nanowrimo (16 out of 64)

Week and a half in review: 29 Oct - 7 Nov

• Finished nanowrimo with 43,996 words.
• Took a nightbus from Riga to Warsaw.
• Had an amazing time eating and touristing my way around Warsaw for a week.
• Took a train to Kalisz, then a bus to Turek, then a car to Dhamma Palava... See you in 10 days.

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Wed 7th of November at 12:00pm (+01:00)

I'm wrapping up this year's National Novel Writing Month attempt after 30 days with 43,996 words. Shy of 50k, but a new second place.

I feel like I'm about half way through Birds and I'm going to try to keep up a pace of at least 750 words per day (thanks 750words.com) for days I can - the only real excuse not to being Vipassana meditation courses - until it's done.

In a way, doing nanowrimo in a different month has reminded me that I can write during months that aren't November. Usually, on the 1st of December I decide I'll take a break, recharge, it's been crazy.. but I'll get back to it. I'll write the ending, I'll edit. And I haven't, yet. This time should be different. For a start, I don't feel burnt out on the story. I haven't had a single day of writing words for the sake of words. It's all been to advance the plot or develop the characters, moving ever forwards. This month it didn't feel crazy.

• This is a mean of 1,466 words per day.
• Only on one day I wrote 0 words (the 26th).
• Apart from that, the least I wrote in a day was 16 words (the 21st).
• The most I wrote in a day was 3,410 (on the 10th).
• On 12 days I wrote more than the 1,667 target.

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Wed 31st of October at 12:00am (+02:00)

Tuesday the 30th of October at 8:31pm (+02:00)

Wrote 1182 words of Birds (NaNoWriMo 2018)

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Monday the 29th of October at 8:35pm (+02:00)

Wrote 1135 words of Birds (NaNoWriMo 2018)

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Week in review: 22 - 28 October

• Various wandering, touristing, and eating around Riga.
• Explored the National Library of Latvia.
• Hung out with some local Semantic Web nerds :)
• Bought amazing unfamiliar mushrooms from the market and cooked and ate them.
• Went up the Riga TV Tower.
• Behind on nanowrimo but passed 40,000 words and still having fun.
• Messed around with CoVE.

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Sun 28th of October at 11:01pm (+02:00)

Sunday the 28th of October at 7:58pm (+02:00)

Wrote 2225 words of Birds (NaNoWriMo 2018)

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Saturday the 27th of October at 5:18pm (+03:00)

Wrote 3259 words of Birds (NaNoWriMo 2018)

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Thursday the 25th of October at 2:37pm (+03:00)

Wrote 1071 words of Birds (NaNoWriMo 2018)

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Wednesday the 24th of October at 10:45pm (+03:00)

Wrote 349 words of Birds (NaNoWriMo 2018)

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Tuesday the 23rd of October at 11:00pm (+03:00)

Wrote 16 words of Birds (NaNoWriMo 2018)

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Monday the 22nd of October at 11:15am (+03:00)

Wrote 504 words of Birds (NaNoWriMo 2018)

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Week in review: 15 - 21 October

• Bussed from Dortmund to Berlin and Berlin to Riga.
• Day job..
• Still on top of nanowrimo somehow, and really enjoying writing.
• Crashed slightly from not having had a real break in two weeks.
• Walked around Riga; went to the war museum, a flea market, and the other side of the river.
• Accidentally discovered the 'Eletric' mellow and extended version of Jaden Smith's SYRE.

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Sun 21st of October at 11:59pm (+03:00)

Sunday the 21st of October at 6:37pm (+03:00)

Wrote 1350 words of Birds (NaNoWriMo 2018)

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Saturday the 20th of October at 4:45pm (+03:00)

Wrote 1106 words of Birds (NaNoWriMo 2018)

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Friday the 19th of October at 10:17pm (+03:00)

Wrote 1757 words of Birds (NaNoWriMo 2018)

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I just passed 30k words and I am ON TRACK for the FIRST TIME EVER.

Even the year I passed 50k by month end only happened because of a huge push in the last couple of days, rather than keeping a consistent pace throughout.

I've definitely had low days, and high ones to compensate, but nothing extreme. It just sort of feels much more doable this year. Not sure what's different. Well, lots of things are different; not sure which is the cause.

I'm writing a totally different genre to what I'm used to: Earth, presentish day (near future, perhaps), humans and parrots (and a dog); familiar setting, regular people, no aliens, no epic journeys. I was very worried about this actually, but things are flowing well, and I don't feel like I have written any absolute garbage purely for wordcount yet.

I've travelled, socialised and worked probably about the same amount as I did last year, though at different velocities. Not any less busy, particularly. I was free of all PhD concerns before last year's. Maybe my head is just in a better place. Maybe I'm becoming better at writing. Maybe October is better for writing than November. Who knows.

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Thu 18th of October at 11:14pm (+03:00)