Was literally working on my word count until 5 minutes to midnight. Managed 1770 words. I wasn't sure I would get it because I got distracted figuring out small details for a couple hours. On the plus side, those small details were really important so I wouldn't have been upset if that had kept me from getting my word count.

I don't blame ya... I will have the real potential to fall behind any or all days between Thursday and Sunday, because for me there is no avoiding real life those days and real life is typically stressful. That makes me a lot more apt to let myself get distracted so even when I find the time, I don't really want to spend it doing something productive. LOL

I'm kinda like that too... Only my productive days are not quite that productive, word count wise. You'd think as wordy as I tend to be in conversation, I'd be really wordy with my stories but I like to at least try to be more precise, more purposeful. (-realizes that might be misunderstood- I mean in personal comparison, not any kind of reference to what you are writing.) It's great that you've been able to continue focusing on the one project. It's hard to stick with one project if you have other ideas floating around. I am proud of myself that I am managing to stick to one story world, at this point. LOL

Welcome to the thread! XD Are you planning on keeping it fairly similar or are you doing a full rewrite? I have a hard time going back to old not completed just abandoned for another idea projects without wanting to do a complete revamp.

-is a little jealous of your word count- You are doing quite well. Congrats!

Well thank you! It helps [word count-wise] that I'm writing a YA story with several autobiographical elements, so the closer it gets to my life, the easier it becomes to write... but I'm really surprised HOW well it's going nonetheless. Can't believe it's only the 9th.

It's going to be a full rewrite for me because I've attempted the lazy rewrite and I keep giving up. I've aged up all the characters and moved in characters that originally weren't in that specific book (I was a go getter for a long time and wrote like...12 books for the same series). The villain in the book is the same but other than that it has almost a completely different plot. So I don't know if I can even call it a rewrite at this point haha

Part of my struggle is that there are elements of the story I am working on that are based more on fascination than actual knowledge and that's a little intimidating for me at this point. This particular story doesn't involve as much of those elements as another story I have planned the same series but hopefully I'll be better prepared when I start writing it. The primary concept that my muse flirting with on the edges of my brain is based more in things I know. Fortunately, I don't think that my muse really finds that idea particularly interesting right now.

I'd still call that a rewrite personally since the story was the starting point, but there may be some better terminology out there somewhere. Besides, I am pretty sure I read somewhere that the first draft usually has very little to do with the final draft anyway. Personally I try to make my stories into something that I think I would re-read if it were published by another writer... Because I'll probably have to re-read it, at least once, if I want to get it past "rough draft" stage. -nods-

- Same, thurs-sat aren't good for me either. Almost caught up yesterday, but not quite, hoping today will be more productive.

- Wow, congrats! Go for double nano!

- Sounds like you are doing what I should be doing OTL But I fell into the trap of re-reading my old story and I actually finding myself liking it, so I've not so much been re-writing it, as re-wording it. But I have changed a few plot elements, and this is just the beginning, later on in the story everything is going to be changed quite a bit.

welcome to the thread :) I try to make sure that if there isn't a thread already that I make one. You all keep me motivated than if I just try to do it by myself.

Its seriously the hardest thing in the world to stick with one story. I mostly write on my computer but decided today that I was going to carry a notebook around with me to work out of...I found something I started writing earlier this year and almost started writing on that >.<. I have a story starting addiction, but I need to have a story finishing addiction. I think having to write every day has actually been good for me, I'm developing a habit.

I literally have no inspiration to write right now. I mean, it's not that I don't have ideas for my project. I just don't want to actually write. I was late going to bed so I was late waking up and I never do well in the first few hours of my "day"... At this point I'm just hoping to get in a few hundred words so I'll have something to show for today. I'm definitely going to be getting in some extra writing time tomorrow so I think maybe I'll be able to make up for today's losses... Though I'll probably still be behind because of Saturday.

I'm not actually managing the one story thing, instead I'm working on one series. Then again, the stories are all so intertwined, I guess you could say it is one big story, taken from different perspectives. I feel very happy now that I am making progress though. Everything is getting clearer, including key aspects of the first story.

It's always a little strange for me when people talk about looking forward to the weekend. Weekends have been the busiest part of the week for me for years. Not only that, more than once I've had people make plans for the weekend and then, even when they are vaguely aware of my schedule, they kinda get upset when I tell them I'm not sure I'll be able to make it. "But it's the weekend! What's the problem?!" -rolls eyes-

I wish I could intertwine the two stories, but one of them is about an android and is very science fictiony the other is definitely more fantasy.

I honestly have learned to write down something during the day while im in classes, then I try to type it up and end up changing what I wrote significantly its enough to at least give me my word count.

I'm wishing that I could intertwine some of my other concepts with this one as well, beyond what actually fits with the series. Honestly, I keep having to be careful to not incorporate fantasy, because some of my favorite fantasy characters could easily live in the environment... It would change the whole feel of my story though. I'm not sure I even want to imply that any of my characters might believe in the supernatural because I know my muse would be screaming an affirmative and pulling the whole world into that realm. (Even now, my muse is trying to convince me of the possibility.)

Anyway, I somehow managed to get 1,100 words so I am a little less than a day behind on my word count. I already know what I am going to working on when I get the chance to write again. Sooo... I am hoping that maybe, just maybe, I'll be able get a fair amount over today. I'd really prefer to catch up sooner rather than later.

- I know what you mean. I work the weekends too. It sucks when all my friends have weekday 'normal' hours jobs. And not only do I work the weekends, I work the afternoon shift, so I'm never home before 8 (and when I end up at work an hour late I don't get home until 9) Like my parents just recently announced their plan to go Christmas tree hunting, which, before all us kids went off to university was a thing we did as a family, and I was really looking forward to being able to go again now that I'm back in the same city, and also needing my own tree for my place... nope, last year they changed their plans last minute and went on saturday, and they plan on going on saturday again this year. I made one request, just ONE!

I'm actually contemplating continuing with my own little un official nano each month (with a month in between for editing and polish the previous months piece). I'm not sure if its practical but I do find that I really have plenty of time to write when I just decide to not do other things...like watch to much television.

I'm about a day ahead currently

- I would join you on that! Or like a writing circle or something. My friend was talking the other day about a kind of reverse nano, where it doesn't matter how much you write, but how long you write, so you would just set a time goal (like wrote for 30 minutes a day) and it doesn't matter how much you write in that time period, just that you did it. I think I would want to do something like that. Then I could edit and reword things to my hearts content, instead of just throwing words onto a page willy nilly.

Well, I only managed 1,706 words for the 10th (instead of making more progress towards making up that almost-a-day's worth of words), but I had a "Eureka" moment and Act One has all its main elements definitively worked out now. I am still trying to decide how physically and emotionally intimate my MC and his love interest will get in this story. I'm also trying to decide on what kind of villain would be the best. The series has an all-encompassing antagonistic force, but most likely there will be no particular Big Bad. I'm thinking the villain of the first story is not a bad guy per say, just someone who is doing bad things out of somewhat willful ignorance.

I am planning on getting a desktop type calendar for next year to keep track of multiple goals and help myself stay motivated. One of those will be to write. I don't know if I'll be trying to stick to a single project or if it will just be working on projects in general.

[edit] I am sorry to hear that your family is not willing to make a point to include you. Most of my family isn't either, including my siblings. Fortunately, my mom really does try, so that helps, at least on the emotional side.

Morning Nanos! I'm pleased to see several word counts at or nearing 20,000! How exciting. I've not been around much, lots of real life invading my Subeta time, but today is a holiday, and so I want to take the time to encourage you all. It's only the 11th and there is still a lot of opportunities to finish that goal! Take it one day at a time and good luck!

- 1700 is still more than the minimum so that's good. And figuring stuff out is also good. We should form a group on subeta and make sure we all keep each other accountable for our writing. I'm really bad outside of Nano, but I really would like to get these projects that I'm working on finished.

Still haven't caught up and I'm gonna fall behind again today. I've been working away on different aspects but I need time to fit those pieces together. Gonna be making notes on pencil and paper, which I suppose I can transcribe in its entirety to my Scrivener file later, because it's just easier when there are a lot of shifting parts.

I'm all for being part of such a group, just maybe not being the one to make it. LOL I'm not exactly consistent when it comes to the social aspects of this site. Sometimes I am really active and sometimes I will go weeks barely saying anything.

Thank you for stopping by! It's getting closer to that half-way mark when (in my experience) motivation seems to take a nose-dive, so it's very nice of you to offer words of encouragement. :)

- I would be happy to run something like that, but I would need people to participate or else a) I won't want to run it anymore, and b) It won't work cus I'll need other people to make sure I am accountable for doing the writing!

I didn't complete NaNo last year, but I did manage to write a 38,079 word story within the span of a few months, which is the most I'd ever done at once. I've been writing a lot of mini prompts off of a big list that I randomly roll from as an exercise in flexibility, but my issue remains to be stamina (and why I have yet to actually try and publish anything). The great books that I've read recently tend to hit around the 250-450 page mark. That's a really fleshed out story with multiple happenings, and my issue is trying to come up with such a long domino effect of events to bring readers along on a sizable journey. I want to make the sequence of events meaningful too, not some random happenings thrown in haphazardly. It's like with my stories, it goes from point A, B, C, and finally D, while the novels I've been reading go something more like A, B, C, D, E, F, G, and end at H. It's hard to sit down and write these days because I'm not in school anymore and now have a full-time teaching job.

welcome to the thread ^^ I actually was just trying to explain the madness of my story to someone and realized that there are so many interconnections that if I graphed it all out would look simply put like madness. I do not know if anyone has seen any of J.K. Rowlings planning steps, I did a little research on planning at one point trying to see if I could push a little harder this year and found some of her stuff. It really does look like madness sometimes, but you can see how much the madness really makes for a very interesting story.

and behind again. I swear it's a good thing when I write a couple days worth ahead so that when I fall behind during the week with school and fire drills (we had one last night at 12:45 and the night before at 2:45 am.) I get quite tired. But lucky for me I am actually only really a day and a few words behind.

Happy Halfway point Everyone!

- I'm writing one of those A to B to K stories right now! I worked on it consecutively for 4 nanowrimos, and only just touched upon the surface of the 'main' story. I think my 'novel' is going to have to be in multiple parts. Jobs do get in the way of writing sometimes. I used to write way more when I was in university.

- Sorry to hear you are behind again! Hopefully you can make it up over the weekend! I managed to get myself caught up on wednesday, and I'm hoping to stay on par, or at least close to, for the rest of the month. Someone asked me to explain my story to them the other day as well, and she was like, if you can't say it in one paragraph or less it's too complicated! (hence why I need to do mine in multiple parts) It would kind of be interesting to see the planning steps JKR had. I knew she 'wrote' the ending well before she wrote much of anything else, but seeing the would planning process would be chaos! I should actually write out my 'plan' instead of just having it in my head. There's an important character that shows up later, and I found a note I had written about him that contradicted what I had thought in my head, and then couldn't find anything else written down about his character, and now I'm really confused about it. (at least he doesn't show up until much later, and doesn't become important for a long time after that)