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Archive for November 12th, 2007

Finally! A writing spurt for NaNoWriMo!

Posted by wevmax on November 12, 2007

So I was pissed about losing my Fantasy Football  game today, and I pretty much stayed home all day. All i wanted to add (since it  is 2:40am and I have to go to work today morning), is that I finally wrote with honor today! At current count I am up to 14,470 words! A new record for me! Just 35, 530 to go! LOL

I will say that the preparations  that I made seem to have helped me alot. First of all I went through alot of the forums at the Nanowrimo website, and this helped me flesh out a few things like at least having a rough character profile, an excel spreadshett with a timeline that I could space out some thoughts, and I even created a daily word counter where I can put the daily amount of words that I wrote that day, it would add up the total, calculate by how much I am off pace (or ahead of which hasn’t happened yet… but give it time!), and it even displays a pie chart showing how much i’ve completed based on my numbers and how much I have to go. To be on pace, and in total to get up to 50,000 words!

Suffice to say, I  do think that it helped! I was able to double my word count in one day because of  it, and  I think that it was  pretty decent writing to boot! The other thing that really helped me out was  re-reading through my first 3 chapters. I know that we aren’t supposed to look back at what we wrote, but for me it helped because I was able to add alot more detail to my story and think about how it was all going to come together (now that I had a timeline). So if it helped me, then I guess that it couldn’t be all that bad right?  :-)

Well, i’m going to take a quick shower and go to bed. I will  shower before going to bed because I KNOW that I will be waking up late and be in a rush. If i shower now I will be eliminating shower time in the morning! See, I do like to plan ahead!

Wish me luck! And hopefully later today (Monday) I’ll be able to catch up and write the 5, 000 + words that I will need to write to be caught up to my daily amount for Tuesday! I’m looking forward to that! Good night!

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Still behind… but writing strong!!!

Posted by wevmax on November 12, 2007

So today, after watching my CBS Fantasy football team do NOTHING! (I’m still pissed) and to see Peyton Manning play the worse football that I have seen ANY BOOTY quarterback play… I turned away from the TV and finally started writing. Channeling some of the anger and frustration.

I was in first place in my Fantasy League till this week. I was officially kicked to 2nd place in my division after i’ve been talking smack to the other guys about being in first place for the last 4 weeks. Oh well. The only good things that I have to show for today are that i’ve reached past 11,000 words (and counting!), and that I saw an enjoyable movie during dinner. It was “Wild Hogs” with John Travolta, Martin Laurence, Tim (the tool guy), and this other guy. I’ve never been good with names! It was pretty funny. Anyway… i’ll get back to writing and i’ll write more on that later!

Peace!

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