NoNoWriMo 2010...anyone doing it?

[HappyWithLife]

I'm doing NaNoWriMo this year for the first time. For anyone who doesn't know it's a challenge to write 50k words in 30 days, starting on 1 November and ending on 30 Nov. Is anyone else doing it this year?

I have written 35,000 words so far.

bullet!
I am plodding along but pleased

Yes Ninah, but that is 35,000 words of drivel .

Arti...thanks. It's quite therapeutic actually, as the 7 year old's story is based on what happened to us. But in this story I can actually make him die!!! rather than us having to do a runner and hide .
Bullet...I am in awe!

That is, make the perpetrator die, not the 7 year old narrator

yup awe at bullet and arti
and at you happy for your story
do you ever imagine your ex reading it in published form? Just wondered, cos it was something I used to think about myself at one point when creating the odd villain
At the halfway point I have to accept that the most I will write is prob 30K but I doubt I'd have done 5 without the thread and if I can wrap up part 1 by xmas I'm happy

Ninah, I don't know, I hadn't really thought about it. If I was ever lucky enough to get it published I would have to go under a pen name, as he has no idea where we are and I want it to stay that way. I doubt he'd read it though; I never saw him read anything all the time we were married.
I have a poster above my desk with a fountain pen on it; out of the nib is dripping blood and/or red ink and it says 'Dispense Karmic Justice'...which is exactly what I'm doing with this novel...I couldn't nail him in real life but he's going to get what's coming to him in the book

Just signing in to let you know that I'm still on course, doing my daily words and filling in my spreadsheet!

Keep up the good work, everyone - it does help me to know you're all writing away.

Grendelsmum today is halfway point, so we should be on 25k, is that right?
I am on 15 atm
Happy it's good that something positive can come out of your family's experience. I first started writing when I left ex; the rage fear and isolation made excellent motivation to begin.
My experience was nothing as extreme as yours but on a low key level, enough to understand and be interested in the issues. I'd love to read a book like yours and I'll give a big cheer when it's published.
I always quite fancied a pseudonym. You could have something really fancy and eyecatching, the sort that get booed on baby name threads!

Have you found the NaNo Stats tab on your personal profile? I can't laugh at GrendelsMum's spreadsheet as I have become addicted to this tab! It has a bar chart, charting your progress and tells you how many words you should have written, how many more are needed etc. According to it today, we should have written 23,334 by this point.

Going away next weekend so need to write like fury this week to keep on track. Thinking of stuffing a cushion up my jumper so I always get a seat on the tube.

ah thanks arti! i think that tab will be a bit demoralising but I love things like that, wish there was a permanent one somewhere (maybe there is)
good luck with the cushion when I was preggers on tube hardly anyone bothered to stand up, most of those who did were women
I think you need to paint on some infectious looking sores and cough a lot instead

Ninah...I always fancied the name Tatiana! lol.
I spent time in a refuge at the height of the abuse, and the stories and characters in the book are made up of bits of all of them. Chapter 2 in my book is told from the 7 year old's point of view, and when I read it back it really brought a lump to my throat because that's MY daughter talking, it's our situation but told in her voice and seen through her eyes. We're very close and talked about everything that was happening a lot, so I know how she was feeling/thinking, or at least some of it.
Arti...I can't write at weekends because the house is always full and noisy, which is why my wordcount is still at only 8k!

ninah - we could make this thread a permanent one. You tell us your aim and daily wordcount and then come on and update us with your progress. We can then make faces like this:

Super effort, ninah, well done you!

or

Not good enough. Bad ninah.

or

Where the hell are you ninah - come and explain yourself forthwith!

you know what I'd love that, arti
I've done my few words for today and added them on, the stats thingy says that now instead of finishing on 17th December I will finish on 14th!

happy, did you used to have another, more pessimistic name?

Ninah...I have had many names, and none so happy as the one I have now . I had a long running thread on here following the whole saga so yes...you could have 'spotted' me. The only reason I changed my name was to reflect the change in my life as I really am...happy with life I mean
Dandy...it is easier to write in the sense that it's what I want to do, yes. I was really struggling with the other one. I should be able to get some more done today, fingers crossed.

I just remember asking someone who came through hell to change their name to something more appropriate to their new life! I prob have seen your thread, I tend to read these
Dandy respect to you! what a weekend
I prob could do the 50 if i pushed but the pace is a bit fast for me, I am more of a long term plodder
having said that, I am inspired to sit down and give it some welly tonight!

Whoop, whoop, I am over the halfway mark! Very chuffed. I can't believe that this shred of a story has taken on a life of its own. A very strange twist came out of nowhere today - great stuff but is it ever going to need some re-writing! I'd like this to be a permanent thread too - I have some serious research to go and do too if I can finish this draft.

Well done, Dandy, that is a serious spurt! I think I have met you in RL, at a book group. You had just written something for young people, I think, and were taking it to a book fair. Is that right?! We chatted on the tube. (I haven't made it to the book group for ages. )

Well done everyone! Keep on keeping on...

Boo-hiss to your agent's reader - but wow at even getting it that far. As you say, onwards and upwards. I really can't believe how much you have written in the last few days! Good luck with passing the 25,000 mark tomorrow.

How was the welly, ninah?!

oh you know what I was rubbish last night. 700? maybe
Finally got feedback as to why I failed pgce interview and felt a bit stressed so ended up listening to music and downing the rioja. I know, that is BAD!
but on a more positive note work has been supportive in trying to find me the experience I need to try again and novel is firmly in place as my secret plan B so tonight WILL be better.
I'd like to keep this thread going. The other long running thread I've been on it the lone parent looking for fit interesting and available men thread - I figure it will be much easier to publish a best seller!
Yes i was so disappointed for you re agent dandy, much closer than I have ever been! I can't believe how much you and arti have written
I am in the slow lane but i am still in the race

and lol at you two knowing each other! it's the metropolis effect
if you come out of the closet as a would be novelist round you'd be viewed with deep suspicion! I miss London.

Sorry about the interview ninah - are you trying for primary or secondary? Good that your work is helping you though - and Rioja is never a bad thing!

Dandy and I did both join a bookclub started on Mumsnet - so we didn't randomly meet as wannabe novelists! Just in case anyone has a picture of us in their heads, floating about London with quills in our hands, sighing dramtically a la Babs Cartland. If you came out as a wannabe novelist where I grew up, you'd be put in the stocks and soundly laughed at.

I am knackered tonight but determined to write for an hour. DS is waking me up at 5.30am - it's very useful for plot development as I can lie comatose on the sofa whilst Teletubbies keep him entertained but flippin' eck, it's a bit much after a day at work too! Still, knuckle down...

How's everyone else doing?