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cowboyguyWord count so far today: 39,158.
Word count goal for today? Oh, 42,000 or so, hopefully. I'll definitely make it to 40,000 by the end of the day, but I'm going to try to get some major writing done today and tomorrow, before Thanksgiving hits and then I have to start thinking about final exams and ten page papers and making the 50k deadline before the 30th is over. I want at least a little bit of wiggle room before the 30th hits.
One thing that I've found really helps my writing is a prompt that I found somewhere on the NaNoWriMo forums: write a 500 word sentence.
It adds to my word count, and forces me to describe the scene more than I normally would. I'm usually a very action-oriented writer, just actions and dialogue and little extra description, so scenes can go by pretty fast if I'm not careful. Forcing myself to keep writing a sentence until I hit 500 words makes me slow down and really think about adding as much as I possibly can to a scene. It's really nice for setting up locations, too.
Word count goal for today? Oh, 42,000 or so, hopefully. I'll definitely make it to 40,000 by the end of the day, but I'm going to try to get some major writing done today and tomorrow, before Thanksgiving hits and then I have to start thinking about final exams and ten page papers and making the 50k deadline before the 30th is over. I want at least a little bit of wiggle room before the 30th hits.
One thing that I've found really helps my writing is a prompt that I found somewhere on the NaNoWriMo forums: write a 500 word sentence.
It adds to my word count, and forces me to describe the scene more than I normally would. I'm usually a very action-oriented writer, just actions and dialogue and little extra description, so scenes can go by pretty fast if I'm not careful. Forcing myself to keep writing a sentence until I hit 500 words makes me slow down and really think about adding as much as I possibly can to a scene. It's really nice for setting up locations, too.
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