Necation November - 500 words a day, all genres welcome!

Liz - That's what I always say.

Ken - Excellent work!

Shara - Good luck with that final draft.

Jamesaritchie - Wow, that's an impressive wordcount, even though it wasn't on a novel. God luck with your writing this month!

THANK YOU everyone for your congratulations. I've gone from giddy excitement to worried. I hope the book doesn't suck. I started the revision last night, got 4 pages done.

I'm sure the book is lovely, Erin. And now all you have to do is shape it! Hooray!

Nice word count, Ken, and creepy excerpt. Yikes. I am a wimp.

2,182 tonight, on top of reusing a bit I'd written before. (The reused bit doesn't go to the NaNo count, but it does go to the MS count.)

1,363 Monday
87 Tuesday, but it was my birthday, and we were out buying a car to replace the one my son totaled.

Happy Birthday, Bob!

I have 800 today. A very good day for me. Good luck everyone.

Pretty good start to November, with three early-morning writing sessions in a row this week. Sleep is becoming a distant memory (since this means getting up at 5:20am), but it does mean I've made some progress with my edits on the WIP.

Three chapters revised this morning, though not many changes made. I keep thinking the further I get in, the more changes are going to have to be made. I know the ending's going to be a lot different, so it's the run up to that I have to watch out for.

2,190. Another day of mostly awful words, but I am starting to work out a few things.

Well done, everyone!

Great job, everyone. Goose egg for me yesterday. Still trying to figure out the plot twist that got dropped in my lap. That, and my laptop is back in the shop over a dead cooling fan.

Well I might as well jump into the fray here. I'm sort of being a nano rebel, plus I have editing and wrote a story for our history quarterly on people who ran awy to join the circus pre1900. I'm up to 6,552 words. Not sure I'll make that 50k this year, but what the heck.

Twenty pages in on the revision. Feeling cautiously optimistic. Thanks everyone for the encouragement. You guys are the best.

Sorry to hear about your laptop, Bob. I hope it recovers quickly.

Ken, I'd heard some iffy things about Interstellar. My better half is going to see it next week with a friend of his, and I'm not sure they've ever managed to choose a movie that didn't turn out to be a disappointment. At 169 minutes...I'll wait for Netflix, thanks.

History, that's a pretty good start for NaNo!

Saoirse, having just been through editing myself - congratulations on 20 pages in one night. Revising is its own special kind of exhausting, but it's well worth it.

I wrote 2,034 tonight. The right things are happening, but in the wrong order. (I think I had the same status a week ago. Obviously I have not repaired the problem. )

2,040. Broke 15K!

Great news, Liz and Ken. Finally broke through and figured out who my antagonist's daughter is and how she's going to fit in the plot. 1500 words or so in outlining, but I think I've got a much better feeling for the last 4-5 chapters.

Prequel sounds nifty, Ken!

Congratulations on breaking through, Bob! I am still waiting for plot epiphanies, myself.

2,101 tonight, including about 700 words that were like pulling teeth and will be jettisoned as soon as I'm a the point where I'm editing instead of spewing out words like a monkey at a typewriter hoping some of it will make sense.

Ken Hoss said:

Liz hard at work on her WIP.

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And you got my good side, too.

One more chapter amended this morning. I'm over the halfway mark now!

Awesome work, everyone!

Ken - Neat idea about the prequel.

I'm up to 52 pages revised.

I've decided, though it's a bit late, to jump on the NaNo wagon. I've worked out if I do about 3,000 words a day I can still get 50,000 on time, so here goes.

Not quite at target today but it'll do. 1,662 which is one chapter of a new story, a murder mystery set in the Chernobyl Exclusion Zone. Right now it has only very sketchy research in terms of the Ukrainian police and National Guard, but I'm working off the 'can edit it later' theory...

Excellent work, everyone! And nice start, Zelenka. Welcome to NaNo.

2,031 tonight. I am now a the point where I am going to need to actually think about what happens next. Because surely something has to happen next...right???

Second 5:20am start this week for writing, and my brain is fried. And I still have to get through the day job today.

However, on the plus side I have amended two more chapters this morning.