Today’s stats Words written: 94 Outline words written: 836 Overthinking: lots Whoof, it’s almost 5am. I’m gonna drop a white noise video here and be done for now. Not so wordfully yours this time, –Jade
Blog #10: NaNo ’21, Day 8
Today’s stats Words written: 2,057 Words deleted (not included in above count): who even knows, I was Struggling Current project wordcount: ~51,268 (estimate because of how I have the files stored) I almost forgot to update tonight, whoops ^^; I still haven’t written the beginning of the scene I was complaining about yesterday. Instead, I …
Blog #9: NaNo ’21, Day 7
Today’s stats Words written: 214 Song that’s been stuck in my head all day: Cabinet Man by Lemon Demon (warning: song is weird, tagging for slight violence/body horror if you look this one up) Scented candle level: almost full (got a new one!) ughhhhhhhhhhh I’m tired. I had a lengthy and stressful errand to run …
Blog #8: NaNo ’21, Day 6
Today’s stats Words written: 824 (so far) I lied, I didn’t go to bed, I wrote the first part of the climax and I’m crying like it’s the end of UNDERTALE. *deep breath* AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA (this was not how this looked in my outliiiiiiiiiiiiiiine) /writer freakout It’s 4:30 AM. I can’t be doing this. I was …
Blog #7: NaNo ’21, Day 5
Today’s stats Words written: 1268 Writing snack: an entire pomegranate, plus multiple mugs of Bigelow Perfect Peach herbal tea (one tbsp sugar, no cream) Weirdest Internet search (today): “stages of drowning” Here’s my white noise video of the day, for good measure: I like these rainy videos in the background when I write. Music is …
Blog #6: NaNo ’21, Day 4
Today’s stats Words written: 1066 Scented candle level: almost gone, need to buy a new one Character arc status: hold on to your hats… literally??? I’ve been very spacey today and keep losing track of time. I think I need to power cycle my brain :p Somehow I wrote some pretty decent words despite the …
Blog #5: NaNo ’21, Day 3
Today’s stats: Words written: 189 Hours slept: 3… and then a 3 hour “nap” Shoulder status: 100% less stabby Everything else status: feels like something kicked me and I fixed it with chocolate and blanket cocoons (…could be worse!) I wrapped up the chapter I was on, at least! Some of these chapters… well, I …
Blog #4: Na… no.
Today’s stats Words written: 0 Grocery stores visited: 3 Shoulder: still thrown out Yeah, that’s a no from me today. My parents are on the older side, so since the pandemic hit I’ve been doing most of the grocery shopping for our family. This was just poor timing, honestly–we ran out of a lot of …
Blog #3: NaNo ’21, Day 1
Today’s stats Words written: 2091 Times my stupid story made me cry: at least 3 (don’t judge) Times Writer-Bot went down on Discord: literally could not keep track of this if I tried. It’s been busy! Remember how in my last post, I said I didn’t write at NaNoWriMo speeds? Well, I stand by that… …
Blog #2: NaNoWriMo Plans 2021
Of course I have to talk about NaNo here–it’s only a few days away! If you’re not familiar, NaNoWriMo is short for National Novel Writing Month. The idea is that you write a novel in a month–specifically, you take a completely new story idea, possibly one you’ve outlined or planned out but usually not one …