November 2017 - Week 1

And
Here
We
GO!!!!!

We've crossed the magical hour and are now in the mad cap dash to reach 50,000 words. Just get it on the page! Don't edit it.
(Read back to see what you wrote to inspire to move forward is permitted but not more than a paragraph if you can help it.)

For those who stayed up past midnight, would love to hear first word counts. If not, WRITE!

Look for these threads throughout the month for support. We're here to cheer you on, to offer advice and guidance, and whatever else you need.

Our automated wrist massagers had a recall mid October, so the new ones are still charging. We still have our usual masseuses though. Look for the snack cart every couple hours. (I rewired a roomba. Lets hope it doesn't make a mess.)

Good luck!
Let's get writing!

It's currently almost 1pm my time and I've got nada. Stayed up until roughly 1am but didn't write anything. I had a new-ish idea, taken from an old dream that I'd rediscovered in my dream diary, but it doesn't seem to want to be written. Honestly none of the ideas or WiPs I have seem to want to be written at the moment... It feels like my muse is just on vacation or something. I don't want to miss NaNo, but at the moment I don't even have any drive to push myself to write.

*cheers everyone else though!*

I passed 5k yesterday. Hoping to do as well today. Sorry for the song Heather.

I've started with three or so different stories - waiting to see which one wants to be written the most.

One dominated almost from the get go - it's first person and the narrator is a complete cocky (insert rude word of choice).

Fingers crossed he keeps talking to me.

I'm here with the COFFEE!

I started on Day 2 and got 2000+ words done by 1 am today. Then I got (1) tired and (2) stuck. Just getting ready to pick it up for a few hours before (I hope) getting to bed at a reasonable time tonight.

Congrats to all who've written at least one word so far! :)

Just a quick reminder from the cheerleading section:

MAKE SURE YOU BACK UP YOUR WORK!

External drive, cloud, flash drive, second computer. Doesn't matter. Just save it in multiple places so if the primary dies, you still have a back up copy.

I recommend daily, but the bare minimum should be no more than three days between back ups.
(Consider, in NaNo terms, three days is 5000 words. Do you really WANT to have to redo that?)

Yes, always back up your work! I heard that for years after starting NaNo, and tried to remember to do it regularly but sometimes I forgot... And then I lost an entire, completed, 30k-word story when my old computer died. I could've sworn I'd saved it somewhere, but nope, it was just gone. And it was an older story so I couldn't really write it over without it being completely different.

So yes, please back up your work!

I'm... possibly dropping out of NaNo. I want to do this, I really do, but it just doesn't seem to be happening this month. I've written absolutely zero words so far. I have ideas, and WiPs, that I could try to force myself to write on, but I'm just not feeling it. (This is very likely the beginnings of another depressive episode, as the only other times I've ever felt this 'meh' about NaNo was during major depressive episodes.)

*offers Heather a place in the cheering section*
We can always use the help in boosting everyone else!

#8 Heather, don't let it bring you down. I know exactly how you feel and I'll be very honest, that I nearly didn't do NaNo this year for very similar reasons.

Don't force it. If it feels right, make some notes, jot down some thoughts. It might come, it might not, but putting yourself in the darkness won't help.

This is very pot calling kettle - and a lot of these words were also aimed at me on my thread at the end of last month.

Hoping all is okay.