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NaNoWriMo: Day 30
Word Count: 53,314
Today is the last day of NaNoWriMo and I’m (unfortunately) far more relaxed than other writers seem to be, having finished the challenge 9 days ago. I think I envy the communal rush to the finish line and am missing my surprising motivation to write thousands of words each day.
The fear I had, that motivation would drop once I passed the 50,000 word mark, has become a reality. I have only written just over 3,000 words since last Saturday and am finding it hard to make time to write.
I’d like to put it down to external factors, like worries in other parts of my life, but I know if I hadn’t hit the target, I would’ve been able to ignore these things.
I really need to push myself to finish the story. The whole thing. I want to finish a novel so badly and this is my best chance yet.
Scott Westerfeld’s blog post was really inspiring this morning and reiterated this need to finish things. I have a lot of unfinished projects at the moment and can’t just go back to another project now that the month is drawing to a close.
Has anyone finished the 50,000 words but still writing? How do you motivate yourself to finish the whole story?
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Congrats on the win! I JUST hit my 50k mark but I actually am still writing as I want to finish the story!
Good luck to you!
Aimee Laine´s last blog ..It’s official! I won NaNoWriMo 2009!
Congrats Aimee, that’s great news!
I wrote 50,000 words and kept going, but I’m not going to keep going until I “finish” the story, because it’s too disjointed right now for me to even know what the “end” is.
The reason I kept going is because I’d outlined more than enough chapters for me to reach the 50,000, and some of the chapters I’d placed after that point seemed better than the ones I actually had to slog through to get to the winning mark. I felt like, having suffered through those boring chapters, I deserved to write the more fun ones.
Congrats Jessica.
I don’t quite know where my ending is either, but am just going to keep writing for now.
I know what you mean about writing the boring chapters to get to the good ones. I’ve done a bit of that too, but there’s still a few hard chapters at the moment which I can’t seem to get through.
I’m editing, though I’m afraid that if I do too much too quickly I might cut something important. The dumbass stuff alone (which I know is awfully written) takes up about 20k, the descriptions have around 10k of loving detail, the recaps – Lazy Writing 101 – have roughly the same…
I’m busy deconstructing my WIP with armchair psychology, rough analysis and endless comparisons, so I’m in no position to judge anyone…
BigWords88´s last blog ..The Primordial Stew Of Imagination, Part 2
I reached the 50K mark around suppertime, but kept going because I wanted to finish the story. Four thousand words later I finally validated.
I found this year was a real roller coaster ride, but I’m pretty pleased with the results.
Carol´s last blog ..MONDAY
Congrats Carol. That’s excellent that you finished the story.
And sorry I haven’t been by your blog this month. NaNo really sucked up my time.