Midnight writers?

I'm sure I will start at midnight, as that's when I usually do my writing.

I need my sleep. Without it, I'm cranky and irritable. No, wait, without it, I'm crankier and more irritable. Yeah...

I still have to get through the second draft of my current MS before I start nano. I'm almost done, but the writing frenzy to get it finished so I can do a month long writing frenzy is sort of insane.
I'll probably be writing up until 11:59 PM on the current MS and starting the new one on Nov1 at 12:01.

I'll let you know if I get there

That's going to be a tough one for me.

I usually prefer staying up late. I've been debating a different schedule for November, though. Getting up at 5 or so. Take care of the dogs, and write from 5:30-8am. Work til lunch, write for an hour, then work until dinner, and then whatever time I need in the evening to hit my quota.

I'm a night owl anyway, so I'll probably start at 12:01 am just to get a jump on things. Otherwise it'll be noon before I can get going and I learned last year that there's no time to waste if you want to cross the finish line.

Depends on if I am working. I work graveyards doing security at a huge tax complex, but I only have six 20 minute patrols to do in an 8 hr shift. Leaving me with six hours of writing time. So yea, if I am working, I'll be writing at midnight

I'm a morning person, so I'll probably just set my alarm for an hour early and write before getting ready for work. At least, that's the theory.

I've been toying with the idea. I did that last year.

I'm not sure.

I'm a complete night owl, so I'm all for this

Definitely starting at the stroke of midnight. I normally don't go to bed until about 1AM, so this works perfectly. I'm going to have a house guest for the first couple of days of November, but I'll be able to catch up over the weekend.

I have two papers due in November for school. So I'm definitely going to need to uberschedule. School, work, nano. I'm going to attempt getting up at 530-600am and nano until 7-8am.

You only need 2000 words a day to reach 50,000 right?

1,667, really, but 2,000 per day gives a bit of a cushion.

Yes, I figured that one out last night. I need all the cushion I can get. Why do they choose November. lol

I'm usually up past midnight anyway, so I will give a token 1000 words or so before I drop off.

Not me. Gotta sleep when the kids sleep, or I'll have hell to pay.

I think I'm going to do the midnight thing, even though I usually go to bed at 10:30. (Damn toddler.)

It's weird timing for me -- November 1 is my anniversary. We're going to have dinner that evening at a super-fancy restaurant. I am afraid that, after several glasses of wine, I'll be nodding off over my broiled sablefish marinated in sake-miso.

Unlike last year, when circumstances presented me with a fair bit of free time, I'm a little worried this year about finishing. So every minute counts.

Monkey said:

Gotta sleep when the kids sleep, or I'll have hell to pay.

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I just sleep when the kids sleep in the afternoon. Then I'm ready for all sorts of midnight madness!

I can't. No way.

I get up for work at 5 am. Starting to write at midnight means going to work on 4 hours of sleep or less. Add to that our kickoff party is actually the evening of Nov 1, and I've helped put it together....yikes.

Will be going to party location to set up tables and chairs and food and etc., and taking laptop in case we're ready early. We're having a combination kick-off party and write-in, but that means I likely won't be able to get much else done until 7 pm or so that night.

I normally stay up until about 1am anyway, and I have taken the next day off work, so I probably will start at midnight

I work at night so I'm up and started writing. Right at 200 words and already piddling I really don't feel like writing tonight... but the point of me doing Nano is to learn to make myself write rather I feel like it or not... Last year I lasted two days *blush* so if I can just stick with it at least a week it will be progress right? to give myself extra incentive I'm making a rule that for every week left in the challenge (if I quit early) I have to submit two short stories somewhere. Ok, back to word.

I started at about five past midnight. I'm now trying to figure if it's cheating to go back to the start and begin again on a different project, since I really don't like what I have so far. (But have another idea in the wings that could work).