NaNoWriPoll

[verbminx]

So, come on, let's hear it:

did ANY of you actually finish your 50K words of NaNoWriMo 2003 this past weekend (or at all)?
If not, why not?

I didn't even try this year. My life is too scattered right now. I tried last year, sort of, but getting a puppy kind of precluded any other productive activity. (And she's still almost as naughty as she was then!) Anyway, intensefragilty has completely outgrown the novel-in-a-month concept. I could maybe do a rough scratchy draft of the first half in a month, but only maybe, and only if I treated it like a full-time job.

Anyway, I'm still still still sick, and I'm dragging myself out to the library to pick up some reserve books and cds. I will also get a bit of food while I'm out, and then come home and camp out in bed and sleep when i feel like it and read and play arcanum when i don't.

Comments

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[whorlpool.livejournal.com]

I didn't get anywhere near 50000, but I was kind of cheating anyway. Instead of starting something new, I went back to the beginning of the novel I've been working on and re-edited it. I got through the first 30 or so pages, and I think I've strengthened that section a great deal. So overall it was a good month.

[knockonformica.livejournal.com]

Yeah, I finished. I'm the only person I know who did.

[livsmama.livejournal.com]

Nope. I wrote almost exacly 1500 words. I have a toddler. I'm preganat! give me a break!

[agreenan.livejournal.com]

I didn't, despite my good intentions initially. I guess I didn't realize that it takes at least a couple hours each day to get to 50,000, and November is the totally worst month for me to try and do it. When I was home, all I wanted to do was veg in my chair and watch TV and maybe do some mindless knitting.

I did write over 2,000 words, though, and I am pretty psyched about that. I think it is a good starting point! I will try again next year; maybe my circumstances will be different then. :)

[whispersinink.livejournal.com]

I finished. Austin did pretty well this year, having about thirty winners. This was my first year, but this is far far far from a work of art.

It was fun though.

[moonwalker.livejournal.com]

I didn't even try, either. I was tempted to finish the one from last year, but the rules say you have to start a new one.

Hope you are feeling better soon. Curl up with doggie, kitties, and good books.

Mary MMM

[quietjenn.livejournal.com]

i did absolutely nothing, aside from have a really good idea and admirable intentions, which i then never found the time to sit down and actually express. sort of like my fiction writing attempts go every other month of the year. oh well.