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Had a 'productive' day at work today, taking the rest of the night off.
At least, I'm going to try to. We'll see.
Total so far: 34,405
I'd better stop putting off the writing to the last part of the day. Geez, you'd think it was a chore or something.
Edit: Ain't no f@#$&n' way I'm gonna be able to tell this story in 50,000 words. I'm just too verbose in each scene. Great for word count, but no so great for finishing the damn story.
Alas, on to the next story!
Good luck to all other Nanoers. Admittedly, that moment of achievement is something rather special and I hope you all get to feel it.
Got my eyes on you Tasha!
--CC
Just keeping on, keeping on.
Total: 37,550.
I felt a bit like the Energizer Bunny this evening. Or perhaps a long-winded English professor.
BTW, longest thing I've ever written before was 22k. So I'm pretty proud of myself.
Total: 39,627.
Sooooo close to 40,000, and I would have written more today, too, except we bought the Star Trek DVD today. Awesomeness revisited!!
Right on track to hit 40k on Day 20. Then it'll just be 1k per day to the finish.
I'm not convinced the story will be done at 50k, which will present a whole new challenge.
That's my worry about mine, too. Which is why I'm aiming for 60k by end of Day 30.
Gad, I'm verbose!
Edit: 60k is a much better number, anyway. It divides up evenly into nice little round 2k chunks per day. I think they should change it for next year.
NO haha. I'm barely coping with 50k!
Nice little 2k chunks he says. little.
Better for next year he says. better.
Its not about finishing the story haha, its about htting 50k !
JEEZ man!
(* pause... *)
Oh. Right.
Never mind.
Day 19: 2,009 (didn't plan on that number, but it's cool)
Big Total: 41,636
I need to start thinking about where this story's going and how I'm going to get there.
Got my writing done early today, so I took a few minutes to lay out a plan to get me to the end of the story. I think I might be able to manage it at 55k but I'm probably just keeping the number reasonable so that I keep going after I hit 50k.
Because I really need to finish the story before the end of the month, not just hit 50k. I need to get it done while momentum is with me.
As to the length, I 'm aiming to make it to about 70,000 by day 30, in a few marathon sessions in the time remaining. (I think that should be do-able, seeing as i managed the second 50,000 of my 100K last year in 14 days.) But I reckon the story itself will probably only be 3/4 finished at that point, so I'll have to keep going through at least part of December.
It's been a chore so far, but I'm starting to get into it now :)
I've lost a ton of my work - that'll teach me to save different parts on different computers.