Comments on: November 11th - Sunday Check-in

By: shannon kennedy

shannon kennedy — Tue, 13 Nov 2007 06:46:40 +0000

I’m writing, writing, writing to the tune of “rollin, rollin rollin - keep those dogies rollin’” o.k by now, you know it’s a western romance. I got in almost 10,000 words by Sunday night and the end of the book is in sight! Yippee! I think it will be finished by the end of the week if life doesn’t get in the way. I’m guessing, but I think I’ve done close to 50,000 words since I started “sweating.”

By: Lauren Dane

Lauren Dane — Mon, 12 Nov 2007 22:22:47 +0000

I am a happy camper! I’m at 61,655 total since the first day of Sven! I’m nearly finished with my current WIP and then I’ve got to start on my next book.

Once I finish this book I need to approach my next deadline carefully and get back into the swing of it as it’s a partial I’m picking up again after having put it down for months.

By: Annie Oortman

Annie Oortman — Mon, 12 Nov 2007 14:16:34 +0000

Didn’t make my BIW goal and I’m a little behind on the NANO counts, but not a bad week for Sven… 32,250.

By: Ann K

Ann K — Mon, 12 Nov 2007 10:47:46 +0000

Plugging along. Once I got into the swing of things, the story has started singing again. It goes loud and it goes quiet, but it goes and that’s what’s important.

Thanks to a re-plot, a day off here and there while I recharge… I doubt I’m keeping up with an average of 750 words a day.

But trying to figure that out is time I could be thinking about the story, so I’m not going to sweat the metric details, and I’m just going to keep writing. As long as I have a finished novel I like (enough to edit!), that’s the only end-goal that matters.

And that, at least, I’m making progress toward.

By: Merry

Merry — Mon, 12 Nov 2007 10:23:14 +0000

NaNo - 4900

Sven - 9980

Getting there, slowly but surely!

By: Joy Renee

Joy Renee — Mon, 12 Nov 2007 08:01:11 +0000

after my blazing start last week, i fell like a comet out of orbit. only another 2300 or so more words for a total of 8921. it isn’t that i stopped writing but that most of the words fall into a different category than narrative and dialog. they are more of the nature of writing about the story than telling the story. plus a whole lot of research and plotting that could have been done before Nov 1st if I hadn’t waited until the weekend before 70 Days round two started to settle on my NaNo story.

By: B.L. Foxxe

B.L. Foxxe — Mon, 12 Nov 2007 07:44:52 +0000

Well, as of now I just reached over 36k. I’m pleased with my progress because I finished the rough draft and am adding in more with Amity and Marikos’ journeying to their final destination. Still not satisfied with some things within the plotting. However will get to those soon enough. I will be taking off the T’giving holiday.

ttfn

By: catie

catie — Mon, 12 Nov 2007 07:44:27 +0000

I got too attached to my original idea so I threw it out and started from scratch with a new premise. Since Thursday I’ve written 1,194 words, which isn’t much, but I’m having a lot more fun with this–not taking it, or myself nearly as seriously. The low word count has been due more to family duties and my body crashing thanks to the time change, so I’m working to straighten myself out over the next few days and let the word pour “like liquid from a stream.”

By: bunnygirl

bunnygirl — Mon, 12 Nov 2007 07:14:32 +0000

I had several 500-750 word days as I got acquainted with my story from this new starting point. But I did a smidge over 1,000 words tonight with no trouble at all, so I think I’m back on track with it!

By: Ann

Ann — Mon, 12 Nov 2007 05:20:18 +0000

Well I missed Friday and yesterday because of a writer’s conference, but I worked today and brought my total up, I spent the first part of the week cutting 3,921 and added 2,049, bringing my word count for the WIP up to 69,157. My new goal for this is 100,000.