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I'm still impressed, coalie!

/Saaski

90 is pretty damned impressive, coalie! To me writing 500 drabbles sounds a lot harder than writing 50K of longfic.

Try any goddam thing you like, no matter how boringly normal or outrageous. If it works, fine. If it doesn't, toss it. Toss it even if you love it.~Stephen King

Today: 86 words
Pledge: 500/day
Total: 8441 words

I was really disappointed in my output today. I just wasn't getting anywhere, distracted by other stuff going on, and didn't think anything I was writing was funny (and it needs to feel like the funny canon). Tomorrow will be better.

/avita

Total: 1114 words
Pledged: 500/day
Total: 9556 words

Much better than yesterday! And most of this was written on my tablet, and I hate writing stuff on my tablet because it takes a lot longer.

Today: 1287 words
Pledge: 500/day
Total: 10,843 words

I've broken the 10k mark for November, 3 days ahead of schedule. I wish more of those words were on my Yuletide assignment, but the closer it gets to Thanksgiving, the more I tend to buckle down on it.

(My very first Yuletide fic was written in a marathon session on Black Friday. Seven hours in bed with a laptop, only emerging for basic needs. I still look back on that with a sort of bemused fondness; to be in college again!)

Not a bad day. I'm starting to think I might get all my Yulefic finished this month rather than next.

pledge: 1000 words
wrote: 1527 words
cumulative total: 23,387
I pledged to write 30K, but was hoping to reach 45K, which is starting to look doable. I'm estimating that I've got about 17-20K of fic left to write.

Oops, it's after midnight! No more time counts for the 15th. Only made 200 words, but that's my goal, so it's all good :)

10,000 words total now on all four fics!

/Saaski

I have written one hundred treats, coalies! And I'm not even finished for the day!

Good for you coalie! Keep going!

Last year I was "Monday"!anon. It's almost Monday here, so I maybe want to reach out again and hold myself accountable. I double-matched with my recip, and want to write in both fandoms; I also have an non-Yule WIP (ideally due by the end of this month, eep) in one of the fandoms, and there's another treat I really have my eye on. Canon review went well, but I'm worried that I won't be able to stick to writing time amid RL work/other games through the coming weeks.

Anyway, once I buckled down tonight, I was able to knock out the first 1k for one of my assignments, and in the worst-case scenario I could make it a complete fic without too much more angsting. Just...hold my hands and me accountable, plz?

Congrats and pompoms to the nanoers, you brave souls!

Wow! Congrats, coalie! :))

Good luck, Monday!

Do you have more chunks of time blocked out for writing like that?

I started off with NaNo goals but have abandoned them. My current goals are: a draft of my assignment and two treats done by the end of November. YES, ROUGH DRAFTS, SELF.

We can do this!

/frofa

It is! I realise now that I could quite happily fill a couple of thousand words with loving descriptions of the scenery, whereas every single drabble needs, if not a plot, then at least a concept, and it's turning out to be really tiring!

150 is doable from here. I think I'm going to go for 250 by the end of November and call it a month.

Thank you! *chugs coffee*

Thank you!

We've got nanos at all sorts of pledge levels, nonny... you could always try to nano for the rest of the month at whatever level is comfortable for you. Go forth and write!

because we forgot to do it yesterday.

Finished a treat, starting another.

pledged: 1000 words
wrote: 1401 words
cumulative total: 24,788

A couple of weeks ago, I never thought I'd get everything written by Christmas. Now I think I may even finish this month. Go Nano!!

Sorry; overly excited anon was LB. Getting just a little too happy about starting my last planned fic...

Since I have no gifts yet, I guess none of them are for me ;_;

No, but seriously, that's pretty amazing. Congrats!

Drabbles go in the Madness collection, so none of them will be uploaded until much closer to the deadline.

Which means they could be for any of us!

Today: 1076 words
Pledged: 500/day
Total: 11,919 words

I'm glad I decided to stay up late and write (most of these words were committed between midnight and 2am) because Sunday turned out to be a shitty emotional day. I think I only have about 700 more words to go on my assignment, maybe I'll finish today!

Okay, I'll admit it. As one of the nonnies who occasionally posts this thread, I don't post it if I don't write anything today.

Not very regimentedly, no. Hoping late tonight will be open for another decent stint, though! :)

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