Official NaNoWriMo Word Count Thread - 2023

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If words are produced during November & a word count isn’t recorded, is it really NaNoWriMo?
 
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Sage said:
If words are produced during November & a word count isn’t recorded, is it really NaNoWriMo?

Haw, no idea... that's too big a question for a Wednesday... :LOL:


ANYway, I got off to a slow start today, but that was by design. 400 words in a mini-session of roughly 20 minutes or so. I'll get back to my keyboard later today.


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Only 908. BUT... I didn't do any prep before tonight, so I also spent a couple hours revising my outline and fixing my notes and rereading a chapter to help me remember what the hell I was doing when I last picked this up in 2021. So, you know, not an inconsequential night's work. I kept finding little ways to put off the part where I actually start writing again, but to my great relief my brain was ready when I called on it. (I was not sure it would be.) I just started rolling. I would also like to note that I feel fantastic, which is what always happens after I come back my writing when I've been away from it. And it's always a surprise.

Brains are fun.
 

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My dailies here won't 100% sync up with the NaNo site, since I need to make sure I update before the day rolls over there.

Anyway, day 1 was 2,447 words, bringing me to 2,457 total (which includes the cover page)
 

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Day two, and I've hardly had time to write today. I kinda enjoy the whole NaNoWriMo concept, but I wish the official month would be somewhere around July, August, September instead of November... oh, well.

1517 words.


Tomorrow will see my first full-length writing session.


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Another 900 words once I finally got started tonight. Before that a tiny bit more that I added to yesterday's words because I had to fix something. (Yes, against the rules, but who cares.) Grand total of 1,937.

Even with my outline, there's still a lot of figuring important plot things out as I go, and if I need to fill a hole that I can see the next day, I will fix it. It did add the word count, and I did the math to figure out the extra words so I'd add them to today's total. (God bless word processor word count features) Maybe one of these nights I'll get serious before it's almost bedtime and do some real damage.
 

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Another 900 words once I finally got started tonight. Before that a tiny bit more that I added to yesterday's words because I had to fix something. (Yes, against the rules, but who cares.) Grand total of 1,937.

Even with my outline, there's still a lot of figuring important plot things out as I go, and if I need to fill a hole that I can see the next day, I will fix it. It did add the word count, and I did the math to figure out the extra words so I'd add them to today's total. (God bless word processor word count features) Maybe one of these nights I'll get serious before it's almost bedtime and do some real damage.
If I come up with details I feel previous scenes need, I will definitely add them too and count those words!
 
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