#nanowinner2017

[hudders-and-hiddles]

fifty thousand motherfucking words in one stressful fucking month: check

[caffeinial]

YELLS OUT - ANOTHER ONE

[writing-in-the-margins-blog]

Ebb and Flow

It’s been 6 days since NaNo and I really miss the pressure of setting up that 1700-word goal everyday. This is why I’m foregoing sleep now.

Goal is to write about 700/800 words.

I realize it’s not enough to just write.  This is what I tell my own students:  there’s an ebb and flow to creation.  Do what comes naturally -- but forgetting your own work as a writer is not natural.

I have to remind myself to stop and review, peruse my own work, my own writing in my Notebooks, which I have never done, beginning with what I wrote during the month of November.

So, printing tomorrow after my 700 or so.  Go through the draft, see what’s useful, rebuild where I need to.

Great.  Gotta plan for this weekend.  :)

[alandistro]

Took me nine years to give it a go, but I did it! I wrote the first draft of my first novel in one month! NaNoWriMo is such a great motivational event. I hope to come back to it again in the future.

Thanks to Mike Martin for all his help developing the story and outline very early on. This is an idea I've wanted to write since high school, and if it weren't for your help, it would still just be a "some day" daydream. Also to Kristen for listening and offering advice when I'd babble on forever about my characters and all the shit they were getting into.

And to all of you for being so supportive and not unfollowing me when I posted one too many updates about NaNo this month (and all the updates to follow as I rewrite, revise, write some more, and then edit, re-edit... and then edit again). 

[kamari333]

SUCK IT, WRITERS BLOCK, I WIN

I have officially "won" NaNoWriMo 2017 with a wopping 52,147 words validated on November 30th, 2017.

Say it with me: NaNoWriMo is my bitch!

I made NaNoWriMo my bitch!! And I did it write (hah!) after making Kinktober my bitch too!!

I FEEL SO &$^@#^& FULFILLED!! I FEEL VALIDATED!!! I don't even care that its just an awful, badly written, self-indulgent Undertale fanfiction! I DID A THING AND I FEEL GOOD ABOUT IT!!

WOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOHHH!!!

Now, I am not actually done with the story, Welcome To The Underground, and I may have left it on a cliffhanger, but I need a few days for a break. Writing every day for a total of over 100k words in the span of two months can do that to you.

[himluv]

So, this just happened for the first time.

[beauty-grace-outer-space]

Well kids, I done did it. Today, I hit 50,141 words of Resurrection: The Year After.

The story isn’t finished, I still have at least one- possibly two- more chapters. It will be finished by the end of the month. Chapter 10 is ready for editing and then it’s just finishing it up.

I’m a bit sad, to be honest. I’ve really fallen in love with this story and this process. But I’m proud of myself, too.

Live long and prosper.

[ifridiot]

many naps now please