Okay let's see a good thing is... I've got 10,748 words down in total since I started this wrimo. Which is fantastic for me considering I'm taking things easy so that I do only what I can a day...
It's my first wrimo and I'm puroud so far... the only thing is...

I'm getting stuck and snagging at several parts of my novel. I feel like I'm running out of ideas and fast which really sucks to be honest. I reread some of these scenes over and my characters are so out-of-character D:

I guess I'll be finding myself a lot of editing to do after hehe.

Anyone have any ideas to avoid this oncoming writer's block?

 (Can chocolate-covered espresso beans spoil? After they melt and then fuse together in a solid block, but you eat them anyway because reason's aren't as important as anyone thinks they are? If anyone knows the answer to this, I would be extremely grateful if they told me I was going to be fine.)

So I have another, related-to-this-community problem. That problem is that, while I am keeping up with the word count, I don't know what I'm writing anymore. This is the first time I've ever tried to do one of these and actually had any intention of finishing at the outset, but for whatever reason that made sense in the beginning I decided to write some sort of epistolary nightmare-story that has input from three characters now. I have the beginning and the end and no idea of what should happen in the middle, so basically nothing else to write, though I could, of course, just shove through and Get This Bish Done.

However, I have another story in my head--one that I think I could actually have fun writing. I want to take more care with the new story so that it doesn't turn into this Giant Problem like the other one does, which means, in the end, doing a lot of extensive outlining and character development before I jump into it headlong. If I were to start work on that now, my plan would be to have it ready in time for NaNo. But I could also just start with the vague ideas I have now of where the story would go and switch from what I've already got to this new one and try to do it for JulNo.

I'd like some advice, then, on what to doooooooo. I'm sorry I post so many ridiculous things on this, I promise to be better later.

Hey Everyone, a writing partner and I run sprints almost nightly, so I thought I'd post our sprinting schedule for this week in case any of you guys wanted to come to them. All of the times are listed in Central Standard Time, US. :D

Monday: 10pm - 2 am CST room: writeintothenight
Tuesday: 12pm - 3 am CST room: writeathon
Wednesday: 10pm - 3 am CST room: writeintothenight
Thursday: 10pm - 2 am CST room: writeintothenight

Friday:  7pm - 7am CST room: write_over
We usually run an all night writing marathon every other week, but Kitty(aurumsisters ) will be running one with her new community write_over! Her writing nights are great fun, and I definitely recommend everyone stop in at some point. For more information visit this post.

If you have any questions I can be reached on lj, or my aim name is eightysixtam.

Heya all aim users! julnosprints is open and we're waiting for sprinters to join the team! Come on in!

Eww... deleting due to duplication.

As was to be expected, I am quite far behind on my word count for JulNoWriMo.

On the stroke of midnight, on July 1st, I started writing a bit of the second draft of Stars Shine Brighter and I did a few hundred words before going to bed, so all was well. Then it all went downhill as I had very little time for writing on Thursday and Friday because I had to finish writing my school placement report. I spent a good deal of Thursday night on AIM, chatting to lovely sprinters who kept me sane and endured my madness. Also, thanks to lovely AIM user Notusingthezword, I now have a Nutella-topped Jaffa Cake recipe, which has to be the greatest thing in the whole universe. 

Anyways, the whole point of this point was to say, the writing on Stars Shine Brighter was going so incredibly badly tat I decided to not bother NaNoing it, and do what I knew I should have done long before and start writing a brand new story. So I now have 2291 words of a brand new, as of yet untitled story, featuring: Twenty-somethings living in London, an anonymous letter and heaps of potential French-mocking.

Word count so far: 2291 words -- 605 on Saturday, starting at 5pm and 1686 today.

I'm not very worried, as I was only at about 2600 words on the 5th last November and that was on a novel I'd been planning for a bit longer than a day and a half. 

But I am having a REALLY hard time keeping my characters under control! And my friends (non writers) don't understand...they think I'm crazy for not being able to control my own characters. Is anyone else having big problems in this area?? My MC was supposed to have this journey INTO evilness...instead, a hundred words in, he decided to be evil right now! So I had to make him a "minor character" (sort of) and give him a random son to do the evilness journey...but the son doesn't want to ever be like his father. And...I don't really know how to fix this. Any suggestions, or any one else going through the same thing?

7/2

Today: 1977
Total: 6044
Words: 43956
Percentage: 12.09%


7/3

Today: 1454
Total: 6328
Words: 43672
Percentage: 12.66%

7/4

Today: 1452
Total: 7,780
Words: 42220
Percentage: 15.56%

I wrote part of the last two chapters today, so maybe that doesn't count, but it's the same story, so I'm letting it count even though it's out of order.

...the Pity party:

I have, I am suspicious, come down with a (so far mild) case of strep throat; whatever it is I've caught, writing has fallen down my list of priorities yesterday and today. Heck, just typing this is hard - but I feel so behind!

There will be catching up on word count for me, right?

I so loathe being sick; I'm hoping to find a way to turn it to my advantage, but so far I can't concentrate on anything but feeling bad for more than a few minutes.

:( :( :(

Encouragement would be appreciated.

Anyone else having trouble gettin' onto the forum chat thingy? That's question one. Question two is, are there any aim sprinting rooms open? If not, and you guys wanna sprint, I'll be opening up julnosprints in approximately 2.7 seconds. Laughs. Join me there if you wanna bound away with your WC's!

Sammie

My granddad's here. But I'm at 6,751 words, and I REALLY want to hit 10K today. So far I've missed watching family videos of my cousin playing the piano, (which my mom and sister both separately told me was "painful"), but that's about it. Write or Die, an epically awesome fight sequence, and trying to make my main character more interesting (because right now I really hate her, she bores me) are enough work that I think I can make it. >.> Sorry, grandpa, I've got writing to do. =D


( I made an icon, see it after the jump! )

I just felt like posting today, not that i have anything uber important to say, but i like Lj better than the forums. I'm keeping up with the daily word count really well, and i'm proud of myself. last year i wrote as much as i could to get done early, but i burned out with the plot and eventually got stuck. so this year i'm going with the slow and steady. and it's working, i think. i'm also not writing the two parts of the story at the same time, coz' for some reason they never seem to meet up when i need them to. one character didn't show up or the other character was already gone. it was a frustrating mess. so i've learned that lesson.

i still have no ending, but it's only day 4 so i'm not panicking...yet. i know i want the guy to get thrown in jail for the girl can save him, but i don't know where the jail is or how the girl will save him. did anyone ever see Nim's Island and the author is tossing her MC into a volano and the MC keeps wondering how she'll get him out of it, but she doesn't? yeah it's kind of like that. i suppose it's coz' i've never HAD to escape from a jail. :-)

slow and steady....it also leaves time for a bit of editing, at least running spell check, which pacifies the editor to some degree. ok now i'm just procrastinating.

jA nE~~~~~~~

I need to make a decision... I have two options, and I don't care if you know absolutly nothing about my fandom, I want some opinions... Pretty please?

This story revolves around 4 characters and how they survive after this big life event of theirs.  What I'm wondering is how much of the big life event is crucial to the story.  So...

Option 1: Breifly touch on the big live event thingy for the first few chapters and then just have fun with the after part.

Option 2: Carefully take them through the big life event with more detail that I have existing at the moment, and then make their decisions in the after more understandable. 

Also, I still can't decide if I'm bringing in my former characters... but that will either happen or it won't, and that's totally not up to me. 

Opinions highly appreciated!!! :D

So, approximately yesterday, I thought, "I'd really like to do something with world-building." Full-on, international, planetary world-building. And a story with it. In twenty-eight days--twenty-seven when you consider that I'm tied up all day tomorrow (oh crap, that's today now, isn't it?). I already have my other story started, and I've been keeping up (until today)--barely, but I was keeping up. And then this happened. I now have characters making themselves known, I have a template for the universe's origins and magic already formed, and one of the characters went and gave me a plot within seconds of giving herself life. I don't know what to write.

The first story is:

MMC has the incomprehensible ability to make people like and trust him just by being around him. One of his classmates tells him that her father called 911 to say he was committing suicide and that she doesn't believe it, for various reasons. MMC tries to find out what happened and gets sucked into the world of the paranormal, a world where people don't tell him what he wants to know just because he wants to know it.

The new story (so far) is:

MMC is a diplomat in a country that values innovation and discovery above all else. He goes to an island nation that values tradition and life above all else--and is run by vampires. While he's there, his daughter, FMC, is found kneeling over the true-dead body of a vampire. She's a woman physically, but retreated into the mindset of a very young girl when her lover died several years ago. They can't leave because the vampires are convinced FMC killed one of their rulers and want her to pay the price, so MMC must prove his daughter's innocence. There may or may not be other things going on at the same time. I'm not sure.

What should I do?

Hey all,

I noticed that there's a word tracker that shows you how much you've done on your profile at the JulNoWriMo site/forums. I was wondering if somewhere has this that you can post other places (say, in my blurb on my blog or at another forum). I'm sure there is something... just having a hard time locating it.

Thanks!

I'm beginning to think the forums aren't too healthy for confidence. There are people on there whining because they have no time to write or they have no words and they're already at 8 or 9k. Honestly people, you're just showing off.

Not all of you, mind you, so no knives please! I just kind of feel that people are flaunting their counts at us smaller words on certain forums and it pisses me off. So my question I suppose is does anyone else get discouraged on the big boards by these monster writers? I'm totally awesome with over achievers! I used to be one myself! But when you know you have a high count and whine about it just so someone will praise your insanity? That just grates me the wrong way.

Okay. Rant over. Sorry. I didn't mean to offend anyone, so please forgive me if I did. Whiny people know who they are, and I highly doubt it's anyone here. Everyone here's been so great.

Sam

Hey guys, does anyone here know how to set 45 minutes with write or die? It goes right from 40 to 48 and Q10 won't cut it this time. I need the threat of unwritten words. Any help pwease!

Have just reached 7,272 words by accident.  I really didn't intend to write that whole scene tonight, but I'm feeling bizarrely motivated so far.  I am loving the way this is turning out... but I'm not sure I can properly explain or justify it to anyone who might later try to read it.  Oh well. 

Yay for team love, I say. 

Because Family isn't about whose blood you have, it's about who you care about. 

I'm actually pretty impressed with myself. My computer was being all wonky today with the connection and of course, in the span of one evening after discovering the existence of Word Wars, I became addicted and now wish to only write during insane Word Wars. However, I did manage to get my word count today up to 3543 and so I'm doing pretty awesome with getting my words in and then some. :)