I tried a couple years ago, but as an above poster said, trying it as a busy and easily-distracted high school student was probably a bad idea.  And my dual bad habits of procrastination and anal-retentiveness will probably have me cramming the last 10k words in before midnight, but I kinda made the mistake of mentioning this to my father and he's determined that I finish this with flying colors.  Perfectionist families, what are you gonna do? :U
Broke a little over 2k on Day 1.  I hope I can keep this streak.

Two days and 6 676 words. 8 words over my goal.

I'm trying to get 100, 000 words this year, even though I failed last year. I would almost like to give you all a lecture about Finnish and English, and how writing in Finnish takes more time. Simple version, our nanowrimo should be 30 000 words long as our language differs from English so much.

Kukkulalla on talo. = There is a house on the hill.

I'm eagerly awaiting Paradox's completion, as he has been alluding to the story for years, but won't tell me anything about it. I wanna know!

I'm still doing well, trying to get as much written in the first two weeks as possible.  I'm up to 9,156 words thus far.  I won't get as far ahead tomorrow as I did yesterday and today (losing my lunch writing time), but I should be well on my way, at least enough so that my week I'm losing won't just kill my chances.

The first two days have seen me writing in 400- or 800-word bursts.  I'm at 1,233 at the moment, obviously far behind the recommended words per day count.  I plan to make it up during my weekends.

Doublepost for great justice! How's it going, guys? I'm currently procrastinating on this gloomy Saturday morning by PAYING BILLS, wtf. I think I'll go buy some new shoes next. In all seriousness, though, I'm feeling reasonably optimistic about TEH NOVEL even though I am avoiding starting it today; I've got a particularly tricky section waiting for me, and though I want to write it my Inner Editor's sharpening her knives. Bitch. Also, as I was paying bills anyway, I was finally a good muppet and I donated to NaNoWriMo. I mean, I've been doing it off and on since 2003 and I've only ever bought a t-shirt, so...time to give a little back, I guess. I mean, I'm getting WORDS, and consistent words, on a novel I never thought I would write properly, so...I had to say thank you.

Now, if I could only keep resisting the urge to get out my Copics and draw roller derby!Morgan and roller derby!Eliot. THERE WILL BE BLOOD! ...god, there's not even supposed to be a roller derby in this novel, what the shit.

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Go Mylene!

I can't believe I got my worst wordcount so far on a Saturday. It's Sunday morning now and I'm still dragging my heels, but I think I've managed to get through the bit that was really holding me back. And I broke 20k yesterday, so...whee!

I just now broke the 2,000-word mark, and I think I'm going to update my word count on the site in 2,000-word increments from here on out.  Writing at the moment is like pulling teeth; I'm a bit uninspired.

I'm glad to hear it, Paradox! Always good to feel the story coming together at last...I think I said earlier that I've had this story in fragments for at least five years and never really expected to write it out properly. I'm nearly the end of the second third now and think that this month I have a real shot at keeping the faith and getting well into the third part...and maybe, just MAYBE, to the very end.

I've also got 27,682 words now, so...halfway mark! Although really, NaNo is just something I do to MAKE me write. Even once I hit 50k, I still have a long way to go. Hopefully I will keep going and really make something of the energy I have right now.

Day 7: 16,541 words down.  Great day, over 4,400 words done, got quite a bit of other stuff done too, just kept this open all day, working on it when the inspiration hit.

Currently on target for a Nov 22 finish.  Go team IRG!

Day 10: 23,524 words.  This is already the longest single-author project I've ever written.  I'm into the second section of the story and on good pace to clear the halfway point tomorrow.  I'm thinking about taking a couple of days off next week, which should give me a really good chance to cross the 50k finish line by the 21st.

Of course, the word count is only half the battle, I am finishing this story.  If that happens at 45K and I need to write a side story for the last 5K or if that takes another 10 or 20K, I'm doing it.  I haven't had the writer's high this bad in a long time and I intend to ride it all the way to the finish line.

Things are looking grim, folks.  My plate's just too full right now.  Whoever said, "Oh, November's a GREAT time to write a novel in a month!" should be taken out back and shot.  Clearly, this person was never a full-time college student, let alone a full-time GRADUATE STUDENT.  *seethes*

I have to admit that's why it can be slightly better for us down here, because our semesters run from February-June and July-November, meaning most students tend to finish their exams fairly early in November. That's why I found the first one back in 2003 relatively easy; I finished all my exams by the sixth and then didn't start my job until early December. I've never been as successful since, though this year I seem to be on track for it. I think mostly because I'm being stubborn, I love this story, and, weirdly enough, the diet I am on right now means I have to be more organised than usual in everything...

I'm almost at 42k, and I'm pretty sure I'm going to go for one hundred thousand words by month's end because that might actually be something I struggle for. Once I get through the second part of the story, too -- hopefully this weekend! -- the third is bound to trip me up and depress me somewhere. I should use NaNo to get through it...