NaNoWriMo 2023

[A. E. Lowan]

If I can get through November without, say, renal cancer again, I'll call it a win. >.<

 

[A. E. Lowan]

How does November usually treat you? I'm cursed, personally.

 

[Miles Lacey]

I turn 54 on November 2nd. The holiest day of the year - Melbourne Cup Day - is on November 7th.

At the moment I am just recovering from the news that I got today (Monday, 30th October, NZDST) from the cardiologist. I have weak heart muscles which means it's not quite beating fast enough.

I need a distraction from that. Maybe NaNoWriMo is the distraction I need.

 

[A. E. Lowan]

I turn 54 on November 2nd. The holiest day of the year - Melbourne Cup Day - is on November 7th.

At the moment I am just recovering from the news that I got today (Monday, 30th October, NZDST) from the cardiologist. I have weak heart muscles which means it's not quite beating fast enough.

I need a distraction from that. Maybe NaNoWriMo is the distraction I need.

It'll definitely do something about that heartrate.

 

[A. E. Lowan]

Counting down the hours and some are even starting to cross that line. One for the money!

 

[Ban]

Good luck folks. I spent the previous days getting some worldbuilding details right and figure I am in a right position to get writing again.

 

[A. E. Lowan]

Two for the show!

 

[A. E. Lowan]

Three to get ready!

 

[Ned Marcus]

Unexpectedly, I find myself starting a new novella or novel. I'm not sure which yet. Actually, I started several days ago, so I suppose it's cheating as I already have 7k words. Perhaps I can add another 40 or 50k by the end of the month.

 

[ThinkerX]

Well, my reviews for Goodreads Review Group #344 are done, no other writing projects ongoing, so...here I am. Yay. Whatever.


The NaNo project is 'Labyrinth: Defender,' third in the Labyrinth series...and a book I've felt ambivalent about for over a decade, ever since finishing a passable draft of book 2, 'Labyrinth: Seed.' How ambivalent? Until a couple months ago, I didn't even have an outline. Large portions of the tale were a complete blank to me - and smaller sections still are. Deal with those when I get there. Another indicator of my ambivalence (and financial issues) is I've pretty much decided to do the covers myself by altering public domain labyrinth images by adding color and icons. Main reason for pushing ahead with this is that with an acceptable rough draft of 'Defender,' I am free to finish polishing up books 1 and 2 and release them into the world.

Maybe I should look over the NaNo site and see what hurdles need bypassing...

 

[A. E. Lowan]

Unexpectedly, I find myself starting a new novella or novel. I'm not sure which yet. Actually, I started several days ago, so I suppose it's cheating as I already have 7k words. Perhaps I can add another 40 or 50k by the end of the month.

Not cheating. Rebelling. I'm starting 36k in on my current project. I just want to finish November with 50k more than I started with.

 

[A. E. Lowan]

10 minutes to midnight my time and November arrives early. I've had some stomach issues for a while, now, and I just found a letter from my specialist recommending surgery. Joy.

 

[A. E. Lowan]

And four to go! Good luck, everyone! <3

 

[Ned Marcus]

And four to go! Good luck, everyone! <3

I'm 12 hours ahead of most of you, so it's already started here!

 

[thedarknessrising]

Met my goal for day one twice over, so I'm feeling pretty confident. I'm handwriting my book, so I'm not keeping track of the word count. My only goal is to fill up a 200 sheet wide ruled notebook (I could have sworn I bought college ruled!). Today's goal was to just get two pages written, ended up getting just over six. And that's actually the rate I need to do every day for the rest of this month. I think I got this!

 

[pmmg]

My only goal is to finish editing the current one by Christmas.

No Namo for me.

 

[A. E. Lowan]

My only goal is to finish editing the current one by Christmas.

No Namo for me.

Editing does count.

 

[pmmg]

Yeah, but it doesn't get a word count.

 

[Ban]

Yeah, but it doesn't get a word count.

Could just quote the amount of text you've gone through and edited. Same idea.

 

[A. E. Lowan]

Could just quote the amount of text you've gone through and edited. Same idea.

That's exactly how it's done.