Word Counts http://www.storywonk.com/forum/categories/word-counts/feed.rss Fri, 18 May 12 00:06:01 -0600 Word Counts en-CA What have we learned and gained through NaNo this year? http://www.storywonk.com/forum/discussion/93/what-have-we-learned-and-gained-through-nano-this-years Wed, 30 Nov 2011 16:30:29 -0700 Meeresbande 93@/forum/discussions I managed just over 24,000 words (about 4,000 of them just today, after not having been able to write for the last week or so) and
I'm totally proud of myself!
I will be even more proud, probably, tomorrow, when I'm not so tired anymore. :)
I wish I could share my novel-draft with you (it's not even halfway done yet, but still), but it's in german, so I fear not many people here will be able to read it.

Anyways, what have I learned and gained through NaNo this year?
It was my first NaNo, my first novel ever and it gave me so much. Now I know that I am a great writer, I have not only the potential, intelligence, imagination and stories inside me, I have also the ability to sit down and write! There are things I have to say, stories to tell, worlds to build and share with the world and it doesn't have to stay a dream or some endeavor for a misty future where I will one day write all those novels. No, I can write now. And I do.
Even though I have been and still am really ill and life has totally sucked this month with being kicked out of my home (I have two weeks left now until I have to move out), worrying about the most important person in my life and being unable to visit him for most of the worrying and my social net missing some important links just when I'd need them most - still I wrote 24,000 words in this month! And some of these words are even really good.
This may sound crazy (and it's perfectly possible that NaNo has eaten my brain, too, but who needs sanity), but I'm actually looking forward to sort-of-revising what I've written so far and then completing the first draft of this magnifiscent novel. And then revising some more :)

Yes, I'm proud of myself!
]]> I'm a Nano-girl in a Nano-world http://www.storywonk.com/forum/discussion/90/im-a-nano-girl-in-a-nano-world Sun, 27 Nov 2011 09:13:30 -0700 Brusselsprout 90@/forum/discussions
Because I hit my 50K yesterday. 

Alas, in the course of hitting 50K I've discovered there's probably another 50K of this baby to go before I can say the first draft is done...So the goal is now First Draft by Xmas...
]]> 11/19, 40K http://www.storywonk.com/forum/discussion/88/1119-40k Sat, 19 Nov 2011 14:10:26 -0700 Brusselsprout 88@/forum/discussions
The thing about this story is that I've had the bare bones swilling around my brain for years, quite literally. I've made my family visit Bologna, Fontainebleau near Paris and Prague in the name of research, I'd written 20,000 words and junked them, but this year, I know I'm going to finally get that elusive first draft done. 

It is going to need a shedload of work in terms of revisions, it's pretty much disjointed scenes for the moment, but there is an arc, there is character development and the story is moving forward. Am feeling very tired, but also very fizzy inside. 
]]> 11/10 http://www.storywonk.com/forum/discussion/79/1110 Thu, 10 Nov 2011 10:01:58 -0700 Lani 79@/forum/discussions
Today's words: 2213, bringing me just over 15k total.

Wow. Brain really dribbly. :)

How are you all doing?
]]> 11/8 http://www.storywonk.com/forum/discussion/76/118 Tue, 08 Nov 2011 14:16:47 -0700 Jennifer Mahal 76@/forum/discussions
Jen (who hates being sick and is going to the doctor this afternoon)
]]> 11/6 http://www.storywonk.com/forum/discussion/72/116 Sun, 06 Nov 2011 07:07:58 -0700 Lani 72@/forum/discussions ]]> Wordcount, 11/5 http://www.storywonk.com/forum/discussion/67/wordcount-115 Sat, 05 Nov 2011 12:08:57 -0600 Lani 67@/forum/discussions ]]> November 4th http://www.storywonk.com/forum/discussion/61/november-4th Fri, 04 Nov 2011 09:17:18 -0600 Lani 61@/forum/discussions
How are you all doing?
]]> I don't worry my wordcount, it just flows. http://www.storywonk.com/forum/discussion/66/i-dont-worry-my-wordcount-it-just-flows. Sat, 05 Nov 2011 10:00:15 -0600 Nils 66@/forum/discussions
I spent my childhood trying to worry dung beetles into turning life into cherries, but expected whithered parsley. I ate it though it brings me no joy. I felt it would be better than death, because somewhere I had a faint hope that cherries might exist. Others kept talking about them, saying they were eating them right in front of me. They worried me.

A few days ago, I just let go.
I experience my life to be full of cherries and I can taste them now.

I write to my joy and my sense of life and beauty and fun and clarity. I tried to write to some sense of life or clarity or fun outside of myself, and it became a puzzle with an infinite amount of pieces. Maybe it still is, but I play it like a mosaic now, letting life flow into my mind in currents and patterns that nourish and please me instead of worrying it into where it belongs.

If my wordcount keeps accelerating like this, I will finish somewhere in last September.

I don't use or see parentheses any more. Other punctuation still makes sense to me.

I don't worry, and I share freely. Ask if you need anything. throughthewalls@hotmail.de -- I may check that more often than here. If I don't answer, just figure out what you expected me to say, and whether or not that makes you worry more or less.
Nils
]]> November 1, 2011 http://www.storywonk.com/forum/discussion/53/november-1-2011 Tue, 01 Nov 2011 06:15:25 -0600 Lani 53@/forum/discussions
How are you guys doing?
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