NaNoWriMo 2019 Word Counts

I’m doing it too. Got 3400 first day but will be slower going over the weekend.

I’m using it to do the last of a 5-book series this year, which in some ways cut down the planning but also increased the complexity!

 

I'm still planning out my scene structure. I approach writing as "measure twice, cut once". I first need a plan before I can start writing scenes.

So 0.

 

I got 1680 words yesterday.
The Nano website seems to have changed their daily goal/projections/thing because it set my goal for the day at 1700-something words.

I was disproportionately angry about this.

Haven't done my words for today yet, though I did do a little planning for the scene, which I also did yesterday and seemed to help a lot.

 

Well done folks! My weekend was a little slow with family time, but I have stayed on track and edged above 10k today.

 

This year I'm trying a new approach. Going to edit my massive rough draft collection instead of adding to it. Got about 8000 words done so far. If I get to 50k by the end of the month that with about %6 of my rough drafts edited.

 

I got exactly 1667 words today. The website says I still need 23 more, but that is a huge nope.

I've gotten around 1700 words for the last couple days, but not much over, which means I'm still not even close to caught up for Sunday.

Writing 1600 words is a lot harder when you're trying to write a workable first draft than when you're just starting out and only care about consistency and getting down words. I'm pretty sure I've spent 3+ hours a day writing, every day, so far, which is a LOT for me. It's exhausting. Though I will say it's INCREDIBLY satisfying seeing my page count grow so quickly so fast.

 

Made it to the halfway point, folks! 26k.

So pleased with how it’s going. Using the Scrivener app has been a big help this year, as has writing on the train with my privacy laptop screen.

I hadn’t planned scene by scene so I though it was going to be much tougher to do, but in fact with the main characters and ending already decided, I’ve just been writing hard to get the events wrapped up.

 

Haven't done well this weekend, I've reached the end of my partial outline and only got about 700 words each the last few days. Trying to figure out what comes next, but there are a lot of tangly plot problems that have come up so I'm not sure I'll be able to keep up the NaNo pace for the rest of the month.

oh well. I love the satisfaction of winning, but sometimes I need to remind myself that NaNo is just a tool and the story is more important than the wordcount.