Ok, so it is Halloween. I'm headed to my region's write-in. I'm just packing up my
stuff. I'm gonna put down my laptop, get it in my backpack. It goes until 1 and I
think I'll only be able to write about 500 to a thousand words in that time
period. So I'm gonna come back to my apartment afterwards and I'm going to
continue to write until I made word count for the day and then I'm gonna go
to sleep and then I'll wake up and I'll start writing again. I don't think I
really talked about my strategy but my strategy is to go big every single day.
Last year I was concerned about burning out so that's why I kind of took my
time, but this year I don't care. I'm gonna go hard. I did take off for
November 2st so I don't have to work at all
tomorrow technically. So yeah I'm gonna pack and then I'm gonna go.
It is a little bit later in the afternoon. Little bit after twelve o'clock. I am heading to
the grocery store real quick to stock up on some groceries and then I'm coming
back to write. I wrote 700 words at the restaurant which I'm really surprised I
was able to do that. Just because there was you know a lot going on and
everything and then I came back and I wrote another 500 more. So right now I'm
sitting out a little bit more than 1200 words. I wanted to reach, technically,
word count goal for the day before I went to sleep, but it was nearly like 3
o'clock in the morning and then I was like up for 21 hours straight and I just
like got really tired really quickly, so I stopped and I went to sleep around 3
a.m. I don't really have a lot of goals for today I just know I want to write as
much as I can and wherever that lands I'll have to be satisfied with. I don't
want to make this vlog very long so I should probably stop talking now.
Gonna make this quick. It is towards the end of the night. It's almost 9 p.m. I
think I'm gonna write for maybe another hour on and off. Right now as I'm filming
this clip I have about 5.1k words which is kind of awesome. I'm gonna
try to get up to 6000, but I don't know if I'll make that or not and I guess you'll
see if I do or not because it's already listed here. I'm really glad I took off
work and made it worth it as I was thinking if I'm taking off work
I'd better get a lot of words down for the first day. Taking off has since
been justified. I really like what I've written so far. I'm currently in the
middle of chapter 2 and I'm really glad I have my outline to kind of guide me
along. So yes, this is definitely a push to outline your shit.
So it is the end of day 2. I wrote over 4,000 words today and that has left me with a total of 10,111 words
I don't know how I'm doing this right now. I just got back from work
and I've already written 1.2k words for the day. One point two
is pretty good for NaNo standards. It's almost the word count goal of the day.
However I seem to be thinking that three thousand words a day is my goal so
that's what my average is right now on the NaNo site. I am like averaging 3.5k
words a day and I know it's only day three but that's the average of
the first two days. 3.5k words sounds like a good standard to kind of
go for every single day. Talk to me next week, that might not be the case, but my
goal is to reach 25,000 words by the end of the weekend and I think I can do it.
And tomorrow is also a write-in for my region and I'm going to do that. Whenever
I'm around other people I just get like really excited to write so I'm sure I'm
gonna write a lot. I think right now I'm just like word vomiting all of act one.
We'll see what happens when I have to get into Act two. Since I'm
far ahead I'll be able to like take a day off just to do some more like
outlining and not feel like I'm gonna be behind. I just got back from the
NaNoWriMo write-in down at our library. So I went there, I wrote over 2,000 words
which is pretty good for three hours. That pushed me over the 15,000 word
milestone so right now I'm at like 15.3k. Because of that I decided that
gonna, you know, treat myself. So I got some Taco Bell. It looks heavy, but it's
not I just took a lot sauce packets. I'm gonna watch a movie and then after the
movie, I'm pretty much just going to start writing again. I want to try to
make another 2,000 words before the night.
I'm currently at a really like high adrenaline scene because the pirate crew
is just being betrayed by another one right now. I'm also learning a lot about
pirate ships because sometimes halfway through what I'm writing
I'll like stop because I'm like, 'I should probably know what that word is.'
I'll have to like, look it up. I have two pirate diagrams up on my tabs for the
past, I feel like, 5,000 words. Trying to sound intelligent while I don't really
know what I'm talking about. I've never been on a ship. I don't know anything
about sailing. So I'm like, trying to learn as I go. I know that I'll be
better about it when I go back, but I still want to have some kind of
knowledge so I'm not always putting up brackets being like, 'look this up' or 'this
is not the word you're trying to use' or something like that.
I wrote a lot today. I'm currently at 22,155, I think. I am really excited. I'm happy with
my wordcount and I think I'm done for the night. Tomorrow I know I'll hit 25,000
which is insane that I'm gonna be halfway through NaNoWriMo
by the sixth day.
I wrote so far almost 5000 words today alone. All part of the
same chapter because I'm now at that point where my chapters are really
really long. Which they typically are in first drafts. I thought I would kind of
rewind to something that went on yesterday with my writing. I wrote a
death scene and it was really sad because I didn't really want to kill
this character. I was like battling it even during the brainstorming, but then
as I got to the scene where he could have died, it just kind of felt right for
the situation, for the characters, and the future character development. To my much
devastation, I did have to end up killing him and I've talked about music and
writing the music before, but I was actually listening to these three songs
on repeat and I thought I'd share what songs I was listening to.
The emotional part of when he actually died I was listening to "Saturn" by Sleeping At Last
On repeat and then nearly sobbing at the library.
Because it's such an emotional song and I like the song because while there
is vocals in it, it doesn't come until the very like, end of the song. For the
next part of the scene is when one of my main characters, she... this person who died
is very very close to her. I don't really want to reveal who it is.
It's devastating for her that he dies in front of her. Kind of like going into
tunnel vision for her and for that because of the tunnel vision, keynote, I
listened to "Assassins Breathe" from the King Arthur soundtrack. It's a very
singular feeling piece. Surprisingly, a lot of it is comprised of breath and the
way it goes is very awesome and I just really love this piece and it just like
totally put me into the mindset of a singular one person, her perspective, and
like the breathing kind of went into tunnel vision and that was the only
thing she could hear is the breathing, the breathing and then that really
helped me with that part of the scene. There was the burial, which is still in
the same scene because this is a pirate story so burial at sea and all that
business. For that, I listened to "Nation of Thieves" which is the part of the
Black Sails soundtrack. That one's also very emotional. Very, very somber and that
was perfect for a burial at sea. So I listened to that when I was writing
that part of the scene. Almost done with the first act. I don't know if I talked
about this, but I'm following kind of a three-act structure. I've been watching a
lot of video essays on three act structures I really highly recommend
them. I'll put my favorite one down in the description. Every act should end on
a character making an irrevocable decision. That really struck with me.
That's, like, how I am trying to frame this story. Act one was completely
outlined. I think that's why I'm able to stay ahead as much as I am because I had
a very clear vision of the first act because I knew how the first act was
going to end. However, my second act is more up in the air. I know how act two is
gonna end. I know the decision that one of the characters needs to make. Now that
I know what I'm working up towards, I can honestly take a day just to brainstorm.
act two. I'm looking at my record right now and it says I'm already at 8 minutes I'm
just talking in this clip alone. I'm... this is too much. I think I have about 5,000
to 7,000 more words to write for act one. I'm actually really, really excited to
write the end scene. That was like right when I thought of Witch Pirates, this was
the scene I thought of and I'm so excited to get to it and finally write it.
I'm adding on an additional scene at the end of the first act and that's
introducing the third perspective in the story because I have three perspectives,
but two of them are in the first act and then the final one, he is more introduced
towards the end and he's more of the antagonist character but it's kind of
misplaced antagonism because he can't help it, that's just how he was
raised. Tomorrow and my next clip I would be
talking about competitiveness... yeah.
So, I actually just got home I went to a movie
with one of my friends. I've only been able to write about 1.2k words
today, which is a lot. I really want to continue writing because I'm at a really
great part that I've been excited to write about, but I'm also really tired
and I could go to sleep right now. I really wanted to break 30,000 today, but
I don't think that's gonna be possible. I was gonna talk about competition. This
year I am very, very competitive with my word count. I don't think there's a
problem with being a little competitive when it comes to turning out the words.
If you want to go with a smaller scale of competitive, you can compete with
yourself which is what I kind of started doing. I am really obsessively comparing
my word count this year to my word count last year. In 2016, I didn't get to the
word count I'm at now until like ten days before NaNo was over. Another part
of the competitiveness was me kind of looking at it and being like I want to
be higher I want to be higher I want to be very clear in the lead of myself and
of the word count goal of the day. Also, I'm gonna say it, I'm also being very
competitive with my writing buddies. I have a lot of writing buddies on the
NaNo site and I order them by word count. Because I'm seeing these people with the
higher word counts as well and I want to be there, so I know that definitely
motivates me a whole bunch.
I have written over 3,000 words today I'm up to
32,154. Continuing with the rest of this
act, I'm currently on the last chapter of the first act. This is the introduction
to a new POV, so I've written about maybe 400 words so far of his perspective and
I'm having a lot of fun with it. I wrote about 1.3k words so far today.
I'm hoping to finish this chapter tonight and then I'm gonna stop writing
and then I have to start outlining again. Act two I have ideas for and a lot of them
I have thought of while writing the first act, but now I need to organize all
my thoughts and make it into a cohesive outline. I never felt confined to the
outline because there are several things that happened in the first draft that I
didn't plan, that I decided to do a different way than how I wrote it in the
outline. So there's still... I feel like sometimes outlining gets a bad rap
because people feel like you can't explore other options, you definitely can.
I did introduce my third character, he's a boy. Oh, my god.
I'm in love and he's kind of like from, kind of, a religious cult and those are
two things that completely fascinate me. Religion really were fascinating and
kind of, faith as a whole, just because I'm not religious and I just find
religion really fascinating as well as cults interest the heck out of me. I love
learning about cults, I love reading about them, so it's interesting to write
a character like that.
I've only written 1.3k words so far. I'm not
sure if I'm going to write any more tonight. It's like 8:30p.m. and I want to go
to bed. Yeah, I'm gonna turn on Netflix, over there. I haven't seen Stranger
Things, I feel like I'm the only person that hasn't seen that show.
I'm about to head to the library. It is like 9:20 in the morning which is pretty good for me
to be up. I've been up, kind of, since 7, slowly getting ready and now I'm heading
to the library to work all day. I got nano stuff to do I got other stuff I
need to do and if I stay here in my apartment I'm probably not gonna get anything done.
I am at 37,000 words. I know I'll easily get to 40,000 today.
Today I'm wearing my Nicolas Cage t-shirt. I got it at Society6. There's a
lot of like different celebrities like made up, I don't know how to describe it,
military-wear? When I was looking at all them like, which one is the most
ridiculous? Nicholas Cage. I did outline act two, like,
completely it's done and I'm so glad I did that. I'm gonna login to the NaNo
Twitter Sprints. Hopefully they're doing stuff right now. I'm starting on the
first chapter and I always try to avoid having my writing sessions be of like
the beginning of a chapter. I've been trying to end my writing sessions on
exciting parts. Either about to be exciting or in the middle of something
being exciting, because it's more exciting to get back into the writing.
I have about 8.4k more to go. Didn't get to write at work
today, work was really stressful. Right now I'm like in a scene trying to
explain things. I'm trying to figure out which beats to hit at certain points in
the scene. I haven't really been able to do a good sprint yet tonight just
because like, I'm too busy trying to figure out what the hell I'm trying to say.
It was another really busy day at work today, so I couldn't really do the
things I wanted to do and I've only written about a thousand words and it's
almost eleven o'clock. I'm gonna call it a night.
So my stepdad's coming over
really soon here, so I don't know how much I'm gonna be writing tonight.
Yeah, I'm wearing pretty much the same shirt in the past three clips. I want to
win. I want to win over this weekend. I'm not burned out. However this whole week
has been so emotionally stressful for me and draining that I just don't even want
to write and that sucks. My arm is getting tired. My whole week sucked ass.
I wanted to go to bed tonight at 7:30. Tomorrow is finally Friday because I
need the weekend so bad.
I decided to skip the current scene I'm on just
because it's causing me some difficulties with like my writing flow.
I don't really have the science behind it yet, I don't really know what I want the
outcome to truly be. I don't know, kind of, logistics of it so instead I'm just
deciding to skip it. This is hard for me because it's a major scene. So I started
writing the next chapter and it's actually really difficult cuz I'm like
trying to get into our mindset of something that hasn't really happened
yet. And usually when I skip to the next
thing I'm most excited about it's usually really just because I don't really know
how to end the scene. All the emotional parts of the scene were already in the
chapter so I still feel it's complete even though I'm not quite sure how to
end it. This one, I just skipped a whole scene and now I'm just like, what are the
emotions for these characters right now? I have no idea. So, that's more difficult
for me just because I am such a chronological writer this is something
I'll fix in the second draft.
Hey I just hit 47,000!
So, I actually woke up very, very sick this morning, but I did hit 50,000 today. My total word count is
50,075 words. I'm still gonna keep going.
I wrote another 2,000 words so I am like at 52,000 words right now.
I hit 50,000 yesterday, which is crazy. I don't really want to spend too
much time writing in December. I knew I thought I was gonna go jump right
back into Sharp Hollows in December. I don't think I'm gonna be able to do that.
I'm gonna need a break after this month with writing and I really want to read
and I really want to watch TV. I haven't read it all this month and this feels
weird because I really, really wish I was reading Harry Potter, but I'm not.
Oh, it's really dark but this is just a quick update saying I wrote about 2.4k words today.
So I'm back at my parents house for the Thanksgiving weekend.
I've only written about 1.2k words so far. So I just broke
56,000. It's about 11 o'clock right now, I'm gonna try to write a little bit more
and then I'm probably gonna pass out.
It's Thanksgiving we're about to head
over to my grandparents. I have been writing and I'm going to bring my laptop
to my grandparents house, so hopefully I can get some more writing in. Molly's hanging out
over there. Hi Molly. Duncan's over there.
It's about 9 o'clock, so I need to start writing. I did a little bit of writing today but didn't
get that much done.
As expected I have not done much writing today. I think I've
only written like 50 words if that. I guess we'll see.
I'm starting in a new chapter.
I don't know how much I'm gonna write tonight but I'm at 58,000
words anyway so it's like whatever I get is good. The one thing I'm most looking
forward to already rewriting for the second draft
of Witch Pirates is definitely developing relationships better.
Especially one that I want to be a romantic love interest for one of the characters.
Their relationship needs to have better seeds in the beginning I just like, did not do that.
I feel like I'm getting sick and I have not written today, but I'm
disappointed that I didn't write today because this is like the first day I
haven't written at all. I was doing really good with writing every single
day. So I'm watching Spongebob, which is very interesting watching it as an adult.
This is a quick update to say that I've been sick the past two days so I have
not been writing and I'm really sad. I'm still at like 59,000 words
which is so hard for me to like not have the mental energy right now to write
because I'm so close to sixty thousand. I'm still sick and I haven't written
today, I don't think I am. It's like 8 o'clock and I think I'm gonna go to bed.
I really want to hit 60,000. I'm so annoyed that the end of this vlog is like, me sick.
It's the last day of NaNoWriMo and I'm still sick. My voice is slowly going
and walking around tires me out really quickly.
I've only been like, eating cough medicine. I did manage to write over a
thousand words. I just validated my thing. Yay I'm a
winner. Those are my stats. I was ahead the entire month which I am very happy
about. I've never been ahead the entire month. I've always been behind the entire
month until the eleventh hour of the last day. I am a chapter and a half away
from the end of act two and then I'm gonna start brainstorming act three and then
I'm gonna try to write it here in December. I'm just so happy with what
I've written and I'm excited to finish it. Still very much in love with Sharp
Hollows. Possibly December or even the new year is when I'm gonna really hit
hard on rewriting that. I need water so much right now, but it's not in here.
I want to know how you guys did with NaNoWriMo. If you won that's awesome, if
you didn't that's still awesome. You're still writing more words than you
thought you might have written if you didn't participate at all. I'm gonna let
you guys go and I'm probably gonna go to sleep. I'll see you guys soon then, bye!
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