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Hidden 9 yrs ago Post by Keyguyperson
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I just reached 15,000 today, but I started four days late, and I'm getting closer and closer to that "You're not failing horribly" line every day. Just finished the hardest scene I've had to do: a guy checking in at a hotel. The next one I'm doing should be easier, since it's said guy trying to teach an alien English.
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I gave myself permission to slack off today, because I did 3000 yesterday and there's a local write-in tomorrow. Then the write-in got cancelled. So now I'm just trying to get a few hundred words in, just so I don't lose too much ground, and wouldn't you know.... surprise character development pops up. This is going so well.
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Uh. I might toss in a surprise entry into this. Sure I'm entering with 20 days left of NaNoWriMo, BUT I am in the midst of an outline and things are coming together. Epic Sci-Fi with Mechs anyone?
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Uh. I might toss in a surprise entry into this. Sure I'm entering with 20 days left of NaNoWriMo, BUT I am in the midst of an outline and things are coming together. Epic Sci-Fi with Mechs anyone?


DO IT.

I need more mechs in my life.
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Uh. I might toss in a surprise entry into this. Sure I'm entering with 20 days left of NaNoWriMo, BUT I am in the midst of an outline and things are coming together. Epic Sci-Fi with Mechs anyone?


Mechs is good, writing is good. You'd be crazy to start now.

Crazy is also good.

So why not?
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annnnnnd my computer has crashed. Fantastic.
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<Snipped quote by Dark Wind>

Mechs is good, writing is good. You'd be crazy to start now.

Crazy is also good.

So why not?


It's a good thing I'm crazy.
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<Snipped quote by Dark Wind>

DO IT.

I need more mechs in my life.


Doing it. Mechs incoming!
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Well, I just finished a couple thousand more words. I'm at 17k now, and I'm planning on getting on track by Friday now, which is two days earlier than I had expected!

annnnnnd my computer has crashed. Fantastic.


Ouch, I had that happen to me the day I started, actually. It just stopped turning on. Luckily, I had been writing online (and by that, I mean I was using a PM to myself, because I've gotten wayyyy to used to this site's system), so I managed to keep everything despite the fact that my computer is currently undergoing a week-long diagnostic. I hope you didn't loose too much.
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@mdk That's awful! I hope you didn't lose too much. If you like, I can offer some suggestions - but my feelings won't be hurt if you don't. :3

I'm going to go hang out with a fellow writer this evening. I expect we'll be talking a lot about cats and having tea, and I also expect we'll get our words done for today. She's considerably ahead of me toward the 50,000-word goal, but while we both write professionally, she's an actual, has-an-agent author, so I'm hardly surprised. :3

Best of luck for Day 11, everyone! 18,337 words for today. We're a third of the way through!
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It's the motherboard, which means I haven't *LOST* anything, other than I guess the ability to compute until the replacement comes in. It's just sapping my motivation. I'll get back up soon enough.
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I just hit 10,000 words...jeez i am behind :D
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Got my daily target done. Close to 17k. I've discovered how much I hate my laptop keyboard.
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Got my daily target done. Close to 17k. I've discovered how much I hate my laptop keyboard.


I know right? Laptop keyboards are the worst.
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18.481 words yesterday! And hot cocoa, and good company, and ferocious weather. Nice to get out of the house, though. :3

I do all of my writing on a laptop, but I suppose we all have different tastes.
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I'm really happy I've managed to churn out 2000 words almost every single day of this month!
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I'm only at 19,192. I had some monstrous writer's block when I realized that I shouldn't have made the happy-go-lucky guy a spy.
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I think I can count past 20,000 as the second big milestone. :3 Almost 20,500 words, but I need to go refresh my tea and I think I'll just do a little more outline refinement for now. Things are still going entirely swimmingly - for me as the author, anyway. Our heroines are in less dire straits, and they have a few more answers, but those answers are only leading to more questions.

I sort of love this story. :3
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I think I can count past 20,000 as the second big milestone. :3 Almost 20,500 words, but I need to go refresh my tea and I think I'll just do a little more outline refinement for now. Things are still going entirely swimmingly - for me as the author, anyway. Our heroines are in less dire straits, and they have a few more answers, but those answers are only leading to more questions.

I sort of love this story. :3


Screw you and getting a reasonable amount of stuff done.

I still haven't made many big problems yet. But they're coming, soon, in the form of blatant Cold War parallels.
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I'm gonna try to find a better way/place to work tomorrow. I cannot get a *thing* done just now. Settled in for kind of a minor turning-point in the book and all I could do was outline it instead.... the good news, though, is it's a 700-word outline and I dug up a bunch of killer research items that'll turn it into gold later. So the day's not wasted, but my wordcount came in a fairly disappointing number. Oh well. 17,380 (estimating, because I can't get at the bulk of my NaNo until the new motherboard arrives)
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