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Nov 2016
11:32am, 1 Nov 2016
7,795 posts
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Badger
I made the terrible mistake of editing an obvious contradiction between chapter 1 and chapter 2 last year... and never got past chapter 2.
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Nov 2020
3:49pm, 1 Nov 2020
450 posts
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Funky Chicken
Is anyone giving this a go this year? [Apologies if I've managed to overlook a newer thread everyone else has piled into.] I've been getting emails about it and hadn't planned to take part, but today I decided there's no time like the present!
My track record on this is not great - I hit the target once many years ago but wasn't happy with the end result, and have had a few false starts on other attempts.
So I have a document at the ready, and two words already written - only 49,998 still to go! Will now spend the next few ours resizing the font and page parameters...
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Nov 2020
6:10pm, 1 Nov 2020
451 posts
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Funky Chicken
If it's just me this year, I'll probably avoid having a conversation with myself, but for now am happy to report a reasonable start at least. Currently about 400 words shy of my target for the day, but knocked out a short first chapter/prologue that set the scene quite nicely. I think I might be writing a horror story, but I'm not entirely sure yet - it could probably descend into farce at any moment.
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Nov 2020
10:04pm, 1 Nov 2020
553 posts
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Gogsy!
I’m in FC ... hoping to do better than the 25k I hit last year, although I did carry on & reached 50k in January, finishing the novel in April.
(WW1 saga about three brothers from a Scottish farm that join up & head to France. This year’s project is the sequel.)
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Nov 2020
10:16pm, 1 Nov 2020
38,310 posts
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Purps
I'd half forgotten about this. I might give it a go again. Will see how tomorrow goes.
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Nov 2020
10:18pm, 1 Nov 2020
12,983 posts
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Badger
Hmm. I have music overdubs to do, but I quite fancy the idea of picking up 2016's attempt again.
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Nov 2020
10:33pm, 1 Nov 2020
455 posts
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Funky Chicken
Good to hear there may be a few others on board, and good luck all!
My problem with anything I’ve ever written is I start off with an idea I’m happy with and then kind of lose my way and get bogged down in all the detail - then I end up putting it to the side and starting something new instead. My NaNoWriMo tale for this year has taken shape from a few loosely related ideas I once had but didn’t really explore much, so I’m hoping that will take the story in some interesting directions.
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Nov 2020
3:12pm, 2 Nov 2020
459 posts
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Funky Chicken
2400 words so far, and currently about 900 adrift - I remember from previous years how quickly that gap can get so much wider and suddenly seem unreachable. But back when I last tried it, I hadn't cottoned on to using my mobile phone to write things on the go and email myself - I've found that makes a huge difference!
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Nov 2020
5:03pm, 2 Nov 2020
54,429 posts
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Diogenes
Started from scratch this afternoon and managed about 2800 words. (I was trying to catch up for having missed a day yesterday).
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Nov 2020
7:55pm, 2 Nov 2020
461 posts
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Funky Chicken
Nice one Dio. I haven't managed anything since my earlier post, so will try to make up for it before lights out. I don't like the tool on the website currently projecting a completion date of December 12th already!
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