NaNoWriMo Success!!

1. Leylairoyale
   November 30th, 2008 at 10:17 pm

   CONGRATS!

2. quinnnchick
   November 30th, 2008 at 10:28 pm

   wow way to go. I can’t even write a to-do list.

3. thirdtruck
   November 30th, 2008 at 10:52 pm

   I just succeeded myself! Exactly 50,500 words. Way to go!

4. Citizen Jake
   November 30th, 2008 at 11:05 pm

   I failed. Stopped at about 35,000 words. Next year I’ll make it. Congrats to you though.

5. JamesM
   November 30th, 2008 at 11:07 pm

   Good jorb. I started writing something in June and finished the story to a final rough draft by the end of the month. That draft reached 54,533 words. Still needs some editing (mainly typo fixes) but I figure I’ll save that until I finish the second part so that I can edit both at the same time.

   I didn’t start writing the second part until a week ago (started on 11.24), up to 19,106 words now. I considered trying to start it on Nov 1st for NaNoWriMo but honestly didn’t want to force it. Just being able to finish the story to the way I feel does it justice, for myself, is good enough for me. Even if I never break 50k words. I still have 2 hours to go, so maybe I’ll at least break 20k.

6. sarahspy
   November 30th, 2008 at 11:21 pm

   congrats! i purposefully quit at 16k in the 2nd week when pushing through the idea-less-ness was very clearly becoming counterproductive for me. but im so glad i tried it and learned i CAN pull off a 10k spurt (all salvagable!) in one week. im getting pretty intense about outlining the rest of what i want to do & am going to keep up these spurts now that nano gave me the confidence to do it.

7. Johnny Cat
   December 1st, 2008 at 1:04 am

   We all won. Thanks for your spirit/motivation, Stacy.

8. nafa
   December 1st, 2008 at 12:01 pm

   Congrats, ya’ll. I’m still going to write mine even though I didn’t finish in time.

9. Riki
   December 1st, 2008 at 12:47 pm

   I failed.. I only made it to about 7200.. I gave up at about week two when I got a major case of writer’s block..

10. EmilieK
    December 1st, 2008 at 12:49 pm

    Congrats! I finished on Wednesday Nov. 26 with 50,297 words! This is my fourth year doing it, and my second year to finish. Highly possible I’ll do it again next year!

11. burlymanlyman42
    December 1st, 2008 at 3:57 pm

    This was my first year doing it too. I finished with 50,016 on Nov. 28. It was great fun.

    And Brendan, just because you’re slogging out words every day with a set number in mind doesn’t reduce the artistic pursuit of it. In fact, I found the daily deadline, so to speak, quite liberating. I couldn’t have written my first novel without that outside pressure, I don’t think.

    Of course, the first draft of anything is complete shit no matter how you do it. The beauty comes out mostly in the rewriting, I’m told.

12. Will Robot
    December 1st, 2008 at 4:30 pm

    I hit 50,000 saturday night but wasn’t quite finished. The final word count was a tad over 53,000

13. Scooter
    December 1st, 2008 at 5:50 pm

    I haven’t written something for years now… In fact i haven’t painted since I got married. Maybe it’s all linked, or I’m just horrible at finishing things.

14. Ali S.
    December 1st, 2008 at 7:30 pm

    Congrats to everyone!

15. CJ Casey
    December 2nd, 2008 at 1:31 pm

    Made it, too… 56000-plus words or so (215 words per page, 264 handwritten pages, haven’t typed past about page 130 or so). Working on another one, now, at the same 2K rate. I felt kind of guilty at first since I used the premise of a story I’d written over the summer, but since the novel version is over six times longer, and actually only uses about two pages’ worth of old material, and because they allow fan fic, I figure I was just writing my own fan fic when I did this.

16. Melissa
    December 2nd, 2008 at 2:38 pm

    Congrats! I didn’t do NaNoWriMo this year, but I know a lot of people on WEbook.com who did. (WEbook is a writing website where I work as an editor.) I’m a writer and editor who works with writers to get novels ready for publication, so I’m writing a guide to revising a first draft of a novel to help out all my NaNoWriMo friends. Thought you might be interested:

    http://blog.webook.com/webook_blog/2008/12/webook-writing-secret-14-de feat-the-first-draft-blues.html

17. Thomaso
    December 4th, 2008 at 8:31 pm

    I have tertiary syphilis.

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