Daily Word Count

[Alyssa, Time Lord]

2-8-16

368 words on a Blades of Acktar fanfic. Something's better then nothing!

[Scorpio-of-Autumn]

Fanfiction is good practice. :)

[Alyssa, Time Lord]

:)

[Alyssa, Time Lord]

I'm gonna write more today, but here's what I've written so far:

2-12-16

1,621 words in an hour!

That means in my novel I've just past 50,000 words! (I wrote just over 50,000 in Nov. but I cut 7,000 words. Harsh, right?)

[C.B., Assassin]

Nice job!!! :D Gah, now I feel so terrible about my own word counts lately. Great job hitting 50k!

[Alyssa, Time Lord]

Thanks! And it's fine! Just keep writing! :D

[Alyssa, Time Lord]

2-12-16

So my total for today is 2,415 words!!

[Kaitlyn, Huntress]

That's awesome! Congrats!

[Alyssa, Time Lord]

Thanks!

[Lena, Mage]

Great job, Alyssa!!! :D

[C.B., Assassin]

Nice, Alyssa!!! :D

[Alyssa, Time Lord]

Thanks! :D

[Alyssa, Time Lord]

Just did a fifteen minute thing.

2-13-16

434 words, though I still hope to do more today!

[Alyssa, Time Lord]

2-29-16

So yesterday I did the marvelous amount of 441 words (thanks, Lena!) in Broken Reflections. So... yay me!

[C.B., Assassin]

Nice job! :D

[C.B., Assassin]

Oh, and I think you meant 2-29. ;)

[Alyssa, Time Lord]

Thanks! And, yeah, I'll change it. :P

[Alberta]

Alyssa wrote: "If any of you have Pinterest (I just got it!), I just started a board for Broken Reflections (Mirrors' new name). Enjoy!!

https://www.pinterest.com/writinganyo..."

found your board - think its a great idea - hope you don't mind if I do something similar - anyway had a wander through your boards and followed half a dozen or so which looked really interesting - I only get up there about once a week but it's a good way of seeing what folk are about:)

[Elle Presser]

Ahaha I'm so thankful that I'm not the only person who spends hours making intricately detailed Pintrest boards for their novels..

[Alyssa, Time Lord]

I only go on for a little bit maybe once a week, also.

But thanks, Alberta! :D

[Karin]

It took me a long time to get going this year, and then I keep forgetting to come here, but in the past week or so I've done 6010 words with Camp Nanowrimo. I started the week after we filed our taxes, etc.

[Alyssa, Time Lord]

Aaaand, I'm back! For NaNo! Yay!

My daily goal is 2,000 words, so let's see how this goes...

[Alyssa, Time Lord]

I'm working on a new project (because why not?) that's a supernatural/dystopian. Can't say much, because ultra secret ... but yeah, I'm excited. ;)

Like always, Pinterest board: https://www.pinterest.com/writinganyo...

It's called While We Dig Our Graves . Pretty dramatic, huh? :P

[Lena, Mage]

Awesome, Alyssa! Good luck! :)

[Alyssa, Time Lord]

:)

[Alyssa, Time Lord]

11-02-17

1,524 words.

[Alyssa, Time Lord]

Fun fact: I have changed my MC's name four times in the last ten pages, and in the beginning, I had it in 1st POV (everyone called her babe, because why not?).

[Alyssa, Time Lord]

So. For the month of November (today's the 26th), I've written about 23,185 words. You can try to figure out the math. ;)

[Alyssa, Time Lord]

So. Haha. NaNo kinda sucks, huh? Well, I wrote a lot in November, but that was my WHOLE LIFE that last week or so. I had about 20k to write in THREE DAYS, and, *gasp* I did it! Yay! I had about two 10k word days, along with a few 6k. It was exhausting! And if any of you have never had to write 9k in FOUR HOURS, be glad!!! (For those of you who are interested, I "validated" my novel on the official NaNo site with 30 seconds to midnight on the 30th).

So. It's safe to say that I'm a god. Or dead. ;)

What was my word count? 50,043 words. Ah. So exhausting. My novel was written in the style of a blog serial (think Worm) with narrations from the entities Death and (sometimes) Life, and two teenagers, Tony and (almost the whole thing narrated by) Lincoln.

The whole novel is from the aspect of my personality where everything is yeah, but why? and philosophical stuff ... so a lot on life versus death. It's a paranormal/apocalyptic/contemporary kinda thing. I still haven't worked it all out. ;)

And here ( https://www.pinterest.com/writinganyo... ) is my Pinterest board for it.

While We Dig Our Graves is the current work-in-progress title.

Thanks for reading my update!! And all of you who wrote at least SOMETHING this month did an AMAZING job!! Congratulate yourselves!!

[Nicki]

Wow, 50,043 words is AWESOME! I only got like 13,000 words written *cue pouty face* but I couldn't dedicate my whole time to writing (unfortunately) I was in the middle of taking a college class on cosmology that took up most of my time and brain energy, but hey, there's always next year.

Your story sounds so doggone eerie

[Alyssa, Time Lord]

Nicki wrote: "Wow, 50,043 words is AWESOME! I only got like 13,000 words written *cue pouty face* but I couldn't dedicate my whole time to writing (unfortunately) I was in the middle of taking a college class on..."

Thank you!! Yep. I'm pretty lucky, because I'm homeschooled and always plan for a bunch of half-days in November. But I've heard that college can be brutal on NaNo novels. ;)

[Lena, Mage]

Sounds like a great story, Alyssa! And good for you getting all your words in!!

[Alyssa, Time Lord]

Ah. Okay. So after a ton of days of Pinteristing and quote-searching, I have started back to my novel While We Dig Our Graves. For those of you who don't know, my 50k words got deleted (what all do you write with? I've had sooo much trouble using Microsoft word doc), so I'm rewriting that book, in a sense.

Just in time for NaNo, lol.

But yeah.

[Alyssa, Time Lord]

6/28/18

1,083 words. Counting an opening quote by Erin Hanson.

My opening scene:

Death sat on her bedroom floor, her knees pulled up to her chest. The black folds of her skirt a puddle around her.
Her breath was even, calm. Her hands were as still as if there was no blood coursing through her veins. A small smile was even painted across her face. No one would have thought that the little girl looking herself in the mirror was being torn apart inwardly.
Except for the tears.

[Merenwen]

Nice word count, Alyssa! :D
Ooh, Death is always an interesting character to write.

All 50K words got deleted?!?!?! D:
Depending on the project, I use Scrivener or just write in a notebook. I haven't used Microsoft Word for major projects in a long time.
Scriverner's really nice because it backs up after every 2 seconds of inactivity, and if it closes unexpectedly, saves a recovery file.

[Nicki]

Alyssa wrote: "Ah. Okay. So after a ton of days of Pinteristing and quote-searching, I have started back to my novel While We Dig Our Graves. For those of you who don't know, my 50k words got deleted (what all do..."

Oh wow that's horrible that 50,000 words got deleted. Once I lost a whole chapter, but nothing so much as that.
I use Libre Office because it's the office system that I have on my computer, but every ten thousand words or so into my WIP's I also, save it to a thumb drive. Then when I start getting betas I send the story out to them through email so it's saved on that.

But on another note, that's a great word count! And that looks really col that you have Death as a character :P

[Alyssa, Time Lord]

Merenwen wrote: "Nice word count, Alyssa! :D
Ooh, Death is always an interesting character to write.

All 50K words got deleted?!?!?! D:
Depending on the project, I use Scrivener or just write in a notebook. I have..."

Lol, yes, she is. :D

I tried the free trial for Scrivener, but never quite got into it. Aaaaaand I don't have the patience not the handwriting for notebooks, lol.

[Alyssa, Time Lord]

Nicki wrote: "Alyssa wrote: "Ah. Okay. So after a ton of days of Pinteristing and quote-searching, I have started back to my novel While We Dig Our Graves. For those of you who don't know, my 50k words got delet..."

A chapter is awful, too!!! Losing any of your precious work is terrible. :/

I need to get into the habit of "deep" saving it, but, alas, I have yet to start with that. :P

(thanks, btw :) )

[Alyssa, Time Lord]

6/29/18

355 words

[Alyssa, Time Lord]

7/1/18

2005 words

[Alyssa, Time Lord]

Also. Partway through yesterday (the first day of Official Camp NaNo) I decided to change my project. Looooool. Eek. But I'm excited!

[Alyssa, Time Lord]

7/2/18

3727 words

[Nicki]

Great word counts! Sorry we couldn't word war today, maybe tomorrow... do you write earlier in the day?

[Alyssa, Time Lord]

Nicki wrote: "Great word counts! Sorry we couldn't word war today, maybe tomorrow... do you write earlier in the day?"

Lol, thanks! And don't worry about it. I wss practically sleep lost night. XD

No. Usually evening/night.

[Alyssa, Time Lord]

7/3/18

2141 words

[Alyssa, Time Lord]

7/5/18

4032 words

[Merenwen]

Way to go, Alyssa! :D

[Alyssa, Time Lord]

Lol, thanks Merenwen!

[Alyssa, Time Lord]

7/6/18

282 words ... :/

[Alyssa, Time Lord]

7/8/18

2144 words