Check-In: Week 8

Round 1 Goals:

1. (DONE) Re-read what is written on Untitled NaNoWriMo 2011 Project
2. Finish first (and only) draft of Untitled NaNoWriMo 2011 Project
   • 500 words per day except Fridays or
   • 3,000 words per week

I missed the first update of the week, so we'll call this the Total Week 8 Update.

0 words of the 3,000-word goal. Again. (I make no delusions about writing today. It just ain't gonna happen.) I've pretty much quit. Again.

But these folks ain't quitters!

Check-in: Week 7, Part II

Round 1 Goals:

1. (DONE) Re-read what is written on Untitled NaNoWriMo 2011 Project
2. Finish first (and only) draft of Untitled NaNoWriMo 2011 Project
   • 500 words per day except Fridays or
   • 3,000 words per week

Somewhere along the way I forgot yesterday was Monday. That's why this check-in is even later than usual. (And it's later still, because Blogger wasn't playing nice with the web browser at work. Stupid outdated browser that they won't let us upgrade.)

I ended the week 0 for 3,000. If nothing else, at least I'm confirming what we all knew: I'm no writer.

On the other hand, most -- if not all -- of these folks are writers. Cheer them on!

Check-in: Week 7, Part I

Round 1 Goals:

1. (DONE) Re-read what is written on Untitled NaNoWriMo 2011 Project
2. Finish first (and only) draft of Untitled NaNoWriMo 2011 Project
   • 500 words per day except Fridays or
   • 3,000 words per week

I'm 0 for 1,500 so far this week. Here's a clue, flick -- If you want this book finished, you need to write it.

Here's what the real writers are doing.

Check-in: Week 6, Part II

Round 1 Goals:

1. (DONE) Re-read what is written on Untitled NaNoWriMo 2011 Project
2. Finish first (and only) draft of Untitled NaNoWriMo 2011 Project
   • 500 words per day except Fridays or
   • 3,000 words per week

The week ended at 500 out of 3,000. Did I mention I'm really not a writer? I know I did. And it's so... so true.

And the linky, in-line this time:

Check-in: Week 6, Part I

Round 1 Goals:

1. (DONE) Re-read what is written on Untitled NaNoWriMo 2011 Project
2. Finish first (and only) draft of Untitled NaNoWriMo 2011 Project
   • 500 words per day except Fridays or
   • 3,000 words per week

I wrote! Not nearly enough, mind you, but it was words. As of last night, I have 500 of the 1,500 words I should have. Motivation is still an issue.

Check in with the rest of the ROW80 gang.

Check-in: Week 5, Part II

Round 1 Goals:

1. Re-read what is written on Untitled NaNoWriMo 2011 Project
2. Finish first (and only) draft of Untitled NaNoWriMo 2011 Project
   • 500 words per day except Fridays or
   • 3,000 words per week

Well, flick? What do you have to say for yourself?

Um... I love chocolate?

Wrong! Look at your word count for week 5!

It says zero.

Exactly! And what's wrong with that picture?

Yeah, yeah. It means I didn't write at all this week. Cut me some slack; I've been sick!

That excuse only goes so far. You said so yourself in the last check-in.

Fine. You want me to admit I'm lazy? YOU GOT IT! I'm lazy!

Just so we're clear.



To be brutally honest, I just didn't feel like writing. The sickness reported in the last check-in eased up tremendously. I still have remnants, but it's not so bad now.

I'm also suffering from what happened the last time I did ROW80, in its inaugural round. As reported in March when that round ended, writing is a low priority in my life. I'm not a writer. I acknowledge that freely. Even so, I enjoy the madcap pace of November writing, and somehow keep manifesting the delusion that I can transfer that into other parts of the year.

We might have to call in Kevin Costner to motivate me. There's nothing like the threat of having to watch what is reportedly Costner's worst movie ever (Waterworld) to spur me into doing what needs doing. For the record, I despise Kevin Costner.

If week 6 produces no writing, that may be the thing I need to get the words going.

We'll see.

Here's the Blog Hop for this check-in.

Check-In: Week 5, Part I

Round 1 Goals:

1. Re-read what is written on Untitled NaNoWriMo 2011 Project
2. Finish first (and only) draft of Untitled NaNoWriMo 2011 Project
   • 500 words per day except Fridays or
   • 3,000 words per week

Hrm. Let me rummage through my Book of Excuses. ...used that one already. That one is just ludicrous. Oh, here we go! This one is actually the truth.

I've been sick for the last week or so. The reason this is more an excuse for not writing than a reason is that it hasn't been a debilitating illness. (I wrote Friday night, after all, when it was in its opening volley.) It hasn't stopped me from going to work. Or watching TV. Or checking my email every five minutes. I've even played Star Trek Online, for crying out loud! (Free-to-Play MMORPG? Yay!)

The good news is I'm on the upswing. I'm still congested and coughing (the cough is always the last thing to go), but even my coworkers have told me I sound a hell of a lot better today. (And just as I type that, I lapse into a coughing fit. Ain't that always the way?)

I can make no promises -- that's not my way. However, I can attempt to make it up in this second half of the week -- 1,000 words each of Thursday, Saturday, and Sunday? Maybe? We'll see.

These folks prolly aren't giving out excuses. Go cheer them on!

Check-In: Week 4, Part II

Round 1 Goals:

1. Re-read what is written on Untitled NaNoWriMo 2011 Project
   
2. Finish first (and only) draft of Untitled NaNoWriMo 2011 Project
   • 500 words per day except Fridays or
     
   • 3,000 words per week

I wrote on two days this past week. Sadly, I only averaged 750 words for each of those days, closing my week at halfway to my goal. (1,528 was my count, according to OpenOffice. And yes, I squashed the curly quotes bug first.) As I keep saying to my dear friend Tanya, some is better than none.

You're sure to find some success stories in the blog hop!

Check-In: Week 4, Part I

Round 1 Goals:

1. Re-read what is written on Untitled NaNoWriMo 2011 Project
2. Finish first (and only) draft of Untitled NaNoWriMo 2011 Project
   • 500 words per day except Fridays or
   • 3,000 words per week

I didn't write anything on Monday, but yesterday I wrote about 725 words. This left me 275 words shy of the average. Adding today's requirement (nothing so far), I'm 775 words shy. Whether this will come to pass today is unknown at this time, but at least I've written. Considering my lack of motivation last week and the carryover into Monday, I was shocked that any words came at all last night.

Ever onward, sez I!

How goes it for the rest of the ROW80 gang?

Check-In: Week 3, Part II

Round 1 Goals:

1. Re-read what is written on Untitled NaNoWriMo 2011 Project
   
2. Finish first (and only) draft of Untitled NaNoWriMo 2011 Project
   • 500 words per day except Fridays or
     
   • 3,000 words per week

Once again, there is nothing to report. Motivation to do this thing seemed to run out on me once I finished the re-read. I suppose it's possible that I remember the momentum and thinking what a shame it was to have to stop writing on November 30 (a mindset that is my own and not that of National Novel Writing Month or the Office of Letters and Light). In the meantime I had forgotten that the story was going nowhere and taking its sweet time to get there.

In order for this week not to be a total failure, I'm going to call this my "processing" week -- I've read the existing material and "needed time to process it" so I could "formulate a plan of attack." Or some such bull. I do have a couple of events in mind, but at the moment I don't know how to get there from here.

Why, yes... I am a pantser. How did you guess?

So that's the update this time out: No writing at all in Week 3, because I was "processing" the existing stuff. Yeah. That's my story, and I'm sticking to it.

How is everyone else sticking to it?