Hello, writers. Here it is the ultimate day of November, so if you’re doing NaNoWriMo (I don’t often get to say this) you are on track if you hit 50k words by midnight tonight.
Numbers below are from mettle fatigue’s Turkey Trot diary last week. I’ll update as you report your numbers tonight:
BlackSheep1 — 22,500 words
bonetti— 101,101 words
Cassandra Waites— 54,000 words
Clio2— 60,287 words
dconrad— 30,000 words
James Wells— 8,900 words
Leo Orionis— 61,698 words / 20 out of 20 chapters + most of glossary, “The Reborn Princess Caper”
MarkotheWerelynx (goal is adding five pages to webcomic)
mettle fatigue— 56,304 words
Mnemosyne — 15,000 words
quarkstomper — 2 essays + 1 webcomic rev'd & pub'ed, drafting another essay.
SensibleShoes— has revised 51 of 51 scenes
shaso— 33,005 words
These word counts are incredible, by the way. I haven’t seen this many people write this many words in all of the — maybe eight?— years we’ve been doing NaNoWriMo on WO!\
But whatever your numbers, whether your reached your goal or not, remember that you’re now way ahead of where you were at the beginning of the month.
It sounds like there’s interest in doing a DailyKosWritingMonth in January. We did this last year. January is a more convenient writing month for most people, plus of course last year we were all quasi-catatonic for most of November.
The parameters DaKoWriMo are somewhat different. You pick a month-long project. Ideally it should be something you’ve been wanting to do for a while but have been putting off. You can make your goal a wordcount goal if you want, but you can also choose a goal that focuses on some other part of the writing process: Planning, or revising, or even just digging out and sorting through old stuff that you’ve written.
Perhaps you’ll want to spend the month revising — or just making a revision plan for— what you wrote this month. The one month break is a good interval— a bit short of Stephen King’s recommended six weeks for setting a first draft aside, but probably good enough.
Anyway, be thinking of what you might like to do in January.
Instead of a Tonight’s Challenge, a question: What did you learn about your process from doing NaNoWriMo?
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