Want to track your weekly progress with me?

[Daan Doornbos]

1. Title - Azalie's fire
2. Present-day YA fantasy
3. After getting kicked from high school, Cal leaves town to help out at his long-estranged father's pizza shed as delivery guy. One night, he rings at the door of a girl living out deep the forest and by chance helps her escape from the agents of a secret witching cult. The moment he meets her is when the inexplicable experiences that uprooted his old life will finally start to make sense. Together, the two will navigate a world of century-old secrets to prevent the fulfillment of an earth-shattering curse cast by the most power witch that ever lived.
4. I'm 50k words in, and hope to get to 60k this month. So my goal is ten thousand, hope that's allowed
5. Well it's in Dutch and I aim to publish it, so no for now.

Sounds very promising! And I very much like the other ideas as well in this thread. Would join you, but still in outlining phase.
Greets, Daan

 

[Diana Silver]

Sounds very promising! And I very much like the other ideas as well in this thread.

Hey, thanks! Fellow Dutchie, sounds like ^.^

Would join you, but still in outlining phase.
Greets, Daan

Fair point. Counterpoint: sometimes you just gotta start getting some scenes on paper to really get to know your own storyworld

 

[Avery Moore]

Yey! Its Saturday!

Gonna shamelessly plug my word count vlog right here.

TLDW:
Sprint 1: 1 hour. 1613 words.
Sprint 2: 30 minutes. 878 words.
Sprint 3: 1 hour. 1276 words.
Total: 2 hours 30 minutes. 3767 words.

That's more than double my daily goal of 1667 words, so, I'm very, very happy. Go me!

 

[dollyt8]

Yey! Its Saturday!

Gonna shamelessly plug my word count vlog right here.

TLDW:
Sprint 1: 1 hour. 1613 words.
Sprint 2: 30 minutes. 878 words.
Sprint 3: 1 hour. 1276 words.
Total: 2 hours 30 minutes. 3767 words.

That's more than double my daily goal of 1667 words, so, I'm very, very happy. Go me!

Awesome! Congrats on so much progress already!

 

[Diana Silver]

Hi all!

Definitely Saturday, so here goes:

I spent the morning plotting, so there's no word count on that. And the evening writing landed me on 850 words (daily goal is 400 for the month).

Cheers!

 

[Diana Silver]

Yey! Its Saturday!

Gonna shamelessly plug my word count vlog right here.

TLDW:
Sprint 1: 1 hour. 1613 words.
Sprint 2: 30 minutes. 878 words.
Sprint 3: 1 hour. 1276 words.
Total: 2 hours 30 minutes. 3767 words.

That's more than double my daily goal of 1667 words, so, I'm very, very happy. Go me!

Awesome start!

 

[pmmg]

Well...if one takes the whole week off work.... (and I do appreciate the cat butt...)

I am at 1600 words...total.

I hope its a keeper, I never really know. Its more the process of writing draft zero so I have something to work with.

 

[Avery Moore]

I spent the morning plotting, so there's no word count on that. And the evening writing landed me on 850 words (daily goal is 400 for the month).

There should be a word count on the plotting. Plotting takes up LOADS of words! And huge congrats on more than doubling your writing goal!

I am at 1600 words...total.

I hope its a keeper, I never really know. Its more the process of writing draft zero so I have something to work with.

Brilliant start! And yeah, definitely the same. For me, draft zero is where you figure out what doesn't work.

 

[pmmg]

Plotting? Whats that?

 

[Avery Moore]

My thought was I will just reply to this thread each Saturday with my current progress and any other chatter, but daily updates are totally fine of course as well!

Oh, well in that case...
Sprint 1: 30 minutes. 483 words
Sprint 2: 1 hour. 1083 words
Sprint 3: 1 hour. 1125 words
Sprint 4: 30 minutes. 458 words
Daily total: 3149 words
Grand total: 6916 words

And feel free to mock me as I figure out why you cannot put a Do Not Disturb sign on an inward opening door.

 

[dollyt8]

I just made it to 7,506 words. I've also been shooting for 1,667 per day, so I'm quite happy with my progress. Honestly, it's been going way faster than I expected! And I definitely need the buffer considering how busy I usually am during the last week of November.

 

[tenebrae]

1. Title - Cardinality
2. Grimdark Fantasy
3. Blurb - Cardinality explores the intricate layers of human consciousness through interconnected realms. The Echo houses suppressed traits, while The Maw is a chaotic plane of unchecked primordial beings born from suppressed emotions. The Threshold serves as a liminal space for confrontation and integration, leading to The Fold, a sanctuary for transformation. Finally, The Shell reflects earthly existence, revealing the impact of inner conflicts on society. This novel explores many dark aspects of one's soul: the fragmentation that happens, as well as the daunting reintegration of said fragments.
4. Status - Outlined.
5. Sharing - Cardinality is shared on my blog, and various other places.

Week 1 (Nov. 1st - 2nd, lol): 2877

 

[SpecterOcelot]

Well, I'm a couple days late but I'd love to join!

1. Title - (tentative) Lich Well
2. Genre - Dark Fantasy/ Horror Elements
3. Blurb - After an acidic storm ravages the coastal city of Laur, the cleric Aela teams up with Thieves' Guild member Ashlynne to search for alchemical remedies in the city's sewers, and the dark ruins which lie further below. Meanwhile, north of Laur in the lakeside city of Clearwater, grim events begin to unfold. The ranger Cain encounters diabolical foe in the wilderness, and begins to unravel a foreboding destiny.
4. Status - Loosely outlined plot, years of previous setting lore; currently 1300 words.
5. Sharing - none atm. Looking into options. Some lore articles have been uploaded to Imladrys

 

[JBCrowson]

I'm in
Title: The Lost City of Mounde
Genre: Fantasy
Blurb: Tbc
Status: Outlined, ready to get cracking
Sharing: When It's published, unless you're a beta reader

Slow couple of days
day 1 c 650 words
day 2 up to c 2600
today, just about to start

 

[Avery Moore]

I just made it to 7,506 words. I've also been shooting for 1,667 per day, so I'm quite happy with my progress.

You should be! You're well above target! Proud of you!

Week 1 (Nov. 1st - 2nd, lol): 2877

Brilliant start! Keep up the good work!

Slow couple of days
day 1 c 650 words
day 2 up to c 2600
today, just about to start

I wouldn't call that a slow couple of days at all. If you're going for the 50,000 goal then you're only 83 words behind target. You can make that up easy! Keep it up. You're doing great!

 

[Avery Moore]

NaNoWriMo Day 3: Apparently Everything is Already a Word

TLDW:

Daily word count: 2299

Total word count: 9214

10k here I come! ^_^

Been working on a really fun chapter today that introduces whats known as The Harvesters to the story. What are The Harvesters I presumptuously imagine you all asking. Well, my story is set in the midst of an industrial revolution. Massive breakthroughs in technology, science and medicine. One of these breakthroughs being the first successful organ transplants. And so, there are plenty of young, talented doctors who are learning as much as they possibly can about this incredible new surgery. And for that, you need lots and lots of dead folk with perfectly healthy organs to experiment on. Now, where are you going to find a fresh dead guy with perfectly healthy, perfectly preserved organs? ... Well, that's where The Harvesters come in.

 

[SpecterOcelot]

Well, I'm a couple days late but I'd love to join!

1. Title - (tentative) Lich Well
2. Genre - Dark Fantasy/ Horror Elements
3. Blurb - After an acidic storm ravages the coastal city of Laur, the cleric Aela teams up with Thieves' Guild member Ashlynne to search for alchemical remedies in the city's sewers, and the dark ruins which lie further below. Meanwhile, north of Laur in the lakeside city of Clearwater, grim events begin to unfold. The ranger Cain encounters diabolical foe in the wilderness, and begins to unravel a foreboding destiny.
4. Status - Loosely outlined plot, years of previous setting lore; currently 1300 words.
5. Sharing - none atm. Looking into options. Some lore articles have been uploaded to Imladrys

Happy Monday!

Ran a (nearly) 3 hr session overnight and mustered up 1010 words. Up to 2310 total!

Been working on a really fun chapter today that introduces whats known as The Harvesters to the story. What are The Harvesters I presumptuously imagine you all asking. Well, my story is set in the midst of an industrial revolution. Massive breakthroughs in technology, science and medicine. One of these breakthroughs being the first successful organ transplants. And so, there are plenty of young, talented doctors who are learning as much as they possibly can about this incredible new surgery. And for that, you need lots and lots of dead folk with perfectly healthy organs to experiment on. Now, where are you going to find a fresh dead guy with perfectly healthy, perfectly preserved organs? ... Well, that's where The Harvesters come in.

Sounds exciting! I can imagine the hilarious and dire situations these Harvesters must find themselves in on a regular basis.




Also, general question for the group. If I have previous writing (mostly passages concerning world lore) I'd like to 'import', but plan to revise thoroughly, would that be unfair or against the spirit of the event?

 

[Diana Silver]

Also, general question for the group. If I have previous writing (mostly passages concerning world lore) I'd like to 'import', but plan to revise thoroughly, would that be unfair or against the spirit of the event?

I say we don't discriminate based on people's process. Rewritten words are also words! ^.^ And the more the merrier.

I hit a major stumbling block today... While writing a scene I found out there's a serious piece of background missing that the story needs to be build on. So I spent all the writing time I had today building pieces of character history, and still have to think where to weave it in to plot & dialogue. My word count on the actual text remains zero. But there's still ~three waking hours in my day and it did bring lots of inspiration, so I'll see where I end up...

 

[dollyt8]

Happy Monday!

Ran a (nearly) 3 hr session overnight and mustered up 1010 words. Up to 2310 total!

Nice job!

Also, general question for the group. If I have previous writing (mostly passages concerning world lore) I'd like to 'import', but plan to revise thoroughly, would that be unfair or against the spirit of the event?

As far as I'm concerned, the spirit of the event is to challenge yourself, not for someone else to keep you to specific rules and guidelines. So challenge yourself however works best for you!

 

[pmmg]

About 1100 today, so that should put me at 2700.

I"m gonna question though, is it really valuable to pile out the words like we are in a sprint for the month of November. There is an aspect to Nano that feel a bit like crash dieting to me. If I want to be a writer, I do it everyday, regardless. To ramp up and cram it all in at once is kind of not the same as building a good habit. Do you not feel some aspect to it that is less than helpful?