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Postby mechana2015 » Sat Nov 08, 2008 7:43 am

Broke 10,000 in the terminal waiting for my flighht yesterday.
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Postby ChristianKitsune » Sat Nov 08, 2008 6:16 pm

broke 20,000 words today! (still going and I am at 21,786) Maybe I can reach the halfway point by Tomorrow 8D that would be a HUGE help with my goal to finish by the 20th! >^<

I'm in a bit of a plot lull though :/ I kinda wrote myself into a hole that I need to get myself out of. It's fun and interesting hole, but it's kinda got the rest of the story on hold for a chapter XD Anyone else running into these problems?

(wonders how much she'll be editing in December XDDD)
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Postby Aletheia » Sat Nov 08, 2008 8:25 pm

W00T! 16,121! I'm finally where I want to be. XD That last scene was extremely easy to write, so that really helped. Ahh, gotta love dream sequences - especially ones with lots of important information. XD Well, I haven't really run into any "writing myself into a hole" problems yet, but I think I will soon, since I just got past my "point-of-no-return" and now I have no idea where I'm going until I get a lot closer to the end, so I'll pretty much be making up the next 25,000 words or so as I go. But hey, that's life. I'm not going to let it spoil my high right now. XD
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Postby Sakaki Onsei » Sat Nov 08, 2008 9:58 pm

I'll probably start after Doctor Who is done.
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Revelation 1:10-11: I was in the Spirit on the Lord's day, and I heard behind me a loud voice like the sound of a trumpet, saying, [color="Red"]"Write in a book what you see, and send it to the seven churches to Ephesus and to Smyrna, and to Pergamum and to Theyatira, and at Sardis, and to Philadelphia, and to Laodicea."[/color]
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Postby Fish and Chips » Sun Nov 09, 2008 12:35 am

DUN DUN DUUUUUN.

Just broke the 5,000~ word barrier. Okay, I should have had that on Day 3 and it's Day 8, whatever. It's 10% and I'm satisfied with myself.

Also, I've learned I write much better in the evening and late at night.
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Postby Sakaki Onsei » Sun Nov 09, 2008 2:54 am

Only about 700 words tonight. I was kinda off, and I'm tired. I'll probably work more on it tomorrow afternoon. I'll be in much better shape.
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Revelation 1:10-11: I was in the Spirit on the Lord's day, and I heard behind me a loud voice like the sound of a trumpet, saying, [color="Red"]"Write in a book what you see, and send it to the seven churches to Ephesus and to Smyrna, and to Pergamum and to Theyatira, and at Sardis, and to Philadelphia, and to Laodicea."[/color]
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Postby LadyRushia » Sun Nov 09, 2008 7:40 am

Meh, I hardly wrote at all yesterday. Hopefully I'll get more done today after homework.
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Postby Peanut » Sun Nov 09, 2008 8:33 am

I managed to write a good 2 thousand words yesterday with all the distractions of College Football and doing work for a paper due tuesday...so hopefully I'll be able to knock out even more today. In other news, I broke the fourth wall the other day...and will be breaking it much more from here on out...
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Postby ChristianKitsune » Sun Nov 09, 2008 9:47 pm

wrote over 6,000 words today @_@ So I HAVE SURPASSED THE HALFWAY POINT 8D

27,096 words! 8D

so only like 22,904 words to go! Divide that by 11 days... and...I still have over 2000 words to write A DAY in order to make it by next friday @_@; darrrnnnn

my brain is sleepy now...-_-' goodnight!
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Postby Sakaki Onsei » Sun Nov 09, 2008 11:50 pm

Not writing tonight. I think I'm fighting something, and I just don't feel like I can do much.

I'll work on it tomorrow.
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Postby Fish and Chips » Mon Nov 10, 2008 12:48 am

Fish and Chips (post: 1269388) wrote:DUN DUN DUUUUUN.

Just broke the 5,000~ word barrier.
7000~ words!

Let's get this party started handsome.
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Postby Aletheia » Mon Nov 10, 2008 7:16 am

Wow... yesterday was so weird. I was definitely on a mood roller coaster. I only got 1k written, so I need to make sure I get my usual 2k today. At least we have tomorrow off, so I can make it up then. ^_^

ChristianKitsune: Congrats on breaking the halfway point! *yay!* *yay!* *confetti!* XD I should be doing that later this week. Should be. We'll see if it actually happens. >_<
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Postby Animus Seed » Mon Nov 10, 2008 1:48 pm

My weekend filled with writing turned into a weekend filled with theological counseling. Oh, well: it's for the best.
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Postby Sakaki Onsei » Mon Nov 10, 2008 3:16 pm

I may be able to write tonight. I'm not feeling off like last night, but I do feel a bit...out of sorts. We'll see what happens.
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Postby ChristianKitsune » Mon Nov 10, 2008 11:24 pm

uwaaahhhh =~=
no writing tonight, I absolutely fail, I know... it's been a long day though, and I just kinda need to recharge...

Tomorrow, I shall write...and write a bunch 30,000 is my goal! *determined8
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Postby Fish and Chips » Tue Nov 11, 2008 12:10 am

Didn't make a huge dent in my progress today, but that's partially because I kinda gave myself a detox by writing about something entirely different for a change of pace.
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Postby Sakaki Onsei » Tue Nov 11, 2008 3:08 am

800 words. I got stuck on where to go to fill in one major subplot.

I think I am going to just work on the ideas in my head and deal with the subplots that work after I reach 50K.
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Postby Peanut » Tue Nov 11, 2008 7:27 am

After last morning I thought I would make it over 10,000 however for various reasons I'm going to be stuck at a little under 9000 for probably the rest of today...
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Postby Fish and Chips » Tue Nov 11, 2008 11:56 am

I wish this board was this active regularly.

My plot was on fire last night. With a bit more writing, I'll easily break 10,000~ words by tonight, if not more.
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Postby mechana2015 » Tue Nov 11, 2008 12:09 pm

13000 last night
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Postby Maledicte » Tue Nov 11, 2008 12:22 pm

Cleared 15,000 last night. :dance:
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Postby LadyRushia » Tue Nov 11, 2008 5:07 pm

It's over 9000! Yeah, I'm a couple days late in that, but oh well! I haven't had 17 pages of a story in awhile.
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Postby ChristianKitsune » Tue Nov 11, 2008 5:25 pm

Just hit 30,000 tonight ^_^ I have also written over 100 pages *GLEE*

My goal is to get to 33,000-35,000 tomorrow.

I realized that I had to have this all done by next Wednesday... not Thursday like I thought >_<
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Postby Sakaki Onsei » Tue Nov 11, 2008 5:36 pm

Not writing tonight. My parents are having trouble with their computer system (Ubuntu) and the most recent update, so I'm having to go in there and spend time fixing it for them.

I'm a little hurt.
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Postby Peanut » Tue Nov 11, 2008 5:44 pm

So I just finished writting over 3,500 words...for a Civil War paper...oh how I wish I could just copy and paste this into my novel and not feel as if I was doing something cheap that is ruining the fun of the challenge.
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Postby Aletheia » Tue Nov 11, 2008 10:24 pm

Bleeeeeeeeeaaaaaaaaaaargggghhhh.

That was pretty much my day in a nutshell. I hate days off that aren't actually days off because you spend the whole day doing homework. I just finally finished my speech notes - well, almost, except for the introduction and conclusion. I have a free period tomorrow morning, so I'm going to finish those then and spend the rest of my time going over my notes making minor adjustments. And I got absolutely no writing done today. Fortunately I've been staying ahead of where I need to be, so I'm still slightly ahead today, but I do need to write tomorrow.

On another note, I find it very ironic that my laptop crashed three times while I was writing my notes for a persuasive speech on why you should never buy a cheap laptop. And yes, I am using that in the speech.

And finally, I really hope my laptop doesn't die soon, because I think the port for the power cable might be broken. Several times in the past few weeks it has frozen and the screen went all weird when I accidentally tugged on the cord, and now I think it may have broken completely because it's plugged in right now but it's running on battery. It's not the outlet - I tried three different ones. Every once in a while it works, but I have no idea what I'm going to do once the battery dies. I don't think I'll be able to borrow a sibling's laptop, because my sister only has one which she uses all the time, and I had to borrow one of my brother's tonight and he wouldn't let me take it out of his sight. Oh my NaNo, what am I going to do if I don't have a laptop to write on? :waah!:

So, I suppose in the interest of saving the battery for NaNo-ing, I should shut off my lappy now and go to bed. Good night all, and I hope you have better luck than me!
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Postby LadyRushia » Wed Nov 12, 2008 7:12 am

Just in case, save your story to a flash drive so you don't completely lose it if your computer totally dies.

Also, I broke 10,000 words last night and hope to get a lot more in today since I don't have much homework.
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Postby Aletheia » Wed Nov 12, 2008 12:03 pm

Yeah, I've got it saved. I'm trying to fit everything I can onto my external hard drive, which is already completely filled with anime. I just ran out of space actually. >_< We're going to send it in for repairs as soon as possible, and until then I'm going to try and use my sister's laptop that just broke but might work for simple word processing. Here's to hoping it doesn't die on me. X_X *has serious laptop problems*
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Postby Aletheia » Wed Nov 12, 2008 2:25 pm

LOL I just moved my NaNo from OpenOffice to Google Docs so I can work on it from anywhere, and suddenly I have 500 more words. Wow. I knew different word counters sometimes came out different, but I had no idea it could be by that much.
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Postby Sakaki Onsei » Wed Nov 12, 2008 4:46 pm

I may write tonight, I dunno. The computer issue with my parents still isn't fixed, and I'm having to take a lot of time waiting for downloads. X_x
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