Likewise here, although sometimes breaking into that next scene can be tough, trying to figure out the best way to segue, or figuring out where that scene should even start. But it’s working, no road blocks, just speed bumps.
Also, for anyone new to this, fair warning. Don’t be deceived by the word count your word processor gives you. If you want an accurate word count, scramble your document and verify it with the NaNoWriMo site. I don’t know if it’s the same in MSOffice, but in LibreOffice, it counts punctuation and spacing in the word count. NaNoWriMo doesn’t. Mine when I finished yesterday said 2096 in Libre, but on the site, it said 2080.
Speaking of verifying word counts, finished today at 4425. May do more before bed, but don’t know. Should have ample time tomorrow, so hoping that I knock out a large chunk.
I got to around 2100 yesterday. I want to get to 4500 today, but I have 7 hours of school and 5 hours at work. Not counting time to get ready/homework/study. Yeah, its bullshit.
Still. Hoping I can get’r done. The weekend is gonna be some serious word grinding time.
Fuuuuuuck, I do not have it tonight. Last night was the first time in a little while that I didn’t get much sleep, so my brain is working extra hard to do pretty much anything. By my count, I’ve written less than 1,280 words during this session and I’m already feeling tapped. It’s well short of the 2,500 I’m supposed to be shooting for.
It’s not that I don’t know where it’s supposed to go next. I know what the next one or two scenes are going to be. I’m just hoping that this is me being tired, and not me already beginning to wash out after just a few days.
And I keep telling myself I can always write more later in the day when I get up, but it hasn’t happened yet.
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Same here, only my excuse is my sinuses putting me out of it. I have a little done, but I’ll settle for just getting up to 6,000 today instead of 7,000 like I was pinning on.
(Hmm…I knew having all this free time would be problematic. That combined with what just happened…)
Meh. If it makes you feel better, all I’ve still done are 157 words, but that’s more due to just not doing it than “writer’s block”.
I’m pretty sure I can catch tomorrow if I want to. It’s just a matter of wanting to…do anything. [/apathy & lack of energy]
For now I’m just going to try to go bed (“early”). Not because I’m actually tired. More because I’m just kinda disgusted with consciousness once again. Night.
something ive always wanted to do but never did? Have sex…thats what i never got to do.
Well write a book. Then you’ll have all sorts of bishes wanting to have sex with you. [/Finding Forester] :tup:
Sean Connery approves.
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Currently sitting on my wife’s laptop, because the screen on mine died. Looks like the Pac Man kill screen when I boot.
Don’t even have the money to replace it.
And guess who was stupid enough NOT to put his novel on his external HDD?
Ah, man. that sucks sucks. Can you put the other drive in your wife’s system for a bit to transfer it?
Well, it’s only the laptop screen, because I have my laptop currently hooked up to the monitor at my desk at work, and it’s working fine.
I do now have the files (work files/novel/anything I’ve created since my last backup) on my external now, just in case. But pissed me off, because I sat down after dinner ready to write, and instead saw half of my screen. Replacing the laptop screen, or just getting a new laptop altogether, needs to happen when I can. But for now, it’s usable basically as just a tower requiring a monitor. When I can get some extra cash made, I’ll see what I can do, but a new Asus laptop sounds sexy.
(So, for the record, we have five people doing this? Missing Person, goodm0urning, Manx, Losha and myself?)
Good to hear that you didn’t have to start all over, Missing Person, even if it is/was only three or four days into it. Your almost fuck-up is a good reminder to back up stuff in general, not that I hadn’t already intended to do that with all the “tuning” my desktop still needs–I just had forgotten to include this current project in it, probably I still haven’t thought of a decent name beyond the protagonist’s (real) name.
Speaking of this project, despite being a lazy bastard about this and typing more slowly than I used to, I got to 1,020 words as of approximately 40 minutes ago in just about 40-ish minutes of typing with some slight editing. I can probably “catch-up” to the 8,000~ words I “should” be at by Friday’s end if I don’t be so lazy about it again.
Oddly enough, I’m somewhat motivated now that I have realized I have a fight scene right at the beginning of the book in addition to the realization that the antagonist is at least twice as powerful as I was thinking since she has her main powers in addition to other ones. This despite the fact that I had specifically separated said main power in the “book” that happens after that; yeah, I’m an idiot, how surprising.
Anyway, this should be fun, even if this fight has to be cut short for story reasons. It should still be interesting trying to find out how to plausibly write it so that the protagonist ends up “winning by not dying” against such a being without making him even stronger or relying on luck or “deus ex machina”.
P.S. Anyone else getting weird “this address has been IP banned” stuff? It’s come up for me twice already.
I got it only once, but it had happened to me about two weeks ago and I almost freaked that my VPN had somehow gotten banned.
Yeah, I’m fortunate the main parts of the laptop are still operating, and I could at least back it up. Wife has offered the use of her computer at home, but she has an almost full internal HD and runs MSOffice, me LibreOffice. I haven’t even put mine in Word format, though I may before I go home just in case, but there’s an old CRT monitor in our apartment that was there from the former tenant, so I may pull that out and try to use that. If that’s a no go, I’ll use the wifey’s setup and just keep my laptop at school until I can fix it.
At any rate, sitting at over 6500 words uncomfortably. Would rather be a lot higher, seeing as how I’m not going to have much time to breathe this weekend, let alone use any words that even have the same letters as the word “Computer.”
Seriously, most of this weekend will be spent speaking Korean.
A few people mentioned getting temp. banned in the Lounge. I think it’s just a technical fuckup.
I’m almost to the end of my first chapter, and almost to my first action scene. Not a coincidence, for I am following the Ian Fleming rule: all the coolest scenes start at the end of the chapter and continue at the beginning of the next one. This will heighten the suspense, even though all the reader really has to do is turn the page.
Meh. Another less than productive early morning writing session. Just slightly more words than yesterday. At least this time I was feeling decent, and only fell short because I got out of work late (as usual for early Friday morning) and got caught up reading up on homemade incendiaries.
To the U.S. gov’t: it was for a novel. Please don’t waterboard me.
On the bright side, I discovered that I can, in fact, squeeze some writing in during my free time at work, as long as I’m not too distracted and I’m making the story exciting enough for myself. And, even better, I’m into chapter two and got through the first action scene.
@ MissingPerson: your word count is admirable. I’m just at a modest 2k. I did nothing tonight.
@ Damned, awesome! Powerful antagonist that get away from you a bit sometimes turn out to be awesome. Othertimes, Deus Ex comes out just like you said. 
Names generator I use. Also, EBON. :tup:
@ MrSupamanAV, awesome. So far the only research I’ve put in is the language stuff and a bit of info about horses.
Going well. I’ve fallen in love with the wrong character, but that’s good. It takes me places I never would have gone otherwise and that’s a kinda the point of this. I keep on introducing characters, but so far it’s manageable, but eventually I need to make a separate file for all these characters that start popping up. My chapters are going to be long, I now realize as well. Unless I can find a good method of dividing my action up, it’ll stay that way, and I guess it’s fine if it works out in the end, but I’d much rather go with shorter chapters to create a tighter pacing. Loving this!
(Good to hear things are going well, Manx, especially I know how difficult it is to try to keep up with “loads and loads of characters” on a purely mental level.)
Hmmm…partly due to me falling asleep at 4:00 A.M. when I had intended not to go to sleep at all, this next entry might actually take some thinking unlike the (mediocre) beginning where I’ve just been typing whatever came to mind. I actually do want to write for once today, but I’m probably better off doing some other projects first for a bit while thinking about how powers would reasonably interact (since I’m going to have to deal with at least four different ones at once here, one of which is really easy to forget since its shared), especially against one another in battle.
Additionally, I haven’t really even been thinking about chapter divisions–namely because I didn’t do it the first two times, partly because I think the “official” book for this says you “shouldn’t” worry about that. However, given how lengthy this battles scene (including this one) are probably going to be, if only because I’m neophyte, I just realized that this battle’s probably going to take up at least half of Chapter 1 if not most of it. Hunh. Kinda weird.
Thing is, though, she’s arguably not even that much stronger than the protagonist; it’s not like she needs to be to kill him, though–this isn’t DBZ or some bullshit. It’s just that I feel like an idiot for completely forgetting about her main power, especially since the main, other book I wanted to write has more superpowers than one I’m writing now. Just kinda embarrassing, especially since I might have forgotten about it otherwise, and kinda annoying since know I need to think about to get away from that type of power since I haven’t put too many limits on it like most other powers.
(Thankfully, he’s not trying to get away from something that’s really easy to break like teleportation. I only have one teleporter in the whole cast and even with the limits I keep placing on her, she’s probably still busted or at least would be if she was less kind. Oh, Yejide…)
As for the names thing, I was thinking it was just character names–which, surprisingly, I have very little trouble with even as someone who generally doesn’t “get” symbolism in fiction unless it’s an obvious “meaningful name”–in that generator and so I was going to say “no thanks”. However, it’s a lot more than that, so I may (eventually, for other things) have a use for it. So thanks. I’ll try to keep it in mind.
Aye, I don’t often turn to name generators. I just think up a name that fits the setting and run with it until it sounds good to me. I use generators when it comes to really obscure stuff, like stuff that comes from an ancient civilization that is obviously ripped off from one that actually used to exist. I really hate doing it, but that’s the best way to come up with fantasy locations aside from learning a bit of cartography and drawing a map. Just take a real-life place and graffiti all over it. It’s fun! :tup:
I’m running a pen & paper game tonight and I have no clue what to bring to the adventure, and everything I think up is getting hijacked by The Novel. LOL I LOVE this! Hope my friends have something to DO tonight.
I’ve just been picking names by instinct. Though there is one character (female) where I made a list of names and looked them up to see if any of them had any significance. They didn’t really.