Novel Competition (Need some motivation?)

Bartholomew · Jul 8, 2009

This is a daily output competition. By signing up here, you agree to produce X number of words per day, where X is some number at or above 500.

If you sign up for 750 words, you agreeing to do this every day for the next seven days.

If you violate this agreement, you must reply in here and tell the world of your shameful failure.

Every time you meet that days quote, you must post back here and say you've met it -- otherwise, how will we know? Sharing some of that day's work for community scrutiny is optional, but encouraged.

At the end of seven days, you can renew your contract, change it, or give up and slink away into the shadows.

I'll be the first to sign up, then - my contract is for 750 words. If you don't hear from me tomorrow, let the ridicule begin.

CURRENT CONTRACTS:
Bartholomew - 750 / day (Status: Good)
Lisamarie84x - 2k / day (Status: Good)
K Andrew Smith - 750 / day (Status: Good)
Ken Schneider - 750 / day (Status: Good)
Metaphor - 1k / day (Status: Good)
errantruth - 750 / day (Status: Good)
JasonRobert the Macho - 3k / day (Status: Good)
Azure - 1k / day (Status: Good)
Blackest_Nite - 750 / day (Status: Good)
Puck38 - 500 / minute (Status: Snarky)
misa101 - One Handwritten Page per day, COLLEGE RULE PAPER! :O (Status: Good)
caromora - 500 / day (Status: Good)
sleepsheep - 500 / day (Status: Good)
extortionist - 500 / day (Status: Good)
Ugawa - 1.5k / day (Status: Good)
gonovelgo - 2k / day (Status: Good)
swvaughn - 1k / day (Status: Good)
AnonymousWriter - 750 / day (Status: Good)
roonil_wazlib - 2k / day (Status: Good)
McFly1701 - 500 / day (Status: Good)

Now enforcing all writing goals with patented Guilt Newts!

Lisa Cox · Jul 8, 2009

Oooh. I'm signing on for 2k a day.

Bartholomew · Jul 8, 2009

K. Andrew Smith · Jul 8, 2009

I pledge to write at least 750 words a day, starting today.

I already wrote 900 today, so one day down!

For tracking purposes:

Pledge: 750/day

Day One: 900
Day Two: 1,000
Day Three: 300 (Boo me!)
Day Four: 1,200
Day Five: 0

Day Six: 900
Day Seven: 950
Day Eight: 850
Day Nine: 950
Day Ten: 500

Total: 7,550
Average: 755/day.

Ken Schneider · Jul 8, 2009

I'll take 750 of that.

Put in my two hours, and got my 750 or more. Dates below.

7-9-09
7-10-09
7-11-09
7-12-09
7-13-09
7-14-09
7-15-09
7-16-09

I pushed through today,7-16-09, with 4,500, and finished my first draft of the novel.

I want to thank Bartholomew for this inspirational post.

Bartholomew · Jul 8, 2009

I've got my first 750, but by a hair.

Let's all cross our fingers for tomorrow.

Blackest_Nite · Jul 8, 2009

I've already met my quota for the day via journal writing

. But I will sign up for the 750 words.

Puck38 · Jul 8, 2009

I pledge 250 words every other day, unless I'm busy, in which case I pledge 200 for that day, and if I drink too much on a given day I get an automatic "bye" for that day. On Wednesdays I only have to write 150 words, and on Fridays I only have to write 100 words, but I get to tell everybody I know that my writing is moving along brilliantly. Once I reach the halfway mark in my WIP, my word count per every-other-day will halve to 125, because let's face it, being an aspiring writer is much more fun than being an actual writer, what with their deadlines and book tours and paychecks and hoards of hot book-groupies begging to sleep with them. Pah! As if I want to deal with any of that!

This, I do pledge.

caromora · Jul 8, 2009

I definitely need this.

I'll sign up for 1K a day.

extortionist · Jul 9, 2009

I'll try 500/day, though I'm working on short stories right now and not a novel. And it's doubtful I'll make it a whole week. We'll see I guess--today's is about done.

Azure · Jul 9, 2009

I'm up for this! I've gotten off to an explosive start over the past two days; yesterday's total was 2000, today I've added another 6k. My aim is for a steady 1000 per day, so I'll sign up for that.

errantruth · Jul 9, 2009

I'm in. New job and tough part of novel right now, so put me in for...500 per day.

~ R

misa101 · Jul 9, 2009

Put me down for 5oo with the knowledge going in that I write longhand and am averaging a full page (with minimum scribble outs) to be 175 words. This sounds awesome but I am NOT counting every word on the page.

So if I fail I get public humiliation. Do I at least get a cookie if I succeed?

Metaphor · Jul 9, 2009

Can I sign up for 1000?

Hopefully I'll write more than that, but I need a safety net

.

MsGneiss · Jul 9, 2009

What a swell idea. Sign me up for 500. Will check in with good/bad news tomorrow.

xXFireSpiritXx · Jul 9, 2009

I will pledge for 3k words. I need to finally finish this first draft.

Ugawa · Jul 9, 2009

Great idea

.

I need to rewrite about 20K of my second draft, so bring on 1.5K a day

xx

Phaeal · Jul 9, 2009

Have you borrowed some of NaNoWriMo's guilt monkeys to keep people honest? If not, I have a whole pod of invisible guilt newts you can lease for the duration. I have guilt gators, too, but I've found that missing limbs don't help the writer's output much.

Editing and subbing and researching the next novel now, so I take a pass. Good luck to the participants!

Metaphor · Jul 9, 2009

I've hit my 1k goal for today. Yay!

But I'm still writing. Not stopping there!

Azure · Jul 9, 2009

After spending all night awake, I've continued writing and hit my 1k target for today also. But, naturally, I'm not gonna stop there.

Raindrop · Jul 9, 2009

I'll sign up for 500.

ylrebmik · Jul 9, 2009

1000K

gonovelgo · Jul 9, 2009

I already do this on my own, but a collaborative effort sounds like fun. Sign me up for 2k a day.

Metaphor · Jul 9, 2009

ylrebmik said:
1000K

1000k? Doesn't that equal 1,000,000 words because the K means a thousand (so you add 3 0s)?

gonovelgo · Jul 9, 2009

Metaphor said:
1000k? Doesn't that equal 1,000,000 words because the K means a thousand (so you add 3 0s)?

1,000,000 words a day would be pretty damn impressive, wouldn't it?

Novel Competition (Need some motivation?)

Bartholomew

Comic guy

Lisa Cox

Bartholomew

Comic guy

K. Andrew Smith

Ken Schneider

Absolute sagebrush

Bartholomew

Comic guy

Blackest_Nite

Rubbish Poet

Puck38

caromora

Still alive. Kind of.

extortionist

the obscure

Azure

errantruth

misa101

Future Mrs. Hugh Jackman

Metaphor

twiftie

MsGneiss

xXFireSpiritXx

Killing my darlings...

Ugawa

It's a catastrophic success!

Phaeal

Whatever I did, I didn't do it.

Metaphor

twiftie

Azure

Raindrop

ylrebmik

gonovelgo

Metaphor

twiftie

gonovelgo