The NaNoWriMo+ Thread

I'm aiming for another complete novel in December, plus a collection of short stories and the editing of the NaNo novel. So yep, I'm still going to track my progress until February, when I plan to take a break.

Lavinia said:

(there is a holiday in there, you know)

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I'll be around as normal this week, trying to finish up my NaNo. But after that?

Just so's you all know where I've got to if I disappear:

I've got one of those jobs where holiday=extra work. In fact, Christmas and Boxing Day are two of our biggest days of the year, and the Christmas season is our second biggest after the summer blockbuster release season.

I'll most likely be working a few hours Christmas day even D at double time and a half ), as well as Boxing Day D double time and a half ), New Year's Eve ( normal pay, but no-one else wants to work it, and all I used to do was watch movies anyhow), and New Year's Day D double time and a half ).

Plus I have a paid preaching gig on the 28th and two concerts in there somewhere.

Can you spell 'Ka-ching?'

But I'll be back in full force sometime on January 1, ready to start writing again.

Yeah I'm still going to get trucking on my books, but I'm giving myself a few days of rest first. Got to tie up some things in my region, get through the TGIO party and then I'm clear. Once January starts up again it'll be ML-business as usual

When I signed on to do NaNo I knew I wouldn't be completing my novel in 50,000 words. It is a very complex plot requires quite a bit more development, but NaNo gave me an awesome start that I wouldn't have if I hadn't participated. I'm going to take a little time to recoup and get back to it as soon as I can. I'm already beginning to suffer withdrawal.

After sitting for a month straight I definitely need to start working an exercise plan into my writing schedule.

Annalaise duChat said:

After sitting for a month straight I definitely need to start working an exercise plan into my writing schedule.

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You and me both, though that was the case for me before NaNo. <ack!>

Oh, I should tell you before you click on my sig link that I've stolen your first name for my next MC. Hope you don't mind, but it seemed right for her, somehow.

I'm going to keep doing 1000 words a day until my NaNovel is finished. I've got 30k now (I orginially set out to write 1000 words a day, but about 20k ended up in a scrap heap.)

1k a day seems like a pace that works well for me. I can do it in an hour if things are going smoothly. So hopefully I'll have a draft completed by the end of January.

Nicole

I'm planning to keep going on my NaNo novel until I reach an ending. I hit the 50K, but the story's not done yet and I think my alpha reader will have a fit if I leave it the way it is.

I still have a long way to go on mine. I think I'll take a couple of days off to recuperate from the NaNo push and then get back on the horse again.

I'm another one of those who finished the 50K for Nano and had story left over. Whenever I got bogged down I'd skip ahead in my novel and now I've got some large plot holes that need to be filled. I took the weekend off to rest on my laurels and now I'm back with my nose to the grindstone.

Yeshanu said:

Oh, I should tell you before you click on my sig link that I've stolen your first name for my next MC. Hope you don't mind, but it seemed right for her, somehow.

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Annalaise must be a popular name. I'm 18K into a WIP and the main character's name is Annalaise. What is it they say about great minds?

Like many others, the 51K I've got so far is nowhere near the end of the story.

My Inner Editor snuck back home after I downloaded my winner's certificate and being a holiday weekend and all, I let him stay, especially since I needed to figure out how to handle the secondary character who refused to die. Now I'm ready to boot him out again and plow ahead. Count me in.

458 of 80,000 on the edit.

1,110 of 80,000 on the rewrite. 1/80th done! Whoo-hoo!

I'm going for a NaNo December edition.

When I got to 50k I was only about five chapters short of reaching the end. Of course, that draft is really just the skeleton of the story. There are some subplots and characters that need further developing.

I've still been writing every day (minus December 1st) but not as frantically. Now I only have about two chapters to go. I'm hoping to finish those up, then start over from the beginning and rough out what I feel is "missing" material. The goal is to have a "complete" rough draft by the end of December. Then take a month off to work on other stuff and let the dust settle a bit. Pick things back up mid-February and begin all the editing.

I don't have a projected timeline for querying and such since I'm not sure how long it's going to take to get things to a point where I'm not embarrassed to have people reading pages. However, I'm hoping to be ready to start pitching the book by mid-summer. We'll just have to wait and see how things go.

I'm into it now. My NaNo writing consisted of 35,000 words and makes for a very nice Part I of "a novel in three parts". Last night I worked on Part Two, where I have already jotted down about 5,000 words and am very happy with the way it is going so far. The first 20,000 seem a bit laborious and may have to greatly re-edited or even thrown out, but it has been worth it just to get to the territory, where I am at right now.

Good luck to everyone.

I got about 31K on NaNo, but about 6K of that got deleted as soon as NaNo was over 'cause it was crap. I still intend to finish the book, but first I'm going to get over my cold and get my brain back.

DeleyanLee said:

I got about 31K on NaNo, but about 6K of that got deleted as soon as NaNo was over 'cause it was crap. I still intend to finish the book, but first I'm going to get over my cold and get my brain back.

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What? You mean cotton wool doesn't think all that well?

Get well soon, Deleyan. Colds suck.