The End of NaNoWriMo 2007

I'm so sad that it's over already!  (Even though just an hour ago or less I wanted it to die.  =P)

I didn't even finish my novel!!  Can you believe it?  I never thought I'd be able to write that much!

I am so happy that I was able to complete nanowrimo, and with about half an hour to spare too!

Now I am going to get some much needed sleep.  (I've been getting 5 hours Sunday-Wednesday and 4 hours Thursday night.)  I'm having a party with my friends this weekend to celebrate NaNoWriMo and I will be purchasing a frame for my certificate on Sunday (I know, I'm weird, but I'm just so extremely happy right now!)

Congratulations to everyone else who finished!  And to those who went way beyond the word requirements!  Good luck to all in editing your novels and if you try and get it published, I'll be cheering for you!!

Thank you to everyone who supported me and typed/suffered with me this year.  It was most definitely worth it in the end and I cannot wait to do it next year.

And now that my wrists are about to fall off and I am about to collapse from exhaustion, I am taking my leave.  Hopefully I will talk to some of you even though NaNoWriMo has ended.  You can keep in touch with me about all your writing, life, etc through e-mail if you like.  If not, I hope to talk to you all again next year!

Man, I am so happy and excited I finished.  (I'm sorry, I just HAD to add that one more time!)

3 days left!!

Okay, with three days left, I have already screwed up my word count.  I was supposed to have 5,000 more words typed tonight.  Well, I finished at 1am yesterday and now I'm stuck and have to study for a test tomorrow and it's 11:40.  So more work for me over the next three days.  Thank goodness I have a half day on Thursday, although I won't exactly be home until the normal time that day which is really not good...plus I have more tests and quizzes this week....okay, well wish me luck!  I'm going to be really upset if I don't finish this!

Quick Update

Recently I discovered it was the last week of nanowrimo and I have five more days to write half of my novel!  (AH!)  Well, the past two days (24th and 25ht) I am proud to announce that I have typed 10,000 words!!!!!!!!  =D

Wish me luck finishing this week since I'm almost half way done with my novel!  I have a few friends cheering for me already but it helps to see participants miraculously finish nano in the last week!  Good luck everyone, I know we can all finsh our novels by the end of November!!  =)

Day 16 +17 Worrying

Day 16: I was so tired from staying up late every night studying that I fell asleep while reading at 5pm!! So, obviously no typing. =(

Day 17: I read a bit, baked for lunch, and hung out all day and NO typing. Now that my friend's finally online, we're not even talking! So yeah, I'm going to start typing now and I think I'm just going to ignore her tonight since she's obsessing over her other friend at the moment.

P.S. I need to find someone to compete with! Ever since my friend quit NaNo, I have been REALLY slipping on my word count as you can all tell. Let's see if I can do it! Man, I really hope I can make it! T_T

Day 15 Studying

I had two tests and a quiz to study for, not to mention homework in my other classes and a book I had to finish. I had hoped to reach 15,000 tonight but that is not going to happen. However, I plan on outlining my story tomorrow during school and typing 5,000 words on Friday, Saturday, and Sunday to catch up. So about 1,667 words in the morning, 1,667 words in the evening, and 1,667 words at night might be a plausible sum. If not, I can race myself late at night. Wish me luck, I'm so stressed out!

Day 14 Slowly Working

So far I typed 1,000 words tonight! (Hoping for more within the next 40 minutes) Such an improvement compared to the past week and a half! I finished my homework so early too, but have been having the worst time with the relationship between my main two characters. I don't know, it just seems to be developing too quickly. But if lives are on the line already and dangerous situations pop up, that's natural, right? Please say right!

Well, I better get going if I don't want to fall asleep in class tomorrow! Happy typing to all!

Day 12 +13

Day 12: Reached 12,300 words!! Pretty darn good if I do say so myself, considering I kept getting writer's block all day!

Day 13: Too much homework to do anything. Couldn't even get up in the morning to get ready for school, let alone type. Oh well, that just means more work for me this week.

Day 11: Terrible

Absolutely NO progress made today. (A LITTLE outlining and maybe a couple hundred words but that's about it). I'm getting lazy already and really need to type non stop tomorrow. I'm going to try to type a bit more tonight OR finish my homework to lessen my workload tomorrow. Wish me luck!!!!

Day 9 +10 Busy

Day 9: Volunteered at the library and two of my books came in so I was happy. Then I had two friends over for a sleep over so obviously, no time for writing.

Day 10: They left late and then I had to read this book online before we left to go to my cousin's house. Got home late and have to get on traditional Saturday night video call with my friend so not much time to write tonight. My goal, however, is about 3,000 words tonight to bring me up to 12,000 words. Let's hope I make it!

Day 8: Snail's Pace + Planning

Well, still swamped with school work and presentations and I still need SOME sleep so I've only written about 500 words tonight, leaving me with 9,300 I believe?

Busy just about all weekend so that leaves Monday to catch up and by then I'll be about 10,000 words behind.

But I'm not going to worry about that now, I know I can catch up, no matter when that is and however painful it may be. =)

Right now I am concentrating my efforts on my beloved outlines and am writing down everything I can think of for the plot, etc. I've really come to realize that I need outlines in order to write about 10,000 words in one day and night.

AND, I'm getting up at 5am tomorrow no matter how foolish that may be. My goal is for 10,000-12,000 words by tomorrow. I'm assuming it'll only be about 10,000 since I don't have time by myself until Saturday afternoon and I'm busy most of the weekend as I think I mentioned earlier. Well, it's late so forgive me. I'm going to study for my english quiz tomorrow and get some much needed sleep!

I hope you all are doing really well with your word counts! And if you're more like me at the moment, we can do it!! We can reach 50,000 words no matter what it takes!!!!

Day 7: Hectic

Well, absolutely NO writing got done today! T_T

I had to work on two powerpoint presentations. I finished one and tomorrow I have to finish one or two more slides AND translate the whole thing into spanish. That took long enough tonight. Not to mention all the other homework I had to do. I didn't even read the 100 pages that was assigned in english class...

On the positive side: I have a good idea to get readers hooked on my novel and to get the two main characters on the run and traveling the world I created! :) I hope to write those parts....tomorrow I have homework and reading....Friday I volunteer and friends are coming over....Saturday I'm not home....Sunday I'm doing homework and then gone toward the afternoon/night. Okay! So all of Monday will be my typing day!! 14,000 words in one day...no problem? I guess I can get up at 5 to type... :-/

Day 6: Decisions, decisions, decisions

Okay, I sent my story to my friend and she really liked it and I ran some ideas by here and was able to pick one with her opinion so I am ready to write tonight! Unfortunately I have to study for one more quiz and read half an english book as I will postpone my presentation for history until tomorrow. That only leaves me one night to do it but oh well, that's my own fault. But thankfully it really won't take that long since I know exactly what I'm doing! =)

Not sure if I'm going to type tonight..I hope so. I think I'm going to stay up until 11 so I've got over two hours to finish my homework, which is plenty!

Oh, and my wrist support came in today! So now my wrist feels much better. =)

Day 5 Keeping Pace!

I've been doing better with nano. I've started typing in the morning and am slowly starting to get up earlier to type and I've been typing ever since I got home. I downloaded the program HED told me about. Thank you so much HED, it really works!! =)

All I need to do tomorrow is keep signed off of MSN and I'll really get a lot of work done. I'm only on 8,000 words as I type this, not even 400 words away from the daily goal, and I hope to reach 9,000 words before I get to bed. Wish me luck!

My overall goal is to type more than 50,000 words since I have a lot of worlds to explore. I may expand on this idea and write a trilogy in this world I've made, I'm not sure yet. :) Although, that's assuming I don't kill off the main character in the end..I may save that for the third book. O:)

Day 4 Damage

I've been typing more at night and have been competing with my friend, which has really motivated me. I am currently at 5,300 words or so and I believe I've done permanent damage to my wrist...I hope to get my wrist support tomorrow. We'll see how that goes.

Days 2+3: Far Behind

Day 2: I was so tired when I got home from school that when I started writing my novel over again, I only reached about 600 words.

Day 3: I was writing a short story for my friend's birthday and then I worked on my fan fics so I have about 1,757-ish words. I'm going to write down what I want to happen next so that I can catch up tomorrow morning and then I'm going to make two powerpoints for school in the afternoon. Let's hope I can make it!! I guess I can always catch up on my work Monday after school but still! I can't believe I'm already THIS behind! =(

Day 1: Perfectionist

I never thought the inner editor would be so hard to suppress but even after the second sentence I've written in my novel, I continue to go back and edit what I have written. I think I've also re-written the beginning at least three times already!! And I've been re-reading what I've written. I've also placed the word count button in the tool bar and am constantly clicking it! This is going to be MUCH harder than I thought. Maybe I should type my novel on notepad! =P

So pretty much, I've done just about everything that you're not supposed to do during national novel writing month. However, on a good note, I've gotten a basic character list written and have named and partially described the races in my world. :)

My mom got really mad at me since I took a few extra minutes in the shower so I am currently spending the night killing my wrists, trying to type my novel from an odd chair while my computer chair is trying to keep the door closed so my mom can't come in. My keyboard's on my lap and I'm wearing my glasses which really aren't helping me see my computer screen any better. What a way to spend my absolute first day ever of nanowrimo!

Man, I even have the hiccups for the second time today! They're driving me absolutely insane! =P Well, I guess I really have to go work on my novel again. I think I'm just going to end this scene and skip to another one. I really can't continue the beginning of my novel and may re-write it completely tomorrow after school.

Current Word Count: 519

8:20pm: So, I've finally decided what I want to happen in the opening scene of my novel. Now all I need to do is type it straight through without worrying about the diction of all my characters and the descriptions. Boy am I getting up at five am tomorrow to type SOMETHING decent!