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Title: Nanowrimo
Post by: Kaos Arcanna on November 03, 2013, 06:46:31 PM

Anyone else signed up for this?


It's my first year.  ;D

Title: Re: Nanowrimo
Post by: Ohioknight on November 03, 2013, 08:56:37 PM
Me -- I won it a couple years ago and trying again.  But I'm procrastinating now and way behind AAAAAHHHGGGHHH!
Title: Re: Nanowrimo
Post by: Kaos Arcanna on November 06, 2013, 02:38:52 AM
If I don't count the prologue (which I'm iffy about) I'm up to 7165 words so far!
Title: Re: Nanowrimo
Post by: Ohioknight on November 06, 2013, 04:37:59 AM
Iffy isn't important -- you aren't working on finished text, Nano is an exercise in getting words on paper -- you're expected to throw most of it out later
Title: Re: Nanowrimo
Post by: Yoru-hime on November 06, 2013, 02:15:54 PM
I've done NaNo twice and won it once. I passed this year due to a full schedule and lack of sufficient ideas but I'm hoping to give it another go next year.

Ohio is right, don't worry about polish right now. I'm a bit of a perfectionist, so my biggest problem was the tendency to want to go back, review and revise. It nearly derailed me about mid-month. Re-reading the last few pages to get yourself started again is OK, but any more than that and you're going to get bogged down in wanting to tweak things. Just keep going. You can edit in December. OK, in my case, I left it alone until February to clear my head, but you get the idea.

Good luck to you both!
Title: Re: Nanowrimo
Post by: mortal prey on November 07, 2013, 09:44:51 PM
I'm doing it for the first time this year, a little behind already. But find it fun.
Title: Re: Nanowrimo
Post by: Kaos Arcanna on November 11, 2013, 09:17:39 PM
Up to 21,824 words now. :D
Title: Re: Nanowrimo
Post by: Kaos Arcanna on November 13, 2013, 03:47:16 AM
And tonight's total brought me up to 24,993 ... only 7 words from being halfway there. :D
Title: Re: Nanowrimo
Post by: Shenku on November 14, 2013, 12:31:14 AM
I got an email about this thingy a few weeks ago and was considering it, but since I just started a second job last week I just don't have the time I'd need to attempt it...

Might try and finish off my second book before the end of the month, but I'm not sure if I'll even be able to manage that right now... :(
Title: Re: Nanowrimo
Post by: Kaos Arcanna on November 19, 2013, 02:52:40 AM
Up to 39,915 words now.

;D
Title: Re: Nanowrimo
Post by: Kaos Arcanna on November 22, 2013, 01:38:32 AM
I need one more chapter-- or epilogue-- to wrap things up, but I hit 50,262 words tonight.
Title: Re: Nanowrimo
Post by: Yoru-hime on November 25, 2013, 03:46:03 PM
Congratulations!
Title: Re: Nanowrimo
Post by: Kaos Arcanna on November 25, 2013, 11:43:10 PM
Quote from: Yoru-hime on November 25, 2013, 03:46:03 PM
Congratulations!

Thanks. Posted my official validation today. Somehow it lost about 400 words from my Word Document file but it was still enough to declare me a winner. :D
Title: Re: Nanowrimo
Post by: Ice Trix on December 05, 2013, 01:49:59 AM
Grats on the win. I came nowhere close.
Title: Re: Nanowrimo
Post by: eabrace on December 05, 2013, 03:55:21 AM
I compiled a test report that rang in somewhere around 400 pages long just before Thanksgiving.  Does that count for Nanowrimo?