How’s everyone doing? Did you start writing last night at midnight? Get up early to do it? Or are you planning on starting tonight?
Chris Baty suggests getting ahead start on your novel in week one when you have the energy, so shoot for 2000 words a say instead of the average 1677. For Americans, this will help during the Thanksgiving holidays!
Don’t forget about the NaNomonkeys daily podcast! EDIT Feb 17, 2009 – the Nanomonkeys site expired and was snatched up by a porn site, so we recommend not searching for this podcast.
And good luck.
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Now that so many people around the world are doing it, isn’t it time to change the name to InNoWriMo? (International Novel Writing Month).
I wanted to start at midnight, but I was so damn tired I did little more than write the title. This morning, however, while having my cereal, I pounded out my first 400 words, so it’s something. Good to be in Nano finally!
I began at midnight, excited to finally start. Yay!
Althought I’m not officially participating in NanoWrimo, I am shooting for that 50K word goal for the month of November.
I got up forty-five minutes earlier this morning to beef up that ol’ word count.
Litte tricks in your daily routine can have a profound impact on word count.
I started this morning when I had a free 5 minutes after getting the son ready to go to his grandma’s.
I cannot believe that I move to Iowa and continue to run into Phil Rossi EVERYWHERE I GO.
It must be fate.
But I digress from the original purpose of my comment, which was to say that I decided not to stay up until midnight, choosing instead to get up at 5:15 a.m. to pound out 850 words before work.
As I told my boyfriend, I’m almost 1/50th of the way there…
Genie
The Inadvertent Gardener
Just found your site/podcast and I am doing NaNo for the second time. The first time I flamed out but I went in with zero planning/ideas. This time I htink I can stick. Good luck to you all!
I acutaly started at midnight, in fact we had a whole group that started on the stroke of 12. I was impressed with myself, writing 2k words in 45 minutes.
I’ll be posting day by day thoughts about Nano on my own writing blog.
I’ll be podcasting bit of pieces of my writing as I go. I did character profiles, landscaping, plotting, and outlining before hand. I also found all the mobile homes in the trailer park I’m writing about, the dinosaurs from the era the get transporter too, and have a working conflict.
So my guess is that I’ll be pounding away day after day and may even have something worthwhile when I’m done. WOO!
Oh, I’m at 1,100 words and still going. Just taking a quick break.
I started tonight. I have been itching to get going and I got 3700 words down. Some work needs to go into plotting and planning soon, though. I got through the first chapter and the third, but i would like to try and avoid skipping around too much. Hopefully this weekend I will have enough of a good start that I can work more on the notes and stuff. Anyway, good luck everyone.
I’ve pounded out 2251 words on mine today according to Word. And I recorded and posted a podcast. Suicidal pace I know.
Obsidian River – Free Flowing Fiction in Podcast Form
Day 1: 1942 words
Thanks, Mur, for pointing me to NaNoWriMo. I’ve wanted to write a book for a while now, but “never had the time.” heh.
-Will
I started right at midnight, and did 1684 words, knowing the next day would be so hectic I’d have little time for more writing. Unfortunately, I was right, and did not do more than that. Oh well, at least I got the daily goal.