NaNoWriMo 2011 - Day 12

[ladyseishou]

Day 12 - 18 days remaining

I always advise authors to keep their first draft
because although there will be much to blush about,
there will also be glorious tumbles of inspiration.

— Roz Morris



It’s the beginning of the weekend, Nano Writer and a great time to catch up on those word counts or add something to a nice "just in case" buffer. The word count for today is 20,004 and time to break out another one of those “10K” prizes if you’re on a mini-reward system! Questions? Comments? A tumble or stumble of inspiration to share? It’s all good! So keep writing!

Comments

[fiones]

Lol, between my two novels, I've still only got 1141 words. But that's better than no words, I'm just so pressed for time these days because of school and work.

Here's the intro to the one I'm focusing on:

The month leading up to The Incident was marked by various changes in Daniel Porter's life. His senior year had thus far been consistently dull and uneventful, but a small nudge from Ruth and sudden burst of confidence would cause the drastic turn he needed to get out of his rut.

Things went quite well, and then went rapidly downhill.

[ladyseishou]

Sounds like a great opening with a lot of promise! Go for it!

[wood_elf]

Finishing today on 21,285.

I dropped my hero in a hole in the floor in order to make it happen.

[ladyseishou]

So you might say that his whole world dropped out from under him! Yes! That should move things along ;-) And a beautiful word count for the day!

[otter_nanowrimo]

Today I was in a used bookstore and there was a framed quote on one of the shelves. I don't remember the exact words, but the meaning was "I only write when the inspiration strikes. Fortunately, inspiration strikes at 10 each day." It was, I believe, attributed to William Faulkner.

I then got my copy of Rampant signed by Diana Peterfruend, my copies of The Forest of Hands and Teeth and The Dead-Tossed Waves signed by Carrie Ryan, my newly-purchased copies of Boy Meets Boy (not the webcomic) and Every You, Every Me signed by David Levithan, and six out of my eight books (two were already signed from a previous meeting) from the Demon's Lexicon trilogy signed by Sarah Rees Brennan, who gave me a copy of the first three chapters of her impending book Unspoken. It was a great day for writing inspiration :D.

For the record, the reason I have eight books out of a trilogy is because I have the US and UK versions of each, plus the original US version of the first with the ugly cover, plus the Japanese version of the first (sadly, the second and third were not published in Japan).

[ladyseishou]

Love the quote! And yes Faulkner is one of the attributions I've come across. There's also the version: “I write only when inspiration strikes. Fortunately, it strikes every morning at nine o’clock sharp.” By Somerset Maugham.

And I'd say you have inspiration coming every which way! Are you using the books as writing rewards? For myself, I have to put aside all my reading until I get the story done else I would never finish ;-)

[lassarina]

29,335! If I keep up this pace, I'll be 10K ahead by tomorrow! (I just wish new scenes did not insist on sneaking in everywhere. I will never get to the end at this rate.)

[ladyseishou]

Oh I'm loving that word count! Keep it up! And don't worry about those new, unexpected scenes - your job is to catch them all! You will get to the end which will no doubt be even richer for all the work you've done to get there!

[down]

28,052! And I was meant to go to bed AT LEAST an hour ago, but after a day of very little brain, at about 2am the words began to flow!

Apparently I find being exceptionally mean to characters exceptionally inspiring. XD

...Really need to sleep now, though. ^^;

[ladyseishou]

Sleep well - you've done very well! A fantastic word count! And if it pleases your muse and I mean this in the best possible way, keep channeling that inner mean ;-)