Comments on: NaNoWriMo Success!!

By: Thomaso

Thomaso — Fri, 05 Dec 2008 01:31:10 +0000

I have tertiary syphilis.

By: Melissa

Melissa — Tue, 02 Dec 2008 19:38:23 +0000

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

By: CJ Casey

CJ Casey — Tue, 02 Dec 2008 18:31:39 +0000

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.

By: Ali S.

Ali S. — Tue, 02 Dec 2008 00:30:33 +0000

Congrats to everyone!

By: Scooter

Scooter — Mon, 01 Dec 2008 22:50:20 +0000

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.

By: Will Robot

Will Robot — Mon, 01 Dec 2008 21:30:24 +0000

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

By: burlymanlyman42

burlymanlyman42 — Mon, 01 Dec 2008 20:57:32 +0000

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.

By: EmilieK

EmilieK — Mon, 01 Dec 2008 17:49:57 +0000

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!

By: Riki

Riki — Mon, 01 Dec 2008 17:47:46 +0000

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..

By: nafa

nafa — Mon, 01 Dec 2008 17:01:41 +0000

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

By: Johnny Cat

Johnny Cat — Mon, 01 Dec 2008 06:04:31 +0000

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

By: sarahspy

sarahspy — Mon, 01 Dec 2008 04:21:11 +0000

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.

By: JamesM

JamesM — Mon, 01 Dec 2008 04:07:40 +0000

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.

By: Citizen Jake

Citizen Jake — Mon, 01 Dec 2008 04:05:03 +0000

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

By: thirdtruck

thirdtruck — Mon, 01 Dec 2008 03:52:54 +0000

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

By: quinnnchick

quinnnchick — Mon, 01 Dec 2008 03:28:35 +0000

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

By: Leylairoyale

Leylairoyale — Mon, 01 Dec 2008 03:17:18 +0000

CONGRATS!