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Day 10 : about 41 000 words, goal revised to be around 65 000 words.
8 parts/18 so far, tomorrow half will be done!
Today was about finding social support and motivation to achieve your dreams, I blogged a part (click on my name to read 4 parts so far). Nice to see your progress too. See ya!
Marie-Eve Boudreault recently posted..How to Get Helped Living Your Dreams – Blogging my Book Part 4
I would have like to have been about two chapters further than I currently am … hopefully I’ll get some days where the chapters are shorter and easier to write so that I can catch up.
It’s been quite a tough pace, with little sleep this week, but Pebbles in my Pocket is now sitting at 26,000 words.
I am just finishing chapter 14 of 40 chapters … a little over 1/3 of the way. I’m pleased with the progress so far.
Well, back to the drawing board, I mean keyboard … time is words!
You are halfway through the month and 1/3 done with the book…..Hmmm. Time to close yourself in the room with that computer. :~)
The month is half over. Sounds like you will make it!
How’s it going. Sounded like you were on track, but haven’t heard from you in a while….
How goes it?
Day 14
Today : 2894 words
Total : 48 660 words
10 parts/18 done
Wow, it has progressed! I celebrated half of the writing done this weekend. It’s taking form and it’s encouraging. From one of the month post about titles I might go for the title Do What You Love! It’s shorter, and the subtitle will be around A 28-Day Success Method to Live Your Dreams Starting Today and Get Paid.
You have a lot done Marion!
Marie-Eve Boudreault recently posted..How to Get Helped Living Your Dreams – Blogging my Book Part 4
Sjoe! Got horribly behind thanks to two Windows crashes, 3 days away with almost no Internet access, painters, workmen and now the bank sitting on my book advance, not releasing it. Aaarrrggghhh! By the time they do release it (the WILL won’t they????) I’ll have to use most of it to pay for the phone bill.
Anyway, back on target. 22,670 words to date. Chapters a bit muddled but want to finish getting everything down then will sort them out. Latest blog post (aka chapter) Overcoming Depression is here: http://www.riseandsoar.com/ViewArticle.asp?403
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Oh Shirl hang on! Good you’re back on target
Around 2 600 words written today, 54 000 so far and about 5 parts left to do plus editing and creating all the exercises at the end. I’m rebranding the blog as Do What You Love Journey to be more focused on a theme and engage with emotions.
And what about you all? I hope it’s going well for you.
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Wow Marie-Eve and Marion, you’re both doing so well. I’ve done NaNo five times and have always gone way way over the 50,000 word limit. But I’m finding nonfiction so much more difficult as so much research. At least when you’re writing a story – guess a narrative nonfiction, as I first considered, would work the same – the characters take over and run for you.
I started intending an ebook of about 30-40,000 words but of course hadn’t anticipated all the crises this month has thrown at me. I am now anticipating 50,000. I wrote 2,415 words today, editing as I go. Total word count to date 26,483 words.
Okay, just worked with my calculator and I need to top 2,500 words a day from now on. I can do this, I can do this, I can do this . . . .
How’re the rest of you doing?
Shirl Corder recently posted..Slippery Sand
You will be like the little engine that could! And you will…
Not doing so well here. I’m stuck in a helluva writer’s block, and questioning this whole crazy idea. Tonight, as I procrastinate for my university papers due this week, I’m reevaluating the feasibility of my project. I’m going back to the first posts of the month. And realize I’m trying to skip steps (and inevitably stumbling) to write a full-blown book on equine nutrition in 30 days. Tonight I’m going back to Nina’s post from Nov. 8th to keep me interested in finishing “something” with you guys this month, rather than just throwing in the towel. So here it is : 10 days left to present a 20-30 page booklet with the introduction, and a overview of my nutrition series that’s something around 10-15 000 words. I’m reusing stuff I’ve already written : assignments and workshop handouts I’d like to use, and if I count all that I just hit my 6000 word mark. More than half if I keep it to the minimum. Encouraging. Back to writing and fixing all this together.
By the way, I’m setting up my WordPress site this week, and I am now convinced I need to get blogging, yesterday. I’m way more creative when I have an immediate audience, comments to answer on Facebook, private chats about a particular filly that lost condition really quickly. I also contacted my writing coach to help me stay on track, and work on my personal blocks.
Your enthusiasm is contagious Shirl and Marie-Eve, your energy is keeping me afloat. I can do this, I can do this, I can do this… too!
As long as you keep going you doing your best will come up with good material. It has been challenging for me too to write around 2500-3000 words daily. But when it’s getting hard, I just take a pause, then go back, do my best, put myself in my readers’ shoes for what I’d like to know and go with the flow. When I’ll edit a 2nd time I’ll add or correct parts. For now my goal is putting nicely into words what I know and researched about the subject. It’s a big challenge but to have the book take form is heartwarming.
I’ve got around 65 000 words. One last chapter to write, then the conclusion, then finish the introduction and exercises.
Have a nice week!
Marie-Eve Boudreault recently posted..How to Do What You Love in 12 Steps
Okay, I’ve made it. Woohoo!
Interesting, I suddenly ran out of material and realised I’d finished, almost exactly on the wordcount I’d originally planned (30,000 words for an e-book). I’ve started editing it and tomorrow will start another one. If I can make 50,000 by the end of the month I’m a NaNo rebel as well.
Marie-Helene, don’t give up! You can do this.
Marie-Eve, way to go. Nearly done and look how many words you’ve written!
Marion’s hit a huge crisis, with a computer drive crash. She’s now trying to retrieve her book. Last I heard she was putting it in the freezer overnight! The things we writers do.
So back up ladies, back up!!!!
Shirl Corder recently posted..Slippery Sand
Oh no! I think about you Marion, sending my energy so it works
Great Shirl! But you’re writing another book or part of your book? If for a part, I don’t know if you have done it, but maybe if you add more stories you can come up with more material. I’m doing it in my book, people love stories (I’m a sucker for them too)…
68 500 words. Mini writer’s block at the end or maybe it’s because I had to change my schedule to write at night and I want all that is needed in the book. Anyway, I’ll go back to write half of today’s chapter. “Do what you love for life” needs consistancy, right
Marie-Eve Boudreault recently posted..How to Realize Your Dreams and Make the Most Out of Them – Blogging My Book Part 8
I have to pinch myself (and I do), a dream is coming true: my chapters are written!
A few days left to polish the beginning, ending, exercises, then print and edit, but at 70 500 words I’ve said what I want.
I’m so grateful, thanks to you all for being there – just knowing you were doing the same helped me going. You’re already in my acknoledgments
. I wish it goes well for you in the last sprint!
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Well, as you’ve heard … I’ve fallen off the bandwagon …. after having done sooo well. My flash crashed and burned. I’ve spent the past week trying to recover my files which I’ve managed … in a manner of speaking – if you can call having hundreds of files that have formed by taking bits and pieces of different documents, being successful.
As such, I’m wading through the documents till I’ve found the right information. I think I’ve managed to recover all bar about the last page of my Pebbles in my Pocket manuscript. However, this has put me way behind without a hope of completing this book before month end.
This has also lead to a huge crisis … I have been putting together a presentation for my son’s 21st birthday party next Saturday which I have not managed to retrieve, until about 10 minutes ago. I’ve spent so much time this week trying to find that, realising that this would now have to become my No.1 priorty because if I didn’t find it, I would have literally days to recreate an entire months work and I knew I wouldn’t be able to do it to the same standard as I had done.
Miraculously (God is good!) I’ve retrieved this file by doing the strangest but simplest thing. Now I will concentrate on getting this behind my back, and then get back into my Non-Fiction in full steam.
The finish line of 30 November has disappeared from my sight on this one, however, best of luck to you all that still press on.
I have still given myself until the end of the year to complete this work and edit … so I press on!
OH .. ps. The freezing trick did not work!
And yes, I have learnt my lesson … BACK UP! Funny thing is, I have always worked saving to two places at the same time, but lately haven’t been doing that as my laptop has been slow
We live and learn.
PS. Nina, I received the book about a week ago and have sent it down to Shirl to read first as I know I’m not going to get to it this year.
Marion,
So sorry for the problems that set you back. Give yourself a new deadline, as you suggested, of Dec. 31. And pay for an online backup system like Carbonite, or get a backup drive that does the back up automatically. It’s worth the money.
Nina
WNFIN has just 3 more days to go. How are your projects progressing? Nearing completion? Let me know…Hope some of you who signed in will post here.
I got my word count around where I wanted it, but two of the chapters aren’t even to first-draft stage, just random notes. Definitely still more work to go!
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Thanks Nina! Marion, good idea to continue in December, Denise good work though!
About 72 500 words, tomorrow I will polish the introduction and exercises. Good to have some pressure at times to finish a project, with a cold I would have taken some more days off but I’m happy to stay on track.
Looking forward to know your progress on the last day
Blogging my book was so much good material that I think of planning for another book or complete ecourse to blog parts for my next posts in december. Since this book is about starting doing what you love, the next one could be more in dept on the do-what-you-love lifestyle. I would take it more slowly though
Marie-Eve Boudreault recently posted..Do What You Love for the Rest of Your Life – Blogging My Book Part 10
Due to some cirumstances I only wrote nineteen of thirty day…however, my word count total is 62,180.
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That’s awesome. The real question, however, is….Are you finished?
I found this project to be fun and interesting. Yes, on the last three days, I hit a wall. I immediately starting reading my work until I was inspired to go on…which I did and ended up on the 29th with 50401 words for my story…The Second Time Around.
It was a lesson in determination! I loved it. I am rather proud that I finished it and can now go back and edit the daylights out of it.
Thank you
Betty Kuhn
Congrats on your journey!
I have finished the 1st draft around 73 500 words. I think its a fantastic turning point in my life. So I will celebrate. And then go on with editing.
I’m really glad for the support, from blog posts, Nina and other participants. I hope we can stay in touch here to tell how well it is going with the publishing process (and I’m here too: @DoWhatYouLoveJ, http://www.facebook.com/#!/marieeve.boudreault).
Marie-Eve Boudreault recently posted..Can You Turn Your Life Around in a Month? Blogging My Book Part 11
No, Nina, I’m not finished. Well I’m done with the material, but now comes the editing, expanding, organizing, etc…I simply wrote freely for the first time in my life. I usually edit as I write. I feel like a huge boulder has been lifted off of my shoulders, and even knowing I still have work to do isn’t overwhelming like I usually feel before I start anything.
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Great idea, Marie-Eve to stay in tough here and update on how we’re doing. Tonight I finally managed to recover the last of the work I lost. Now I need to read through everything I’ve written as I noticed that there are places in the recovery where I’ve lost stuff … could be a word, a sentence, or a paragraph … I don’t know at this point. However, once I am at a place where I feel relatively comfortable that I know where I was, I will continue writing … hopefully sometime later this week.
Oh, ps … last Saturday I managed to recover the presentation for my son’s 21st. It took me the rest of the week to complete it and I had it ready in perfect order for his 21st birthday celebration yesterday.
I’ve finished doing a scrapbook for 2011. Feels great for the hard work I’ve rendered.
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Congrats, Linda! Let me know what you end up doing with it now that you’ve finished. Nina