The Finish the Damn Book Challenge

Um, can I join in It would help a lot, I'm thinking, if I was held accountable.

(But I'm going to have to moderate the no internet rule, because I need to use it for study. No internet for anything other than study then)

Title : Mapmaker

Current word count : 800 words

Daily time allocated: whatever I get in study breaks

Goal for each day: 200 words/day
Future goal: 600 words/day once my exams are done

This is going to be fun

Nice to have you here, sianshan, and good luck!

Rubay H. said:

Does that help?

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A little to the left, if you will
I'm all itchy thanks to those bloody mosquitoes...

1,000 words today.

It's great to see everyone's progress! *HighFive*

Checking in to say that things have been mostly great. I've added 8K to my novel in the last 5 days.

My current worry is that my book is going to come in quite short. I'm shooting for 65K (Cozy Mystery) and I may end up at about 45K in this draft.

I'm trying not to get too wound up about that yet. I tend to be a bit lean on description and subplot, so there is a good chance I can round it out to a saleable length without any "padding." (I hate padding.)

I'm an impatient reader and finding that I'm also an impatient writer. I want action! I want to solve the mystery dammit! My path to the conclusion may be a tad too direct.

MFM

Way behind on my writing, but here's why: It's launch day for my first novel, Ebenezer's Locker! If you'd care to help me celebrate, please stop by my online launch party.

At some point I really do need to focus and write. But this is so distracting and fun!

Totally joining in on this.

My project is untitled... I keep coming up with titles that sound too much like others' titles for their books. So for now, I shall call it the "Untitled YA Fantasy WIP." It's currently 31,000 words.

My absolute minimum daily word goal: 500 words
My preferred word goal: 1500-2000
Word count I am aiming towards: 90,000-100,000 words

Hoping to finish the first draft by the end of June, but we shall see. Gotta get my butt in gear today after I do a little bit of research (see: procrastination.)

I pulled a 5K day yesterday and finished the draft of my short story and wrote the climax of my novel. I swear I've only got another 3K to go on my damn book. 5K, max.

Congrats on the book launch Lizardmaker!

Kathleen_ said:

I pulled a 5K day yesterday and finished the draft of my short story and wrote the climax of my novel. I swear I've only got another 3K to go on my damn book. 5K, max.

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Gotdamn!

Good for you!

Lizardmaker said:

It's launch day for my first novel, Ebenezer's Locker!

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Congrats Lizardmaker!

Thanks all! And congrats to everyone else with their progress. Every word is a word in the right direction!
done 1K today and it's 1000 very depressing words. No happy ending in my book. Feeling a bit depressed about it-- a 'who on earth would want to read this' kind of feeling. It's ok, I've had it at several points in writing this damn book and I'm writing it because the story couldn't wait to be told. I was going to write the rest of the series first and and even if I did get the rest of the series published then this book has been a "maybe" for trying to have it published, so chances are no one will never read it. I just needed to write this story and I'm ok if I'm the only one who ever reads it just... damn book! lol

Going to go write some more. Finish this scene, finish the first draft. Then I just need to edit this pile of crap into submission!

Hadn't posted in a while, but I have been working on my novel, however slow. I got in 1475 words last night. I changed scenery a bit and wrote in bed instead of my office, which was much more comfy! And I had the house to myself which is always a huge plus. I hadn't read through the more recent posts, so here's a congrats and welcome to you all!

I just had to check in again. 1331 words today but....


I finished the damn book!

Well, the first draft, anyway. Target wordcound 90,000. Actual 90,123.

CONGRATULATIONS!

Kathleen_ said:

I just had to check in again. 1331 words today but....


I finished the damn book!

Well, the first draft, anyway. Target wordcound 90,000. Actual 90,123.

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Yay! Congrats!

I'm at the point where moving forward through chapters in order has started to feel like a real drag. So, for a while, I'm jumping around writing random scenes. But I'm still doing about 1000 per day, so it's fine. Whatever works to keep it moving forward, I say!

Congrats!

I've hit a snag in my novel, it's a SciFi novel and had trouble designing a star ship for my MC. I'm working on a design with someone from the site, but till then (I don't know how long it'll take) I cant make much progress.

Good job, Kathleen!

Congrats, Kathleen! That's fantastic.

I'm up to 36,000 words, but I am having SUCH a difficult time writing. It's about 1/3 of the way through the novel and I haven't really introduced the LI, the antagonists, and many of the other main players.

I think I'm going to have the antags storm into the middle of the scene to jolt my characters out of their stasis. (-__-)

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I finished the damn book!
Well, the first draft, anyway. Target wordcound 90,000. Actual 90,123.

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Awesome Awesome Awesome!!

I'm checking out for the week. It's been rough going. But I'm still writing the damn book

Hope ya'll are keeping at it. If weekends are your time to rest, hope it's a chill one, & if weekends are your time to work, hope it's a productive one!

LN

Congrats on all the great word counts, everyone.

After a few days of jumping around in the manuscript, I put in two marathon days and inished chapters 16 and 17. That's halfway done with the damn book, and I have many sections already drafted in the second half. Hoping to do my impression of a steam engine and barrel on through!

Up to 46,000, now. 10k more than when I last checked in! Whoo!

Still having a difficult time, though. It's the nature of middles, I suppose.

Chapter 18 is done. Hoping to get enough ahead of sched that I can take Friday afternoon off from writing. My husband invited me on a museum date!

Savagelilies, middles are always an awful slog for me. So glad I've passed the halfway point in mine. Good luck to you!