NaNoWriMo Day 18 Results - 20,000 Words, Trees, Tornados, Thanksgiving, and Tinkering · 5:31am Nov 19th, 2017
Progress
Words - 19,400 + 1,737 / 50,000
Days - 18 / 30
Average - 1,174 words a day (+33) [Required average - 1,667]
Pages - 38 + 3
Progress
Words - 19,400 + 1,737 / 50,000
Days - 18 / 30
Average - 1,174 words a day (+33) [Required average - 1,667]
Pages - 38 + 3
Hey.
It's been a while since I've talked about Pony-Me.
Now, I know that I mentioned how I was working on a reboot.
But lately, I've been making almost zero progress on it.
Most of what I've been working on these days is my current flagship series, Splintershard.
It's refreshing to be able to write something new again.
But at the same time, I still want to give Pony-Me the chance to follow through with its intended ending, instead of what it currently has.
It's National Novel Writing Month (NaNoWriMo) . So what's ahead for me?
Hello everyone!
Just a little notation of how October's gone for me and what I'm up to. To go down the list:
1. Wrote a horror story that I just now posted before making this blog post. It'll be attached to this, so give it a read for me attempting to be spooky!
2. Work at the library has been keeping me busy, but in a good way. I still have time to work on stories and things which is nice, without feeling utterly exhausted.
So there's a challenge I've always wanted to take on, and this Saturday I'm doing it. You might have heard of NaNoWriMo, a ridiculous challenge to write a 50,000 word novel in a month (the very same challenge that I completed Fifteen Dinners as a part of!)
Final Day Results
Words - 34,302 + 572 / 50,000
Days - 30 / 30
Average - 1,162 words a day (-21) [Required average - 1,667]
Pages - 65 + 1
Chapters - 7 + 1
Total Progress - 69.75% (+1.15%)
Progress
Words - 23,403 + 1,682 / 50,000
Days - 21 / 30
Average - 1,195 words a day (+25) [Required average - 1,667]
Pages - 46 + 3
Chapters - 6
Total Progress - 50.17% (+3.36%)
Progress
Words - 27,274 + 915 / 50,000
Days - 23 / 30
Average - 1,226 words a day (-14) [Required average - 1,667]
Pages - 53 + 2
Chapters - 6 + 1
Total Progress - 56.38% (+1.83%)
Progress
Words - 13,288 + 810 / 50,000
Days - 13 / 30
Average - 1,022 words a day (-85) [Required average - 1,667]
Pages - 25 + 2
Chapters - 3
Total Progress - 28.20% (+1.62%)
Progress
Words - 8,175 + 890 / 50,000
Days - 9 / 30
Average - 1,007 words a day (-15) [Required average - 1,667]
Pages - 15 + 2
Chapters - 2
Total Progress - 18.13% (+1.78%)
Again with no progress.
Crap just seems to accumulate at work and I've worked two 10 hour days so far, and I get home late and exhausted. It's been like this for two weeks.
“Alright, everything’s fine. Everything’s just fine. We totally didn’t get swallowed up by some all-consuming bubble just now! Nothing terrible or crazy has happened, and everything is just. Fine. Just…”
Lisa’s quiet muttering jolted Zoey from her daze. She blinked, looking down at her hands.
No blood.
That was the weirdest daydream ever. Like, ever ever.
“Lisa?” Zoey hopped off her stool, kneeling down beside her babysitter. “Is something wrong?”
Its been a hell of a ride.
Good day, folks!
I hope you all have had a lovely Thanksgiving, even if you aren’t in the US. And I hope you’re a good person who didn’t shop on Thanksgiving. Because there’s a special spot in Tartarus for those who shop during Thanksgiving.
...okay, no. Not going to go into a rant about retail. After 12 years, I am free of retail. Have been for two and a half years. But some things… they stay with you.
(Note: I should have fixed the issues with the images. It looked like imgbox.com went down for a bit, so I swapped them all to PhotoBucket. If you see issues, let me know!)
Howdy folks!
On Saturday, November 19, 2016, at around 2:00PM Pacific, I cracked the 50K barrier for this year’s surge of writing on Wavelength Theorems.
You read that right, folks. You’re reading the blog of an author who’s won National Novel Writing Month eight years running.
Thunk.
The floor creaked beneath her feet. Distant, metallic screeches echoed through her skull, almost drowning out her muted humming. Her small fingers tightened around the fragile glass of the cup she held, unwilling to let it come shattering to the floor. A dim corridor terminated her path ahead—three doors. Faint voices echoed from behind the one to her left.
Seriously. That Animated Short was awesome. And the presentation during the opening ceremonies? Beyond epic. The moment the “Global Launch” retrospective glitched, I knew what they were doing and basically had this expression.