NaNoWriMo 2012 - Day 1

[ladyseishou]

Day 1 - 29 days remaining


You can, you should, and if you’re brave enough to start, you will.

― Stephen King




The word count for today is 1,667! Easy, right? That’s about seven pages of a typed manuscript (following standard format). Of course Your Mileage May Vary and don’t think you have to stop when you hit the day’s quota! This is the time to tap into all that good writer mojo and let yourself go with the flow!

Questions? Comments? First word? It’s all good! So Keep Writing!

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so I'm going to attempt this after all

[cheyinka]

First word: "Phone"

Second to fifty-seventh words: "calls in the middle of the night are rarely good; phone calls that wake you up are rarely good; phone calls that wake you up in the middle of the night are nearly-always bad.

The phone didn't actually wake me up, but that's because I was already calling Ralph on the porcelain telephone, so to speak."

[lap_otter]

787 words between midnight and 2AM. More when I get up tomorrow. First word: "The". First word that isn't lifted directly from my secondary source material: "After".

If I do this all in order, as I am hoping to do, the first several days are going to be an awful slog as I drag my way through the primary source material. I have a rough idea of what to show and what to skip and what to skim, but like I said before, trying to find a source of narrative tension when the reader already knows everything that's going to happen is hard. Gotta dig deep into John's brain, and honestly, I'm much better at Sherlock.

Okay, that was a huge rant. Here, let my share with you my first paragraph a slightly altered version of the first paragraph of Paper Towns by John Green:

"The way I figure it, everyone gets a miracle. Like, I will probably never be struck by lightning, or win a Nobel Prize, or become the dictator of a small nation in the Pacific Islands, or contract terminal ear cancer, or spontaneously combust. But if you consider all of the unlikely things together, at least one of them will probably happen to each of us. I could have seen it rain frogs. I could have stepped foot on Mars. I could have been eaten by a whale. I could have married the Queen or survived months at sea. But my miracle was different. My miracle was this: out of all the flats in all the streets in all of London, I ended up living with Sherlock Holmes."

[iosonochesono]

2098! Granted, I started a little earlier than midnight because I have to go to bed, but I went until after the stroke of midnight so in my opinion that counts! Plus I will hopefully write more after class.

I'm guessing "standard manuscript format" isn't single-spaced regular pages because it's less than four pages so far on mine XD

[lolita]

Eek! Good luck everybody!

[fadedwings]

First three words: The Nightmares started

I'm at 2244 words and now I'm going to bed. I'll probably get more words in the afternoon but I've made my word count for the day so I am happy!

[dark_kana]

*rubs eyes* This was the first time ever that I actually waited up 'till midnight and started writing as soon as November first began... :-)
I always write better in the evening/at night. :p

Word count so far : 2158
First sentence : They are walking through town.

[zombie]

534 words so far, but I did that in eleven minutes about fifteen minutes ago. My Army man made me coffee, so that means I should be supercharged today, lmao.

First word: "Hey". The next little bit, "Hey, you! Stop right there."

Rinda flinched where she was crouched, peeping out from the hooded cowl that covered her head (and most importantly, her ears), in the direction of the voice. Sure enough, a city guard was making his way over to where she was shadowed by the city wall and the open market stall, poised to pinch the pocket of any mark that looked like they had two gold pieces to rub together.

Not great, but hey. First draft.

[ryttu3k]

First word - it.

10,000th word - for.

I, uh, like to start day one with a buffer? (Also: Australian. It's 11:24 and I just hit 10,053.)

[bombkind]

As of right now - 1746 words.

First sentence; It had been missing for days now, long enough for his mother to call it missing and abandon the search.

[dragonjournal]

I started this morning while the kids prepared for school. First sentence:

Tony Stark’s boredom reached epic proportions pretty easily.

Yes, it's fanfiction, but I'm editing original works for myself/someone else this month too. Soo... >>; Yeah.

[zellieh]

1712 words today. The first sentence:

"If you don't trust me, Black, you can check for yourself. Tibbs!"

Harry Potter fanfiction, and a story I started for a previous NaNo, so I'm rebelling quite thoroughly this year -- and looking forward to enjoying every minute of it.

[lassarina]

I just finished tying up a huge project (it won me my first two NaNos and the final wordcount clocked in at 174,000) yesterday, so my brain's a little ooey gooey today. Still, I managed 2125 words, and that's the first chapter put to bed.

[stickpenalties]

2040! My first word is "Foxtrot", and I'm a 5-year NaNo veteran (3-time winner) but this is my first time writing science fiction aaaand also my first time writing mostly about women. IT'S GOING REALLY WELL! I'm going to get up early so I can get some more words in before work tomorrow!

[eien_herrison]

Despite it being a bit of a hectic day (work 10-1, then travel to where my husband was working, some time to write while he finished work, shopping, and dinner out) I managed 2268 words according to WriteWay, which put me at a finish date of the 22nd of November (approximately).

The scene I most liked is the one where my MC, Tasha, is waiting for a letter to state whether or not she has passed her trainer exam, and is spending the time playing a pokemon game:

“The last of the Elite Four has been defeated; the new chaption is Tasha McKinney!”

A week later, Tasha was in her room, playing on a handheld video games console. She’d been anxiously awaiting her exam results for the past week, and to take up some time she had begun to replay one of her numerous pokemon games, challenging herself to see if she could complete it before her results arrived.

“But wait!” Tasha continued to narrate her progress on the game, lifting her right leg up and slamming it back down on to the bed she was currently laying on. Her per Persian, [persiannickname] Lapis lazily lifted his head up to glare at her before resting his chin back on his front paws and going back to sleep.

“What’s this? The Elite Four had already been defeated before I got there? Impossible! Who was it...Owen, my rival?! And I’ve got to defeat him?” A wide grin appeared on Tasha’s face. “Bring it on! I’ve got six pokemon at level eighty, a ton of items, and I guarantee I can wipe the floor with you.”

A few minutes later, the games console lay discarded on the bed as Tasha did a couple of laps of her room in celebration of becoming – yet again – the champion.