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NaNoWriMo 2011: I won it.

27 days, 50,082 words. For the second time out of two attempts, I'm a successful NaNoWriMo novelist! F*** yeah!

The novel I wrote is still technically untitled, though I've run with the working title "Heart of Ice", as it was written to be the origin story for the characters present in the game. As for who is actually going to read it, Kirsty said she will, but I'd probably be too embarrassed about it's awful quality to show many others!

Here's the graph depicting my noveling progress:

The grey line is the target baseline, and the brown bars are my actual daily progress. As you can see, I got off to a decent start, but faulted around the 21st where I wrote literally nothing for two days. I'll be honest and say that while some of the writing was highly entertaining, other times I really struggled to get any motivation at all, and couldn't even force myself to open Q10. There were certain points where I just had no passion left for the story. And since I'd already written a NaNoWriMo novel, it also didn't help having nothing to prove. Regardless, I think the experience of being hyper productive over most of a month has been good for me, and hopefully it'll reinvigorate the productivity that has been sorely lacking for me (outside of my primary employment) this year.

So that ends another sometimes sureal journey into writing with the characters that inhabit my subconscious. I'll no doubt post my tips for NaNoWriMo success here over the next couple of days. Time to get back to actually getting things done.

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Anthony O^O (not verified)

Congratulation

Earok
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Thanks mate :D maybe I'll have time to add your new graphics to witchblaster now!

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Woot! And we got a mostly linear bar graph out of it! WD. Going to publish it? :P

Earok
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Cheers mate.

Publish? Certainly not! At least not until it's been rewritten a bunch of times.

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But think about us! When can we say: "I know a novelist!" :P

 

On a more serious note. I am curious, can I get a glance at a chapter or two?

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A two time NaNoWriMo champion! Congratulations on pulling it off two years running. Thinking of making it a hat trick?

Earok
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Cheers Cobra. I'll definitely think about doing it a third time (though it won't be three consecutive years - I didn't bother attempting NaNoWriMo in 2010)

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Has it already been that long since the last NaNoWriMo you entered?.... wow... time really has flown by.
In that case you should go for the 2013 one next.

hydra9
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Well done, well done, well done!
Very impressed!

Earok
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@cobra yep, time flies. maybe in 2013 I will be brave enough to publish it!

@sam cheers mate. I hope your collaborations with Luchian last month were equally fruitful?

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Thanks Erik! Yep, Luchian and I are talking, planning, writing notes, organising stuff every day... We want to make sure the world of the novel is properly worked out before we actually start writing it.

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Cool, good to hear it's still got a lot of momentum. I think doing something every day towards the project is the single most important thing.