NaNoWriMo 2009 Day 24

[ladyseishou]

Day 24 - 6 days remaining

Don't tell me the moon is shining; show me the glint of light on broken glass.

~ Anton Chekhov



And a side benefit of Master Chekhov's advice...

More words are generated! Today's word count is another milestone: 40K! How is everyone doing today? We have several Nano Writers that are close to the end and others working hard to catch up... is there good news (or bad news) to share? Excerpts? Questions? Comments? It's all good! Keep writing!


Image credit: Marius Muresan

Comments

[geminianeyes]

I'm donnnnnnnnnnnnnnneeeeeeeeeeeee!!!

Crossed the line yesterday, and it has been nothing but sweet. I'm still wanting to write, which is a far cry from the past two years when I stopped writing and only did verification.

Catching them was different from harassing them, cause they usually liked to play unless you fell for their tricks. Then they would try to kill you. If you chased after them even when they did so, then it would be harassment.

It is obvious that my muses and me were on crack yesterday. :P

[twistingthetale]

Congratulations! :)

Yes! Yes! Yes!

[ladyseishou]

Re: Yes! Yes! Yes!

[geminianeyes]

OMG THAT'S LOVELY! *Glomps* Thank you!

[xyndarella]

Congratulations!! :D

[juliet]

37,293 this morning - I had a couple of days off, so am behind a little :-/ Intend to write another 1500 words later on today, so that'll have me more caught up, and then I ought to be able to catch up the rest tomorrow. I will update :)

Got hideously stuck for a bit (there's a turning-point scene in the middle that just wouldn't come out right), so I've gone back to other bits. Some of them I'm not quite sure yet where they're going to go, but I know I'll get them in there eventually!

(edit) Up to 38,507 now, so should be able to finish catching up tomorrow \o/

[ladyseishou]

Very nice progress! Good luck tomorrow! You can do it!

[beckyo]

41,700! I'm ahead and trying get further ahead as we're traveling to NC for the holiday. Taking the laptop, but who knows how much time I'll have. I can try to write by hand in the car, but not sure how well that will work.

Good luck everyone!

[ladyseishou]

Great word count! Have a safe trip! And good luck with the writing!

[twistingthetale]

I hit 50148 at 9.15 this evening! Two chapters left to write, but now that I've hit the minimum I don't have to feel too guilty if I start a bit later tomorrow morning :D Planning to finish the remaining chapters by Thursday night, so will verify some time on Friday.

Wonderful News!

[ladyseishou]

Re: Wonderful News!

[twistingthetale]

Thank you! I'll add this to my profile :)

[xyndarella]

Congratulations on reaching that massive milestone! :)

[twistingthetale]

Thank you :)

[lassarina]

42,752! If I write 1900/day tomorrow through Saturday, I'll get there with two days to spare and on my self-imposed (and late-in-the-month-imposed) goal day! (I do need to check with the official wordcount validator and make sure my numbers are close to NNWM.org's numbers, but still.)

*grooves*

[ladyseishou]

Yes! Fantastic word count! Checking is a good idea - you don't need any surprises.

[wyrdkat]

I wrote 2379 words today and hit 51,138 total words! The novel itself still isn't done though. I plan to keep up my daily writing and finish it by the end of the month though :)


"Because the Goddess led me to you. I have more than faith, I have proof. She speaks to me, she shows me things. I knew where you would be. She let me in your dream even though I had no access to your blood. I should have needed your blood to do the ritual but I didn't. She accepted the sacrifice I offered in place of it instead. This was meant to be."

Fatastic!

[ladyseishou]

[twistingthetale]

Congratulations!

Edited because my spelling went mad :D

[xyndarella]

I must be insane. I stayed up until after 4am this morning to bump my word count from 45,333 to 48,622 words. I am not feeling rushed at all, but it's like the when the month started and I was so keen to start writing.

While I haven't quite crossed the finish line yet, I can now say that NaNoWriMo has been a really positive experience for me. This was my first year and I was so excited when I signed up. Writing to a deadline has been both bliss and torture, but it was the experience that has made me decide that I would like to take up writing for a career. I can only get better with more practice.

I'm aiming to get my remaining words written down, which is exciting for me. I wanted to offer congratulations to all those who have already crossed the line. Well done! :)

[ladyseishou]

So close! Fantastic word count! And it's so wonderful to hear that the experience has been positive for you! Keep writing!

[dragonscrawl]

After several more days of not really making progress, I'm working myself back toward being on track. I just managed to pass 39k today, but I'm hoping to make more catching up progress tomorrow.

It helped that I found two more scenes that needed to get added, so I've been working on those. For the time being these new scenes are heavy on the dialogue, but I can swing back through and get more details around them once I've gotten them down in the first place.