LiNoWriMo Litopia Novel Writing Month (LiMoWriMo)

[Pamela Jo]

Number of pots washed, a restaurant sink full. No of new muckrakers supervised. One. Number of mobile homes cleared just ahead of the new owners removal. one. Number of bones and beef hearts collected from the butcher. Two bags full. Number of apple/blackberry pies baked from preserves about to go off. One. Number of dilemma's confronted. At least two. No, more than 3. Number of words on the page.... Fuck all.

 

[Sedayne]

Number of pots washed, a restaurant sink full. No of new muckrakers supervised. One. Number of mobile homes cleared just ahead of the new owners removal. one. Number of bones and beef hearts collected from the butcher. Two bags full. Number of apple/blackberry pies baked from preserves about to go off. One. Number of dilemma's confronted. At least two. No, more than 3. Number of words on the page.... Fuck all.

That's a shit-tonne of productivity though, PJ. And as long as you were thinking about your WIP when you were washing up and/or you can channel the emotion of your dilemmas into your writing, it all counts, right?

 

[Becca T]

15,574 words rewritten plus about 1,500 added since the beginning of the month. I should be further along to meet my goals, but work's gotten stressful and busy. Too bad teachers don't get paid overtime, if we did, I'd be making a bunch of money by the end of the month. I should have more time to write, hopefully uninterrupted, tomorrow. Hooray for lazy Sundays!

 

[Nikky Lee]

Another 1,300 words yesterday. MC currently stuck in a dungeon. Today's task is breaking her out.

Monthly total: 14.6k
WIP total: 33.5k

 

[Nikky Lee]

1,300 words last night, which brought this month's drafted total across the halfway point for this month's goal of 30k. MC no longer in dungeon.

Monthly total: 16k
WIP total: 34.8k

 

[Becca T]

Broke the 20,000 mark in my rewrite yesterday. Today, after dinner, the plan is to keep at it. I've successfully gotten rid of a character (sorry) who was just not working for the story, added in two new scenes, and expanded a couple other scenes.... Hooray for productivity!

 

[Bloo]

Got up to 25K, but yesterday re-read from start and now back to 24K. Have two full 'free' days ahead of me, hopefully uninterrupted, but unlikely.

Using absolute values, that's 26K

 

[Bloo]

Broke the 20,000 mark in my rewrite yesterday. Today, after dinner, the plan is to keep at it. I've successfully gotten rid of a character (sorry) who was just not working for the story, added in two new scenes, and expanded a couple other scenes.... Hooray for productivity!

Good on you, blacksheep.

I'm so jealous it aches.

 

[Bloo]

I'm WRITING! I have added about 12k words to what was, in effect, the first 3 chapters, and the second-to-last one, with a few sketchy plot points in between.

I'm doing more filling-in and filling-out than plot progression. I feel a bit guilty just doing the bits I enjoy most - especially conversations. I love writing conversations, as it means I can inhabit my characters' heads more fully.

At some point, very soon, I will have to develop the centre of the plot, to bridge the hints I have seeded the first few chapters with to the ending denouement. I know it will come, but I have no idea what it will be, as yet. A faint inkling is forming, but I must leave it to grow, and not scare it away by nailing it to the page too soon.

Wish me luck.

Good on you, mate! Just saw this and empathize. The big donut-hole of a middle is kicking my ass too. I'm anxious to fix it. However, I can't look at a screen for too long without breaks right now.

 

[wrightstuff]

Good on you, mate! Just saw this and empathize. The big donut-hole of a middle is kicking my ass too. I'm anxious to fix it. However, I can't look at a screen for too long without breaks right now.

Take care - think of the the long-term and your health.

I'm not panicking. I had my first one fully-plotted in advance, and then, as they say, my characters wouldn't behave...which ended up being far more interesting. I'm inspired by Stephen Lawhead (he wrote a wonderful Arthurian series), who said that his novels read as if he was discovering what would happen as he wrote them because (drumroll), he was discovering what would happen, as he wrote them.

 

[Nikky Lee]

1200 words yesterday.

Monthly total: 17.1k
WIP total: 36k

 

[Geoff]

2500 words completed yesterday, - down to 2450, after purge of misbehaving adverbs. and paragraph trimming..

 

[MattScho]

Haven't written since surgery, but hope to by the weekend. My goal was to finish, and I should be back on that path once I can position my hands to type.

 

[Sedayne]

Haven't written since surgery, but hope to by the weekend. My goal was to finish, and I should be back on that path once I can position my hands to type.

Hope all is going well with your recovery.

 

[MattScho]

Hope all is going well with your recovery.

It is. It's going quite well.

 

[Nikky Lee]

Whoops, been a couple days since I updated. But I'm closing in on 20k mark for new words written this month!

Monthly total: 19.4k
WIP total: 38.3k

 

[Jake E]

990 added today. Was hoping for more, but you know how life is

 

[MattScho]

Two left. I'm coming in a little higher than I'd thought I would. But second drafts are made for cutting.

 

[Claire G]

My pace has slowed. I have seven days to write 7000 words, which is do-able but not with my current word count trend. I'll persevere and even if I don't reach my goal of 20k by the end of the month, I'll have made progress

 

[wrightstuff]

Well, I've managed 22k added words. It's below my original target, but I hadn't really allowed for how busy I am in November... More importantly, I have a narrative structure (can't yet call it a proper plot) that will give me the skeleton for the rest of the novel. Once I have completed that (time-consuming and largely mechanical), I can start enjoying the process again.

I should hit 30k by the end of the month, for a total word-count of about 50k, and it looks as if I'll have completed the first draft by the end of the year. This is a big relief. I keep being distracted during time I allocate for writing - sometimes I do it to myself; I did a first-draft of my query letter, synopsis and blurb for the first one a couple of days ago!

Feeling a lot better about this than I was a week ago.

 

[Sarit]

Hey! I can't really join this as I have nothing to write these days except query letters. Just wanted to give my support for all those doing it. I'm kinda jealous and look forward to the end of revising and starting something new. But then I remember when writing, I wish I had a first draft complete...I guess you always wish for that which you don't have...

 

[MattScho]

My pace has slowed. I have seven days to write 7000 words, which is do-able but not with my current word count trend. I'll persevere and even if I don't reach my goal of 20k by the end of the month, I'll have made progress

I think they only thing that matters in something like that is we do make some progress. The word count is the stick. Moving forward and feeling good about writing is the carrot. Well done, whether the final number is 1,300 or 130,000, doesn't really matter, does it?

 

[Nikky Lee]

My pace has slowed. I have seven days to write 7000 words, which is do-able but not with my current word count trend. I'll persevere and even if I don't reach my goal of 20k by the end of the month, I'll have made progress

What @MattScho said. So long as you haven't gone backwards, you're winning.

1700 words yesterday! WIP just hit 40k, which I'm very pleased with (even through there's still a LOOOOOONG way to go). I have 8.5k left to hit my 30k words drafted goal, which is going to be pushing it. But never say never!

Monthly total: 21.5k
WIP total: 40.3k

 

[Nikky Lee]

Side note: How do we feel about certificates? I wonder if we could get a little badge to go under our profile name if we "win" LiMoWriMo.

 

[Geoff]

Not a good day .. too many distractions . Poorly written 300 word effort, but decided to erase. Roll on tomorrow

 

[Nikky Lee]

1700 words for Sunday! Almost there—7k to go until target!

Monthly total: 23.2k
WIP total: 42k

 

[MattScho]

Goal, reached. the goal was to finish the thing, which i was thinking would be 35.000 or so. Finished meant 42,000 for a YA MG effort. Thanks so much for setting this up, Nikky. It was a massive kick in the rear, and i appreciate it.

 

[Nikky Lee]

700 words last night. One of those tricky chapters where I needed to slow down to carefully segway from one scene to another and also figure out how much to reveal, from both a character to reader standpoint as well as character to character. Much head scratcing, and still haven't quite figured it all out. Hoping my subconscious brain minions will come up with an answer while I'm at work today.

Monthly total: 23.9k
WIP total: 42.8k

 

[Barbara]

Hit my reverse LiNoWriMo word delete target!! *BANG*

Yeeees!!

Proud face.

 

[Sedayne]

Reverse LiNoWriMo target to chop 2k has been met. A tiny target, I know, but I haven't sacrificed any story to do this, so I'm pretty chuffed.
I hesitate to say I'm finished, but from now on it'll be only minor tweaks as I read the whole damn thing aloud again and listen back.