Nanowrimo
Daily goal / alternate "finish early" goal: 1,667 / 1,786 words
Today's goal / alternate "finish early" goal: 6,666 / 7,143 words total
My total words written: 7,753 words total (What do you think of the color coding?)
Impressions: I like this story. It isn't particularly a new story...but what story is? I think I have figured out a plot although I am not sure how the prologue I wrote fits in to the current storyline. Either I am going to have to come up with a link or I am going to have to write it off (pun intended) as a warm up exercise.
I am having serious issues which I am not addressing right now. They are in the areas of consistency of voice and dialogue. I am not a regular writer so to some extent, I don't know how to a) choose a voice and b) do non sucky dialogue. Will writing a lot help? Or do I need to focus on learning how to do these things? Since I have no time to learn (only time to write and blog) I will have to hope it is the former and not the latter. I will leave these problems until NaNoEdMo (or perhaps sooner) unless anyone has any great ideas they want to share.
Is there anything anyone out there would like to know about this experience? Just post a comment and I will reply to your post.
Likelihood of finishing Nanowrimo: 100%.
Likelihood of finishing NaBloPomo: I am still going strong (can you say that if you are just on day 4 of 30 days?).
Super Goal: Help our whole family get healthy!!!
Sunday, November 4, 2007
Saturday, November 3, 2007
Day 3: Nanowrimo (and NaBloPoMo)
Nanowrimo
Daily Goal: 1,667 words
Today's goal: 5,000 words total
My total words written: 5,651 words total
Impressions: Carving out time to write on a weekend when I knew I was going out was difficult. I managed to get 1,400 words written before we went out. I was definitely getting stuck with my plot today. There was a big show down in my story and I am stuck on the explanation. Is it all because of greed? Is it because someone wants to save the world? (Save the world, save the cheerleader). I have to make some decisions in the next few paragraphs as to where this book is going. How trippy is that?
Likelihood of finishing Nanowrimo: 100%. Still going strong and I am interested in my words. I think that is a good sign.
Likelihood of finishing NaBloPomo: I figure it is either 0% or 100%. If I miss just one day, I automatically go to 0%. I had a scare tonight because I thought I would be out too late to make a post. (No J&D - that is not why we left earlier than you - we really were tired!) I think I have to plan better.
Super Goal: No super goals to report today.
Daily Goal: 1,667 words
Today's goal: 5,000 words total
My total words written: 5,651 words total
Impressions: Carving out time to write on a weekend when I knew I was going out was difficult. I managed to get 1,400 words written before we went out. I was definitely getting stuck with my plot today. There was a big show down in my story and I am stuck on the explanation. Is it all because of greed? Is it because someone wants to save the world? (Save the world, save the cheerleader). I have to make some decisions in the next few paragraphs as to where this book is going. How trippy is that?
Likelihood of finishing Nanowrimo: 100%. Still going strong and I am interested in my words. I think that is a good sign.
Likelihood of finishing NaBloPomo: I figure it is either 0% or 100%. If I miss just one day, I automatically go to 0%. I had a scare tonight because I thought I would be out too late to make a post. (No J&D - that is not why we left earlier than you - we really were tired!) I think I have to plan better.
Super Goal: No super goals to report today.
Friday, November 2, 2007
Day 2: Nanowrimo
Nanowrimo
Daily Goal: 1,667 words
Today's goal: 3,333 words total
My total words written: 3,923 words total
Impressions: W and I are both on target today. I wrote a little this afternoon and finished up this evening. I am hoping that I won't experience "Nanowrimo insomnia" again today. I realize that I have a lot of energy and feel very creative. I am loving it. I'd like to get the small Nanowrimo logo for these posts but I haven't found the time yet. Imagine that!
Likelihood of finishing: 100%. I am on target and still optimistic. I am sure there will be a dark night(s) of the soul but that won't be for a few weeks.
Super Goal: I have surpassed my super goal of 3,571 words today. I want to bank enough words so that I can take a day off here or there.
Super secret admission: I am a glutton for punishment. I joined NaBloPoMo today. Hey - I was going to do it anyway to track my progress!
Daily Goal: 1,667 words
Today's goal: 3,333 words total
My total words written: 3,923 words total
Impressions: W and I are both on target today. I wrote a little this afternoon and finished up this evening. I am hoping that I won't experience "Nanowrimo insomnia" again today. I realize that I have a lot of energy and feel very creative. I am loving it. I'd like to get the small Nanowrimo logo for these posts but I haven't found the time yet. Imagine that!
Likelihood of finishing: 100%. I am on target and still optimistic. I am sure there will be a dark night(s) of the soul but that won't be for a few weeks.
Super Goal: I have surpassed my super goal of 3,571 words today. I want to bank enough words so that I can take a day off here or there.
Super secret admission: I am a glutton for punishment. I joined NaBloPoMo today. Hey - I was going to do it anyway to track my progress!
Nanowrimo Insomnia
I forgot about one danger of writing just before bed; nanowrimo induced insomnia. Instead of falling into an effortless sleep, I am thinking about how my story is unfolding. Thinking things like this, "taser / sword combo" and "observers can "chat" mind to mind offline". I may have to write earlier in the day to give my brain a chance to calm down.
Thursday, November 1, 2007
Day 1: Nanowrimo
Nanowrimo
Goal: 1,667 words (per day)
Progress: 1,774 words.
Impressions: As usual, my writing has taken off in a direction I wasn't expecting. I said I was going to write a cyberpunk novel but now I don't know what it is...cyberpunk? Sci-fi? Fantasy? A combination of all three with spirituality mixed in? I have to remind myself to write a book that I want to read, to write about characters I want to know. It is hard to rein in the writing beast sometimes. I also have to remind myself to just write, write, write! Editing comes later. W wrote over 2,000 words today! Yahoo! Go W!
Likelihood of finishing: 100%. OK, just kidding! Who can say on the first day? I met my goal today which puts me in an optimistic mood. We shall see how the coming days go...I remember Thanksgiving being a pain to work around when I did Nanowrimo the first time and had only one kid. Now I have 3. Gulp.
Super Goal: Bank enough words that I don't need to write on Thanksgiving or the day after Thanksgiving (so I can shop - JUST KIDDING). This would move my goal to 1,785 words per day.
Just wait - soon I will break out the graphing tools. Yeah!
Are you doing Nanowrimo this year? How are you doing?
Super secret admission: I just decided to do this yesterday. What was I thinking???
Goal: 1,667 words (per day)
Progress: 1,774 words.
Impressions: As usual, my writing has taken off in a direction I wasn't expecting. I said I was going to write a cyberpunk novel but now I don't know what it is...cyberpunk? Sci-fi? Fantasy? A combination of all three with spirituality mixed in? I have to remind myself to write a book that I want to read, to write about characters I want to know. It is hard to rein in the writing beast sometimes. I also have to remind myself to just write, write, write! Editing comes later. W wrote over 2,000 words today! Yahoo! Go W!
Likelihood of finishing: 100%. OK, just kidding! Who can say on the first day? I met my goal today which puts me in an optimistic mood. We shall see how the coming days go...I remember Thanksgiving being a pain to work around when I did Nanowrimo the first time and had only one kid. Now I have 3. Gulp.
Super Goal: Bank enough words that I don't need to write on Thanksgiving or the day after Thanksgiving (so I can shop - JUST KIDDING). This would move my goal to 1,785 words per day.
Just wait - soon I will break out the graphing tools. Yeah!
Are you doing Nanowrimo this year? How are you doing?
Super secret admission: I just decided to do this yesterday. What was I thinking???
Wednesday, October 31, 2007
National Novel Writing Month 2007
Dude. You so need to do this. You need to write 50,000 words in the month of November. I did it before. In 2004. Never mind the quality of those 50K words. (No, really. Don't ask -- all I can tell you is that there were technical incompatibilities between Pump-In-Style and Dragon Naturally Speaking.) You too can write a novel! All you need to do is write 1,666.66666 words per day! It is easy! I am going to do this. Are you?
I am planning to write a cyberpunk novel. You?
I am planning to write a cyberpunk novel. You?
Monday, October 29, 2007
"Googley Famous"
"Googley Famous" is a term I coined tonight. Googley famous is an adjective. It means that someone is famous according to the top 10 matches in a Google Search. Here is an example, if you Google the name "William Hertling", you come up with 9 hits for the specific person I was trying to Google and 1 hit for the person's father. It can also be a differentiator between hits on a Google search. So using the example above, the person I was trying to Google is more googley famous than his father. When I first started Googling my own name (hey, I know it is narcissistic but who hasn't done it? especially if you are reading a blog?), I was not the most googley famous person with my name. Over the years, as I have gotten more and more press, more of the top 10 Google hits are attributed to me. Now, I am the most googley famous person with my name.
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