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Post by PFA on Nov 21, 2011 22:56:41 GMT -5
*writing, when all of the sudden notices a giant plothole* aghfjkgf
no pfa
it can be fixed later, just keep writing
also geez antagonist, why you gotta keep messing up my plot
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Post by Nut on Nov 23, 2011 15:08:10 GMT -5
Is anyone else mildly bothered by how this year's progress graph on the Stats page tops out at 60,000 instead of 50,000, with the milestones marked at increments of 15k instead of 10k? It just seems strange that they'd randomly set it slightly higher than the goal. Also, I felt more accomplished when the milestones were lower and more numerous.  |
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Post by PFA on Nov 23, 2011 15:12:01 GMT -5
Is anyone else mildly bothered by how this year's progress graph on the Stats page tops out at 60,000 instead of 50,000, with the milestones marked at increments of 15k instead of 10k? It just seems strange that they'd randomly set it slightly higher than the goal. Also, I felt more accomplished when the milestones were lower and more numerous. I noticed that and thought it was kind of odd. XD; I mean, why even do that? Are there a lot of people who go above and beyond, or are they bracing themselves for people's final wordcounts which are higher than 50k on the dot? (I for one usually end up about 1,000 past 50k, for example.) What? |
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Post by Nut on Nov 24, 2011 14:42:03 GMT -5
Is anyone else mildly bothered by how this year's progress graph on the Stats page tops out at 60,000 instead of 50,000, with the milestones marked at increments of 15k instead of 10k? It just seems strange that they'd randomly set it slightly higher than the goal. Also, I felt more accomplished when the milestones were lower and more numerous. I noticed that and thought it was kind of odd. XD; I mean, why even do that? Are there a lot of people who go above and beyond, or are they bracing themselves for people's final wordcounts which are higher than 50k on the dot? (I for one usually end up about 1,000 past 50k, for example.) What? Haha, yeah, it doesn't make sense to me either. xD I mean, if it's to accommodate people who go over 50k, they might as well stop the graph anywhere--75k, or 55k, or whatever; 60k just seems random. Though my final total is usually also about exactly 1k above the goal. Really, I wouldn't mind it if they'd keep the milestones at 10k increments. The more milestones the better, IMO; it makes it easier to keep striving towards that next goal. Now I have to be all proactive and set the milestones myself. ...I'm currently using a strategy that I believe is pretty much what I'd do if I were doing NaNoWriDay--that is, typing wildly without stopping or looking at the screen and accepting whatever comes out. Can't say I particularly like writing like this, but it does let me rack up the word count really fast, albeit with many typos that I have to go back and correct out of personal pride. *just did 1,200 words in 15 minutes* It's all repetitive stream-of-consciousness incoherency, but I'm hoping maybe it'll be good for a sort of draft at least. |
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Post by Chao on Nov 26, 2011 13:14:05 GMT -5
*has crossed the unreal feeling line of 50k*
I really can't believe it. In the past two years I never hit the 50k so many days in advance. Plus my story is also nearing the end. Only have to finish the epilogue. No crutches like 'Author's note' or 'Thanks' written...
*continues to marvel in this unreal feeling*
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Post by PFA on Nov 28, 2011 0:10:45 GMT -5
THERE, 45k, gosh
must remember to write a whole bunch these next couple days so as not to miss the deadline by a few minutes or something ridiculous <_>
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Post by Brooke on Nov 29, 2011 12:05:33 GMT -5
I can't believe this month is almost over. I will miss the craziness of all this! <3
I'll make my word count, but I won't be able to finish the story in 50,000 words.
I haven't been on the forums, do to writing so hard. XD
But I can't wait to read what everyone else has been able to crank out this month!
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Post by Nut on Nov 29, 2011 13:38:22 GMT -5
Congratulations, Chao!  It's awesome that you managed to finish ahead of time! *winner's confetti* I like trying to finish one day ahead of time myself, to save myself from worrying about the internet or the site going down, but last year I came right down to the wire and verified my wordcount just half an hour before midnight. xD; This year I'm even more behind than I was then. With that in mind... can I write 27,000 words in one night? Yes. Yes, I can. |
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Post by Tiger on Nov 29, 2011 16:04:46 GMT -5
0.0 Nut...wooooow. I wish you luck!
I was gonna post about having written almost 3,000 words in about three hours, but that seems kind lame now XD This's the first year I haven't/won't have finished early, I'm not very fond of this writing up until the deadline thing!
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Post by Nut on Nov 29, 2011 19:09:00 GMT -5
0.0 Nut...wooooow. I wish you luck! I was gonna post about having written almost 3,000 words in about three hours, but that seems kind lame now XD This's the first year I haven't/won't have finished early, I'm not very fond of this writing up until the deadline thing! Thank you! Good luck to you too! You're so close; you can definitely do it! 3,000 words in three hours is great; it usually takes me a whole day of thinking to produce that much. Honestly, the only reason I'm writing fast now is because I'm putting almost no thought whatsoever into what I'm writing; I'm definitely going for quantity over quality now, and hoping that at the end I'll at least have a skeleton draft I can edit. I wrote down twenty-seven sentences describing scenes in the plot, and I'm giving myself fifteen minutes for each sentence to write whatever comes to mind relating to it. I can do a thousand words in fifteen minutes if I just go into complete stream-of-consciousness mode and don't think about what I write. Not how I'd normally choose to work, but I think I have to if I want to finish at this point. xD; ...So, I just hit 30k. I'd meant to start writing much earlier, but procrastinated and only started at 11 PM. So now it's 1 AM on November 30. I did 7k in the past two hours. I have to leave for school at 7 AM. I have six hours. I can do this. EDIT: 35k. Almost 3 AM. I've slowed down. My shoulder is sore from typing. I've just noticed that my account is set to US Pacific time; it's seven hours behind my time. Part of me doesn't want to change it, wants to have that cushion of time in case I don't finish in time tomorrow. Silly. Of course I'll finish in time. I've got to finish. I've got four hours. Actually, five hours. My first period tomorrow is free. |
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Post by Rikku on Nov 29, 2011 21:59:31 GMT -5
*twitch* I am going to start frantically writing now. NEED TO FINISH IN TIME. NEED TO. must tell story
Gah, I'm all tired and achy today because I Did Exercise yesterday. Curse you, hyrodroslide! Yeah, but now I'm listening to fast Irish rock-ish music (highly recommend this for sheer energy) and it must be doing something for my creativity because when I went away from the computer to bounce around nervously and get myself some Coke I found myself making up an impromptu song that was something like, "Don't you see you need caffeine to rewrite this scene you need caffeine! Don't you see you need caffeine there's so much story you've not seen! Don't you see you need caffeine to write this scene for the places you've been to be quite mean you NEED CAFFEEEEEINE"
... It's slightly alarming.
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Post by Nut on Nov 29, 2011 22:09:43 GMT -5
All right, so I got to 37k. I'd written 14k in about five and a half hours, and my arms felt like they were going numb. And it was 3:30 AM and I started to think about how I have school tomorrow and homework that I haven't even begun yet, and wondering if this was worth it. At this point I was churning out drivel, just writing whatever came into my head. I've already won NaNo before; did I really need to go this far for the bragging rights?
So I started opening all the other text files I'd created this month, and pasting every word into my NaNo file. I'd written quite a lot of other stuff this month. Stuff for school, for other people--stories, even. And all of those words together totaled around 51,700 words, so I pasted it into the NaNo verifier and got my prize.
I know this is a trick that's been used by other NaNoers, but I still feel vaguely like it was cheating, like I haven't really won. It would've been more impressive if I'd stuck with it and kept writing until 8 AM and written everything on the last day. But I'm thinking of the homework I have due tomorrow--some of it is important--and I don't know that I want to be completely braindead tomorrow when I'm scrambling to finish it. As it is, four hours of sleep isn't going to make things easy.
Anyway... I did write all those words in the month of November, even if they're not all on the same story. And in the end, all that matters is writing 50k, right?
...Anyway, if I have any energy or sanity left tomorrow, I may still have enough time to churn out another 13,000 words before the deadline, to make the victory official.
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Post by Tam on Nov 29, 2011 22:53:21 GMT -5
Anyway... I did write all those words in the month of November, even if they're not all on the same story. And in the end, all that matters is writing 50k, right? I think all that matters is reaching an achievement you're proud of. <3 And it sounds like you are — I mean, you have very good reason to be! Major congrats, Nut! 8D That's an absolutely amazing accomplishment! I'm so glad you made it! And thanks, by the way. =D I have an unstarted essay due tomorrow and a little over 24 hours to pull my last 18K together, and you've really inspired me to keep going. I've got a bunch of filler I can add to my story too, but I'm still going to need to write a good ten thousand words before tomorrow night, and I have classes all day tomorrow— Gaaaaaah okay this is not productive back to writing oh hey caffeine and Irish rock yes this will do nicely. |
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Post by Rikku on Nov 30, 2011 2:24:09 GMT -5
This sort of thing is also helpful.
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Post by Nut on Nov 30, 2011 13:23:13 GMT -5
Anyway... I did write all those words in the month of November, even if they're not all on the same story. And in the end, all that matters is writing 50k, right? I think all that matters is reaching an achievement you're proud of. <3 And it sounds like you are — I mean, you have very good reason to be! Major congrats, Nut! 8D That's an absolutely amazing accomplishment! I'm so glad you made it! And thanks, by the way. =D I have an unstarted essay due tomorrow and a little over 24 hours to pull my last 18K together, and you've really inspired me to keep going. I've got a bunch of filler I can add to my story too, but I'm still going to need to write a good ten thousand words before tomorrow night, and I have classes all day tomorrow— Gaaaaaah okay this is not productive back to writing oh hey caffeine and Irish rock yes this will do nicely. You're completely right. Thank you. <3 And I definitely want to work this story out properly at my leisure in the coming months; this NaNo got me statrted on an idea I want to bring to fruition. And I'm glad to have inspired you! Go for it--I know you can do it! I want to be able to celebrate your victory too. <3 |
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It's awesome that you managed to finish ahead of time! *winner's confetti*
