CAMP NANO PROGRESS TRACKER・APRIL 2021
What it says on the tin. Follow along as I organize and edit KAY! I’ll be writing on what I (and nobody else) call the “Jewish weekdays”: Sunday through Thursday. Don’t expect daily updates!
PROJECT TYPE: ORGANIZING / OUTLINING / EDITING
GOAL: 450 minutes
all daily updates under the cut.
Monday, April 5th – I worked on Thursday, but then we had that Passover Special Triple Whammy of breaks, and now I’m back. I’ve officially hauled all the non-story content out of the KAY document, and now all that’s left is STORY. 280 pages of it. 76,460 words of it. 20.5 chapters of it. Phew.
45 / 450
Tuesday, April 6th – Everything in the world to do; no time to do it in. I have now officially cleaned out the original KAY References document, so that it contains all the miscellaneous stuff and the Outline document contains all the outlines/ideas.
65 / 450
Wednesday, April 7th – Couldn’t possibly tell you what I did today. I think I researched birthday gifts. Moved one scene around in the document.
90 / 450
Thursday, April 8th – Reading through this outline is embarrassing. Was I just a bad writer when I wrote it? What was my problem? Well, it’ll be good this time.
120 / 450
Sunday, April 11th – Spent most of my time on Book Two’s outline, figuring out orders and details. Book Two is currently much more sparse than Book One, so I decided to look through my links for TVTropes episode ideas. Found a few tropes I suppose I should add to the overall KAY page… Also looked around for literary engagement rings. Not for reasons any of you should be concerned about.
155 / 450
Monday, April 12th – Nearly finished with going through the tropes list. I’m hoping to avoid writing an entire outline and then thinking, “wait, what if I added THIS in?” In the case of Book Two in particular, I’m quite short on adventures for Atlas and (mumbling). Oh, and I’m five minutes ahead of my goal! At this rate I won’t get behind this weekend; just un-ahead.
185 / 450
Tuesday, April 13th – I have finished with the tropes list and am thinking of ways to torture Constantine. If I have too many ideas for Book One, I can just turn some of them into bonus episodes, right? And I am officially over a day ahead.
215 / 450
Wednesday, April 14th – Now it’s just a matter of organizing all the ideas into an outline shape. I’ve started with Book Two, since it seems a little more manageable.
245 / 450
Thursday, April 15th – The first full week! I just realized today that I’m past halfway on my goal; at this point I could take off not just Fri/Sat but also Sunday if I wanted to. But I won’t!
275 / 450
Sunday, April 18th – Took a break from outline organizing to edit the first chapter. For secret reasons…
310 / 450
Monday, April 19th – Back to outlining, but also to doing a little bit of writing. I’ll give the first chapter another look tomorrow.
340 / 450
Tuesday, April 20th – Our first late update! True to form, however, I did complete my edit of the first chapter and updated on time on the NaNo site.
370 / 450
Wednesday, April 21st – Session meh at first, sped up when I got into my groove. There is a lot of content in this document.
410 / 450
Thursday, April 22nd – Very tired this time around; a little burned out from a variety of things I’m working on. Glad for the weekend! Set to hit my goal on Sunday.
430 / 450
Sunday, April 25th – Another late update; I hit my goal! Still, not anywhere near being finished. It’s really hitting me how much I’ll have to include in the story.
455 / 450
Monday, April 26th – My biggest roadblock is not knowing what I wrote down. Did I already write all the details out for this Halloween episode somewhere else in the document, or should I describe the whole scene right now just in case? Also there are four of these.
475 / 450
Tuesday, April 27th – Feeling much better now that I’ve gotten into my organizational system! Ctrl+f is also helping.
500 / 450
Wednesday, April 28th – Did a little less writing, a little more relaxing, with the excuse that I had a Cirque du Soleil disc which was due any second at the library.
510 / 450
Thursday, April 29th – Smoother sailing. Like playing Tetris.
530 / 450
Friday, April 30th – Last day, and I’m feeling more optimistic than ever. I achieved quite a bit, and there’s more work to do next time I come back to KAY. I’ll compile all of these updates into the one post above (so you don’t have to see this ungodly chain again!) and make a final update post in the coming days. Thank you for following along.
560 / 450
