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How to complete NaNoWriMo 2008
It made me
glow with happiness
 "That was absolutely amazing!"
How I did it: I wasn't sure whether to sign up for this goal, as it seemed like a big commitment. There were many occasions when I thought "what a load of crap this is" and almost gave up, but with encouragement and support from my fellow 43Ters it turned out to be enormous fun. It helped to be reminded that it is only supposed to be a first draft. A special mention to Madam Ish for suggesting it and providing some very useful tips towards the end, and of course the fabulous members of the Breakfast Martini Gang who gave me inspiration on a daily basis. Watching Moose zoom past me in the word count was a definite incentive to keep going, and Cloudberry saying that she'd like to illustrate it was a wonderful mid-November ego-boost. I'm looking forward to revising it so I can actually inflict it on anyone who wants to read it! Lessons & tips: Pick a November that has five weekends in it, if you have a day job. Put time aside (almost) every day to get some words on the page. If the worst comes to the worst, "find and replace" is a wonderful tool. And my top tip: "Pooping nuns!" can be inserted at the beginning of practically every line of dialogue to boost the word count - NB copyright Curlychaos SoapDragon :) Resources: Coffee
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rosymamacita is trying to recover her 43t chops. stand by
I haven't been on in so long!
10 months ago
Been very busy.
But I did in fact win nano 2008.
But it took me longer than any previous nano. I was okay with that. No need to race the clock and finish in 10 days. I wrote 2000 to 2500 words a day and missed a couple of days. But I didn’t burn out and I also succeeded in posting to my blog everyday AND doing a painting everyday.
And of course, feeding, cleaning, playing with and caring for my kids everyday.
I don’t need to be a superhero, I just need to write and paint and be a mommy.
Zanna Campanula bookcart lady
gah!
11 months ago
i haven’t done it! i’m trying to give up! i can’t even give up. gah!
how do you give up these days? i thought it was going to be a subsection of “i’m done”.
anyway, um, well, yes i’m still at 807 words. i don’t know, i think being away for the first day or two of november didn’t help, though that’s no excuse (cf. moose). i think i was trying to run before i can walk. i need a robert ullrey podcast: from couch to 50K words in 30 days.
oh well, ho hum.
i feel such a fraud having a green tick here.
llong is growing slowly but surely
A tough goal!
11 months ago
Wow…writing 50,000 reasonably related words is not easy, and doing it in a month is even tougher. Congratulations to everyone who joined and tried their best. Of course, extra congrats to those who actually made it over the line.
A big thank you to everyone who posted entries here about their experiences, and of course to the MLs and folks who put this craziness together every year.
mathnerde should be unpacking...
45,763
11 months ago
I’m almost there. I had a couple panics today. I don’t know if the flash drive I’ve been using is dying or what, but I had a couple files get corrupted. The scary thing was that my back up was corrupted to. But I found good copies of the files in my computer trash can. So I was OK. Then I was working on my laptop and tried to save the chapter I was working on but it wouldn’t save. But that one I just emailed to myself. So it looks like I’ll be working on my desktop for the last bit. And look… less than 5000 words to go. About 3 maybe 4 chapters to go. And plenty of time to get it done.
Madam Ish espresso addict extraordinaire
50,320
11 months ago
Done! I won! And early, too. Now I can sit back and relax… well, not really. Now I can get back to work on my other novel!
oh dear
11 months ago
I’m plumbing the depths of Nano techniques here. Following on from Agent Ish’s canny advice to replace all apostrophes with the full terminology – I am for I’m etc – I cunningly decided to replace all CC’s with Curlychaos SoapDragon to get an extra word in each time. But for some reason, it has replaced them with CURLYCHAOS SOAPDRAGON instead – bloody Morten Harket messing with my keyboard again. I also forgot to match case, so I’ve just read a sentence where someone said “Are you accusing me…” and it’s changed to “Are you aCURLYCHAOS SOAPRDRAGONusing me…” which is quite amusing but I suspect as a point of honour I can’t let it stay like that.
Just thought I’d share. Must get back to writing now!
Moose "Bork!"
50,019!!
11 months ago
I’m there! woooo!
It’s such an awesome feeling! The book, of course, is nowhere near finished; but it’s a great story, and I believe in it, and I am determined that I will come back to it and do what needs doing to get it to a point where I am happy with it as a whole. But most importantly I have 50,019 words of material, ideas, scenes, dialogue, and characters doin’ their thing as a pool to fish a complete, coherent manuscript out of!
This has been a really amazing experience – just realising that I can write, when I set word targets and try not to think too hard about how to meet them – there is no end to the things I can write about, really. I really think this month has been a huge step towards realising that my voice, as a writer, is just as valid as anyone else’s, whether anyone else ever sees it that way or not – as long as I enjoy the process of writing and reading what I’ve written, then there is value in writing away. I can get so totally absorbed in it that hours just fly by. And most of all, it’s helped me to deal better with things going on in my life, saving the drama for the novel and facing up to the (often less dramatic!) reality.
Good luck to everyone else finishing up over this weekend – you can do it!! Love your novels and be proud!!
mathnerde should be unpacking...
40,406
11 months ago
Less than 10,000 words to go. And I get to pull out a deus ex machina and call it literature. If I can get a couple really good days I’ll have a chance of pulling this out before the due date. Better’n last year where I thought I was done, put my words into the validator and it popped back with about 250 words short. So I had to write up a quick extra conclusion. But I made it.
