Congratulations!
I have time (ironically) to do a marathon session and attempt to get over 10k words. I really don’t need to marathon to get that, but there’s no need to rush at this point. Maybe next year. I hope to see you all back!!! :tup:
Thanks, guys.
(Answer the question!
throws the book at you)
Although I have committed the sin of sloth again due to my shitty body, I have **finally **gotten past the threshold that I wanted to get past by Monday of 40,000 words. I am now at **40,032 words. **
I think that the rest of this book will end up being a quite of non-forced expository dialogue and interaction since there’s no way in hell I’m anywhere near the end. I wonder if I should skip ahead and include the end, though. …Probably not, I’m kinda paranoid about it potentially get out as it is, so keep the ending mum when I already know I’m going seems for the best.
At this point, I’m going to try to include another proper fight, which should be easy since we have a madman as a character coming up, and try to introduce enough female characters before I finish to pass that (overblown but still somewhat valid) Bechdel Test even if my all novel ideas pretty much pass that with ease. I’ll laugh if get to 50,000 words just as the final female character introduced (or the first “big” fight starts).
If I get to 50,000. I’m going to have marathon again like I had intended today since I had planned to go somewhere tomorrow, but we’ll see how that goes now.
Don’t wish me luck.
One final excerpt from Chapter 9 since it was just something that reminded me of goodm0urning with his constant Superman avatar.
Ubermensch
[details=Spoiler]Like now, he acknowledged, as he finally realized his feeling heavier was rather literal.
“Hit a nerve, did I?” Wendy said more curiously than maliciously as he watched her stand. “I won’t make fun of you. I can’t imagine that humans like to feel powerless, even if your lives are in the blink of an eye. Those of you who have these powers must feel it even worse at times, even if I would consider you among the blessed few to not only know of her existence, but to also speak with her. Still, I can’t imagine that would make it easier….”
She looked off the side, as if hanging her head in sympathy, though maybe she was just looking down at her still bound ankle. He couldn’t see her dead eyes since, despite his manipulation of light, he didn’t have X-Ray vision. He wasn’t a superman.
“Ha! I don’t need your sympathy,” he spat as he tried to take a step toward her, finding he could only lift his foot off the ground barely high enough past his other ankle before it had to come back down.
“You will find yourself unable to move. That you are able to stand at all is impressive,” she informed him, sounding sincerely impressed as she backed away to the rope’s limits, though his hands only gripped tighter despite the strain of it.
He couldn’t let her leave.[/details]
Not to look like a braggart, but I have to ask here: Didn’t you say you already had 8,000 words in? 2,000 words doesn’t seem like it would need that much time even if you have kids. However, you know yourself better than anyone else, so, meh.
At least you have the beginning of something that you like, though. Just make sure that you keep up with it instead of letting it go. [/hypocrisy]
I squared my debt with the universe by finishing a day early.
Yeah, I just pretty much gave up.
2k isn’t much at all, however I’ve stopped writing daily. I’ve got a lot that I’m going through right now and I just barely have time (other than downtime during my 12-hour work shifts) to do anything. See my first or second post in this thread. :tup:
ps, It’s mostly the game that’s taking a bunch of time (I hope to take it public some day), but there’s some other unexpected stuff in there too. Stuff called ‘life.’ Meh! :tup:
Oh, also I’m not gonna lie. I’ve been reading Cryptonomicon and it’s really been consuming a lot of my free time too.
Fuck it. I won’t have time to finish the last 1000 words for tonight and I don’t want to rush things.
(No! Rush them you bitch! Rush them!)
Speaking of rushing, despite the fact that I keep falling asleep–ugh, my neck is killing me–just in the past three hours I’ve finally managed to make it to **48,135 words ** from the 43,000~ words I had when I fell asleep around 12:50 P.M. like a lazy bastard.
You must all viciously mock me until at least Nov. 1, 2012 if I manage to not make it to 50,000+ in the next three hours.
So no then.
Oh, right…
Well, at least you genuinely tried and have something to work off of. There’s always that. [/grasping at optimism]
(Double posting because I’ll forget otherwise since I’ll probably go bed soon, never wanting to look at the Internet for a least day if possible due to sheer disgust. So, forgive me, Valaris.
If you can’t, though, then may I point out that goodm0urning should be punished far more heavily than me for doing it multiple times?)
Sigh.
It just doesn’t seem like it’s going to happen. This whole novel was fun, especially this time around where I got further. However, as ever, ultimately it comes to naught, unfinished and probably, due to my lazy and unskilled hands, bound to remain that way.
Let us count the ways in which I failed doing this so that you may be more accurate in your descriptions of this debacle to keep it from ever fading from memory:
[LIST=1]
[]Keeping a schedule - Failed.
[]Not waiting until the last minute to do things in a rush like always even though he knows he always fails at that. - Failed.
[]Crafting an interesting story with multi-dimensional characters. - Failed.
[]Not spending time just having "talk, talk, talk"ing as of a lot of his word count. - Failed.
[]Having a clear, thought out direction in his endeavor that could be executed well within 50,000 words - Failed.
[]Getting better at giving visual descriptions, especially in textual form. - Failed.
[]Getting better at writing combat scenes or “action” scenes in general, especially those with a minimal amount of talking if any at all. -** Failed.**
[]Passing the Bechdel Test. - Failed.
[]Having two women even interact with each other despite not being in segregated environments. - Failed.
[]Not getting passed 50,000 words. - Failed.
[/LIST]
Sigh.
…
You know what? I hate you, Damned. :tup:
So who else is doing it again this year?
I’m still working on the one I started last year. Think it would be bad fare to have a strong project going then put it off to the side to work on another in the same vein?
That’s not to say I don’t have ideas for other novels I could start on. I’ll probably know like the day of it commencing whether I’m in or not.
Sent to the Internet with Smoke Signaltalk. Buy your matches and blanket in the Trading Outlet for $20 shipped. Firewood sold separately.
Just use the month as a good excuse to pile on another 50,000 words.
Tomorrow!
Starting tomorrow. Some of you may already know that my fiction writing is hella weak.
Here’s me on such an occasion where I get called out: 
I don’t think I’m going to even try this year, my schedule is a bit too packed for me to want to spend the time.
But maybe I will, I don’t know. Find out tomorrow I guess. Could always start late and go for less words (although that’s lame as hell)
wow can’t believe it’s been a whole year. will get in on this
I have a couple of ideas for books. It would be kinda fun to jump on this. do you guys try to get the works published afterwards?
Man, I have wrote some stuff on the past but is on spanish so…
… am i still good to participate ? 
Never heard of this before, weird I was just about to take a crack at writing, that said I might just write on my own time, get used to it, and try next year. What advantages does this give to writers?
The only advantage it gives is to give you the nudge into starting to write.
I’m going to shop my book around from last year when it’s finished. I’m getting there, but I’m in a writers block as far as the novel goes.
Poetry and music though is flowing freely.
Thanks, shame I found out about it when I already got a nudge.
In return as a solution to your writer’s block I shall give you an idea, add sassy porcupine sidekick who speaks in nothing but pop culture references named Phil.