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 […]
NaNoWriMo 2009 (50,000 words + 30 days = 1 novel)
The formula is deceptively simple, and 1,667 words a day seems like a very reasonable target. What could possibly go wrong? I’ll be able to answer that first-hand by December 1st after completing my first venture into NaNoWriMo. My goal is to complete a novel set in Runes of Gallidon, as well as at least […]