It’s taken me a long time to think clearly enough to write this post, or to even think that I wanted to, so sorry for being so late to the party. That being said, I tried my very best…
For those of you who don’t know, I chose this year to participate in Camp NaNoWriMo, and in the beginning, I could not be more excited.
In the beginning, my word count was set to 50,000– I don’t know why I would ever do that to myself. It was obviously a far reach goal, considering in the past 3 combined months I’d written 16,000. So, about 3 days in, I lowered my goal to 30,000 which is far more reasonable and also proving slightly unattainable. I wrote for at least a few minutes every day for the first 2 weeks, but then April break happened and it was alal down hill from there.
Plus, my blog posts have become super rushed in the past month. It’s super hard to write high quality posts 3x a week (so about 3,000 words a week) when you need to write 7,000 additional words on a story. 10,000 words is wayyyyyy too much for me to handle. The fact that I had to lower my word goal is proof of that.
Before I go any further, I need to take a second to say that I LOVE MY CABIN!! I joined one with a lot of other teenagers, and so we all have a ton in common while simultaneously living on complete opposite sides of the world with totally different life experiences. It’s given be a great perspective on everything, and I spend far too much time procrastinating with them. I love it.
I ended up reaching about 10,000 words, which isn’t terrible, since that was a good kick start on my story and so now I have quite a few chapters down. Plus, I managed to outline a whole shit ton of it, which is more than I’ve ever done for anything ever, so props to me for accomplishing my primary goal in life.
One problem that I did come across is that I kept changing the way people looked and so it’s going to be a bitch to go back and edit. I’m trying to ignore that semi large problem and just keep pushing forward.
Anyways, I know a lot of people were really successful at Camp NaNo, but writing on any sort of timeline just isn’t for me. I’m very slow and just kind of need to be suddenly inspired to even sort of start moving in the right direction.
But, regardless of how I did, I’m really want to finish this story eventually and I think camp helped me get closer to that goal.
Did you win Camp NaNo? Do you outline your stories? Do you think I’m an absolute disaster and want the chance to yell at me? Go ahead!
Well, I wanted to start it and I wrote exactly 7k words so you’re not as bad as you thought haha. I also have a full 4 months in which I javen’t written a single word so I’m proud of you for writing regularly!
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Haha thank you. 7k is pretty good and yay for writing some!!
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I NEED TO KNOW MORE ABOUT YOUR NOVEL, JOCE. HONESTLY. I had an original goal of 17.5K, but lowered it to 15K when I got sick, but in the end, I got my 17.5K. 😉 And 10K is awesome! It’s 10K more than you started with. 😉
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Yay 17.5 is AWESOME!!!!!!! And maybe I’ll tell you more about it later when I get a better idea of how to describe it… for now just know that it’s an upper YA about a hacktivist group 😊
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A HACKTIVIST GROUP??? Sounds amazing already. XD
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Haha thanks!!!
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What is yours about?!?
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The one that I’m planning or the one that I’m editing? XD
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Ahhh the questions… editing!
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Well I have the actual blurb on my blog (My Writings page), but basically, it’s about how five teenagers… okay you know what, I’m way too lazy. Here: https://foreverandeverly.wordpress.com/my-writings/ XD
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I did NaPOwrimo which isn’t as amazing but you know! Don’t be too hard on yourself, what you did was GREAT, and focus on that. There’s always next time ❤
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Thanks Mahriya!!! NaPo is actually amazing that takes a lot of dedication and poetry is so hard
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Haha! I think I’ve just found my Camp Nano twin! My initial goal was 50,000 words, but then half way through the camp I lowered it down to 30,000. And I ended up only writing around 12,000 words or so. Are you taking part again in July?
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Omg that’s so funny!! I haven’t decided if i will or not yet… I’m on vacation a lot so we’ll see. I’ll probably sign up but who knows how well I’ll do!! Are you?
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I think I will. I’ll be on holiday in July so hopefully I’ll get more time to write 🙂
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That’s good!! Best of luck!
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It’s good to appreciate what you have achieved.
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Yeah that’s very true. I’m still a little disappointed but it’s better than nothing
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