And so JaNoWriMo begins...

[waldenwriter.livejournal.com]

I didn't see an official word count post this time around, so I'm posting my own post. Please let me know if that is not allowed.

I kind of forgot about JaNoWriMo until last night (New Year's Eve), and due to working on other things and having to go into work tonight, I didn't get to writing until just before midnight on January 1st/2nd. Oh and also I had had to print out and paste the part of chapter 7 that wasn't in my handwritten MS notebook into it, which took some time.

Anyway, in an effort to once again write every day, I set a 10-minute timer and wrote. So here's the count:

Tuesday's Word Count (1/1/13): 125
Total Word Count: 125

Although I am continuing my NaNo novel, I'm starting a fresh word count, since I figured we were supposed to do that. Or not. Not sure how JaNoWriMo works. Is there a word count to shoot for like with NaNo? Or are we all just setting our own word count goals this time? I suppose I could go for 50k again. If anyone knows the answer to this, please mention it in the comments.

Hope everyone's doing well in JaNoWriMo land!

Comments

[lisbetavery.livejournal.com]

As far as my knowledge of JaNoWriMo goes, any unofficial novel writing month is a set your own WC event. I could be wrong.

I'm shooting for 25K this month (very busy), and have 3k completed already with a large chunk of that slated for deletion already.

[waldenwriter.livejournal.com]

That makes sense. I'll have to decide what my WC goal will be then.

[ahavah]

I'm at a whopping 0 wc right now. I went to get started yesterday, but, well, the hubs & I had a HUGE fight (like, not sure if our marriage is over or not) and since this was supposed to kind of be my book for him, I found that I couldn't write at all yesterday. I laid in bed and got drunk all day. YAY.

Gonna try to write today though. Gotta push through and get started. I've had this WIP in the works for a year, so ain't nobody gonna hold me down. :P I refuse to go to bed until I make today's wordcount. Even with a dark computer screen. Can't wait to get this sucker published. ha ha ha

[waldenwriter.livejournal.com]

I know how you feel. I've been planning my WIP for at least 3 or 4 years. It took NaNo to get me to actually write it down. So I want to finish it.

[ahavah]

Right on! Getting any farther? I finally managed about 1200 words today.

I think I usually have to let novels percolate for a LONG time. I knock out short stories or flash fiction pretty quickly (when I put my mind to it...compulsive procrastinator here), but novels usually tumble around for at least a year, sometimes a lot more, before I'm ever ready to tackle them.

[alicia-h.livejournal.com]

Nothing done yet on any of my intended January projects. I was a bit zonked out on new years day, even though it was a very sedate new years eve with my dad and stepmum. Then I had to come back on the train today.

Hopefully on the 3rd I'll be able to sit down and get myself organised. :-)

[waldenwriter.livejournal.com]

I feel pretty disorganized too. I basically ignored my novel all through December, so I still have a lot of prep work to do in addition to writing the actual novel. Hopefully we both can become more organized!

[athenesolon.livejournal.com]

I'm treating it as something of a "finishing month" meaning attempting to get 25,000 words onto a story or series of stories. These are stories I was already writing a while on but lately I've been tweaking as I go along. Well this month might actually help on the "stop tweaking and just go for it" front. My word count for yesterday ended up around 1000 words. Today so far I haven't had quite as much time to get to my writing so we'll see if I keep up with my goal of 807 words per day.

[waldenwriter.livejournal.com]

I'd do that too but I still have a long way to go until the book is finished. I'm only on Chapter 8, and barely out of the beginning. Wondering just how long it'll take to finish this book...