Day 9 stats: Min. Daily Average Word Count: 1,667 Word Count Goal: 2,500 Actual Word Count: 2,083 Daily Word Count Score (words in excess of min daily average): +416 Total Word Count Score: 17,183 Chapters complete: 7 Still wallowing in act two plotting. Diverted some time to stringing together a rough plot outline to help [...]
NaNoWriMo 2009 – Day 8
Day 8 stats: Min. Daily Average Word Count: 1,667 Word Count Goal: 2,500 Actual Word Count: 2,715 Daily Word Count Score (words in excess of min daily average): 1,048 Total Word Count Score: 15,100 Chapters complete: 6 Managed to get back ahead but struggling with plot. I’ve heard it’s easy to get bogged down in [...]
NaNoWriMo 2009 – Day 7
Day 7 stats: Min. Daily Average Word Count: 1,667 Word Count Goal: 2,500 Actual Word Count: 431 Daily Word Count Score (words in excess of min daily average): -1,236 Total Word Count Score: 12,385 Chapters complete: 5 Barely made it to the keyboard today. Too much family and friends commitments. But, in the big scheme [...]
NaNoWriMo 2009 – Day 6
Zero writing done. Was busy from dawn to midnight. It was a bad day for NaNoWriMo. Much ground to make up this weekend.
NaNoWriMo 2009 – Day 5
Day 5 stats: Min. Daily Average Word Count: 1,667 Word Count Goal: 2,500 Actual Word Count: 3,219 Daily Word Count Score (words in excess of min daily average): +1,552 Total Word Count Score: 11,954 Chapters complete: 5 Running out of pre-plotted chapter breakdowns, but also seeing some expansion opportunities for act two. Dropping in world [...]
NaNoWriMo 2009 – Day 4
Day 4 stats: Min. Daily Average Word Count: 1,667 Word Count Goal: 2,500 Actual Word Count: 2,488 Daily Word Count Score (words in excess of min daily average): +821 Total Word Count Score: 8,735 Chapters complete: 4 Had my first “what the heck did I get myself into?” thought today. Ignored it. It finally went [...]
NaNoWriMo 2009 – Day 3
Day 3 stats: Min. Daily Average Word Count: 1,667 Word Count Goal: 2,000 Actual Word Count: 1,076 Daily Word Count Score (words in excess of min daily average): -924 Total Word Count Score: 6,247 Chapters complete: 3 Still ahead in total word count, but losing steam in keeping my comfortable lead. Really hit a wall [...]
NaNoWriMo 2009 – Day 2
Couldn’t make my updates at the nanowrimo site yesterday. Jungle Drive ate my homework. Really. I had wrapped up chapter 2 of the Mia novel in my office at home last night and headed upstairs to continue working, when I started getting Jungle Drive connection errors on my laptop. Attempts to open the virtual directory [...]
NaNoWriMo 2009 – Day 1
First, I’m overwhelmed with the sheer volume of communication surrounding NaNoWriMo. There’s a non-stop stream of related tweets with the #nanowrimo tag, my inbox is overflowing from forum updates about write-ins and announcements just for the L.A. area, and that’s before I have a chance to swing through the Fantasy forum. People were putting together [...]
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