Day 15 - halfway through!

[Gato]

Who is still writing?

I am just a little behind, at 20K words instead of 25K.  I hope to keep writing a little bit every day the rest of this week, then catch up over the weekend.

I have no idea how this story is going to resolve itself, though.  The main conflict just sort of goes on and on.  The last time I won, the ending just came to me so... maybe that will happen again? lol

[kangaroo11]

I'm also at 20k. I think this is the furthest behind I've ever been. It's so hard to do a sequel because I'm so attached to my characters and I need to do right by them.

[scoot]

I'm at 21k. I'm hoping to catch up this weekend too.

[fatamy]

I'm at 15k, but expect to fizzle out next week with the holidays. I'm glad I'm writing, even if it's just a little.
I still don't really care about my characters, haha.

[kangaroo11]

Nov 16, 2016 13:59:48 GMT -5 fatamy said:

I'm at 15k, but expect to fizzle out next week with the holidays. I'm glad I'm writing, even if it's just a little.
I still don't really care about my characters, haha.

Can you just ditch this and start something else? You have plenty of time and there's nothing that says your 50k has to be one document.

[stever]

I'm woefully behind because I took a week(!!!) off. I'm only at 11,000 but am hoping to do some good work for the rest of the month.

[anastasia517]

The last scene I wrote is probably not going to make it to the final draft, but I had the urge to write it and it made sense for the timeline so whatever. I can always cut it.

I hope that I can get more done this weekend. I'm a little short of 30k right now and plan to hit that tonight so I have a 1-day buffer.

We're already halfway through the month and I'm no way near halfway through the story. And this is counting the fact that I"m only writing half of the story. I'm terrible at continuing in December so I should pick up the pace if I want to finish in November.

[anastasia517]

Nov 18, 2016 13:12:11 GMT -5 incogneato said:

I'm mostly plunking down word vomit and it's spread across what may eventually be three books (adding to the first book, writing the sequel, but I have another character/story line that may end up in its own book to make it a trilogy) but it's something. I'm still behind but I'm slowly catching up from my shock and horror lapse after the election.

The election is definitely influencing my dystopian government, though, so that's.... something? I mean, my book was also supposed to explore themes of othering, discrimination, etc, but it's suddenly gotten even more pointed.

Earlier in the year I debated rewriting a book I did for Camp NaNo a couple years ago.  In the prologue, I had WWIII starting in 2019 with an invasion of Eastern Europe that NATO couldn't prevent.  Things escalated and it turned into a nuclear war.  I'm feeling... something about what I predicted as a doomsday situation 2.5 years ago.  I wanted to figure out how to re-do it but it might take some time to bring myself to look at what I had so far without feeling panicky and fearful.

After some posts on CEP yesterday, it had been in my head. I actually wrote a blog post on it I just posted: bit.ly/2g3aMC3

[Nonny]

All of the writing I've been doing lately has been in my "Panic Journal" to calm my anxiety and rage, so my novel is being neglected and still sits around the 4K word mark. But I have been turning my opening chapter around in my head based on my workshop feedback from last Saturday.

anastasia517, I'd be having some feelings about that as well!