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NaNoWriMo Day 24

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I had to play a gig tonight, so I couldn’t participate in the write-in for this evening. That was lame, because it’s the one that I pretty much put together last year and re-organized this year. However, I was able to stop in and see all my friends before I hit the road to play. I was envious of them all sitting around the table working together. Writing is often such a solitary pursuit that it’s really nice when the opportunity arises to share the moment with a bunch of like-minded wackos, and these are some really cool wackos, I assure you.

Nifty Fifty

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At approximately 6:43 last night I hit the magical fifty thousand word mark for NaNoWriMo. That’s fifty thousand words in twenty-two days which works out to an average of…two thousand, two hundred, seventy-two words (plus point seventy-two repeating) per day. That’s a fun average, considering that the first day I wrote something like five or six hundred words, and there were many days where I only wrote the minimun average, which is 1,667. Obviously, on a few days here and there I exceeded the minimun, as on the 21st, when I wrote eight thousand.

This means that, were I to stop writing now, I would still officially win the challenge. The story is not done, though, so I push on. I’m really hoping to finish this thing by midnight on the 30th. I don’t know how it’s supposed to end, though, so it’s hard to say. This reminds me of a joke I’ve heard among the fantasy and sci-fi crowd being that the way to please a publisher is to write a trilogy, as it ensures sales for three books instead of just one. Personally, I’ll be happy if I’m able to finish writing a single book without having to worry about what might come next. Whether I or anyone else wants to read this after I’m done is an entirely different matter altogether.

NaNoWriMo Day 21

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Saturdays our NaNo region schedules a write-in at a local coffee shop. It’s one of my favorite places to write. It’s kind of the big write-in of the week during NaNo, and a lot of people make the effort to get out and say hello and pound/scribble out a few words there. We had a good turnout, and I made some awesome progress with something like an eight thousand word jump that day.

NaNoWriMo Day 17 – Table of Five

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Here are a bunch of us camped out at Starbucks getting in our word count for the evening. You can even see our little NaNoWriMo table tent thingie that we set up just for such grand occasions. That, and my blueberry scone. See the girl above and to the left? She’s in fifth grade. She’s writing 30 thousand words during the month. By hand. If you have excuses for why you’re not doing something, this girl is proof that “it can be done, one way or another.” There’s a zombie cat in her book, by the way. Just thought you’d like to know. NaNo is work, but there’s more than enough room to have fun with it as well.

NaNoWriMo Day 15 – Large Word Latte

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We were doing “Word Wars” during the NaNo write-in the other day, which is where you challenge another writer or writers to write as quickly as possible for a determined period of time. Each time I did a word war I wrote my original word count on my cup, and then when I was done I did the math, subtracting from the old total to get the number of words added. As you can see, I did a number of word wars. This is how one gets two thousand words written in an hour – a series of ten-minute and five-minute sprints.