NaNoWriMo 2012 - Day 9

[ladyseishou]

Day 9 - 21 days remaining


I never correct anything and I never go back to what
I have written, except to the foot of the last page to see
where I have got to. If you once look back, you are lost.

— Ian Fleming






Today's word count is 15,003! That represents about a third of your novel, Nano Writer! And it would be a tragedy of truly epic proportions to lose any of that work - so back it up! That's right - it's Back It Up Friday! Get out those flash drives or pack your story up and send it to the clouds. Whatever your method of choice may be - just do it!

Questions? Comments? Does your protagonist prefer it shaken or stirred? It's all good! So keep writing!

Comments

[lexicalcrow]

Mine is already backed up. I'm using yWriter5 with autobackup turned on, so it autobackups the whole thing every day. I try to remember to do manual complete backups every week or so, but I'm not always good at that. But at least I have autobackups!

I'm up to 19k today! It was a bit tough, because Fridays are always busy, but I still managed my writing! It contained smut, and bitching about dragons. :D?

[ladyseishou]

A great word count! And cheers for auto back ups! And smut! And dragons!

[dragonjournal]

I am at 20k.

I'm okay with this. Whatever gets done this weekend, gets done. So, yeah. Already backed up the novel several times, so we're good there. Now, to go work on the editing!

[ladyseishou]

20k is a beautiful word count! And good job on the back ups but... I hope the editing encourages your writing process! If you find that it seems a little bit of a downer, you might try starting an "edit" notebook where you jot down all your notes for editing the draft later, after the first draft is done. But still, if it works for you, that's great!

[dragonjournal]

It's okay. I'm editing for someone else, not for myself. XD It actually helps reading someone else's writing while working on my own.

Right now, I'm on a break. A lovely, Iron Man break....

Caution: Long Comment

[eien_herrison]

Well, I'm over half-way through my novel, so it'd be even more of a tragedy if I were to lose my progress! I was determined to make up for yesterday's poor writing amount, though. willing myself to get to 30-32k (a writing day of 6.5k-8.5k).

Did I manage it?

Total word count: 30,097, of which 6,596 was written today.

I went back and wrote the fight scene I'd skipped yesterday (because I didn't feel like writing it) which added 2.8k, about what I'd expected, and wrote in my character travelling from Pewter City to Cerulean city through Mount Moon. She's also got a new pokemon, thanks to buying it from a vendor -- what she doesn't know, though, is that he tricked her and instead of having a Dratini like she thought, she's got a useless Magikarp (she doesn't know that yet, but by the time she does find out it's way too late to do anything).

Oh, and also a screwed up wrist, thanks to an attack from a large group of Zubats (warning, unedited):

As they walked along the caves of Mount Moon, they’d found out that Pikachu’s Flash attack needed charging up -- for lacxk of a better term -- on occasion. They’d be able to see fine just after Pikachu used the attack, then over time her fur would get dimmer and dimmer until they could barely see and Pikachu would need to send up another attack.

A few minutes ago they’d gotten Pikachu to recharge her Flash attack, illuminating the caves around them. However, they had stopped in one of the worst places, just underneath a nest of Zubats and, despite the popular misconception, they did have eyes, they could see, and they were pretty damn pissed off when a brilliant flash of light was set off near them, waking them up from the intensity and sending them in to an attacking frenzy.

“Sealy, go!”

Tasha turned her head momentarily, just to see the pokemon Alice had summoned -- a Seal. Tasha doubted just how useful it’d be againats a bunch of Zubats, but another attack from one diverted her attention from that question.

The Zubat grabbed on to Tasha’s wrist, sinking its fangs in to her arm. Tasha screamed, half in pain and half in irritation, and tore the pokemon away using her other hand, leaving her wrist a shredded mess. She hurriedly opened her bag -- which she’d dumped on the ground between her and Alice when the Zubats had started attacking, Alice doing the same with her own bag -- and yanked out a shirt which she wrapped around her bloodied wrist, tying it on as tightly as she could manage.

“Alice, a little help,” Tasha said, jabbing Alice in the ribs. Alice turned around to see what state Tasha’s wrist was in, and helped her tighten the makeshift shirt around it. The two trainers returned to standing back to back, keeping their eyes out for any more approaching Zubat.

“Sealy, use your Ice Shard attack!”

Tasha looked over her shoulder to see Seal flash-freezing the moisture in the air -- which Mount Moon was full of, being quite a dank and humid place -- and sending the resulting ice shards hurtling towards a bunch of Zubats.

“Thunin, electo ball and thundershock!”

Pikachu alternated between its Electro Ball attacks -- hurtling an orb of pure electricity at the Zubats -- and its thundershock attacks -- sending off quick but nasty shocks of electricity --, assisting Seal in fighting off the crowds of pokemon.

Eventually, Tasha saw the last Zubat on her side withdraw, the nest choosing to find somewhere safer to reestablish their nest.

Re: Caution: Long Comment

[ladyseishou]

A fabulous word count! And wow - you really got into the flow of it - the best way to write I think! I have to say I was worried that you were the one that injured her wrist given how much progress you made with your story! But I'm happy (maybe?) to hear that it was your character who had troubles and what troubles they are! There is a nice flow to your fight scene, very exciting! But poor Tasha!

[iosonochesono]

Well I just found out I passed my GWPE and now I'm thinking if this semester goes well I only have TWO classes I need to take in order to graduate, and they are both lower division and I might consider taking them at a community college if I can. Instead of, y'know, paying thousands in tuition and living out here. I need to ask a counselor first though. Plus, it would be a bad decision to make if it turned out I had to retake anything else, so :S I better make sure of that before I make any such decision.

I haven't written yet today because the idea that I might not need to be here bleeding money like a sieve is very appealing. I am working on school work tonight instead, lol. I doubt I'll make up for it tonight but maybe tomorrow.

ETA: I ended up writing 1.2k yesterday and now have a word total of 32.6. Woot!

[ladyseishou]

Oh that is a fantastic word count! And all written during such a challenging time! Wow. It sounds though like you're giving it a good think around - I hope that it all comes out okay!

[lassarina]

I am up to 20,016! I pushed ahead and got to three days ahead. (Also, backed up every time I save to the cloud.)

My protagonist prefers whatever is currently most fashionable.

[ladyseishou]

Oh - 20K - that is shiny! Beautiful! And all backed up (hmmm, wait a minute that doesn't sound right)... ;-)