble onto something you didn't know you had. (Then again, you might have to scrap the whole thing, but at least you wouldn't be stuck!)

That's kind of my issue.. I've written myself into a dead end.. And my only options are to scrap it all and start somewhere else (and hope I can work those 3k words in somewhere else).. or, come up with some way to transition back into the story without it seeming contrived.

I might just plow ahead, like you said, and worry about the logical issues later. I already know the rest of the story, I'm just hooked on this one transition point in the beginning.

When I run into a snag, I just fast forward and start on a different chapter. I operate under the mindset that if I can't, or don't feel like, continuing from where I am at the moment, I start writing something from elsewhere in the story,making it up as necessary, to provide a change of pace. Only six days in, and I already have three different temporalities that I jump from one to the other to work on as the mood hits me.

Football fail, and my team didn't even play. I got so engrossed in the tv that I hadn't yet done a damn thing about anything when the wife called and said they were slow at work and she was leaving early.
Right after that call, the phone started ringing with people wanting to chat about mundanities, and then there was the making and consuming of dinner. I'm gonna try and do a few words tonight, since I'm undergoing the usual sleep/fail.

Originally Posted by Foxee

There is a lot to be said for a massive fabulous Mexican dinner, I might just accept a day with no words for that. Glad you let your wife tag along.

I was in the hospital when her friend had last visited (she lives near Phx), and she made a special trip down just to meet me and to see our furkids again.

That's a great approach, Alan.

And Mod, don't you know? TV is Etch-A-Sketch for the brain. You turn it on and it's shakeshakeshake, blank goes your mind.

Well, I only wrote about 140 words today. But, I figured out the transition that was giving me problems, so tomorrow, when I'm feeling fresh, I will be ready to crash ahead with enthusiastic vigor!

Hooray for persistance! (And the encouragement of fellow writers, as well!)

Way to go, Kyle! I'm off to go squeeze in my last 1000 words for the day.

Wow! I respect all of you for trying to write a novel in one month. I just completed my first novel and it took me nine months to complete it. Good luck, I am looking forward to reading some excerpts.

After two days of zero words each I'm finding it really difficult to get back into writing this. Before I knew that the story was all there somewhere in my brain, just waiting to spill out. Now I'm feeling more like last year...all uphill slog and 'why do I have to sit and write through this scene?'

Hopefully tomorrow will be better. My kindergartener will be home from school tomorrow, though, so not really sure how much time I'll have to sit and write.

Yes, Kyle, I know, but football is football. I can catch up on nano during the week, I had another day of total nano fail today. Didn't even try. May do some words later, may not. Tuesday is a good writing day as Wednesday and Thursday are due to be busy. I'll churn out some copy to make things look nice, and edit the first section-I'm hoping to get some excerpts up on my blog this weekend.
Foxee...I'm with you in the sisyphus zone. Why should you have all the fun?

I need to do about 5,000 words today to catch up. Hopefully I'll get it done, even 3 thousand today and tomorrow would be making some headway. Don't really know why I havn't done much, I don't have anything stopping me, I suppose it's just procrastination more than anything else. It's not like I don't want to do it, it's just there are so many other things to be doing.

Originally Posted by ProcrastinationStation

I need to do about 5,000 words today to catch up. Hopefully I'll get it done, even 3 thousand today and tomorrow would be making some headway. Don't really know why I haven't done much, I don't have anything stopping me, I suppose it's just procrastination more than anything else. It's not like I don't want to do it, it's just there are so many other things to be doing.

This.
Never had a problem with it before. I did some outlining and a little bit of editing, didn't get around to writing anything consequential-i.e., a scene here and there, sorta distractedly though I'm really not doing anything in particular at 4:30 in the morning. The problem is that I can't make any noise because I'll wake people up. So I'm all inhibited from the git-go, wanting to do other things that I can't. No guitar-playing, etc.
The last two nights I ended up blogging about "fail" and the "post-fail fail" because I thought I had to write something and that was the best I could come up with...wait for it...
fail.
Yes, completely.
I suppose this is what writer's block really is. I feel like I'm squeezing peanuts out of an eyedropper just getting anything fictional out onto the page.
The plus is that my mc this time around has a bit of marty sue in him, and a good deal of his history is slaunchwise versions of my own. But I have another six thousand or so words before I get to one of those parts where I can do more smooth sailing. (Hmm, I like that last sequence, says the inner editor, doing the copy and paste thing....)
Yeah. Into the bargain, my inner editor fixed your typo. Go figure.

Last year I pounded out 2k plus a day, but this year I am not so worried about 'winning' and instead write every day, but don't put a limit on either side. In the end I will have a bouquet of words to arrange.

Good writing to everyone who participates. You are winners regardless of that end total.