NaNo Day 6
Welcome back everyone!
Today is Day 6 of National Novel Writing Month . As you all know by now, I'm Sudbury's Municipal Liaison, which means that I had to organize all sorts of stuff for the upcoming month. So far, they've been playing out really well. I've been super impressed with most of my writers this year, with 14 of them above goal so far, and another 13 with at least half of goal. I know a few of the writers under that are likely to shoot up over the course of this weekend, and I look forward to hearing about their successes.
We held our launch party early on October 23rd. It was attended by a nice handful of people, though not quite as many as I had hoped. Ken, Andy, Miriam, Steph, Julia, and Randy made it out to keep me company, as did a few non-writers. It was a good gathering, and most of us already knew each other from last year.
On Nov 1st, the Underground Writers held their own pot-luck kick-off at Sylvie's place. We got off to a good start, with great food and excellent motivation. In attendance were Sylvie, Steph, Randy, Andy and myself. Aura was on her way out, but unfortunately we were wrapping up by the time she was heading our way.
The first official write-in was on the evening of Nov 2nd at the New Sudbury Library. It was an absolutely awesome showing! Mike showed up and said hi, but the people that stuck around and wrote included Heidi, Andrew, Rebecca, Julia, Meghan, Angelique and myself. We pretty much took over a whole corner of the library.
An impromptu write-in occurred in the early morning on Tuesday at the Tim Hortons downtown. I know that Aura and Miriam were in attendance, but I'm not sure who the other person was. I wasn't there, being asleep and getting rested up for the next day's work.
Thursday night was the weekly Underground Writers meeting, and though it was sparsely attended by just Steph, Randy and myself, it was incrediably productive for all of us. Sure it started and ended with the usual chatter, but we all cranked out a fair number of words. Definitely awesome, and I love how the group is doing exactly what it was formed to complete.
For word wars, things have been going pretty well for Sudbury so far. We've pretty well clinched the war against NY Southern Tier, though they do have a chance at catching up. For overall total, I think we've got the win. But for words per person and top 10, they have a chance of turning the tide. It'd be hard and they'd really have to push themselves, but they can do it.
Our word war against North Bay is a little more uncertain. It's only taking the top 10 into account, and I've seen a few of their higher word counts. We've got a lot of work if we're going to pave our way past them and to non-singing safety. On the bright side, they seem to be roadblocking as their average word count has been stalling over the last few days. Their leads may be dipping a bit in enthusiasm.
Tomorrow marks our second official write-in, this time at William's Coffee Pub. From what I'm seeing so far, we have about 7 or 8 people that are likely to show up. Steph will unfortunately be out of town and watching the Senators beat another team in Ottawa, so she'll be missing another write-in. No word on the other members of the UW, but I'm pretty sure most will be able to make it out.
It's been a hell of a pace to keep up. To make things even more fantastic, I have been writing every day. I'm currently sitting at 15,741 words, and average 2,624 words a day. I seem to be getting that in about an hour's worth of writing. Saturday promises a lot more than an hour's worth of writing. I call that sweet. I also call a goal of 5k for tomorrow. I want to end the week at 20k or higher.
This works out pretty good since tomorrow is double your daily day. Tomorrow WriMos are supposed to write double their normal daily average. That means I should try to write 5,248 words tomorrow. Maybe I should stretch for 5,259 so I can end the day at 21k... Decisions, decisions.
Anyhow, I have to go write another ML e-mail. It's been a while and I don't want my flock to think I've abandoned them.
Today is Day 6 of National Novel Writing Month . As you all know by now, I'm Sudbury's Municipal Liaison, which means that I had to organize all sorts of stuff for the upcoming month. So far, they've been playing out really well. I've been super impressed with most of my writers this year, with 14 of them above goal so far, and another 13 with at least half of goal. I know a few of the writers under that are likely to shoot up over the course of this weekend, and I look forward to hearing about their successes.
We held our launch party early on October 23rd. It was attended by a nice handful of people, though not quite as many as I had hoped. Ken, Andy, Miriam, Steph, Julia, and Randy made it out to keep me company, as did a few non-writers. It was a good gathering, and most of us already knew each other from last year.
On Nov 1st, the Underground Writers held their own pot-luck kick-off at Sylvie's place. We got off to a good start, with great food and excellent motivation. In attendance were Sylvie, Steph, Randy, Andy and myself. Aura was on her way out, but unfortunately we were wrapping up by the time she was heading our way.
The first official write-in was on the evening of Nov 2nd at the New Sudbury Library. It was an absolutely awesome showing! Mike showed up and said hi, but the people that stuck around and wrote included Heidi, Andrew, Rebecca, Julia, Meghan, Angelique and myself. We pretty much took over a whole corner of the library.
An impromptu write-in occurred in the early morning on Tuesday at the Tim Hortons downtown. I know that Aura and Miriam were in attendance, but I'm not sure who the other person was. I wasn't there, being asleep and getting rested up for the next day's work.
Thursday night was the weekly Underground Writers meeting, and though it was sparsely attended by just Steph, Randy and myself, it was incrediably productive for all of us. Sure it started and ended with the usual chatter, but we all cranked out a fair number of words. Definitely awesome, and I love how the group is doing exactly what it was formed to complete.
For word wars, things have been going pretty well for Sudbury so far. We've pretty well clinched the war against NY Southern Tier, though they do have a chance at catching up. For overall total, I think we've got the win. But for words per person and top 10, they have a chance of turning the tide. It'd be hard and they'd really have to push themselves, but they can do it.
Our word war against North Bay is a little more uncertain. It's only taking the top 10 into account, and I've seen a few of their higher word counts. We've got a lot of work if we're going to pave our way past them and to non-singing safety. On the bright side, they seem to be roadblocking as their average word count has been stalling over the last few days. Their leads may be dipping a bit in enthusiasm.
Tomorrow marks our second official write-in, this time at William's Coffee Pub. From what I'm seeing so far, we have about 7 or 8 people that are likely to show up. Steph will unfortunately be out of town and watching the Senators beat another team in Ottawa, so she'll be missing another write-in. No word on the other members of the UW, but I'm pretty sure most will be able to make it out.
It's been a hell of a pace to keep up. To make things even more fantastic, I have been writing every day. I'm currently sitting at 15,741 words, and average 2,624 words a day. I seem to be getting that in about an hour's worth of writing. Saturday promises a lot more than an hour's worth of writing. I call that sweet. I also call a goal of 5k for tomorrow. I want to end the week at 20k or higher.
This works out pretty good since tomorrow is double your daily day. Tomorrow WriMos are supposed to write double their normal daily average. That means I should try to write 5,248 words tomorrow. Maybe I should stretch for 5,259 so I can end the day at 21k... Decisions, decisions.
Anyhow, I have to go write another ML e-mail. It's been a while and I don't want my flock to think I've abandoned them.
Labels: NaNoWriMo, Sudbury, underground writers, word count, writing
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