NaNoWriMo, Tuesday November 29 2011 -- down to the final hours

Many members of our community are taking part in National Novel Writing Month. We invite them to use the comment thread of this post to share stories and support as we enter the final hours.

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[ZMiles]

95000, thanks in large part to a Friday of pure travel (4 hours waiting for the car to the airport, 1.5 hours at the airport, 4 hours in the plane) that resulted in me writing about 11000 words in one day.
It's very near the end now -- approaching the final chess match between the Incumbent and the Challenger. Most of the characters who are going to die are dead (only one left!) All that's needed now is to write out the final match, the epiphanies, and then kill off the last character, and then the epilogue. I've also finally settled on the overall thematics arcs for both main characters, so when I do the second draft I can make those more prominent.

[W]

47770, so if I can focus enough at the last write-in tonight I should break the winning threshold, despite having about a third of the story left to go. I've still never managed more than about 2700 on my best day (a Saturday when I had basically nothing else to do), but I've kept up with the whole write-every-day habit, which feels pretty good.

I'm appreciating now how it is that some authors get these crawling stories with vast casts, because keeping up with all my characters when independent things are happening with each of them necessitates a whole lot of words, and I really do want to keep up with all of them because they're each so much fun to get into. There's going to be a lot to think about for the second draft to make sure the story hangs together as coherent threads and not just a mishmash of stuff.

[Sixwing]

I'm so not gonna make it. NaNo was a good idea this year, but I didn't really have the time to commit to it, so it's no surprise I didn't make my goal. Things kept happening - classes, work, visits with family - and if I wanted to make it, I should've taken time away from other things to dedicate here.

That's OK. I have a coherent start, and that is what I was really wanting out of this whole mess. It may yet even turn into a coherent draft.

I'm not even hating it too badly. <3

[chris the cynic]

Nothing since the 13th. And I was so hoping to catch up last week which I had off.

[MercuryBlue]

I had an epiphany. And now my PoV character has some agency in the story. But now I have to trash every word I've written.

[Bay]

I won! For the first time ever, in, what, four, five tries now? I actually succeeded in hitting 50k! Woo!

I felt so incredible for about ten minutes before life smacked me in the face again, but I am determined to hold onto this rush.

[Lou Doench]

I'm at 47050. With a little more work tonight and a good morning start I should pass the finish line tomorrow afternoon! This will be my first win and I hope the begiinning of much more writing to come. It's been more fun than video games...which surprised the fuck out of me, because I love video games.

[chris the cynic]

I wrote. The little stat counter on the NaNoWriMo website assures me that if I continue at this rate I'll hit 50,000 words on Christmas day.

Something, I don't know exactly what, just something, tells me that I'm probably not going to get there tomorrow. Though it wouldn't be outside of the realm of physical possibility to write 23,773 words in one day. Just extremely unlikely.

[MercuryBlue]

I am back over eleven hundred words for the story. Damn I wish I could do this daily.

[MercuryBlue]

Gyaaaah. I just crashed into the same problem I had with the first draft.

[Launcifer]

@MercuryBlue: can you not set someone on fire? I jest not: it worked wonders for a wee problem I encountered during my poor attempts at penmanship (and it *is* penmanship: my Office pack currently loathes me with a passion). Cripes, but I'd forgotten what nearly 40K looks like on paper.

[MercuryBlue]

...the funny thing about that is I'm rewriting Supernatural's pilot episode, in which the penultimate moment is my heroine being set on fire. I do not want that to happen this time. I think I figured it out, though.

[Launcifer]

Ah, you're working it from wosshername's perspective, in which case? I apologise: I tend to recognise characters by dint of what other characters their actors have previously played.

[Laiima]

I did just write some 500 words, which means I'm at 10,567. I won't finish, or anywhere close, but I think the whole month was a project well worth doing.

[MercuryBlue]

1989 words, complete draft. \o/

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Finished this afternoon!!!
What? The actual story? nah, needs another 10,000 words or so. but that need not be done at such a hectic pace!

[ZMiles]

And... that's a wrap! 102,547 words in the rough draft (wow, this got long. I was expecting it to finish at 70-80k).