Didn't do any words today, I did other stuff.

50243

One book down. I've got either two or three more to draft this month, but for tonight, I'm happy.

Coffee helps.

8,223. Still exactly one day behind.

I got a shitload of writing done today at work, though. I mean, I don't want to make a habit out of that, but I'd already finished my work and I was just manning the phones.

My plot's working a fair bit better than I thought it would be. One of my characters is totally different to how I originally intended him, but it's I think it's better this way.

Smooth sailing so far... although week two is looming.

13494 words done!

Quote from: aaa;1442552Didn't do any words today, I did other dingen.

i haven't the past three days, and i might not tomorrow. I have a four day weekend of nothing ahead of me, hopefully these four days of "inspiration" will work up over 13,336 words.

;o;

11,309, yo. I'm ballin'.

27,000

FUCK II HATE HOMWURK (((

ITT Poltergeist ridiculously overachieves but thinks he's not doing good enough.

You should write two more novels if this one is running by so fast, Polty.

why is everyone ignoring Mechanus?

My boss has been away, which means that I've been absolutely fucking swamped with work. Not that I was writing at work or anything >_>, but god damn. It's been really hectic.

Juuuuuuuust passed 10k words. I'm at around 10.5 now. Holy god I'm so behind and the plot isn't doing what I want it to.

At the moment the work is seeming really random, I want their job to have more of a continuous purpose. Chalk has been helping me a lot though it's good to have someone you can talk at about plots, to try and get them more organised.

I still have so much to do before I'm caught up today uggghhhghhhhhhh

WEEK TWO IS SETTING IN EARLY

I'm at around 5k words right now.  I'll hopefully catch up today and tomorrow.  I've finally introduced another main character, so things should hopefully speed up for me.

At 6011 so far.  I'm taking a break for now.  I typed through three songs I selected that I felt like hearing and the Guero album by Beck.
I'll continue later today.

28,000

I have hit a creative slump

Quote from: aaa;1444010At 6011 so far.  I'm taking a break for now.  I typed through three songs I selected that I felt like hearing and the Guero album by Beck.
I'll continue later today.

You're supposed to be at around 13,000 by this point. If you don't want to commit suicide during Week 2, it may be best to soldier onwards.

I need to get ahead a little more. Fortunately, I have a NaNo write-in tomorrow, which should provide a big boost.

I just broke 16100.

I'll post an except because i;m like that.

QuoteThe Mustang’s tilted landing posture allowed Jake to see behind with the mirror. He made out the shape of the woman crouching behind a few cans of fuel and ammunition in the rear of the hangar, her figure hidden in the shadows. He could make out the reflection of her eyes in the mirror. They both remained absolutely still for a few seconds. Then to woman began to move, slinking slowly into the open light. Judging by the way she moved her head, Jake realized that she hadn’t seen him. While still using the mirror to keep tabs on her, he slowly began to slink down into the cockpit. He was no coward, but he had seen what had happened to the tech, and if she could crush bulletproof armor with a single punch, then she was definitely out of his league. He had managed to move most of the way down, only his eyes and the top of his head above the cockpit’s lip, when his leg brushed the plane’s control stick. There was a rush of hydraulics as the airplane’s flaps moved to correspond to the direction of the stick. The woman’s head whipped around to look, and Jake could see two eyes, one a bright blue and one a dark green, staring deeply into his own.
Jake could only utter one thing as their gazes matched.
“Oh shit.”
And then she was on him.
   

DUN DUN DUUUUUUUUUUUN

29,225

I've finished three of my stories so far, the longest being 18,000 words. I'm working on another fairly long one I expect to be 11,000 words. The third longest I expect will be around 11/12,000 words also, along with a few more short ones

Quote from: Lexington;1444322You're supposed to be at around 13,000 by this point. If you don't want to commit suicide during Week 2, it may be best to soldier onwards.

I need to get ahead a little more. Fortunately, I have a NaNo write-in tomorrow, which should provide a big boost.

Nah, don't worry, I'll catch up fairly quickly when I start reaching stuff I kinda sorta planned out.

I just finished the story about the gay german priest guys

Took you long enough.

3,596. Some personal things really knocked me off course of everything. I don't think I'll get much more than 15k now. Which is fine. Keeps life interesting.

Synopsis: The World As I Knows It

About a guy who was paranoid and thought he had a vision that the whole world was going to end, so he wrote a book detailing the history, culture, stories, and wisdom gained over the years in order to give the future survivors a head start, or to preserve a bit of a legacy for the alien life forms that encountered our species. In order to insure that his words would survive any earthly catastrophe, he snuck onto a ship and dropped off the book on a space station, possibly getting himself killed in the process. This story will be his words, as well as perhaps a second part which is fiction and details what happens when some party or another encounters such words and how it screws them up.

QuoteExcerpt:

I went to sleep one night after a meal of delicious chocolate chip cookies with walnuts and cantaloupe strands, and during that night a supernatural being contacted me from beyond the stars.

I wrote down what he told me after I woke up, and I didn't remember it the best, so don't blame me for it not being perfect, but here you go:

"Hello puny mortal.

I am reaching out to whoever is on this terrible planet.

You are all doomed.

I am a researcher for the Hon Jopkins Hospital on the planet Googaber, in a star system that you may know as Vega or star 10r43289sdfne (something like that, I should look it up sometime).

It's really hot here, by the way. Our star is huge, and we are close to it. We have to live 10 miles underground at all times, and even then it feels like the roof of a pickup truck in a used car lot in the middle of the day in a country of yours called Haiti, at all times.

Needless to say, we are envious of your cool planet.

But back on topic, you are in grave danger. We have been conducting studies on several planets in your neck of the galaxy, and I in particular have been assigned your planet. I've been taking remote readings of your atmosphere and collecting slash watching the television signals that have been emitting like a foul stench from your planet, and, after putting this data into our Always Right!(TM) Supercomputers, I have found some startling news.

As I said before, you are doomed.

Not just you personally, but everyone. There is a pestilence on your planet. And that pestilence is a being called the 'human'. They have systematically wiped out just about everything on the planet with their simple and wasteful ways, using two paper towels when half of a single one would suffice, packaging every single edible morsel in a hard to dispose of material known as plastic in the name of sanitation, living much further away from family, friends, and work then they should, forcing them to use massive devices that devour the great air, mostly for convenience sake, so they can spend even more of their lives in front of computers and convincing people to buy more products wrapped in plastic.

Which by itself is terrible, but won't do any permanent damage to the planet, because they'll do themselves in long before it will affect anyone else. No, I'm not really talking about them, that was simply un unintentional aside. I'm actually talking about the rare beetle known as 'Yusef's Beetle', that has been diabolically good at keeping themselves from discovery from this human race, by using a cloaking device known as an 'Invisible Bugs for Super Survival Rag (TM)'. It is very effective.

These beetles emit an odor that, while indetectable, do terrible damage to the ecosystem over time. Since they are indetectable, they have been multiplying like ants, and so the level of odor has been rising in the planet steadily in the past 100 years, and it has started to reach a critical tipping point where it will destroy the planet as you know it.

The humans are starting to pick up on these effects. Animals are dying at record paces, the planet's atmosphere is decaying quickly, allowing deadly radiation in and cooking the world like a baked potato. The humans and some animals have so far been pretty resilient in adapting to these changes, but before too long it will destroy the planet. I give it another 5 years at best.

You may doubt my findings, and I understand that. Your own scientists are probably saying that it's worrying, but nothing that will mean imminent doom. They are incorrect. While I can't show you all the data right now, they are on file at the Office of Scientific Findings and you only need two forms of photo id to get it, and of course a quick interstellar trip to get here.

So I regret to inform you that you are all doomed, and should do the best you can to preserve your culture and way of life for those that come after you, since I know your kind doesn't have an easy way to get off this planet, since you don't have opposable thumbs. Which is a shame, because I'm sure we could have been great friends.

It has just occurred to me that you cannot take an interstellar trip here without the help of the humans, who you do not have any method of communicating with beyond knocking a ball into the air with your tail. That is unfortunate, but you have to trust me. Just the fact that I can communicate with you like this is enough to prove that we are much superior to you in science and technology, therefore we have to be more correct than you about our findings.

I advise you to leave immediately. Maybe thank the humans for the fish while you are at it. This transmission will self destruct in 30 seconds."

30 seconds later I woke up with a terrible sunburn (when you are outside too long and the round bright light in the sky stares at you long enough to make your skin embarrassed).