But I did finish!

My stats:
Cups of caffeine: 62

Writing sessions: 67

Chapters: 27

Body Count: 18

Total hours spent writing: 47.25
Episodes of Angel watched in an effort to procrastinate: 21 5 years ago

Life got in the way this year. I barely got started! Oh well there’s always next year! 5 years ago

I still didn’t finish the actual novel, but I was close. And I wrote more than last year—60k or so. Nice. I’m re-reading it right now. 5 years ago

i didn’t finish on time,
well
i’ll be done by the end of the year,
which is quite an accomplishment anyway 5 years ago

Fell just a bit short at 6000 words. XP I tried to write on a computer and failed miserably. Next year I’m going back to handwriting for sure. 5 years ago

It just didn’t happen this year. I was overly busy with school and friends and family. I wrote about 17k words though!! 5 years ago

Tried failed lol better luck next year! 5 years ago

Once again I managed to write 50,000 words of a single story, not a completed story this year though.
After getting further and further behind over the course of the month I was sitting at 40,000 on the morning of the last day. Having arranged to take the day off I got up late (sleeping in for the first time in a month or so I think) and spent much of the following 13 hours typing.

I’m not intending to plan ahead again, knowing what I wanted to happen ahead of time meant I wasn’t able to just write what came to me. 5 years ago

never ever started, but that’s okay. this has been a very hectic and stressful year. besides that, i think my plot would’ve been ruined by the hastiness of my writing and ended up like shit like last years. so it’s probably good i never started. now i can take my time and write it. 5 years ago

Yeah, I did complete this goal; I verified my novel on the 29th, final word count 56,000 and some. I think this is the worst one I’ve written so far, though. :D :D :D (Which only means it needs the most editing. That’s not a problem, I guess). :D

See ya in 2008! 5 years ago

Somehow, some way, Oxfordshire managed to win the UK and Ireland Regional Word War for the 3rd year running! Things looked bleak for us at the start of the final week… Our 10 writers were an average of 8,000 words behind Wales – to put that into perspective, we had to collectively write 80,000 words just to catch up, and then we also had to beat whatever they wrote from that point onwards.

When the latest league table was released on Thursday 29th, we were still 5,500 behind, but we really shifted into top gear that night! A number of people burnt the candle at both ends, and I had the 30th off work to write to my heart’s content, so, amazingly, we managed to beat Wales by 321 words!

Best NaNo ever. 5 years ago

I didn’t finish again this year. November is notoriously busy month for me even without trying to squeeze a novel in there. I managed to get a good start going to a wonderful new writing project, so it was worth it just for that. I’m planning on finishing what I started…at my own pace! 5 years ago

my professor in a class that I’m taking has agreed to permit me to submit it in lieu of term paper since the subject matter of the novel is the subject matter of the class. So, now I have until next weekend to do the first edit. YIKES!!! (Not only that now somebody is going to read my stuff) DOUBLE YIKES!!!! 5 years ago

My final word count was somewhere in the vicinity of 17,000 words. Better luck to me next year for I must now live a life of shame until next November. :P

I’m not really that disappointed though – my heart just wasn’t in it this year! 5 years ago

I won. :) 5 years ago

For anyone who cares, most of my entries from the actual month of November were posted on this goal.5 years ago

63,202 …current word count 5 years ago

Well, I made it. (Barely.)

This year was tough.

This was my 3rd year of participating in NaNoWrimo, and I’ve concluded that novels are not my calling.

Back to screenwriting I go. 5 years ago

For those of us in the UK, it is now December! I had yesterday off work (by which I mean the 30th), so I was desperately writing for the glory of Oxfordshire in the UK and Ireland Regional Word War. Whether we actually succeeded in overturning Wales at the top of the league is a matter to be concluded in the morning… The gap was pretty big yesterday.

Anyway, a few word sprints and general willpower have brought my grand total for the month up to 181,260. I don’t think I’ll be beating that next year, unless I lose my job, but I’ll give it a damn good try!

If there’s anyone who is still just shy of 50K, what on earth are you doing reading this? 5 years ago

In June of 2004, I decided to write a novel. I knew what subject I wanted to write about and I had all the characters in mind but I didn’t know the first thing about writing a book. Luckily, I didn’t realize that only skilled writers have the passion, determination, and skill to complete such a daunting project. By the end of the month I had completed the 20,000 word rough draft of my first novel.

I didn’t learn until later that 20,000 words isn’t long enough to be considered a novel, but even when I did, it didn’t matter to me because the story I completed, When Daddy Left, was the biggest creative challenge I had ever undertaken. I was stoked.

Then, while thumbing through the August 2004 edition of Writer’s Digest, I found a small blurb that caught my eye. “Write a novel in a month,” the ad commanded. “Take part in National Novel Writing Month, NaNoWriMo for short.” But wait, I didn’t need that. I had already done it. Still, it piqued my interest and I read on. The add was suggesting that a novel needed to be 50,000 words to count, but I had only written 20,000. There was only one thing I could do – take part in NaNoWriMo and write a real novel in a month.

There was a website listed, www.nanowrimo.org, and so I surfed on over and signed up. I completed that year with a quirky love story about a feisty, young lady who needed to learn what true love was. And she did. But not just her, I learned as well. I learned that my true love revolved around writing and that no matter what I did for the rest of my life, it had to involve writing.

I took part again in 2005 and I won with a psychological thriller about en evil, warlord from Vietnam and another feisty woman named Anna. This time the heroine was kidnapped and spent the better part of the novel trying to get free. I didn’t like it as much as my 2004 offering, but I had a blast writing it.

2006 was more difficult. To spread my wings a bit, I decided to go with a genre that I never write in – science fiction. I came up with what I thought was a charming tale of mystery and intrigue in a place called The Finer Diner. The novel quickly disinegrated, unfortunately, and what I ended up with was part sci fi, part romance, part new age, and part stream of consciousness.

So, when this year’s NaNoWriMo arrived, I was excited to get back to basics. Since my favorite novel was a romance, I decided to do a romance this year as well. And, since my second favorite novel was a psychological thriller, I decided to do a mix between a thriller and a romance. The idea intrigued and excited me.

I am happy to announce that my 2007 novel, Not (re)Quite(d) Love, is now more than 50,000 words. I can’t say it’s finished, exactly, as I still have a lot of story to tell, but I had almost as much fun with this novel as I had with my first one. And, I’m almost as much in love with the story. 5 years ago

I’ve won NaNoWriMo 2007 with a really crappy novel of 50208 words.

It was hard and not as much fun as last year, but that was completely due to the topic I’ve chosen. I have learned a lot.

Thank you very much for all the cheers and messages of encouragement. 5 years ago

I’m on the great final straight to the winning post, with 2700 words to go. If nothing unforeseen happens I will be finished on time to get the purple stripe!

Yesterday I feared that I would run out of story before I reached the 50 000 words, but I discovered that there are so many gaps in the story that it will not be a problem 5 years ago

and the harder you have to fight for it
the sweeter it is

the more people that helped you get there, and the ones that gave you that push when you where ready to stop are to ones that you think about the most when it it all over

you find out you can never do anything alone

what I’m going to miss most of all, i think, is the daily interaction and support from everyone here striving for the same goal

we did it 5 years ago

The nice thing about doing NaNo on the last two days is that the math becomes very simple. 50 000 – 43 000 = 7 000. 7 000 / 2 = 3500. I must do another 3500 words today, and as many tomorrow before midnight, then I’m done. It’s a lot, but doable. 5 years ago

Wee hee, it’s not Sloan’s Teddy, but with effort I can still win.

I think my horoscope says something about sugar and coffee in my next two days. 5 years ago

this is a crazy story … I wrote about it in another post
http://www.43things.com/entries/view/2531614

anyway it was a big misunderstanding
so here I am again .. only a little worse for wear

and over 47100 words

I think I may win tomorrow 5 years ago

Work is suffering under NaNo now, but I’m five hundred words away from 40k, and tonight is still long. (There’s the small matter of a Toastmasters meeting, but that should spur the creativity.) 5 years ago

my hubby is fed up with all the time I’ve been putting into NaNo and wants me to quit
just drop my dream
now
today
3 day from the finish line

what the bajeebers _{that’s my word …no body steel it} do I do? 5 years ago

I did another 2000 words last night. It would have been better if I did 3000, but 2000 was enough.

By the end of today I should be on the home stretch with 10k to go.

“If you’re thinking of quitting, you’re doing something wrong, because you shouldn’t be thinking at all!” Thanks, DuraKaN

Thanks to everybody for the cheering. Don’t stop, it really helps 5 years ago

that’s a little over 5500 for today 5 years ago