NaNoWriMo Update #2
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It's
Day 11 of NaNoWriMo, which puts us smack bang in the middle of Week Two. Ah Week
Two, that lovely time where the initial rush of excitement is wearing
off and the hard work is setting in. Maybe the plot has wandered from the
outline, the characters have developed minds of their own and are wrecking your
best laid plans, or maybe you’re just exhausted after well over a week of writing
every day. I know I’m a bit tired by now. Which makes this the perfect time to
stop and look back at my progress so far. If you remember, at the beginning of
the month I stated three goals I wanted to achieve over the course of this
November. So, how am I going?
Goal
1. Write In Ten Different Locations
Only
one location to add to my list this week. Being able to write while travelling
is somewhat of a luxury for me, as usually I’m the one driving, so it’s a huge
bonus to be able to make use of that extra time spent on the road to pound out
a couple of hundred words or so. It all adds up. I’m definitely going to have
to try harder over the next couple of weeks if I’m going to achieve this goal
though.
Goal
2. Achieve Three 10k Days (Achieved Nov. 3rd)
I
finish this goal in the first three days, something I wasn’t expecting.
Something else I wasn’t expecting to happen was this:
Yep,
that’s right. I hit 50k! How my hands and brain ever managed that I will never
know. However, progress slacked off almost immediately, as you can see by my
handy dandy little graphic here. What happened on those two 2k days? I may have
been a little bit sick there and totally not motivated to write at all? I’m
definitely not hitting 10k days at the moment, but, with a history of RSI, plus
wanting to actually graduate from uni at some point soon, I’ve had to scale
back on the speed for a bit. Later in the month though…
Also
Katie Grace, as I haven’t had a chance to answer your comment yet, you can
totally use graphs. Everyone can use graphs! Everyone should. We could take
over the world with graphs…
Goal
3. Write Two Books
I’m
well up on this goal. I hit 80k today, and we’re reaching the final climax of
book number one. At the very latest, I hope to have it finished by the end of
Friday, all being well. Though why this story is taking so many words to tell
is beyond me. I dread to think of what the edits are going to be like. Phhhft.
What am I say? Every NaNoWriMo is a challenge to fix later.
And
now, seeing as it’s been a whole week, it must be time for a few more excerpts
from my novel. So here, have some more (hopefully without any embarrassing
typos this time. I blame it all on NaNo Brain. It’s totally a thing.)
Now, you tell me, how is
your NaNo going? Have the week two blues struck, or are you powering on
through? What’s your word count at? Ahead, behind, on target, finished already?
Got an excerpt to share? If you’re not doing NaNo, how’s your month going? Are
you writing at the moment?
6 comments
You literally inspire me Imogen, 80k?!! That's amazing! I have a day off from school today so I'm definitely going to take this opportunity to write, write, write!
ReplyDelete~Noor
Aw, thank you Noor!
DeleteEep! I saw your graph again and thought "Ooh, I should go see if she has replied to my comment yet..." and then I saw my name there. It made me happy. :D
ReplyDeleteI really love all your yellow colors. *looks sadly at my graph* No yellow blanks for me... yet. Hopefully I'll fill my first one in this Saturday. :D
I've been so lax on answering comments recently that I figured it was probably easier for you to see my answer in a post, so I'm glad you saw it!
DeleteWow! *claps* That's awesome I've got 31,700! The week two blues have hit a little but I'm powering through. ^ ^ I'm trying to finish my novel before I go out of town on the 19th (and I have to drive). XD
ReplyDeletestoritorigrace.blogspot.com
The week two blues are the worse. I'm glad they didn't hit you too badly!
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