41,000 Words in--How about you all?!? - Page 3 - Writers Forum

lilacstarflower · 08-02-2008, 08:00 AM

Doing my own NaNoWriMo this month yesterday I finished on 1046. Today I shall beat that

lilacstarflower · 08-02-2008, 07:02 PM

Hehe - midnight and I managed 1476 words throughout the day as I was writing sporadically.

New word count = 2522

cowpops · 08-02-2008, 07:07 PM

Kudos to everyone.

The longest I've gotten to is about 12k words, but both that one, and then my other one (9k) came to a halt, because I had this enormous growing period in my life where every one of my beliefs in life changed, therefore making all writings irrelevant.

I'm just doing short stories now. On average, I'm writing 1,500 words a day, which is very good for me.

No novels until I'm 30, I think.

Loulou · 08-05-2008, 04:01 AM

Currently on about 67,000. Going away for a week on Sunday so it may stay that way for a while.

PSFoster · 08-06-2008, 07:54 PM

461. Just a little beginning idea I wrote up, hope to get inspired to add to it.

HippoHead · 08-07-2008, 07:50 PM

almost 90,000.

And this is difficult beyond words. This entire idea is so complex even I barely understand it. HOW anyone else is - I have no idea. I'm trying to get everything to tie up in a neat little package so that there are no plot holes, and nothing is for no reason. When it's all connected, it's all the more awesome. And until I've finished, it's not gonna make much sense, hence the WTFness.

tepelus · 08-07-2008, 10:36 PM

My novel tops out at 195,686 words as it sits now, I just checked with word count, never bothered to check until this thread and it got me curious.

FaeryInkPress · 08-07-2008, 11:03 PM

Wow--almost 200,000 words, congratulations! That's a lot.

My first novel is 125,000, which I cut down from about 135,000. My second novel is about 135,000, but I haven't edited that yet. I'm currently working on my third novel, which is almost 70,000 words. I always shoot for 100,000 words, but I always miss and go beyond.

L.C.Mills · 08-08-2008, 01:39 PM

I am at 13,000 right now after two weeks. If I continue at this pace (which I plan to) I will have all the words I could ever want in 6 months or so. Yay

PSFoster · 08-11-2008, 05:58 PM

Gee, I think I'm up to about 1000 now

Biznatch'sEfforts · 08-12-2008, 11:35 AM

dude i dont even have the title yet

Honour · 08-12-2008, 01:19 PM

Approx. 95,000, with three to four chapters to go; however, I just realized that I need to rewrite the first part of the novel (which has three parts) to be leaner and more consistent in tone and direction. With severe slash and burn, I will probably finish at about 100K. And this morning, I woke up at 2:30 a.m. to work on it when I discovered that my first chapter, the one I labored over until it was just right, is missing because I accidentally saved another chapter in its place. I have an alternate version so all is not lost; but trying to recall what I wrote in the perfect version was excruciating. I gave up at around 4:00 a.m. and went back to sleep for two more hours before going to work. Alas.

Show · 08-16-2008, 11:11 AM

I haven't kept track of my words much. lol It's a lot though. However since I'm not working on a novel, I might be in a different boat.

MEShammas · 08-16-2008, 09:23 PM

Just out of sheer curiousity, what font/font size do you guys use? Do you double space or single space, etc.?

This is assuming that you don't just go with standard manuscript format right away, and write with what you like first, of course.

Show · 08-18-2008, 10:39 AM

I use an insane mixture of double spacing and regular with mine. For Font/Size, I just use default word. My episodes are getting longer though. I've been able to go to a max of almost 28 pages and I'm finding it easier to go to 20 pages per episode.