#NaNoWriMo Day 30 Complete!
Daily Words: 1,492
Total Words: 50,498
Total %: 101.00%
That’s it! 🤯
I’ve completed draft 1 of my 1st #SF novel #Volition 🚀
It’s been a goal since 2015 when I completed my Eng Lit degree.
I’m thinking, “Shoulda done this years ago!” but that’s irrelevant, as I’ve done it now 🥲
Still heaps of work ahead, but that’s tomorrow, today is for enjoying this. 🥳
#NaNoWriMo Day 28 Completed
Daily Words: 2.056
Total Words: 47,236
Total %: 94.47%
A bit over 2.5k words to go. Good chance I’ll get to 50k tomorrow.
My main concern is finishing off the narrative. I’m right there, at the end, 61 chapters, just now, and maybe I can wrap it up in another 5 or 6 chapters I think.
But I’m almost scared to finish. This month has been a personal phenomenon. I don’t want it to end.
#NaNoWriMo Day 27 completed
Daily Wordcount: 3,683
Total Wordcount: 45,182
Total % Complete: 90.36%
I’ve finally caught up to my schedule. But that feels beside the point right now, as regardless of the schedule, I’ve got 4,818 words remaining to write in the next three days to successfully complete NaNoWriMo in 2023. 🫠
Not there yet, but a few weeks ago it seemed truly impossible. No celebrating yet, but soon- 🤭
#NaNoWriMo Day 24 done Daily words: 2,429 Total words: 39,085 % Complete: 78.14%
Still cracking along. My writing is at the point now where while it’s a little hard to get going again, once I have started it’s not too hard to just keep going. I’ve never written like this for so long. It’s becoming very satisfying.
Tomorrow I will catch back up to and then exceed my projected word count again.
#NaNoWriMo Day 22 done Daily words: 2,611 Total words: 34,321 % Complete: 68.64%
Just a quick update today because it’s midnight and I’m buggered after working a full day, going to the gym this evening, and then writing 2,611 words 😁
Couldn’t be happier really. Still a good way to go, but I’m starting to believe I might make it.
#NaNoWriMo Day 21 done Daily words: 2,585 Total words: 31,710 % Complete: 63.42%
Still trucking, and still in with a realistic shot of getting this over the line.
Had a slow weekend as I meandered down the long and boring narrative road, but some adjustments and two chapters rewritten and it’s firing once again. Tension building, excitement too.
Keep on writing everyone! Still a week to get your goals met! 😅
#NaNoWriMo Day 15 done Daily words: 2,453 Total words: 25,084 % Complete: 50.17%
Yay, I’m half way through both in days and word count! 😃
So happy- I didn’t think I’d get this far. Still a long way to go, and if anything it feels like the first half will have been easy compared with the next fifty percent. The start already feels along time ago, IRL and Narratively.
DONT STOP EVERYONE! KEEP ON TYPING AWAY 😁 @bookstodon#mjjmori@amwriting@nanowrimo#amwriting
#NaNoWriMo Day 12 done Daily words: 3,067 Total words: 20,508 % Complete: 41.02%
What a roller coaster!
Mentally draining, when reaching a narrative point not knowing how to proceed. I’ve learned to take five, let it percolate and trust the way forward to come to mind.
Emotionally draining too, feels great when I pull ahead, stressed when I fall behind.
#NaNoWriMo Day 6 complete
Daily words: 1,922
Total words: 11,368
22.29% completed
11 hours 49 minutes total time spent writing directly.
Much more time spent thinking and planning and narrativising around that.
Yay, I just finished the third chapter of my #SF novel, in which my washed-up protagonist is found in a dank London pub and called back to duty with the offer of just revenge.
This writing-in-the-morning thing is certainly working for me. 😊
I hope you’re all having success with your own writing goals as well. :blobcatcoffee:
Yay, just finished the #prologue of my #novel. Calling it done for now and moving right along to chapter 1, which will introduce the overarching antagonist. Which is quite exciting. :-)
Part of having a writing habit can be having a specific time and place to write.
For me, I have recently set up a little tiny desk in a quiet corner that holds a little tablet with a keyboard that is for nothing but writing, and so far it seems to be working quite well.
Do you have a special place for writing. Or are you able to write anywhere, anyhow?
Monday morning and back to morning writing. I guess this is four weeks in a row now. I woke up with my story on my mind. So got to keep it happening. :-D
I’ve gone back to an old #novel I’ve been writing for years- this time I’m getting it done! 😉
But, in doing so I have decided to change the prose text from past-tense to present-tense to give the #narrative some extra tension and forward drive.
It’s working out so far, but I’m not entirely convinced it’s the right thing to do. Most narratives are written in past-tense after all, so it might make my novel less inviting.
A quick bit of writing before I head into work. Last night i didn’t think I would, as time is tighter when going into the office, but once I had my coffee, I just sat down to look at this and that, and before long I was writing anyway. Perhaps this morning habit is going to stick.
I’ve set some weekly goals for the next four weeks on the same longer form text, so good to have some immediate goals that will add up to into one thing.
Writing a #flashfiction for my local writers group. 350 words with the prompt: birthday party, locked cupboard, twins. The variety is always interesting when we read our stories aloud.
Have trouble keeping it short? First, write without concern for word count.📚
Then hack and prune that wild shrub.🌳
Select one word instead of three.📌 Delete any sentence that changes nothing.✂️ Repeat. ♻️
Ok, I finally finished a version of my new short story and submitted it for consideration in a YA Fantasy anthology. Here’s hoping it is selected.
Beyond that, while it’s taken consistent and considered work to get it where I liked, the feeling of achievement and dare I say it joy in having gotten this far makes it all worthwhile either way.
But, onto the next thing now: a micro-narrative for my local writers group 🙂
Just had one of those great little moments when writing where without knowing exactly where the story was going and just capturing my character’s words and actions, one of them did something unexpected that made it all work and helped explain the thrust of the whole story.
Suddenly BAM a little weight of doubt has lifted from the final narrative puzzle-piece falling into place. Phew- :BlobHajMlem:
Back here again this morning. Writing. That’s most mornings for a week. For me, this is the most consistent I have been for a long time. It’s normally sporadic at best, with “when” and “for long” ever an open question. So, -hopefully- this is the start of one of those weird things called a habit. Some habits are good 😊
Short story almost complete. Nice to be in the penultimate scene, it’ll be completed tonight. Might need a twist.