Well-- We Did it! We joined National Novel Writing Month. And now, to write those glorious novels. So far, I have described...a lot of things. A submarine, a room from a four year old perspective, and snow. I thought we could start a post on our "woes, woo-hoos, and wows" in little bits and pieces when the website is way to over run with Nanoers to function properly!
I am really enjoying the process of writing so far. Although it's only day one, I'm finding the deadline freeing. I feel less guilty about spelling, grammar, and typing mistakes. The deadline spurs the novel onward, whether it wants to go or not.... Here's to good endings!
I seriously feel ill when I think about editing this beast.
ReplyDeleteThe editing part kills me too. Everyday I have to tell myself I can't edit. I must write 2000 words a day. Just keep going. Just keep swimming. Just keep swimming. I tell myself. Don't look back. Remember what happened to Orpheus.
ReplyDeleteWhat a good idea, their website is so exceeding slow now. I almost don't feel like updating anything.
ReplyDeleteI've reached my word goal everyday so far. I tend to babble on and on, geez it's a mess. I write myself sticky notes about what I want to fix later. And I've promised myself when the story is over then I will go back and fix it.
I changed my story at the last minute. Mine's called Golden, an Autumn tale. How season appropriate. I get to write about falling leaves and a lonely faerie girl. Today I finally got to write a love scene.
Oh! I like the sticky note idea! That's brilliant! Then you have a record and you don't have to trudge back though all the mess thinking..."now what was it I wanted to fix?"
ReplyDeleteI like the sound of your story! And how ingenious to start with a character you already know! That's great! I hope I get to read it sometime.
My story is not my story anymore. I had intended to actually write a story that I had told my siblings years and years ago-- actually the week before you came to wisk me off to Greece. So okay, not so long ago.
But, the story decided to not do that. And I've had to create all these weird characters. And I only just got to the Penguin today. But the title will definitely have to change because the Polar Bear is must cooler...
And my protagonist refused to grow up! What a jerk. She's only four. Urg.
oh. I remembered what I wanted to do-- I wanted to tell you that Germany is in first place for total number of words. But I've forgotten how many words that was. I should think though, that it's cheating. Because don't German's have more words than us?
ReplyDeleteI have no idea how many words I've written. I decided to write by hand, since the story comes out better when I do it that way, so that means I still have to type everything into the computer. Why do I do this to myself?
ReplyDeleteI haven't met my goal for today either, so no sleeping for me until I do. Bah. Sleep is for the weak anyway.
I love polar bears. Go polar bear. So, how do I check my word count? Do I just put what I've typed so far into the counter on the Nano page?
How many have you written?
You can check your word count by either going to tools in Microsoft Word and then scroll down to " Word Count" It might be a bit different in 2007 version. But It's still there.
ReplyDeleteThen you can write that number in the small little boxin the right hand corner of your nano page and hit update.
I am at 11,744 words right now. But it might actually go down as I hate the section I wrote yesterday. I'm just writing like a crazy woman with no definite focus. Well I thought I had one, but the story changed on me so it's a mess. An utter mess.
I agree with you with writing it by hand. It's also nice to have that copy and then when you retype it, you get to read it a second time. I think that's best. I type so fast that, I'm sure I'll reach my word goal,but I'm almost positive taht what I wrote is NOT readable. yikes.
The grandmother lost her leg. I'm sorta horrified by it.
Or you can copy what you've typed and paste it in the word count validator section in the " Edit novel info" section." paste it in that big box and scroll down to the very bottom and hit submit and it will update it for you. This method is gross since the site is sooooooo slow.
oh dear.
ReplyDeleteI just realized something kinda silly-- My story is a Tim Burton Version of your Faere story....sorta. Not all the way. But oh boy, it sorta is.
There's a magical girl, a grumpy older sensible woman, a funny older man, a polite polar bear, a baby penguin, an evil witch, and eviler queen.
But there's not awesomely hot man or anything.
I figured out how to make my protagonist grow up. It's very evil. It's happening today, after I fix the monster who bit off the granmother's leg.
ReplyDeleteHow morbid sounding, but fun. I've decided the tone of my story sould be sorta like Folklore. ha. I'm not sure it is though. The story really has a mind of its own.
ReplyDeleteThere is my faerie girl,Golden, her love interest Allen, a shape shifter, his evil mother and it turns out the season of Autumn is missing, oh dear. I've also made a terrible threesome, a dwarf, a crow and an incubus.
As long as you're having fun. I'm certain my story doesn't make any sense to anyone but me. I tend to go on and on.
I'm worried I don't have enough story to fit the 50,000 word count.
I'm going to go check my word count now.
20,697 words so far
ReplyDeletewhoa, I had no idea I could do that many in a week. Woohoo.
That's amazing Angelbird! Incredible! Go You!
ReplyDeleteYou know what?! We should post about our experiences one week in. That would be lovely. And talk about the process! :) If you have time. I only have thirty some minutes this morning to throw whatever mess at the paper I want too!!!!