NaNoWriMo 2009 - Page 5

[Mirta]

Happy Noveling all!!! Hope the first day of NanoWriMo goes well for all of you.. As for me DS woke around 5am (remnants of last night's excitemnet???) and would not/could not get back to sleep.. So, after about 2 hours of trying (I was too tired to get up sooner) we got up... He's tired and fussy and so am I... and I'm attempting to ward off the resulting "lack of decent sleep headache".. No desire to write, just want to sleep... Not a good start for NaNoWriMo!

Hope everyone else is having a better day!

[allgirls]

I'm in. I have a membership from last year..let me find it and add you all!

Allgirls

I am parcarsons

[Miss Information]

Originally Posted by Mirta

Happy Noveling all!!! Hope the first day of NanoWriMo goes well for all of you.. As for me DS woke around 5am (remnants of last night's excitemnet???) and would not/could not get back to sleep.. So, after about 2 hours of trying (I was too tired to get up sooner) we got up... He's tired and fussy and so am I... and I'm attempting to ward off the resulting "lack of decent sleep headache".. No desire to write, just want to sleep... Not a good start for NaNoWriMo!

Hope everyone else is having a better day!

I'm right there with you. But the reason is different. Dh and I came home from the Halloween party we went to last night at 3:30 am and had to get the kids from my mothers at 9 am. I'm sleepy.

I did get three lines written. Woo-Hoo!

Happy writing!

[fullofgrace]

I was up and sick at 4am this morning, so my nano-ing with zest plan has been thwarted. I'm about to go sit up in bed with my netbook so maybe I'll get at least SOME words typed.

[notjustmamie]

Can I have buddies, too?

I added onetruething, allgirls (parcarsons), magstphil (MaggieFrances), Miss Information (sciencemama), doubledutch (mamaring), Bella Catalina, Mirta, madsommer, and rainbowmoon (aprilmoonflower). Did I miss anybody?

I'm notjustmamie there, too.

[Mamja]

I'm allibut

[AahRee]

I think i'm going to try this this year. I've started novels before (outlines, storyboards... very little actual writing, tho...) and never got very far. I think the freedom to just write, without regard to quality, will be helpful. My username is aahree there also. I'll add you all!

[notjustmamie]

Thanks everybody!

Originally Posted by Mamja

I'm allibut

I did a search but that username didn't come up.

[Bella Catalina]

Added everyone as buddies Happy nanoing, everyone!

[Miss Information]

Originally Posted by onetruething

I was up and sick at 4am this morning, so my nano-ing with zest plan has been thwarted. I'm about to go sit up in bed with my netbook so maybe I'll get at least SOME words typed.

Oh, mama. That's stinky. Sending you healing thoughts your way. I got to thinking...the only thing that would really put a kink in things is getting sick. All too possible

sending

[fullofgrace]

Thank you.

I managed to write 607 words yesterday. Not even close to my goal, but I am pleased to have written anything.

[Mirta]

Hope you are feeling better today onetruething.... 607 isn't a bad word count, considering how you were feeling!!

Hoping today is a high word count day for all of us!!

Kym

[fullofgrace]

I'm re-reading the dialogue I wrote and I'm not so sure I should have written anything yesterday.

What do you do when you've accidentally mixed your intended genre for your novel with your current favorite genre to read? Because that's what I've managed to do. And I'm not loving it. Wah.

Since it is only day two, should I set it aside and start again?

[madsommer]

I think I've added everyone so far

Yesterday was a horrible day...it just started wrong. I was angry with my husband and then had writer's block the rest of the day. I wrote my morning pages and am feeling much better so I hope to catch up today! Good luck nano-ing!

[EdnaMarie]

Yesterday went GREAT! 1k during the day, 2.5 k during the night (more, actually). I got a whole short story in, a whole chapter for over 3,700 words! And I am actually having to tear myself away from t he computer. This is great! It is my year- I know it. I have been waiting to do this since I was 12 and my teacher told me I was "a real writer." Sniff. I alternated between thinking I had nothing to say (somewhat true, because I hadn't lived much) and that writing wasn't important (maybe not to others...).

I finally feel like I am doing what I am supposed to and it's great!

[Mirta]

OneTrueThing-- remember part of the essense of NaNoWriMo, is no editing in November.. editting can paralyze our progress and hinder our creativity, because we are constantly trying to figure out the "right words", etc... FOr one month we are to try to let that inner editor writhe in agony as we don't listen to him and just write whatever come to mind, the good, the bad, and the silly...

there were most of last NaNo, I didn't let myself re-read what I had written the day before because I knew that would get my inner editor out and I would not be able to progress... Each day I progressed on my story, but there many not have been total continuity to what I had written the day before... that was ok.. because I was writing something toward my ultimate Novel.

There will be days that you may not like your story... there will be days you will want to ditch the whole thing and start again.... Normally I'd say, ignore those feelings and press on, your feelings may change again in a few days...

As for your case, don't totally ditch yesterday's work... even if it doesn't go into your final product, what you wrote yesterday is helping you propel to your ultimate goal...Those words therefore should count towards your 50,000.. Even if it has nothing to do with your new vision for your book.

Yes, you can start again today with your new genre, since it is only day two you haven't lost much time.. But give yourself credit for the progress you made yesterday... (especially since you were sick!!!)

Well, those are my thoughts on the matter... do with them as you will!
Kym

[Miss Information]

Originally Posted by Mirta

OneTrueThing-- remember part of the essense of NaNoWriMo, is no editing in November.. editting can paralyze our progress and hinder our creativity, because we are constantly trying to figure out the "right words", etc... FOr one month we are to try to let that inner editor writhe in agony as we don't listen to him and just write whatever come to mind, the good, the bad, and the silly...

there were most of last NaNo, I didn't let myself re-read what I had written the day before because I knew that would get my inner editor out and I would not be able to progress... Each day I progressed on my story, but there many not have been total continuity to what I had written the day before... that was ok.. because I was writing something toward my ultimate Novel.

There will be days that you may not like your story... there will be days you will want to ditch the whole thing and start again.... Normally I'd say, ignore those feelings and press on, your feelings may change again in a few days...

As for your case, don't totally ditch yesterday's work... even if it doesn't go into your final product, what you wrote yesterday is helping you propel to your ultimate goal...Those words therefore should count towards your 50,000.. Even if it has nothing to do with your new vision for your book.

Yes, you can start again today with your new genre, since it is only day two you haven't lost much time.. But give yourself credit for the progress you made yesterday... (especially since you were sick!!!)

Well, those are my thoughts on the matter... do with them as you will!
Kym

Oh, seriously no editing? Whoops. I wrote my minimum goal yesterday 1800 words, then re-read and edited what I wrote. It wasn't bad to start with, but I left out some important stuff.

Anyone want a peek? I blogged a passage of it here.

[MrsAprilMay]

Happy NaNoWriMo everyone!

I got 2100 words in last night. There is a kick-off party at our local library tonight, so I hope I can get some more done tonight.

I added everyone in this thread as a buddy, I'm pretty sure. If you want to add me, I'm BackLitLeo over there.

[Miss Information]

Originally Posted by EdnaMarie

Yesterday went GREAT! 1k during the day, 2.5 k during the night (more, actually). I got a whole short story in, a whole chapter for over 3,700 words! And I am actually having to tear myself away from t he computer. This is great! It is my year- I know it. I have been waiting to do this since I was 12 and my teacher told me I was "a real writer." Sniff. I alternated between thinking I had nothing to say (somewhat true, because I hadn't lived much) and that writing wasn't important (maybe not to others...).

I finally feel like I am doing what I am supposed to and it's great!

This is kinda where I'm at too. I've decided I'm enjoying this. I had some teachers (and commenters on my blog) tell me I am good, then that "real" writer tell me my characters were 2 dimensional and not believable (but did he tell me HOW to flesh them out? Of course not) and it helped to undermine my confidence.

Now I feel pretty good. I am writing to please myself. I have a lot of stories I'd like to see retold in a book. This novel, even if it never gets published, is going to be kept and maybe given to my girls one day to help them understand what life was like in the crime lab for me (it's a fictionalized account).

I have a very rough outline. Nothing I am going to stick by I'm sure, but somewhat to keep in mind what I want to say.

[fullofgrace]

Originally Posted by Mirta

There will be days that you may not like your story... there will be days you will want to ditch the whole thing and start again.... Normally I'd say, ignore those feelings and press on, your feelings may change again in a few days...

As for your case, don't totally ditch yesterday's work... even if it doesn't go into your final product, what you wrote yesterday is helping you propel to your ultimate goal...Those words therefore should count towards your 50,000.. Even if it has nothing to do with your new vision for your book.

Yes, you can start again today with your new genre, since it is only day two you haven't lost much time.. But give yourself credit for the progress you made yesterday... (especially since you were sick!!!)

This is great advice. Thank you!!

I'm going to attempt to ignore what I wrote yesterday and just let words flow today. If it is a continuation of yesterday's attempt that I'm not quite into, ok. If today's work takes me in a new direction and it is one that I feel good about, even better.