NaNoWriters, Gather!

I'm gonna aim for about 5000 a day over Thanksgiving break.

Over 38,000 words. I guess this counts as a Wham Chapter, certainly a Crowning Moment Of Awesome as the Non-Action Guy comes into his own. Also some exposition I guess. But it finally got to a scene I've been waiting all through the book to write, and it turned out to be very different when I got there. It actually feels climactic (and climatic)—when I rewrite, I might even table the arc in between and make the rest of the book the denouement. But as things stand, here's what I have to do:

• The characters finally get to meet the spirit that brought them all together
• One of them gets taken over by a Superpowered Evil Side again as a result
• Everybody hauls ass through space back to Where It All Began
• Even-more-climactic encounter with a demon, which I think might end in some form of Talking the Monster to Death
• Out of body experiences for everyone, leading directly to surprise resolution of love triangle (which may or may not be too gimmicky)
• Epilogue—Everyone Meets Everyone on an interplanetary scale

I don't know if it'll all be done in 12,000 words—considering how many scenes have just exploded and been much bigger than I expected them to, just on the strength of the four main characters talking to each other, I really doubt it. And that's okay. :)

I'm within a hundred of reaching 40,000. The story is finished, and I'm going back and expanding. I don't expect to get to even 45k at this point, but the story is complete.

I went in with a rough outline of how it was going to turn out, and then right on the first day, a character I hadn't planned for poked her head into the story. For some reason, three principle female characters are a lot harder to keep straight than two, but I got a couple good plot points out of her. Not bad considering she started as the throwaway line, "You're calling me crazy, you're the one who married my sister."

I started too late and hit a wall, so I was a foregone failure :P

I want to keep working on it though.

I am using this thread, and yet I do not have a specific Na No project, just the scattered crap I always work on. I have never even started to count my words, but there probably aren't too many. My male lead died a couple of pages into the first chapter and was originally meant to be a dragon in a red shirt. I win.

I am posting to remind myself to try and update tonight.

edited 28th Nov '10 11:27:59 PM by SPACETRAVEL

Less than 1,000 words to go!

Made it! *additional grinning!*

edited 29th Nov '10 7:26:47 PM by Haven

Dawrn, I found this way too late! Oh well; the main reason I want to take part in Na No Wri Mo is to punt myself into gear and get into the habit of writing.

Problem #1: I'm really freaking lazy.

Problem #2: I can't decide which of my many, many, many stories to work on.

Hopefully, by the time the next Na No Wri Mo rolls around, I'll have fixed that up a little bit, picked something, and be ready to join in.

edited 18th Apr '11 1:31:51 PM by CarnivorousMoogle

I have a running outline for my 2011 NaNo project, I'll probably buckle down in October

yes, it's definitely time to be thinking of what do do, if you can.

I plan to continue the novella I started last November! I hit the 50k word mark after finishing just one-and-a-bit-of-another chapters out of a planned ten, and I haven't even started on the outline or plot yet.

Fortunately its plot includes a superpowered villain whose power is retcons.