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National Novel Writing Month 2019: When in doubt, write Nanomachines!
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Keep up the wording generations, NaNoers \o/
I'll do what I can to cheer you all on \o/
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Wow, that is gorgeous!Here is sketchy~
And a close up.... sorry me at work and didn't have a lot of arting tools at hand, so the eyes were done with the reddest pen I could find and it doesn't really show well > __ < but they are red!
Keep up the wording generations, NaNoers \o/
I'll do what I can to cheer you all on \o/
Here is sketchy~
And a close up.... sorry me at work and didn't have a lot of arting tools at hand, so the eyes were done with the reddest pen I could find and it doesn't really show well > __ < but they are red!
Keep up the wording generations, NaNoers \o/
I'll do what I can to cheer you all on \o/
I love this! I'm a sucker for character art, so, if you're still offering:
Halley Edmonds is a Victorian woman in her early twenties. She's just barely five feet tall and petite. She has crazy, curly blonde hair that she can sometimes tame with a lot of hair product and patience, but generally she just lets it do its own thing. She wears round spectacles over big, brown eyes, and her nose is small and turns up. She is pretty shy and anxious, but she always comes through when it counts. She's an astronomer in a Lovecraftian steampunk setting, so feel free to have fun with her outfit ^.^
WC: 40253
40K! It's the final stretch now! Less than a week left until I finish. Not sure how I feel about the plot of this year's NaNo. I'll need to read through what I have when I hit 50K before proceeding. I usually find that writing fantasy is harder for me than science fiction though I love writing both, so I went for a more science fantasy story this time around. I think I like it?
Oh wow this is fantastic! Thank you so much! This is definitely a motivator for me. Really awesome job.
Edit: Also want to add that seeing art of one of my character's like this means a lot to me, so thanks again.
40K! It's the final stretch now! Less than a week left until I finish. Not sure how I feel about the plot of this year's NaNo. I'll need to read through what I have when I hit 50K before proceeding. I usually find that writing fantasy is harder for me than science fiction though I love writing both, so I went for a more science fantasy story this time around. I think I like it?
Here is sketchy~
And a close up.... sorry me at work and didn't have a lot of arting tools at hand, so the eyes were done with the reddest pen I could find and it doesn't really show well > __ < but they are red!
Keep up the wording generations, NaNoers \o/
I'll do what I can to cheer you all on \o/
Oh wow this is fantastic! Thank you so much! This is definitely a motivator for me. Really awesome job.
Edit: Also want to add that seeing art of one of my character's like this means a lot to me, so thanks again.
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First drafts always suck. it's what you do after you finish that can make them great.
also always feel free to join the CWCs :P
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Here is sketchy~
And a close up.... sorry me at work and didn't have a lot of arting tools at hand, so the eyes were done with the reddest pen I could find and it doesn't really show well > __ < but they are red!
Keep up the wording generations, NaNoers \o/
I'll do what I can to cheer you all on \o/
Omg this looks so good!!!!
Hey nano is meant for the roughest of rough drafts. Telling can become showing after. Point is youve got stuff to work with later!
That was very informative! Thanks for sharing!
Congratulations! Keep it up the good work. Hopefully we'll see you start a streak with next year's NaNo!
WC: 35517
Very nice work.Here is sketchy~
And a close up.... sorry me at work and didn't have a lot of arting tools at hand, so the eyes were done with the reddest pen I could find and it doesn't really show well > __ < but they are red!
Keep up the wording generations, NaNoers \o/
I'll do what I can to cheer you all on \o/
Congrats.
No problem. I just hope now to make something at least passable that can stand on its own, even if it doesn't end up being quite as ambitious.
WC: 68454
Finally ended act two, three chapters later than expected. Only, er, two more acts to go? Shit.
I'll be done this time next month. Probably. Not sure I'll hit my personal goal of beating my 2016 total (91,000 words) due to an all night charity camp out thing I'm doing next Friday night into THE LAST DAY, but I'm still going to try. Current pace would put me at 93,000 plus come midnight on the 30th.
You've. Got. This.
Finally ended act two, three chapters later than expected. Only, er, two more acts to go? Shit.
I'll be done this time next month. Probably. Not sure I'll hit my personal goal of beating my 2016 total (91,000 words) due to an all night charity camp out thing I'm doing next Friday night into THE LAST DAY, but I'm still going to try. Current pace would put me at 93,000 plus come midnight on the 30th.
Keep going while you're up to speed. I finish a new draft before I revisit an old one for tweaking / polishing / fixing all my dumb errors etc, it seems good to put some distance between me and the project so I get less precious about things and it all steeps for a time. For now, congrats on the official win, and good luck wrapping things up in the next week or two.
You've. Got. This.
WC: 44062
The end is in sight. I need to finish my current chapter and then write three more. I'll be going over the word count goal to finish. I'll probably end up somewhere in the neighborhood of 55,000 given how these last chapters need to play out.
The end is in sight. I need to finish my current chapter and then write three more. I'll be going over the word count goal to finish. I'll probably end up somewhere in the neighborhood of 55,000 given how these last chapters need to play out.
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Still in the race but a bit bummed I won't be done before my vacation like I thought I would be.
Still in the race but a bit bummed I won't be done before my vacation like I thought I would be.
WC: 41009
I'm actually super excited that after a couple of back-to-back action scenes, I'm this close to having all my main cast on the same page, metaphorically speaking. I mean, they as a group just escaped getting run off the road by the story's Tong stand-in.
I'm actually super excited that after a couple of back-to-back action scenes, I'm this close to having all my main cast on the same page, metaphorically speaking. I mean, they as a group just escaped getting run off the road by the story's Tong stand-in.
WC: 71574
Started Act three about three days later than I expected to. Act two grew and grew and hopefully act three won't. It's such a fresh of breath air too. My main character has spent two acts trying to figure out who she really is. She just found out at the end of act two, and now we jump back in time to experience her previous life, starting while she's still in the womb. I've had to swap out my playlist completely (I'll go back to my other play list once I move on to the final act) and do a ton of research in order to figure this all out, but I've leaned really hard into my own experiences as an immigrant, and my own feelings seeing the nation I grew up, than I moved away from move further and further in what I believe to be the wrong direction.
Using so much truth close to my own, has let me take some characters from cultures very much not my own. They're from what was South Yemen, and they're leaving after reunification because they're more Westernly inclined and fear the country is moving in the wrong direction. Since this is 1991 at this point, they aren't wrong. It's made the words a little slower to type out, but it's been an enlightening and enjoyable thing to research the middle east around that time to find the right set of parents from the right political climate that would be leaving to raise their child here in the United States.
And I'm sure Timu is going to drop a word count on my head out of nowhere. Keeping up with Timu has been incredibly motivating. It's hard to believe I've bridged that gap. So I don't buy it yet.
Started Act three about three days later than I expected to. Act two grew and grew and hopefully act three won't. It's such a fresh of breath air too. My main character has spent two acts trying to figure out who she really is. She just found out at the end of act two, and now we jump back in time to experience her previous life, starting while she's still in the womb. I've had to swap out my playlist completely (I'll go back to my other play list once I move on to the final act) and do a ton of research in order to figure this all out, but I've leaned really hard into my own experiences as an immigrant, and my own feelings seeing the nation I grew up, than I moved away from move further and further in what I believe to be the wrong direction.
Using so much truth close to my own, has let me take some characters from cultures very much not my own. They're from what was South Yemen, and they're leaving after reunification because they're more Westernly inclined and fear the country is moving in the wrong direction. Since this is 1991 at this point, they aren't wrong. It's made the words a little slower to type out, but it's been an enlightening and enjoyable thing to research the middle east around that time to find the right set of parents from the right political climate that would be leaving to raise their child here in the United States.
And I'm sure Timu is going to drop a word count on my head out of nowhere. Keeping up with Timu has been incredibly motivating. It's hard to believe I've bridged that gap. So I don't buy it yet.
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A slow night tonight. Today was a rough day for unrelated reasons and my head's just not in it tonight. I think these last 5000 words are gonna be a tough grind.
A slow night tonight. Today was a rough day for unrelated reasons and my head's just not in it tonight. I think these last 5000 words are gonna be a tough grind.
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Quick heads up people should be hitting 40k by the end of this weeked (Holy crap that's a lot of words!) And then we'll be entering the last week where people should start to try and get to 50k if you're falling a bit behind (like me) never worry because all it takes sometimes is one good day and you'll be right there at the finish line. Best of luck everybody!
Also normally we'd have our last writing hangout tomorrow but really sorry to say I'm just way too swamped with work atm to do it. If there's interst in it Nezumi can host one but if not than I'm sure she'd rather rest up.
Also normally we'd have our last writing hangout tomorrow but really sorry to say I'm just way too swamped with work atm to do it. If there's interst in it Nezumi can host one but if not than I'm sure she'd rather rest up.