AugNoWriMo!

woohoo! I've been wrangling with the motivations of my MCs in a WIP and it had been holding up the completion. Well, I figured it out today. With the long weekend coming up, who knows? I just might be able to finally this thing this month!

Go go go!

For me, after doing those readings, I've since located 22 potential articles for a literature review assignment (not due for a fair while, but it's good to get started) as well as combing through a textbook for notes on another assignment (due in about 12 days), then typing up the quotes and relevant notes.

*flop* It's only been about 6 hours of homework today, but it feels like more. I could still get more done, I suppose, but we'll see...

I still need to make more notes for this 12-days-away paper, so I might work on that, or else work on the very short exercise for Exploring Genres.

ETA: I got inspired and wrote that very short exercise. 100 words of a book review. It will likely be helpful for a later assignment, which requires that I pick one of the exercises and turn it into a 500-word piece. This one was far more interesting than the first 2, if you ask me.

Critiqued the 3 pieces I had to, and just uploaded them. Haven't done anything else today, but I find I have very little left to do right now anyway. And I still have tomorrow to work on what's left.

I failed my goals for the week and I don't think I'll be doing wrimo for September because all I can do when I come home from work is sleep. But now I know why I had this problem: I'm pregnant. Here is to a goal I've had for about half a year and it was finally achieved.

I am tired all day and to be honest now I don't feel guilty for being so out of it in the past few weeks. Never imagined it would affect me so much but I guess all I can do is enjoy the time and hope that by November I will feel up to the real Nanowrimo.

Congratulations to everyone else for achieving their goals!

mrsmig said:

Closing in on the end of the month with both goals in sight!

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Yes! Go get that goal!

PillBlast said:

I failed my goals for the week and I don't think I'll be doing wrimo for September because all I can do when I come home from work is sleep. But now I know why I had this problem: I'm pregnant. Here is to a goal I've had for about half a year and it was finally achieved.

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Congrats! You have an excellent reason to not hit your writing goals! Yay for baby!PillBlast!

I took yesterday off from writing, completely. It's the first day in weeks I didn't even attempt to write a bit. I'm still in good shape on my goals, which I suppose technically deadline at the end of next week... I've got eight scenes left. If I get one done this weekend, and two done on each of my days off, I will hit dead on. I broke 60K, so numbers-wise I'm just over 20k for the month, which is a nice spot to be in.

I also started shopping for a new laptop, heaven help me...

Congrats!

I'm having a writing haul this weekend (it's a 3-day weekend for me). Done a couple thousand this morning, going out with a friend later and then plan to do a few more thousand when I get back, and rinse and repeat tomorrow and Monday too.

I still plan to achieve my 20K goal by the end of Sept. 1. I always tend to be a "day before it's due" type, but ~14K in 3 days is pretty doable for me. I want to push past 10K by the end of tonight. I'll update my sig count later in the day.

Hey, Coffee, I hope you get that scene done this weekend, because I'm pushing 4000 words today and I don't want to leave you completely in my dust ...

Para, I wish we had a fist-shaking smiley. This would be the moment for it.

This will have to suffice -

I DID finish that scene, and I'm nearly through the next one. I've hit the point where I'm throwing plot at the wall and hoping it sticks. It worked in the outline, and I've got no plan B, so we'll just roll with it. Seven to completion, and after tomorrow, two days off. I want this WIP done by Wednesday!

BTW, I do know this is a completely-in-my-head race, but it makes me so much more productive

Cliff Face said:

Goals:

1. Keep up with readings for Uni.
2. Write, edit, and submit 4 assignments for Uni.
3. Have enough free time to do a few things that interest me beyond Uni.
4. Do all this without getting super stressed.

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End of the month, and here's how I went:

1. All readings have been done that need to be done so far.
2. Not only did I complete those 4 assignments, but I completed the 1/2 an assignment I added a week or two ago, and have made some good notes on another one (which I might write the first draft of today) and found 22 articles for a literature review. Win!
3. Erm... I had the free time, but I did nothing. Do naps count?
4. Check. My stress levels have been reasonably low this month.

Parametric said:

Hey, Coffee, I hope you get that scene done this weekend, because I'm pushing 4000 words today and I don't want to leave you completely in my dust ...

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Hahaha

Coffee, let's go head to head. I want this WIP done by end of Monday. You get a couple extra days, but we'll try to finish by our goal dates, yes?

And Pill, congrats! woohoo! I've also been unbelievably tired, but I'm not pregnant. Haha.

You're on Chompers! I'll keep after you if you need the extra push I'm a nano-ML, so my guilting and nagging skills are top notch.

Go go go!

CoffeeBeans said:

You're on Chompers! I'll keep after you if you need the extra push I'm a nano-ML, so my guilting and nagging skills are top notch.

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Haha! Well, according to an ex of mine, my nagging skills are pretty superior too. So I'll be all up on your case too. Haha

Mrsmig - Well, over here it's not yet midnight. You still got 30 minutes. Easy peasy!

So, despite having decided to take it easy today, I've done some homework.

1. Made some extra notes for a short paper, and then created a rough outline for the first draft.

2. Made short notes on key concepts addressed in 22 articles for my literature review, and renamed the files to reflect the author instead of gibberish from the academic journals. I still need to sort those 22 concept-notes into categories, and decide which direction the review will head in, but I can do that another day. (Note: I have read nothing more than the abstracts/introductions for those articles. Actually reading them all will probably take me 4 solid days, if not longer.)

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Para, I wish we had a fist-shaking smiley. This would be the moment for it.

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Congrats on finishing your scenes!

Congrats everyone A lot has been going on but I think most people did get somewhere

I got 2 blog posts. 5 books.
And I wrote about 25'000 words.

All in all I'm actually not happy with myself... but I'll try and do better in September.

Closing out the month at a shade over 55,000 words.

Congrats on the goals met folks!

33K and change for the month. Considering it's not an actual nano-month, I'm pretty pleased with myself. Now, three days to finish the novel.

Would have only been a half-fail if I sent out the story Saturday, but I was exhausted from DragonCon and didn't trust my eyes. I'm finishing the editing pass on the novel today. I'm off by a day on my editing estimate which is my best. I'm usually off by 15, so I'm close to figuring out my speed. I'm focusing on writing this month, but I haven't settled on a wordcount yet.

Congrats everybody!

All right, I'm adding one scene to one chapter, and I'm done editing. For this draft. It still seems short, at about 66k, but I'm sure my readers will be able to point out places where they feel the flesh lacking (like at the beginning, STILL, now that I'm thinking about it for this post. Sigh). I also know I'm to the point where, other than some details I've tweaked and a bunch of line edits, I'm mostly moving commas around and changing the names of things.

So, I more or less met my August goal!