Yayayayay so many people are above ten thousand or otherwise doing an excellent job! :DDD
My side characters that I specifically placed into the story as cardboard cutouts of various archetypes decided to be interesting and develop personalities all of a sudden and I was having fun writing them and got 2570 yesterday. I lost track of if I've posted my word counts for all of the days, but day one is above three thousand and all days after that are above two thousand, for reference.
Annnd I think I'm beating everyone now! :D 18801. I might get behind some people again later on, but at this moment I am ahead and that is good enough for me. I'm going to get 20k today, yayayayay!
I didn't mean snippets in here--even I can find individual paragraphs of my writing that aren't terribad--I meant posting the entire story chapter at a time in the main forum like Keta, Superbird, Teh Ebil Snorlax, etc.. They have the gall to be confident enough in their writing abilities that they believe their NaNo rough drafts won't burn people's eyes out, and I don't like that. Everyone is supposed to have no self-confidence and not post anything ever until they've had forever and a day to worry about it and edit it to hell and back like me. (And then maybe still never get anything done like me.)
MY CONFIDENCE
YOU ARE SHATTERING IT
HAVE MORE CONFIDENCE. 8[
Pretty much everyone's NaNoWriMo's are going to be largely terrible with a few paragraphs that are presentable. It just depends on whether you actually mind about burning people's eyes out, I guess? I mean, barely anyone even goes to this section of the forum, anyway. Also you can get constructive criticism for help on editing it later.
(Also don't never get anything done. 8[ Probably everyone is curious about the deal with your legendary-turned-trainer.)
HI KRATOS.
LET'S BE EMO BUDDIES AND ANGST ABOUT OUR HORRIBLE WRITING TOGETHER IN THE CORNER OF THE ROOM.
The more I write this story, the more I hate it. There's so many things wrong with it I really, really, really need to go back and rewrite it but nooooo stupid NaNo! What do you mean that editing is for December.
Must... Stop... Urge... To... Edit...
And this is why I'm posting here instead of churning out more words because every single word I write reminds me of how horribly contrived my whole story is and how terrible my word choice and grammar and everything is and ahhhh
*headdesk*
Let it go! And don't read over your writing until later. I don't have as much of a problem with this because I don't read back, and also I really hate editing things after writing them because then that copy of it isn't preserved anymore and I can never, ever look back and see how it used to be. :( This tends to make me start stories over rather than editing them, but then you can do them even better, so I suppose it's not all bad.
I just let myself edit up to a couple paragraphs back because I tend to think of new things for my characters to say or do so that I have something for the other(s) to react to later, but other than that I kind of "live in the moment," so to speak. Just stop scrolling back through your document and you'll probably feel better.
Also, I find that when you're writing this many words at once, everything seems pretty awful. But if you put it away for a while after you complete it, you can see a lot more decent stuff than you expected. I was doing a thousand words a day last April and looking back now, I'm a little sad that I decided to stop, because it actually wasn't that bad at all.
Ah! Got to 18,000-something. Haven't written today any though; that was from yesterday. I really need to, but I'm not letting myself move on with the story until I go back and re-read all of the segments I have so far and then list some important concepts, locations, character bios, etc so that I can move on to the next Act. Since my story's split into Acts. Act I is over and my latest Segment just ended... in the most epic way possible.
Not really ever planning on editing it once I'm finished with this story. I'm the type of person who, once I'm done with something, I move on and don't really want to ever look at it again. So that's why I'm editing as I write along or if I have a plot hole, I make up some explanation for it rather than changing it since I still have the whole rest of the story to fix it. So far though, no big plotholes have cropped up. I guess I'm paying good attention! This story is surprisingly organized for a piece I've written.
But now, must go! Gotta go back and look at stuff before I move on! Ah. Must finish all this before I go to bed too.
Yayyayyay Arylett! I think you're at the highest word count of the people in the groups so far! :D
Editing during the month is generally a bad idea, but I think you've got it under control! It's probably a lot more useful if you're using the editing to patch things for later instead of fixing grammar and sentence structure and everything. If it helps you plot things out and you're doing this well with that strategy, then there's probably no problem. Good job!
~~~~~~~~ Yayyyyy everyone's doing great! :DDDDDD ~~~~~