- ok!

Lemme know if you feel like you wanna go again :3 I'll check back periodically.

- I'll probably just marathon with myself for the next hour or so. Only have today's minimum to go now!

Good night Nanos!! I managed to get 5336 today, so I'm a little bit ahead of the game for now. I like being ahead just in case things get crazy later on with the holidays. Good luck and sleep well.

- w00! Congrats! I'm just about caught up myself!

Well, I am ending the 18th about 400 words short of NaNo's suggested word count but I feel pretty good about that considering...

Answering those questions helped a lot... I got nearly 700 more words... and I've only done the questionnaire for one project so far! Not only that, but I need to go back an elaborate on my answers. I have two, maybe three, other projects that are developed enough to really take advantage of it. Hopefully my answers for them will be just as wordy and insightful. I figured out three major points about this first one that I didn't see before. Should be able go back and fill in some blank spots in that project, whenever I want to work on it.

-takes a break to review and play Subeta before getting to work on her word count for the 19th-

Grats!! Wow, you're really amazing at catching up :D

I think I'll go write a little more, too.

- I did it! w00! 30119 words! Time for bed!

Congrats! Super well done :D

Congratulations, KiaArra! Great work! Hope you sleep well. :)

[edit] So far I've gotten just over a 1000 words today and I am feeling fairly confident I'll make my goal of 3k... Probably not before I go to bed though.

How's it going today?

Keep up your good progress?

LOL Thanks. XD

I'm just getting started on it this evenings, so I don't know how well I'll actually do. (Had to go grocery shopping... Got a little more food than I needed -eyes box of tasty chocolates- but at least I don't have to worry about running out of essentials for the time being.) My mind is stuck on one project but the characters aren't really giving me anything useful.

A few of my other projects are beginning to blend together and I may end up with 5 to 7 solid and viable concepts rather than the 10+ I expected. Not that it's a bad thing. I'm willing to do what it takes to help me get a better end product (err... are stories technically a product? -makes note to look up definition later-) that I, at least, will be happy with.

Stories are a thing you create... I think they count. As long as you are happy with what you come up with, that's a fantastic thing. Quality over quantity in this case!

I haven't written yet this evening... we always have company on Wednesdays to watch anime and we're at the end of a series, and even though I've seen it before I can't bring myself to plug into my headphones and block everything out while it's still going XD

It doesn't help me that I keep getting distracted by things I've been putting off... Like cleaning my office/living space, which is beginning to look like a copier exploded... Got notes and helpful print-outs laying on top of every half-way flat surface. I think I will have to do something about the mess tonight, but I am going to try to wait until the day rolls over to the 20th. =)

Anyway, sometimes it is good to take a 24-hour break. It can let your mind absorb what you have been writing and may be come up with new ideas. Probably would be helpful, even during NaNo. Maybe even more so since it is hard to do the same thing, basically, for 30 days in a row... -shrugs-

I'm going to keep writing :3 There's only an episode and a half left and then we're going to watch a movie I've seen a million times and can ignore without a care. Sounds like your space is a mess right now though! Might help with focus to clear some of it? :)

Well, that sounds good too as long as it's what you want to do. -nods- It's not particularly productive to force yourself to do one thing when you really want to be doing something else.

-chuckles- I can handle the mess until I can't find any more flat surfaces. Then it starts getting on my nerves. I am pretty much at that point now.

Half the challenge of NaNo for me is writing even if I don't "feel like it" - I'm very good at talking myself out of doing something in favor of something easier. If I don't learn to sit down and just DO IT, it will literally never get written. That's what NaNo is for me :) It's a tool to teach myself to just get some words, even if it's not a lot of words, every single day whether it's a struggle or it 'flows'.

If I want to write as a career, I need to know how to do it regardless of being 'inspired' or not, and how to be dedicated instead of ignoring it because there's a video game sitting there staring at me.

Urrgh, running out of horizontal surfaces is terrible. Good luck! :)

(I think I've probably brought this up before... Maybe not here though. I don't know. Sorry if I repeat myself.) I'd like to be published one day, but I probably will have to self-publish. I can't imagine forcing myself to write on a regular basis. I think I'd much rather have some other kind of career and have writing as a paid (hopefully) hobby.

Oh, and thank you for wishing me luck! -looks around then sighs- I think I am going to need it.

It's not forced for me XD It's... blocking out distractions. Training. I've read a lot of "tips" about writing, and the authors I really love and respect have all in some form or another given the advice to write and write often, even if you aren't "feeling it". I'm positive that's not something that works for everyone :D It sounds like you and I have very, very different methods and I think that's rad - creative things are the best things. You can do it in so many different ways and none of them or "right" or "wrong" for anybody but you. There is no special process out there that will work for everyone.

I just have a lot... a lot... in my head and if I don't push myself down and write it, it'll never happen. The ADD is strong with this one. So I'm literally training myself into being able to sit down and focus on a single thing and see it through instead of letting my brain hop 6 different trains and multitask into oblivion.

Somehow have managed 500 more words... If I can get 500 more I'll be satisfied but I am sincerely hoping I can get more than that.

I don't have ADD so I am sure that makes a difference. What I do have is (most likely) general anxiety disorder. (If not that then some other kind of anxiety disorder... I haven't talked to a doctor about it because when I have the time the symptoms are bearable and when I am busy I am a complete mess.) With everything I do, either I worry incessantly about every possible bad outcome or I make sure to keep the emotional/mental pressure at a minimum.