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throw buckets of crap at the fan and then spend the last 20 days of the month polishing it.

That is is the strategy. ;

If it's any comfort, I'm finally breaking 10,000 today, when ordinarily I would have been close to about 20,000 by now.

Werewolf Warrior wrote: I don't mind, but wouldn't it be better if we did something else however dealing with the something simular to it.


Its just my opinion/thought

Erm... what??

Do you even understand what is being discussed here?

On the subject of NaNoWriMo... it's not something I'd participate in. It doesn't exactly interest me, and I'm not really a writer.

I'm stuck at 10,000 words... I need to crank out 3,000 words per day to get to where I want to be... ugh.

Come on people! We were only supposed to be at 15000 yestereday, and I'm only to 13800. You don't have to kill yourselves and give me massive wordcount envy.

As far as my own novel is coming, I'm kind of just meandering through the plot, but it's working well. Why don't you all post your username numbers so we can find each other?

Mine's Kai san and my number's 253766

I won't post mine, because I'm busy adding you to my friends list.

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Oh ok. I'm Baphnedia on there, my number is 417519.

My name is Red Eye, and my word number total is 1,212,759; counting three novels, eight novellas, ten short stories, and several notes to myself about characters and situations that (Lunara grant) will never be other than cute recollections...yet they are all part of the Wulfen Universe. This has taken over three years and is still ongoing.
And I have yet to publish even on Lulu, since I still find situations that need fixing in the stories...and you aren't ready to publish until you can't find anything wrong with your own work.
I do have submissions out now, though (Thanks to the Writer's Guide, the best $30.00 I ever spent).
Hint: The old days of Editors that help you over your problems and Galley-Proofers who correct your punctuation and spelling are gone. Now, you'd better be ready for publication when you submit; and hope that the six week exposure you get will convince the publisher that you are marketable.
Those books on the $4.95 table at Borders, etc. are authors dying; btw. It costs about that much to print the book, so no royalties there for the writer and no renewed contracts, either.
You'd best have a good income already if you want to write.

It's day 16, and I'm at 33,578!

I'm "Scott Gardener", just like, well, here.

My username is Wingman on there as well, and I've just gotten down to some serious writing after dragging myself away from Fallout 3. Just broke 10k, so I have some serious work ahead of myself. Well, nearing 30k if you account for the mechanical aspects of the story. It's an addiction, I can't stop writing supporting mechanics for the characters and the things they do! The worst part is that I can't even use most of it for the actual story, unless I find some way to present it from an in-character perspective.

I love Dogmeat, he's a vicious little beastie. I think he has killed over 18 people by himself, all the while shaking off bullets and Super Mutant sledgehammers. Dog can take more punishment than I can.

Hmm, due to unintentional occurrences, the number of characters in my story has increased exponentially. At first there were the main five, then a sixth, and now I have around ten. Somewhere along the line Exalted has slipped into there as well, without me even being aware of it.

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Oh this is horrible, I read some article about in-game poisons over on Dicefreaks, and now I've got serious "Need to tinker with the system" jitters. I literally cannot focus on anything else except for poisons, it's an addiction...and I was supposed to do some serious writing tonight.

You win some, you lose some. At least I got a poisoner character out of it, as well as all manners of horrible things to inflict upon the others.

Right now, I'm at 1,105. This is what comes from procrastination...

Edit: Screw this, I'm writing at my own pace this late into NaNoWriMo.

Gah! 40k by tonight! I'm only at 35k. Wish me luck!

Good luck! I've pretty much dropped out of the race (though for many good reasons).

I don't have enough time to write between:
School, Karate Class, Drawing, and private time (aka videogames, tv, and internet; We switched from dial-up to cable!).

And there is no way I'm going to pull all-nighters, because I have sleep issues (particularly lack of sleep.)

He screams in defeat, a mournful, keening howl that sets the neighborhood dogs off in a chorus of barking. His pen clatters to the table, his head following it.
"That's it, I can't go on..."

I r failure. 14,369 words, as of 7am November 30th, and those are the last I plan to write as part of this year's NaNo submission. This was both a good month, and a bad month. Good in that I'm brimming with ideas and I finally found a use for those locations, characters, and events that have been floating around my head for the past few years, and bad in that I took an offramp from The Highway, and got distracted by many shiny things.
To illustrate what I mean, 20,784 words on the fluff and crunch of the story, as well as ideas I didn't get a chance to add.
Oh, and I spent a couple days trying to tear down and rebuild the new World of Darkness, and I spent a couple more making a poison system.

I mean, I jumped from modern-day tourism with a sci-fi twist, to moderate-fantasy sword and sorcery, had a philosophical epiphany and then it got progressively stranger. Discovering Dungeons and Discourse in the last week didn't help either.
All in all, I somehow wound up with having the characters as god's debris, which was no doubt influenced by the book of the same name, by Scott Adams.
I mean, how does that happen!? I've gone and confused myself.

And I'm off, back to the world I discovered while traveling The Highway. Though, I don't have a horse to gallop, or a car to drive, so...
*Switches windows off into the sunset*

Hey, that's more than me! Also, when else in your life have you written anything that long? In my case, I can honestly say 'never'. Besides, in the event I get hit with a 5,000 word essay, I'll just laugh.

Freak!

I didn't know this was a novel writing thing!

the title made it sound like a manga/anime i never heard of, so I skipped on this topic... and november's over in 4 hours...

It's December!

Sooo...how many casualties?

Finished final edit on "The Trial" on 30 Nov 2008 at 16:45.

Then at 18:00 the new television arrived. I forgot everything, including leaving AOL on 'til almost midnight.

So, after repeated screwups and slips, I finish just under the wire, and forget to post it.

I'm an idiot.

I made it. 50,026 words. Galactic Empire Lykosa is now a first draft of a novel. It needs editing--lot's of editing. But, it's 50,000 words long, and it's a novel.

As for NaNoWriMo being an Anime, it feels like it sometimes. It has kind of that same crazed flow with blurry motion, oversized eyes, and fan subtitles.

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