Day 6 of serious JulNo writing: Progress

Is it just me or is that cheery little meter filling up substantially?

I know, I know. I'm pretty awesome. Unfortunately, I'm still behind the official minimum by about 4K words. But what can you do? In my case, write more. Maybe word war. No one really wants to word war with me, I've found. Too bad. I'll just keep using WoD(Write or Die) and keep increasing my word count slowly. Meanwhile, I used the snowflake method to hash out a plot of sorts. So maybe this novel will have an eventual point after all.

*Squints*

Nope, can't see it.

BdK

JulNo Progress Report! Day 5

So this is where I am so far: for those who do not want to squint at the Write or Die meter, it's 8960 words so far. I confidently expect to write about 1.5K words more today (right after I drink my tea and check my mail/update my facebook/twitter and go on the forums to play a word game and read 'The Girl Who Kicked The Hornet's Nest' and maybe taking a little nap) :)

Not too shabby, but imnottelling, the user I've chosen to decide to beat, is a full 3K words ahead of me. I figure if I write 3K per day for the rest of the month, I'll coast into a spot ahead of him/her. So that's my plan. Also, Vrushang's agreed to join me in trying to write as many words as possible and annoy as many people around us as possible by obsessing on our novels; so let's give him a warm welcome, people!

I started this story with just one character. I made the other one up racing against the Write or Die red screen. So far, I'm thinking hard decisions, slice of life. Following your dreams? Forgiveness? And these are just the values I need to get across. Now for the actual story. Scroll down, please.

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A computer geek who wants to get into a good university takes up a sort-of-job with the girl she used to idolise in high school. There, she teaches her a thing or two about life and the living. Also, this scary guy keeps showing up. End summary.

I got nothing else. Someone kill me now.

BdK

So there! I've decided(a little late, I know) to do JulNoWriMo. For those of you not familiar with it, it stands for: July Novel Writing Month. You're supposed to start on the 1st, but I've started on the 4th; and end on the 31st, with at least 50,000 words written until midnight on the last day. Things are looking good, I think, mostly because of this site- Write or Die. It's awesome. By awesome I mean it starts deleting your words if you stop writing. Cool, right? So you keep writing, and writing, and writing, and writing... well, you get the picture. So far my basic story revolves about Ria, one of my favourite characters. She's Japanese, and sweet and kind and more than a little naive. She's just inherited a lot of money, and hired a friend of hers to help her(the friend) out of her financial problems. That's what I have so far. Not bad for half a day's work, some would say. My goal is two sessions, about 45 mins each, of 1000 words each, so a total of 2000 words written every day. That would mean 27*2000 = 54000 words, a cool 4000 words above the winning word count. Yeah. That would be great.

BdK.

PS, my actual word count's : 2147 words!