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#nano I'm this close to reaching 3,000 words! Technically not on target, but I'm honestly just having fun writing, lol.

#nano Haven’t been able to work on my novel the first three days of November, but today I wrote 1380 words! Wanted to go for longer, but ran out of time, lol. Hope to catch up properly tomorrow.

#NaNo update for day one and I passed my daily goal! I managed 2300ish words so I'm in a pretty good place for day two.

My update for #NaNo is that word sprints are great and help with getting out words! Hit 2006 tonight, and I am due for sleep. Hope everyone's first days are going great!

hi yws <3

it's been awhile since i was seriously active on here, but i've recently been bitten by the #NaNo bug like i usually am this time of year, and just had to pop on by while it was on my mind. still settling on a novel idea right now, but right now i keep feeling the VERY strong urge to somehow rewrite my seventh grade self-insert novel.

no matter what, i have a feeling this will be the #NaNo with me being way more true to me, either with a slightly gender funky protagonist or a platonic love story between a girl MC and a boy MC.

Also, #NaNo ended a bit underwhelmingly for me since I got the plague and didn't even manage to break 10k for the month. But! I have been in a massive ditch regarding my novel literally all year and I think??? I may be getting past that???

Like, I wrote Chapter 1 in March (2,864 words). I finished Chapter 2 in September (4,203 words). And otherwise hadn't touched my novel at all literally all year.

But now I've got Chapters 1 - 5 of #AtD written and relatively polished, and am up to 18,025 words! And am feeling really stoked about that fact

#NaNoReflections
Though I did not reach my goal of 50,000 words this month, I did manage to exceed ten thousand! I've had this idea in my head for such a long time, it feels so good to finally get it on paper. (Even if it's a lot of word vomit!) All in all, I'm pretty proud of myself!
And while November may be over now, I don't plan to stop writing! #nano has been a great catalyst to get things started, but I'd really like to see this thing through!

#NaNoReflections

I unfortunately wasn't able to do #NaNo in the way I intended to this year, but I did knock out some major school assignments, write a 18,414 word Raven Cycle/Dreamer Trilogy fanfiction and write a scary amount of finished roleplays with a friend off of YWS, so....count your wins and not your losses? I'm lowkey terrified to find out how many words we wrote combined in all of those rps.

I've surprised myself this month and managed to complete #nano with 50,000 words! My original goal was 25k! After getting 15k last year for NaNo I wasn't sure how this year would turn out but I'm SO happy with myself. My draft is still no where near complete though... LOL. I'm thinking about giving myself a few weeks-a month break and hopefully continuing it to the finish line!

#nanoreflections

This year has been a pretty unusual #NaNo for me! I started off trying to write 50,000 words of non-fiction. When my pre-NaNo prep did not go as planned, and after a few days had passed, I realised I would need to change my goal to something more doable, so I started tracking daily wordcounts and pages of research notes instead. In the last week of NaNo, I worked on a short story, completely deviating from my initial project.

I think this experience has helped me get a realistic understanding of how quickly I can research something while still doing it well. I'm pretty happy with the article drafts I got out of this, though they still need plenty of editing. (Also, NaNo as an event is very much geared to writing fiction!)

Another highlight of NaNo for me was of course the community! Getting comments on my thread definitely helped keep me accountable because I knew people were watching, and it motivated me to work through my research and drafting on quite a few days where it felt like even one page was impossible. I was also inspired following everyone's threads and seeing everyone create their projects. So a big shoutout to all fellow NaNo-ers!

#nanoreflections

NaNo Reflections Hashtag

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Whether you're finishing your wordcount for the 30th day of NaNo, or if you haven't started yet, or if you haven't been writing for the past week, etc. feel free to share your thoughts on this November's writing! It can be anything from what you've learned, what you enjoyed most or what you wished you'd done or known. Either way, it's time to celebrate another year's attempt at NaNo! Post in the People's Tab and tag it with #nanoreflections

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I can't believe #Nano is almost over already. Time is kinda odd, lol. I'm pretty proud of my progress, I've written a total of 11,881 words this month, might write more during the remaining days, we'll see!
As for LMS, I wrote 1,051 words this week! I'm genuinely a little concerned, because I'm already halfway through what I have outlined, lol.

The Ten-Year-Old Necromancer: Chapter Eleven, Part One • Young Writers Society

Day 26 of #NaNo

Word Total: 4133
Overall Total: 50251

So, I made it!? Four days early!? I will be trying my best to figure out a short little end to it, even if it's mostly {something happens here} and "THE END".

I have no idea if Dreamless makes any sense in its current form, but I can say that I completed NaNo for the first time ever and I truly am so grateful I got the chance to try this year.

Now, time to get to the ending, and to maybe read over it again for editing ... eventually ... although I might be getting some friends to read it if they're bored xD

staggering my way to the #NaNo finish line (and already planning for the projects I'm going to work on once November is over)

Days 21 - 25 of #NaNo

Day 21
Word Total: 2017
Overall Total: 35525

Day 22
Word Total: 1914
Overall Total: 37439

Day 23
Word Total: 4872
Overall Total: 42311

Day 24
Word Total: 1841
Overall Total: 44152

Day 25
Word Total: 1966
Overall Total: 46118

These last few days have been fuuun. I also have realized that this novel will probably be longer than just 50k which is actually good probably since the story was going to feel too short. But! It’s been great to keep myself occupied by writing so much (far more than I’ve ever written). Good luck to those working on NaNo still!!

I think going completely pantser this #NaNo has made me realize that while it's fun and very freeing, it's also exhausting because I have to make everything up on the spot and don't have an outline to fall back onto when my brain goes "lol what's a plot"
and I think that's part of why I'm getting a little bit bored of my NaNo project
it just takes too much brain power
so I think once NaNo is done I'm going to leave my project alone for a little while, work on some other stuff that I have more motivation for, and come back to Garden of Zombies in a few months

man we're already 21 days into #NaNo

Days 16 - 20 of #NaNo

Day 16
Word Total: 1522
Overall Total: 26801

Day 17
Word Total: 1846
Overall Total: 28647

Day 18
Word Total: 1684
Overall Total: 30331

Day 19
Word Total: 1692
Overall Total: 32023

Day 20
Word Total: 1485
Overall Total: 33508

Heading to the last stretch here! Ten more days everyone. We've got this. ^^ I'm hoping to get ahead the next few days because I am on break, but then again, I keep typing right next to midnight xD

Finished this weeks chapter for LMS! Today, I wrote 1029 words for The Ten-Year-Old Necromancer and cracked 10,000 for #Nano !!

The Ten-Year-Old Necromancer: Chapter Ten • Young Writers Society

For everyone doing #NaNo :

Keep Writing!

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1/3 of November is left! You can do it!

Total #NaNo WC up to 8375! And most of the way through the first half of #AtD chapter five~

me: ah, the plot thickens
me, five minutes later: ah, the plot thins
me, five minutes after that: ah, the plot goes sideways and the characters are running away from me

#NaNo

Productive #AtD day! My #NaNo word count is weighing in at 1197 for today bringing the cumulative total to 6322! c: