NaNoWriMo

[Valerie]

I started a WriMo account. I'm Valpix, if anyone wants to add me.
Don't be impressed by my word count, I started my book two years ago. XD

[Pink Freud]

Added ya, Valley girl.

Mine's , if anyone wants to buddy up too.

Up to 2278 words now, I'm catching up!

But I really wish that the excerpt/preview thing worked better. The word wrap keeps cutting my words in twain for some reason. Maybe I entered it wrong somehow, though all I did was paste text into it.

[Lia S]

It’s funny how writing fast means my text is only one third the size the second draft is likely to be, but writing slow I would have written one third of the number of words I did. It’s probably best not to think of what I’m doing to my future self that will have to expand the first draft .

My protagonist has no idea what she’s doing and tries to use her empathy and sense of humour to get it done anyway. This also describes me right now.

[Pink Freud]

Haha same, I guess. All my characters are mostly wandering around and bitching about things.

Edit: Ok, I finally got the stupid except to display right by pasting it into notepad, re-pasting it into NaNoWriMo's editor, and formatting the text there. Something about Libreoffice must be making it display in code or something when I copy/paste from there.

[Lia S]

I attended a write-in. That was fun - writing while sitting on an uncomfortable chair, surrounded by other people who are writing. No, really

[Pink Freud]

Damnit I need to crunchtime and catch up. I got roped into entering a short story contest and now I am WAY behind on my word count.

[Mr. Brightside]

I'm in.

In 2011, I basically copy-pasted my "novel" a few times and called it a work. (2012 I didn't try.) 2013 I did it again, but given the time-travel theme, it might have fit - I may iron it out at some point and try to get it published. 2014 I basically spent a night writing down what I thought of the Ring Cycle and made 50k of gibberish. This year I'm not quite to 14k with just over half the month gone, and a lot of what I've written is short stories I've had the characters "write" and/or "read."

[Pink Freud]

I've been feeling drug down for the last week and on Sunday called 911 because I thought I was having a heart attack. Turns out it was just an anxiety/panic attack brought on by low blood sugar. Point is, I have not been able to even remotely write, and I'm not sure I will anytime soon, so I guess I'm out, for the moment, at least. I did manage to write a 1400-word short story about a Kaiju attacking Guadalajara, Mexico for a short story contest, but that was a couple weeks ago and didn't even get an honorable mention. First thing that I've actually finished since 1995, though.

Maybe I'll suddenly feel awesome in a few days and blast out the rest of my Nano all at once.

[Valerie]

I've been feeling drug down for the last week and on Sunday called 911 because I thought I was having a heart attack. Turns out it was just an anxiety/panic attack brought on by low blood sugar. Point is, I have not been able to even remotely write, and I'm not sure I will anytime soon, so I guess I'm out, for the moment, at least. I did manage to write a 1400-word short story about a Kaiju attacking Guadalajara, Mexico for a short story contest, but that was a couple weeks ago and didn't even get an honorable mention. First thing that I've actually finished since 1995, though.

Maybe I'll suddenly feel awesome in a few days and blast out the rest of my Nano all at once.

D: Feel better!

[Lia S]

Congratulations on at least finishing something! I’ll read it soon ^^ . And yes, what Val said, feel better.

After trying to catch up to schedule for days, I almost fell over from sleep deprivation. Oops. That was last week, I took a break, and now my target word count per writing session is 500+ (which is normal for me when I’m writing at all). If I keep doing that at least a few days a week, and add 100 words to the session target every month, I should be able to win when I try again next year. Until then, I have a really cool first draft to finish writing.

[mikbuster]

y'all are so cool

[Valerie]

I am sooooo not gonna make it.

[Pink Freud]

I am sooooo not gonna make it.

Same. I'm better but I still feel so bad I can't really concentrate on writing, so I'm pretty much done.