Happy Day 3! I made it to 5300 last night after a slow first day. Here's hoping the story keeps flowing today!
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Originally Posted by Miss Information
Does anybody have trouble NOT hitting the word count button every few paragraphs (or even lines  ). |
In a normal setting, wc is the least of my worries, but during NaNo, I can't get away from it!
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Originally Posted by MrsAprilMay
I use Write or Die when I'm using the computer. There is a constant word count, and motivation to keep on typing. |
Love WorD. I bought the desktop edition and am loving it. Can't wait to try the word war feature, either, but my friend is studying for her exams, so that will have to wait until December! I usually use WorD for getting into my characters heads, rather than actual prose, but it does help get me into the place I need to be.
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Originally Posted by AahRee
No editing at all? Ugh. My inner editor is going to hate that. I started something yesterday, but without much direction at all about what I wanted to do. I just started writing the first thing that came to mind. I don't have a genre yet, let alone a title or plot. LOL! Then, after about 300 words, I decided I wanted to go in a totally different direction. I thought of a genre and some scenes came to mind, but still no solid plot in that direction, either. Now, I'm not sure which one to run with!
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Which one did you run with? I changed mine an hour before kick off and the first day was challenging to say the least, but I'm starting to hit my stride now.
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Originally Posted by AahRee
On the word count thing, I'm using Scrivener, which has a running tally. My OCD-nature likes that!  |
My DH told me to try Scrivener. I am loving it. So many awesome features! My favorite is the fact I can drag media files into the binder, but there's so much I haven't played with yet. Can't wait to get the full program, and 50% off is a great incentive.
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Originally Posted by major_mama11
Oooh, add me too, everyone!  I'm major_mama11 over there too. I've lurked on this board, but never really posted, so... hello!
I am really liking this so far! I had no idea what to write about, so at midnight on 11/1, I just started writing about a random incident from when i was 19 and working in a restaurant in a tourist town in CO... thought it wasn't novel-ish at all. Then suddenly the next morning when I got back to it, I felt like i broke through something and started to see where the general story should go. Sort of semi-autobiographical, except sort of an alternate version of my life story, if certain things had happened in a different order. I'm having fun, even if it is total crap right now, I think if I stick with it, there is some real potential! Although my left hand is a bit annoyed at all this one-handed typing while rocking/ nursing a baby... |
Sounds good so far! I could not have survived last year without my nursing pillow. I think I wrote almost all 50K while NAK (or baby sleeping at keyboard).
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Originally Posted by Mirta
NaNoWriMo is all about tormenting that inner editor, some people even make that part of their story.. ie.. "yes inner editor, I am leaving that incomplete sentence there... Just because I know it is driving you crazy!!" lol
NaNoWriMo is also about writing on the fly... go ahead and write those scenes you thought of.. hopefully the plot will follow... Last year I wrote things like "and now the traumatic thing happens, some how... and is somehow resolved.." and then I proceeded to write the chapters that come after the problem is resolved, because that is what I was inspired to write... I'm only now figuring out how that traumatic stuff happens, but still have no idea how it will be resolved but I know I will figure it out in time... so for now I keep writing ... Trusting the kinks will work themselves out eventually...
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I wrote my 2007 NaNo novel non-chronologically. It worked for me. It was much easier to write the scenes that came to me than trying to force scenes I wasn't feeling.
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Originally Posted by madsommer
such good advice here!
i have around 400 words of crap and am very frustrated. i think maybe i need to walk away for a while or take a different path. perhaps i'm putting too much pressure on myself? argh! thanks for letting me vent.
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I hope you're starting to find your way now, madsommer!
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Originally Posted by Miss Information
Sigh...I want to keep writing but I have had to break to get the kids, let them play at the park, to talk with my sister and now to break to make dinner. I think that's going to be the hardest part...trying to not neglect the homekeeping duties now that I have some idea where things are going.
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Guilty as charged over here, and it's only Day 3!
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Originally Posted by Miss Information
Oh, has anyone forgotten any pertinent details about their own story? Like I forgot the name of the town she lives in, now I'm stuck re-reading trying to find it. I suppose I should write these details down as I go, huh?
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I found myself freezing last night every time I went to write my MC's name. I wonder if that's a hint that she needs a name change??
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Originally Posted by Kontessa
So this is going to be another slow start year for me in NaNoWriMo. -sigh- Serves me right, I did no planning till Halloween... so now I am just keeping up with my daily word count.
My poor DD did not get to planning either, this is my fault though. She is only 10. She up still, past midnight, working on her word count. She is close to meeting her word count though at least!
Tomorrow I think her and I will spend our homeschooling day actually using the youth nanowrimo workbook to flush out characters. Poor kid came into my bed room a short time ago with tears in her eyes, guess her main characters parents died and it is making her very sad. Goddess I love her, she just feels so so much and has such a great heart. Her main character is a cat by the way. Some how that makes me feel even more sad for her.
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Wishing you all lots of writing time tomorrow with perfect tea/coffee/water and weather! |
Awww! Well if her story can affect her that way as she's writing it, I bet her readers will feel the same. I wish someone in my life had supported and encouraged me in my desire (need?) to write at that age. Would have saved me the years of being embarrassed and ashamed of it... Here I am almost twnty years later and I still struggle with that
But laundry got done, the house isn't falling apart, DS wasn't totally neglected, I voted, mowed the lawn etc... and I'm going to bed at a decent hour.. so it is all good!!
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