Browsing the archives for the nanowrimo tag
NaNoWriMo as a whole had a record-breaking year. We’re talking 19% winners, almost 8% donors, and two billion words written. The final word counts are still coming in from people who had trouble validating, but my region (Atlanta) is sitting at number twelve in the world in words written.
I had my own record-breaking year, though [...]
I hit the end of my second NaNoWriMo novel, Adventures in Wrimonia, today. It clocked in at 58,008 words, giving me 131,014 words total for the month of November.
Apparently I’m still in denial, as the file for my novel is still open. Now what, I think? I’ve gone above and beyond this month, shattering my [...]
Today I passed 100,000 words total for NaNoWriMo and learned that RoughDraft could count the total word count of all open documents, thus saving me the time of using the calculator to add the word count of the current novel to the word count of the novel I finished in two weeks.
For those who don’t [...]
If you haven’t already read the latest Breaking News, you may not know about the NaNo fundraiser on the 24th. NaNo’s trying to raise $100,000 on the 24th from 12:01am to 11:59pm Pacific Time (-8 GMT). If that goal is achieved, Chris will write a song, and Lindsey will perform an interpretive dance.
Chris singing? Lindsey [...]
The idea of writing a parody to “Hotel California” for NaNoWriMo has been stuck in my head since October. Now that my current NaNo novel is about a writer doing NaNo, and I had some spare time today, this came out easily in that time between morning and afternoon. The best part is that it’s [...]
I’ll get back to the 20 things I need for survival list tomorrow. Today is special, though. I finished my NaNoWriMo novel at 73,006 words, and in honor of that occasion, I opened Microsoft Word. I don’t particularly enjoy using Microsoft Word (or most Microsoft applications for that matter). In fact, one of the few [...]
When you meet an author like Joshilyn Jackson who happens to be doing NaNoWriMo, admitting you are over 50,000 words on the 11th when she is nowhere near that is either a good conversation starter or a good conversation ender. Take your pick.
However, she’s a joy to talk to and fun to write with. It [...]
Writing is hard. As much as I love it, and as seemingly sane as writing keeps me, it’s hard some days. Writing wasn’t hard today because of the content I was writing. I actually had some idea of where I was going with the story, or as much of an idea as someone without an [...]
As I promised yesterday, here’s another excerpt from my NaNoWriMo novel. The standard disclaimer applies. It is, by all standards, a very rough draft.
One of the pumpkins was at the other end of the hall. It slipped in through a window, knowing that it was going to have a hard time getting out of here. [...]
The first week of NaNo is drawing to a close. Let’s look at where we are so far.
My word count: 45,358 words
My region’s total word count: 4,063,713
NaNoWriMo total word count: 513,143,491
My forum post count: 2580
I have written over 1% of my region’s words. In theory, I can add up the number of posts for all [...]