POST HERE| how's the writing going for you?

[Sandra aka mytruestory85]

I thought to make a new discussion where we can share our thoughts on the writing challenge itself when the writing madness will start and on how we are progressing, or just sharing our thoughts when we feel stuck or whatever will come to your minds in the next 30 days

Let's have fun people! YAY :)))

[Sandra aka mytruestory85]

so there, here's my first ~ 500 words of the story. :) I can say yesterday I've been procatinating a bit and then I just started to write with a vague idea but it's not bad right? enjoy


MY FIRST FEW PARAGRAPHS

[DonnaOnTheBeach]

You are so brave sharing your stuff! Looking forward to reading more!

Also loved your blog post about writing 'something' - put that in here too cos I think people will find it helpful. I tried to leave a comment, but it didn't work and I didn't understand the text telling me why it didn't work! Lol.
xx

[Sandra aka mytruestory85]

Thanks :)) I think I know why this commeting did not work, maybe because the langauge was in German, I changed that and I also changed to commething modus to be open for anyone who wants. Thanks for reading. Mimi suggested to post our first 1667 words on our blogs and for the rest we just have to wait and that is what I had at that time and I thought to post it. It was a brilliant idea. Check out Mimi's too ;)

I'll put this blog about "writing sth." as soon as I figure out where to post it

[DonnaOnTheBeach]

Day 6, I'm still ahead of myself BUT seriously, this stuff sucks! It's so dailogue-heavy it's painful! Come December, my editor self is going to have so much fun crossing out and deleting and putting big red question marks all over the pages! This is the reward I have promised my editor self for taking November off. I keep reminding myself that this is an exercise in pure output - it's such a different world for me, I normally only write when I'm 'feeling creative', and if what I'm writing sucks I delete it and start again, or stop altogether.

This is why I've never written any fiction because I start writing and I get lost in the prose & it goes rubbish, so I stop. It's interesting because although I sound quite critical of it, I don't feel negative about it, it's more unattached than that. Hmm... And I find that I am reading with a greater awareness of 'how' they've done it - how the dialogue works, the balance of dialogue and not-dailogue (brain freeze!), which is fun! Aaaaah, I feel better now I've shared all that. Might be able to get on with my words for today!

Thanks again Sandra!

Love

Donna.x
PS If anyone wants a spreadsheet that shows cumulative words you should have, words you have, how far ahead or behind you are, how many words you have left today, I spent half an hour the other night creating that instead of writing! Crative procrastination is also getting exercised this month!!!!

[Sandra aka mytruestory85]

You are doing so well Donna wow over 11,000 words :) That's right, you can edit in December and absolutely keep everything you wrote :) I can relate to that what you said about paying more attention to dialoes and books you love. You begin to see hwo they crafted it how they made it so brilliant. Sorry for not writing more.. I'm procastinating everwhere lol, just joking. I'm glad that it helped you got get your words for today :)

I'd love to have that spreadsheet :)))

[DonnaOnTheBeach]

Lol - drop me an e-mail and I'll send it over to you! x

[Clarissa Kelly]

Well... 14,000 ish now! Part of that is the outline I wrote to begin with, the synopsis and character stuff. It is going fine because I am adding SO MANY things that have happened to me, it is weird that so much fits into my story (okay, it is autobiographical in a way). And there are 3 plots that are going on, it may end up too disjointed, but who cares, right???/!!!

[Sandra aka mytruestory85]

yes super Clarissa. wow 14,000 words :)) You know what I do, e.g. when I go for a walk outside now that it's fall I use this for my character this "experience" of walking there enjoying the leaves etc. blabla so I put this into my novel, otherwise I invent it along the way, not sure what will come out of it.
I'm very much behind ugh.. it's past midnight and today I need 16,670 oh God, I'm having headache.. :) I haven't written much in the past few days.. was doing other stuff and things kept me away from doing this so i'll try to do bit today and tomorrow to get back on track. and yes I had troubles with my computer

yes you can always remove parts that you don't like or you can mark it in a color in Word so that you know that this needs editing or that you want to cut it out or put it in italics or mark it in some way so that it's easier for you later in December when you want to edit it

xoxo Sandra

[Sandra aka mytruestory85]

I'm procastinating aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa!!!! :) I thought it's easy to write but someone it's tought this week... :/ I lack imagination lol to get some 6,000 by today ugh haha

[Vieiragirl]

One of my goals is to finish Nanowrimo this year. Last year I didnt even come close. I was doing good for awhile but I am behind now. I think tomorrow we are suppose to have about 25,000 words I am only at 15,128 words so hopefully I can catch up. The last two weeks are going to be tough but I am determined to finish! 50,000 words here I come!

[Sandra aka mytruestory85]

yeah hang in there!!! and thx for joining us :)))