Point of no return...

When you have been working on a project for a while, you start to wonder; is this really what I am meant to write? If the answer is 'yes' then you know that you have found it. If the answer is 'no' then you got to keep looking. For the novel I am currently writing my answer is a safe and sound 'yes'.

NaNoWriMo day #10 - wordgoal: 16667 - 

Day ten. Only twenty short days left to go until we reach that dreaded 30th day mark. It seemed as though it was just yesterday NaNo started. You would think I would celebrate that we were one third of the way through, but no! Of course my grandpa was celebrating his 70th birthday that day. So I did not get to write all that much! But I did write a little over 2k words before we left for the birthday "party". Even though I did not get to write a whole lot, I still passed 64k total. Last year over the entire month I only wrote 63k-something on my NaNo-novel. So by the 10th of this year, I have already written more than I had ever done before in one month. My current novel is still not at the final length of last year's novel, which was 90k, but it is getting up there!

NaNoWriMo day #11 - wordgoal: 18333 -

How I managed to write this much on a monday, I have no idea. Maybe it was because I had an hour and a half at school where I did not have a module, so I wrote about 2k there, and then another 3k when I got home. Those 5k words were enough to finish chapter 17 and 18. And speaking of chapter 18, it is probably one of my favorite chapters. Things really start to go down in that one, and I love the end line of the chapter. But other than that the 5k words were enough to get me over 69k...the magic number, if you know what I mean...sorry about that...

NaNoWriMo day #12 - wordgoal: 20000 -

So like every other Tuesday I had to go to my writing class. It was actually kind of fun. Last week we made an outline for a christmas carol, and this week we had to write it. Now we are four girls in the class, so that was six days for each. We wrote it so people would get a bit of the story ever single day. I had to do day 4, 8, 12, 16, 20 and 24, which meant I had to finish it. If was suprisingly fun. But most suprising of all was that, when we were done the story actually made sense, even though we were four people writing it without knowing where the last person stopped. But I was really busy with my school work. I had an assignment for the 13th and I had a presentation on the 13th so, I was really stressed out. I still managed to write about 3k though, so now my total was at 72.736 words. Yes I crossed that 70k mark!

NaNoWriMo day #13 - wordgoal: 21667 -

Today was an okay day for writing. Defiently not my best, but not the worst either. I am at chapter 20 and have just crossed the 75k mark!! Still very proud of myself. The chapter I am currently writing is, and if it isn't it is going to be build up to the point of no return. You know, where shit goes down real fast. My novel is coming to an end soon, which is really overwhelming. My outline is only 29 chapters long, which means after chapter 20 is done, I only have nine to go. And once it is done, I think editing it is going to be rather hard. So far there is not one chapter my story can do without. Everything is relevant, but I do not want it to be over 100k words. I kind of want to stop at 90-95k, just so it is not too long or too short. But I will figure that out, when I have to deal with it, which is not until December where the re-reading starts...damn...

As always I will show you my progress in my beautiful graf:

I know week two can be really harsh on some people, but you can still win! You just have to get down to business and write. Even if you think what you are writing trash, all you need to do is believe more in the scissors than in the paper.

Keep Calm and Write On.

- Nanna.

Just keep writing, just keep writing...

The hours seem to pass by much faster, when you are constantly trying to save the daylight. Oh well, I write better doing the night anyway, so I guess my only real problem is school. That is a big one though. 

NaNoWriMo day #3 - wordgoal: 5000 -

So with two 10k days behind me, Sunday had a lot to live up to. I started off the day with writing chapter 7, which went really well. But then...I barely even dare to say it...but then chapter 8 came along. It was not a boring chapter to write, but I just had a really hard time figuring out how to get from point A to point B. Do not get me wrong. I have an outline which I somewhat follow precisely. Having that rough start, however, made the chapter seem like a bit of a chore. But once I had the beginning out of the way suddenly it all went smoothly! I crossed the 25k mark and even after that I kept going!

I even made a rule:

1. Thou shalt not rest until thou hast written 1k words. Once thou hast written thou words, thou shalt be granted the gift of 10 minutes that thou may use on what thou please.

And by sticking to that rule, I made it to 30k! You guessed it; Sunday was yet another 10k day. My totalt wordcount for the day was 31.165 words. And with that, chapter 9 was done.

NaNoWriMo day #4 - wordgoal: 6666 -

So far this has been my low-point during NaNo. I did not even finish chapter 10, and I only wrote a little over 4k words. I was so disappointed in myself that all I wanted to do was lay down on the floor and cry. I know it was stupid, because 4k words in one day is still really good, but going from 10k a day to 4k...that was hard on me. And on top of that I now had to get back into my daily routine, which involved school.

But I crossed the 35k mark, so I was still ahead.

NaNoWriMo day #5 - wordgoal: 8333 -

On Tuesday I had a writing class in which I wrote 2k words. It was a nice way to start off my writing, and I found out that the library is probably the best place for me to write. There are next to no distractions, and people do not bother you. They just let you sit in peace and write. But I could not stay there all day. I had to get home, which meant lots of distractions. Or so I thought. When I got home it was impossible for me to connect to the internet, so all I was able to do was write. And so I did! I finally finished chapter 10, you know, the one I was stuck with on day #4. And by doing that I had reached 40.523 words! You know what that mean; Less than 10k to go.

NaNoWriMo day #6 - wordgoal: 10.000 - 

So the wordgoal for today was 10k. I am way past that. I reached a major plot point in my story, and for every passing day I am falling more and more in love with what I am writing. Yes...it is a first draft, but I never said I liked the words I put down on the page. My story is making sense for once. And everything that happens, happen for a reason. 

I crossed the 45k mark today, but that was not the greatest achievement of the day. I found out something about the story I am writing: The stand-alone novel I have been writing over the past 6 days is actually the first book in a series. Or at least it looks like it. I had been considering the idea of a sequel, but did not really think it would work. And it will not. But something else will. I will not go into detail, since I am still playing around with the idea.

Once again I am going to show you my graf. It is growing, slower, but none the less growing.

Week one of NaNoWriMo is almost over. If you are getting discouraged just do like Dory, but instead of swimming just keep writing...just keep writing.

Keep Calm and Write On.

- Nanna.