Reading pace is picking up a bit. I finished 3 chapters in 2 hours and spotted two characters I can combine.
NaNoWriMo Progress: 6.5 / 50
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NaNoWriMo 2022 Log: Day 2
Spent an hour and a half reading one chapter. It’s one of the longer chapters, and I might want to break it up more, but still.
On the other hand, I love this story.
NaNoWriMo Progress: 4.5/50
NaNoWriMo 2022 Log: Day 1
This year I’m a NaNoWriMo rebel! I’m revising the novel I started during Camp NaNo in July.
My first step is to read the whole damn thing. I ordered a spiral-bound printout of it to make it feel like A Novel (TM) and for the first day of NaNo sat down and started reading.
Three hours later, I finished “Thursday” and have a couple pages of notes, did some fact-checking, and am desperately hoping this is not indicative of how long it will take me to read the whole thing.
My goal for NaNo is 50 hours, so solid start on chipping away at that, at least.
NaNoWriMo Progress: 3 / 50
Camp NaNoWriMo Day 1!
Okay, my plan for fast drafting was immediately thwarted by the Supreme Court overturning Roe vs Wade and ruining my weekend. But!
(Of course there’s a but.)
I’m doing Camp NaNoWriMo. Today I managed to eke out 747 words to start chipping away at my goal of 50k.
NaNoWriMo: The first 10(ish) days
I’m doing NaNoWriMo again this year and working on drafting my “dragon novel” that has been stalled in the brainstorming stage for a long time. I managed to write 9k words at Murderbooze last weekend, and that represents the majority of my progress so far. It’s day 11 now and my current word count is 13,291. I rarely hit even 1k words in a day.
I’m reminding myself that this is how it always goes – most days I write at a snails pace, and then I get momentum going and suddenly the words pour out of me. Last year I won NaNo by writing 30k words over Thanksgiving weekend. It was exhausting, I hope I never have to do that again, but also based on what college and grad school were like … I think that’s maybe just how my brain works? Some combination of immersion and deadline makes things click and then boom I’ve written a research paper/novel/genetic algorithm in a weekend.
On the bright side, I’m mostly not hating what I write. A lot of the scenes lack conflict, but that’s what the second draft is for.
Emily Ruth 