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Listening to Max Ritcher when I write has been one of the main things keeping me actually managing to write a decent amount every day. I felt tired, unmotivated, and didn't want to write sit down and write, but once I put on November, I started going. And I managed to write 932 words ;-;

Also, another thing to celebrate: today is my 15th day of showing up for my daily writing practice <3 I'm on a roll baby

After months of struggling to write, I am finally making progress again, getting into a writing routine that works for me. I've actually recently hit 50k on my first draft which feels amazing. I really wanted to share the news here even though I'm not very active anymore.



But I mean, look at this chart!


And these daily for counts!

:')

I missed my cake day since I was so busy with school, but it's crazy that seven years ago my 8th-grade self found this fun website where I could talk to other writers around my age all over the world. Now I'm 21 ;-; and I'm still writing <3 eternally grateful to this community for helping to shape me into the writer I am today.

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happy cake dayy, Charm!! 🎂🍰 (love your background, by the way-- rain is amazing :3)

Happy cake day

happy cake day! 🍰

Soooo NaNo was a bad idea. This month is crazy for me because of school and my health. I think I'm going to give myself a writing challenge in December for when I finish school.

Just realized around 40k into my first draft that this story would probably function better in present tense aaaaaahhhhhhhhhh

I think the hardest part of NaNo is sitting down and starting to write again everyday lol

Just finished Day 6 of #NaNo with 701 words. Not great but not terrible. I'll hopefully catch up eventually but NaNo was meant to just get me writing more often and I'm definitely already making way more progress on this project than I did in the entirety of last month. So I'm proud of myself.

Day 4 & 5 of #NaNo were both flops but to be fair I'm going through a lot rn soooo I'm not gonna beat myself up about it. I'm just gonna hop back on the horse. Yeehaw.

Day 3 of #NaNo was only 650 words but I'm hoping to write more today!

Day 2 of #NaNo went well so that's good. I wrote a total of 1,147 words. I felt a bit iffy about the scenes I was writing but I kept going. I think it's always really hard to write the middle parts between major events so I just had to keep reminding myself that this is a first draft and I can always rewrite things later. I also spent a lot of time putting an outline together and that's looking pretty good. I need to make some more decisions on how to get certain characters from one plot point to another. My plan for NaNo is to reach the novel's mid-point which is a minor battle/major fight at a ball (heheh) by the end of November. It's also when the third POV's story finally interacts with two other POVs so that'll be really exciting. I actually already wrote one of those mid-point chapters for my class last year so it's been nice working towards something tangible that I am already sure of how it's gonna go. I definitely think I'm going to keep writing like that when needed (writing major scenes when I think of them) because I think it's more helpful for my process and it keeps me from feeling stuck at those low parts.

Day 1 of #NaNo went well. I wrote 1,191 words with an average speed of 23 words per minute :D hopefully I can keep this energy up! (Remember that my goal is 30k since I'm a full time uni student nearing finals lmao)