NaNoWriMo 2019

KingMe · 2019-10-29T03:57:35.115Z

I’ll edit it the first post to elaborate a bit more. It’s mainly a challenge for/against yourself. The goal is to write a novel that is at least 50,000 words starting on November 1st and going no past midnight on the 30th. Completed novels done through the website by signing up have a lot of free resources that go towards getting it published and edited. (There’s many volunteers who operate off of the donations they receive to aid in this.)

Outside of the official challenge, authors and aspiring writers use it as a month to encourage one another while providing feedback, support, and motivation. : )

Eiwynn · 2019-10-29T05:31:18.978Z

I’ll unofficially challenge myself to write the 50,000 new words this upcoming month – although I will be working on my already started project.

So, here is another step forward in trying to help myself take a step forward in my writing

poison_mara · 2019-10-29T05:41:37.576Z

My goal is not a number, It makes an entire game in the month. Based on the London calling song

DreamingGames · 2019-10-29T07:51:53.208Z

My goal is to actually get started writing and get over my blank page syndrome.

50.000 words would be nice, but I want to be realisitc.

poison_mara · 2019-10-29T12:30:31.470Z

Just to inspire people who maybe want to participate in this but have not a definite idea, everything can be an idea. A song, a poem or even a colour.

My challenge is to write a game based on the lyrics of London Calling by the Clash.
Maybe someone else wants to use same theme and we can share our day to day.
This is the song

Havenstone · 2019-10-29T14:01:42.055Z

I would love to challenge myself to write 50k words on XoR 2 in November. Unfortunately, I’ll be traveling for most of the month and have to spend a solid week in the middle reporting to the Board and representatives from a couple of dozen international partners of the charity I lead…so 50k is not going to happen. But I’ll see how many thousand I can write, and post the results here.

NMCannon · 2019-10-29T14:49:50.108Z

Awww, @KingMe, you are too kind! Thank you for your encouraging words. Makes my heart glad

@poison_mara omg I love “London Calling” and learning about the whole punk scene. That sounds like a fun project!

Nocturnal_Stillness · 2019-10-29T15:34:20.234Z

I intend to work on a brand new novella for a story I’ve started to plan called Hollywood Demonic.

Also try to keep up work on season two of UnNatural. Still hoping to get episode 3 finished by Thursday then can use my time.in nano to write episode 4 and maybe start 5.

KingMe · 2019-10-31T01:39:48.371Z

Does anybody else find writing both the most stressful and the most therapeutic thing you do? Trying to translate the worlds and characters and emotions I see in my head the same way to words, and capturing all they are to me, ages me like 50 years I swear.

That’s why I really like and am excited for Nano! Because it can take the pressure off of writing for anybody else if you use it as a challenge for just yourself. Personally I want to take next month to work on improving my writing, but not necessarily into something I share. I think I’m going to pour those 50,000 words towards my “lore index” and outlining for my upcoming project, or just some fun fluff for it, and pivot the experience into a learning one.

(I have learned the lesson of not sharing ideas too early, but it’s about Fae. And Fae courts. And political intrigue. And curses and magic and romance that’s a really bad idea but you do it anyways. I’ve been developing iterations of this idea on and off for so many years and it takes up 90% of my waking thoughts, I’m in love haha. Putting more of the backbone into it is going to do wonders for my sanity.)

I’ve loved hearing the little snippets for what y’all are going to be working on, and can’t wait to see what you accomplish in the weeks to come! (ﾉ^ヮ^)ﾉ*:・ﾟ✧

Eric_Moser · 2019-10-31T22:37:06.221Z

It’s time!

It’s NaNo time!

My user name is EricSMoser. For some reason my buddy list from prior year’s is empty. Not sure why, so I’m starting all over. Feel free to buddy me. Anyone else want to share your user names on the NaNo site?

derekmetaltron · 2019-10-31T22:41:02.429Z

I have elected to take a year off Nano this year. Will be trying to do my various fandom WWYFF/CYOAs over a few months or years instead of sweating over making something concrete in a month and cheat by copying background material.

poison_mara · 2019-11-01T00:08:46.643Z

I am thinking not doing my plan due I find I haven’t the English language skills to make my idea credible. So now I am without a plan. So pretty much means fail without even started.

Jacic · 2019-11-01T02:08:39.710Z

*When NaNo rolls around and you realised you haven’t finished the project you were working on last year

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I’ll put a project up this year, hopefully will get some writing time. Will probably work on more than one TBH. Need to get some WIP’s finished rather than start something new.

Edit- My buddies list is empty too! Must have happened when they did the site update.

Eiwynn · 2019-11-01T05:52:43.450Z

In anticipation of beginning the challenge in a couple of hours, I will make this post my update post.

Daily Wordcount

1st: 6,750
2nd: 2,000
3rd: 2,014
4th: 2,004
5th: 2,621
6th: 3,843
7th: 2,394
8th: 1,620
9th: 3,414
10th: 0
11th: 2,005
12th: 2,065
13th: 2,306
14th: 2,070
15th: 0
16th: 0
17th: 7,453
18th: 2,788
19th: 2,188
20th: 0
21st: 0
22nd: 0
23rd: 0
24th: 0
25th: 0
26th: 0
27th: 0
28th: 1,950
29th: TBD
30th: TBD
Total word count for the month: 49,485

Notes

This is where I will put my observations, thoughts and notations …

Note1: Started off strong – mostly because I have been planning and mapping this start out for over a week. I doubt I will be able to keep this pace up; although my goal of 1750 words a day seems more achievable now than it seemed just yesterday.

Note2: Potential issue cropped up today. Hopefully it resolves itself without causing problems; we’ll see what happens.

Note3: With a night’s sleep and review, I believe I’ve overcome the potential issue noted above. I actually look forward to a more productive day tomorrow.

Note4: Today was a slog that drained me, both mentally and physically.

Note5: Dialogue is the subject of my writing now – it is something I feel I need to work on as I write, so writing is a bit more challenging now … we’ll see how tomorrow goes.

Note6: This narrative arc is a fun and engaging arc, but I am recognizing that it will need a few re-writes before it is ready for the final copy.

Note7: Still in the middle of expanding each branch. Hopefully one more day, then I can continue forward with the entire narrative arc.

Note8: Still slogging through expansion of the branches. Going slower than expected.

Note9: After pushing myself today, I am back on track, and I am looking forward to tomorrow’s session where I can advance the Pet the Dog narrative arc.

Note10: Migraine Day – waste of a writing day. Spent day outlining and planning, so the day was not a total waste.

Note11: Back on track - 2005 words written. If I continue to feel well, I’ll start making up words in the next writing session.

Note12: Dialogue, dialogue and more dialogue … today’s writing was all about the dialogue.

Note13: See post down-thread about the joy of dialogue.

Note14: ditto

Note15-16: Days Off - Migraine

Note17: Working on Dialogue still – made up my word count + almost 1600 words for next session.

Note18: Writing the first nexus point for Act Two’s narrative arcs – I’m ending the Pet the Dog arc and foreshadowing the Spoiler, Creator, Friendship and Romance arcs. I’ll be launching the Job/Every Day arc within the nexus point.

I’m working on a path with less dialogue. My brain misses the dialogue. I also almost got lost in an editing session today – I’ve been avoiding this by just writing and ignoring editing issues but I had to fix one today which led to another and another … luckily, I realized this and pulled out in time to write at least 2,000 words.

Note 28: Back to writing after a week delay. It feels good. I’ll make the 50,000 word goal of the contest, but not the 60,000 word goal I set for myself

Project Summary: “The Collaboration” is a project of three individuals combining our efforts together to form a game designed using concepts and principles that we believe in.

Project Setting: It is set in an alternative Victorian Age world consisting of twin cities – one with the working name of: “Upper City” and the other with the working name of “Under City” both of whom are connected by a vast underground water system named the Sea of Styx, the Rivers: Lethe, Acheron and Phlegethon.

Project Protagonist: The Main Character (MC) wakes up in a prison’s morgue. Once escaping the cold freezer they find themselves in, they discover that the morgue is the scene of a triple murder, a triple murder scene that the prison guards soon find the MC in the middle of. The MC has no memories of whom they are, but they discover the three murder victims identities and discover clues as to who murdered them.

The Opening Act: The MC must escape the prison and follow-up clues given as to both who they are and who murdered the people they stand accused of murdering.

The Second Act (WiP): Having escaped the prison, the MC has arrived at the docks of the Under City. It is at this point that the following narrative arcs are introduced:

(Spoiler) - Main Arc
Creator - Main Arc
Pet the Dog - Transitional Arc
Friendship - Relationship Arcs
Romance - Relationship Arcs
Job/Every Day - Exclusive Second Act Arcs

I am currently writing the “Pet the Dog” transitional arc – This serves as the beginning point of my NaNoWriMo efforts.

Last Updated: Nov 28th

Eiwynn · 2019-11-01T06:07:29.460Z

poison_mara:

I am thinking not doing my plan due I find I haven’t the English language skills to make my idea credible. So now I am without a plan. So pretty much means fail without even started.

Why not follow @KingMe 's lead and use the challenge to improve your English skills?

Use the 50,000 words to write a personal translational dictionary/thesaurus … words and phrases that translate from Spanish to English that you can then use in your writing.

Such a resource tool will become very valuable in the future as you can use it in whatever you do decide to work on next.

Lan · 2019-11-01T06:38:39.608Z

Welp, I guess I’m in. This year I’m planning on experimenting with a lot of different game ideas to see what sticks. Come December, I hope to have thoroughly separated the yeh from the bleh.

poison_mara · 2019-11-01T07:34:17.557Z

I don’t say that that won’t be useful… But if I have to copy-paste a dictionary, I prefer directly die. Being totally honest lol.

Even If that would be the fastest Nanowrimo Ever I can do the 50,000 in a Hour lol

Nocturnal_Stillness · 2019-11-01T09:05:30.542Z

I will be working on an Urban Fantasy/horror novel aims my entry but also intend to work on season two alongside it.

My name on there is my pen name Sam Kabell

Ninja1 · 2019-11-01T10:05:10.682Z

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So, I counted and I have about 17 drafts and 8 of those are series…Technically there are 28 but I wanted to focus on only these ones this month.

My plan is to first finish that series from 5 years ago and then move on to the short stories. This is gonna be fun

Good luck y’all!

Myrtle · 2019-11-01T17:32:19.033Z

Me: Yeah, right, as if I had time to write every day for the rest of the month…

Also me: Let’s totally do this three days in a row and then forget about it.

So, the good news is that I got to the 1667-word goal. The bad news is that 90% of that is here:

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What? It was so important for the plot that the character respond differently to each of those choices!

Anyway, good luck to everyone who is, you know, really doing this. XD