Day 24 - 6 days remaining

[ladyseishou]

Talent is cheaper than table salt. What separates the talented
individuals from the successful ones is a lot of hard work.

- Stephen King



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!

Comments

[kallistixf]

why oh why couldn't the TSA have waited until December to roll out the naked scanners and start groping passengers? don't they know i've got a novel to write?

ah well. once again, mostly activism yesterday and today. i'm up to 56869 -- and resisting the urge to put in a superfluous scene where they all go to the airport and demonstrate :-)

[ladyseishou]

Nah, go with it and add the scene!

[kallistixf]

don't encourage me! :-)

[dark_kana]

40.000 words ... It sounds so much... I never thought I'd make it this far when I first started. Only 2670 words to go to reach today's word count. That means I managed to write about 5613 words yesterday. *skrikes fist into the air*
So that was good news.
Other good news. I am feeling quite confident I am going to make it at the end of the month! XD Because my muses and my MC and everything is co-operating. Except perhaps time... ^_^" But still. *goes off to write some more*

My my... My MC is being rather busy for the moment. She plays volley, fights, dances, goes mountain climbing, just went to a concert where she finally got together with the guy she had a crush on, is looking for a house, will move into a new house soon ... AND, she writes. XD XD

[ladyseishou]

Freakin' fantastic progress! You're on fire! You CAN do it!

[yifu]

Just went past 47k. Will I write more tonight, or will I succumb to the joy of browsing the internet?

[ladyseishou]

You're just teasing us, right? Right?

[yifu]

About browsing the internet? I was serious. As it turned out, I fell into bed and couldn't muster any writing mojo when I woke up. But I already wrote 600 words on this sunny November 25 morning. *rolls up sleeves*

[dreamingpixels]

I waved around the printed copy of my novel - 181 pages in Word! - when I got to my in-laws last night, and my younger brother-in-law said I'm not really an author. He's just jealous because I managed to write a book in a month, and he took years to write one. :P

[ladyseishou]

author n. The writer of a book, article, or other text.

You wrote a book. You are an author. Period. Enough said.

[lassarina]

As of last night when I went to bed, I had less than 2K to go to hit 50K.

[ladyseishou]

That's fantastic news! Bring it on home!

[charamei]

"Yes," she said, which surprised him, causing his eyebrows to shoot up and his mouth to dorp open like a surprised face. He believed in the gods, obviously, but in an abstract sense. The idea of actually going up to one of them and having a chat didn't compute at all. Not nowadays, in Hesiod's age of iron, when, as the poet says, 'now truly is an age of iron, and men never rest from labour and sorrow by day, and from perishing by night; and the gods shall lay sore trouble upon them.' Well, Hesiod got that right, [Slave3] thought bitterly, and carried on his intenral monologue thusly: 'But notwithstanding, even these shall have some good mingled with their evils. And Zeus will destroy this race of mortal men also when they come to have grey hair on the tmeples at thier birth. The father will not agree with his children, nor the children with their father, nor guest with his host, nor comrade with comrade; nor will brother be dear to brother as aforetime. Men will dishonour their parents as they grow quickly old, and will carp at them, chiding them with bitter words, hard-hearted they, not knowing the fear of the gods. They will not repay their aged parents the cost of their nurture, for might will be their right: and one man will sack another's city. There will be no favou for the man who keeps his oath or for the just or for the good; but rather men will praise the evil-doer and his violent dealing. Strength will be right and reverence will cease to be; and the wicked will hurt the worthy man, speaking false words against him, and will swear an oath upon hem. Envy, foul=mouthed, dleighting in evil, with scowling face, will go along with wretched men once and for all.' That was the sort of age they werel iving in now, one of doom and woe and Hesiod's predictions of the world going to hell, and [Slave3] wondered if people would ever stop bemoaning the times they were in long enough to realise that times were generally in a sort of equilbrious state of badness, whereby people complained a lot but basically everything was exactly the same, and people moaning about it or snapping at one another were just people being people and it would go on forever and ever without stopping, a bit like this paragraph.

So basically, he was surprised.

This is my favourite thing I have ever written, ever.

(Brought about by being 7k behind, sleep-deprived, and needing another thousand words before bed... It's the first time I've resorted to quoting Greek poetry all book, I promise, but what a way to give in.)

[ladyseishou]

It gets the job done and is actually a good way to bring what may be your theme back around to the reader by quoting ancient text. The more things change, the more they stay the same, as they say, eh?

[charamei]

Yeah, I might use a shortened version of the quote earlier in the book, when people are being panicky and in-fighting instead of pulling together to solve their problems, but at the climax it's... really out of place.

The more things change, the more they stay the same, as they say, eh?

Oh, yes. The more history you read, the more truer that becomes.

[medicalmouse]

45609, and the body count is rising! I really don't want to stop here, but I need to get to bed at a reasonable hour so I can get up in time to cook tomorrow. Oh well, there'll be plenty of time to write once everything's in the oven!

[ladyseishou]

Your word count is great! And I know what you mean about cooking... My whole day has been baking pies and writing and tomorrow... I know one or two things I'll be thankful for tomorrow ;-)