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..