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Nanowrimo 2007

Five thousand behind at the moment, it's not looking good.

Still, I'm about to embark on a journey back home to the parents so the tube and train ride may provide me with some inspiration.
 
i have decided, this is meta-fiction - well mrs21 decided it fitted that description, when i explained what it was about, before she fell into a deep sleep, she managed to mention that:D

36,000 now, i'm slowing down a little, but should make it to the end
 
About 24,000 at the moment. Had family things to do over the weekend so any chance to catch up went out of the window.

But, dinner has been taken care of any no annoying flat mate to disturb me so progress may be made.

Also, 41,000. I'm impressed. :)
 
I keep falling asleep. It really s very difficult to find the time and not stay up so late that I endanger my job! So I'm only 32,000 words - just about on track, but it'll be a close call.

Still, I think I've got over the hump now - for a few days it wasn't just exhauston making me not write, it was lack of will to write. Neil Gaiman's pep talk was like reading my own thoughts expressed by someone else. Very helpful! :)

41,000 Marty - well done. No way I'm going to catch up with you now!
 
Yay - I'm now on 35,390 words, and am going to bed at 1.15 am, which isn't too bad considering. I think I might actually manage this.
 
just short of 45000 now, but i won't be able to do much more until sunday, as i'm out and about a lot, and away friday and saturday on an urban walk in Norfolk:cool:
 
only 16000 words at moment and not much prospect of adding mahoosively to that in next week.

so another year another failure.. in fact it is three failures at once because i was working three previous unfinished novels at once. very gloomy about it. but i will be back next year.
 
I knew I would have no chance this year, so I've just been adding to last year's successful nano but not completed one...

It's nearing its end.

Looking back much of the nano bits need improving , of course :)
 
I'm on about 45,500 words now, though about 2000 of that is still in handwritten form. Don't know if I'll have time to type that up and write the last five thousand - especially since I'm away on the thirtieth in the evening and am workng all that day, so have to get it finished by the 29th really.

I think I will manage it, though. The last few days were very slow because I was working on a really tricky part. Then I decided to fuck that bit off and finish it later, after completing the easier subsequent parts.

The story even has a title and three section headings now!
 
TY RD.

48,602 words so far! That includes the handwritten stuff that I've now typed up. I might make 50,000 tonight! The story's not finished, but at least I'd be an NaNoWriMo winner and I know that I will finish the story too.
 
I am now sitting here with a big idiotic grin on my face because I've passed the 50,000 milestone. :D

50,000 + words in 21 days (because I started late), with full-time work, childcare and band - and whenever I've read back I've really liked the story, too. They haven't just been 50,000 shit words!

I feel like jumping up and down around the room. Hell, I think I will!

*does star-jumps in the kitchen*
 
I forgot to mention my nano write-off also lead my girlfriend to dump me :rolleyes:

now if i'd been writing a book like Marty's that would have been good material ;)
 
onemonkey said:
I forgot to mention my nano write-off also lead my girlfriend to dump me :rolleyes:

now if i'd been writing a book like Marty's that would have been good material ;)

Aww, that's horrible. :( Anything can be good material for a book, though - maybe you can use this for a future story. That's one good thing about writing - even the crappy times are valuable.

I've been very lucky in having a GF who could cope with being a NaNo widow - but that was partly because I was a FAWM widow in February when she wrote an album in one month for a similar challenge.
 
congrats scifisam, that is very impressive - i'm still about five hundred short, which shouldn't take me too long tomorrow.

and onemonkey, sorry mate:(
 
50,006:cool:

done it again, as usual i feel slightly deflated that it is over, i get quite a buzz out of it during november
 
onemonkey said:
it's not so bad.. she dumps me on a fairly regular basis.. and nano was a major contributing factor this time around.
I'll buy you half a pint when I see you next. :)
 
Congratulations, Marty!

My daughter made it too - although, being only nine years old, she gets to be a Nano winner by acheiving her personal goal of 3,000 words. She's written an awful lot more than that this month, just that they don't fit into her animal stories collection.
 
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