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Meh. Today sucked. I mean, I wrote some scenes I really liked but my numbers are just pathetic. It doesn’t help that I’ve gotten sick (because of course I have!):
NOVEL X WORD COUNT: 0
VARIOUS & MISC WORD COUNT: 2,202
TOTAL NANO COUNT THUS FAR: 7,666
PERSON/PLACE/THING I GOT TO WRITE ABOUT TODAY:
NOVEL X WORD COUNT: 0
VARIOUS & MISC WORD COUNT: 2,244
TOTAL NANO COUNT THUS FAR: 5,464
PERSON/PLACE/THING I GOT TO WRITE ABOUT TODAY:
Mmm. Another rough day from a standpoint of numbers, but I finished my work that was due Wednesday (today) so by any measure I call that a success! 😉
NOVEL X WORD COUNT: 0
VARIOUS & MISC WORD COUNT: 2,229
TOTAL NANO COUNT THUS FAR: 3,220
PERSON/PLACE/THING I GOT TO WRITE ABOUT TODAY:
As mentioned, not a ton of words today as I was mostly working on an outline/pitch and that’s more about getting down notes, doing research, and finessing things than it is about high word count. Came in just under 1,000.
So not a great day, but this is a tough deadline I’m under. Also I had to take about 6 hours to try to switch over to my new iphone (and it’s still not done!!!! grrrrr. Don’t ask).
NOVEL X WORD COUNT: 0
VARIOUS & MISC WORD COUNT: 991
PERSON/PLACE/THING I GOT TO WRITE ABOUT TODAY:
Dazzler! Hell yeah!
I often take a (totally unofficial) stab at NaNoWriMo. I’ve only successfully managed it one year (the glorious year that was 2011). But that was a crazy success in that I not only DOMINATED my word count (over 75k on that novel) AND that novel became my book STORYKILLER.
So it’s both hard to resist the siren song of that one year’s awesome success and it’s also often something that feels like a too high standard (which I will constantly fail to meet). Anyway, I have A LOT to write right now, including really needing to get a high number of words down on a novel project, so I thought I might just give it a try again this year and might have a better shot of hitting some of these goals if I was forced to document it and be accountable.
So here we are.
Yesterday was a massive failure (long story, don’t ask) but I am determined not to be derailed!
So here’s what I have to accomplish this month writing wise. Going forward I’ll track novel writing count as one number and then I’ll just merge all the others into a second number:
NOVEL X: 50k
I need more than 50k – I’d feel better about 80k, but 50k would be amazing especially considering everything else I’m committed to.
COMIC BOOK SCRIPTS: 6 scripts
I’d actually like to get 7 done, but 6 are necessary
COMIC BOOK REVISIONS: 1 script
I’ll probably have to do more, but for now this is the one on deck
COMIC BOOK SHORT: 1
Short Story for a comic (8 – 10 pages)
COMIC OUTLINES: 1
This is due asap, so it’s first on the list
COMIC SYNOPSIS: 2
Two mini-series synopses due (asap on this one)
COMIC PITCHES: 2
I actually have 3 due, but one can wait until December (I think) so I’m backburnering it
SHORT STORIES: 4 – 6
More accurately I need to finish 3, and do 2 to 3 completely new ones
This looks like A LOT (and Jesus, typing it out it FEELS like a lot) but technically it’s probably around 100k and if I did 75k while working a full time job in 2011 then I don’t see why I can’t do 100k while THIS is my full time job. RIGHT?
Guess we’ll see!
Off to get a reasonable word count down for today. Also I’m cross posting this on my Tumblr, which, I’m sorry to say is where I do most of my “blogging” these days. So you might want to follow me over there if you want to be sure to stay in the loop.
Thanks for reading!
Kelly
Oh, here’s an image for today…cover for A-Force #2, which yes, I AM WRITING with the amazing G. Willow Wilson. WOOOO!
Cover by Jorge Molina.
Woo!
So I told you guys I would check back in and let you know when I hit “the end” and last night, that very good thing happened.
It happened a good 10,000 words later than I wanted it to happen, but it happened notheless.
Final word count for this FINISHED draft is 119,431.
I’m going to need a week or two to clean it up, correct inconsistencies, and do some general “prettying up”…but otherwise it’s going out to my writing group and a handful of wonderful betas in the next couple weeks. Thanks again to all of you that were so supportive while I powered through this thing in a month. It was awesome…though I admit I am CRAZY EXHAUSTED with the mental capacity of a box of hair.
As a fun experiment, I decided to pull together a collage of all the images I posted over the last month that I drew some inspiration from for the book. In the end, it’s only 29 images because one was throwing everything off and seemed redundant anyway, so I deleted it. Anyway…here it is. Hopefully any of you interested will get the opportunity to read this book someday…thanks again!
Tags: novels
Hey kids. So here, we are, 30 days later. I hope you all had as much success as I did. This was an incredible month for me, because while I am exhausted (and not quite done) I absolutely destroyed my goals – cruising past 50k on Day 21, and ending up with an insane 75k+ words written this month.
And honestly…that is JUST for my novel. I also wrote 9 comic book reviews, 2 She Has No Head! columns, 2 podcast write ups, 2 editions of Drunk Cover Solicits, an essay about Wonder Woman for the DC Women Kicking Ass Kick Ass Contest, and a slew of other smaller posts for 1979. That, altogether has got to be at least 15k – 20k, easy. So that means I wrote nearly 100k this month…outside of my full time job. Insane. Now, I will say that my personal life has been a sad little husk of a thing…so I don’t think this is a healthy way to live…but, it can still be a good guideline of how much I am really capable of when I put my mind to it…and could perhaps help me figure out what a reasonable goal would be for a more ongoing basis.
Thanks to all of you that encouraged me, and I hope for those of you that took on NaNo yourselves (officially, or unofficially as I did) are happy with your successes and failures. If I’ve learned anything it’s that it’s all a process. I know for a fact some of you out there just killed it…but for others, there’s always next time, and even if you didn’t meet 50k, you’re still X number of words beyond where you were four short weeks ago…so just keep going.
Anyway, for posterity’s sake, I’ll put up a post when I hit “the end” on this puppy (shooting for Saturday) so that those of you that have been playing along can feel closure too. 
But for now, here are the final counts…
Today’s word count: 2,943
MS total word count: 110,495
Total NaNo word count: 75,995
Inspirational image for a scene I was writing today:
Things are coming together people! Figured out a major issue I’ve been having with the climax (large thanks to Adam who is always a life saver with plot issues and creativity in general) and I’m feeling much more confident as we head into the final day here. Given my schedule I don’t think I’ll finish tomorrow (end of NaNo) but I think I’ll be done by Friday/Saturday, at which point I can go in and pretty things up and correct errors, etc. Still much longer than I wanted this draft to be…but it is what it is, right?
Today’s word count: 3,279
MS total word count: 107,552
Inspirational image for a scene I was writing today:
Closing in on the end of NaNo, just two days left. I had a good day today and a decent word count total, even though I had to delete and rework some stuff. Still feeling damn lousy, but getting OH SO CLOSE on finishing this puppy, which is good good good.
Today’s word count: 4,263
MS total word count: 104,273
Inspirational image for a scene I was writing today:
Too young for my character, but otherwise a good look overall
Had such high hopes for today…even had delusional dreams of finishing. Ah, delusional sickness…how you lead me astray!
Still, clocked in a good number of words…in fact, best/biggest day ever…so SILVER LININGS. Also, I have GOT to be getting close. Must be within 10k of writing “the goddamn end” on this puppy.
Today’s word count: 5.580
MS total word count: 100,010
Inspirational image from a scene I was writing today:
