Nanowrimo 2010

Cynic · Post by **Cynic** » Tue Nov 02, 2010 3:06 am

So with two hours left on the first day of Nano'10, I've written 1936 words.

I started my noir novel. "Skipping out on the tab" is a story that has drunks, detectives, femme fatales, and immigration politics. I've planned to write a chapter a day. Before I write each chapter, I'm going to brainstorm about the chapter for a couple of hours and spend the last few hours before i go to sleep as the time when I'll actually write it. If I hit 50,000 before the end of the month, I'll go back and edit the novel as much as I can. here's to hoping that I'll actually get a second year of finishing Nano. I did it in '04, hopefully 2010 is a lucky year for me.

Prak · Post by **Prak** » Tue Nov 02, 2010 6:32 am

what's the daily goal?

Starmaker · Post by **Starmaker** » Tue Nov 02, 2010 10:41 am

I found out I suck at writing in Russian. So I'm going to write in English and translate back while doing a second edit.
Also, their site is slooooww.

Prak_Anima wrote:what's the daily goal?

The public memetic daily goal is 1667 (50,000/30).

Koumei · Post by **Koumei** » Tue Nov 02, 2010 12:24 pm

I did 3,826 on day 1, and basically nothing today (day 2). This year my story is set in the Disgaeaverse because fuck being too original.

Cynic · Post by **Cynic** » Tue Nov 02, 2010 3:18 pm

The idea is to do 50,000 words in 30 days. So That's 1666~ words a day. Round that up or down to 1600 or 1700 and you should be fine.

tzor · Post by **tzor** » Tue Nov 02, 2010 6:25 pm

Did someone say NaNo? (Decloaking out of lurk mode)

Personally I would reccomend rounding it up to 2000, that way you get a cushion for those days when you can't write.

My novel is based on vampires, werewolves, dreams, the shadowland, and politics. It is inspired by looking at the lyrics of Hotel Califorina and seeing vampires and werewolves mentioned therein.

Back to lurking mode ... with the exception of progress reports.

Cynic · Post by **Cynic** » Thu Nov 04, 2010 11:07 pm

Last night was a night of no sleep. I use the write or die web app to motivate me. I had it on the harshest setting because I just wasn't writing. I do some of my best writing on a deadline. But at about 4:30 am, I was half asleep and 4200~ words in. I walked away and Write or die's draconian setting deletes characters when you don't write. I had stepped away for a bite to eat...
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Now I'm stuck between just giving up for this nano. Or not write for the next couple of days to let of this frustration/self-loathing steam.