Day Thirty

[forodwaith.livejournal.com]

Last day! Please post today's updates/excerpts/thoughts/etc. in comments.

Here's today's daily prompt for your updates, excerpts, any thoughts, etc.

Yesterday's post: Day Twenty-Nine

Comments

[spiralsheep.livejournal.com]

My goal was to complete 4 short fan works this month.

I've completed 10 ficlets for about 2280 words.

I've also had lots of fun.

YAY!

[espresso-addict.livejournal.com]

Yay! A winner! Glad you've had fun, I think that's the most important thing.

[altariel.livejournal.com]

Fantastic!

[paranoidangel]

Yay, that's great!

[tawek.livejournal.com]

Congrats! 250% of what you planned :)

[forodwaith.livejournal.com]

Yay for lots of fun! That's good to hear.

[ex-lark-asc.livejournal.com]

Well, my goal for the month was originally to write 5000 words of original fiction.

This got somewhat hijacked by a boiling need to mercilessly rip the piss out of Torchwood, so while I did manage a few words of original fic, most of it was fanfic. But I did get 5000 total, *and* had time to pretty thoroughly start making a bellydance costume. So I'm counting that as a win :)

[paranoidangel]

5000 and a costume, sounds good to me. And ripping the piss out of Torchwood sounds like a good excuse :)

[spiralsheep.livejournal.com]

Congratulations!

hijacked by a boiling need to mercilessly rip the piss out of Torchwood

Wholly understandable. "Punched the pterodactyl" is the new "jumped the shark". ;-)

[espresso-addict.livejournal.com]

Definitely a win. Well done!

[tawek.livejournal.com]

Congrats!

[altariel.livejournal.com]

a boiling need to mercilessly rip the piss out of Torchwood

You are providing a necessary service. Kudos for the wordcount and the costume.

[octavialuna.livejournal.com]

*collapses*

Somehow i managed to do it. My goal was 5000 words.



A snippet from what i wrote late last night:
I closed my eyes for a moment and tried to focus on my breathing. Deep breaths, in and out. I thought that if I could enter a meditative state I might be able to bring the previous day’s events to mind.

After several breaths, I opened my eyes, frustrated. Nothing. I took a sip of my juice, and closed my eyes to try again. Seemingly random and disconnected images flitted across my mind’s eye.

[espresso-addict.livejournal.com]

Brilliant! A superb victory over the demons of self-doubt.

[spiralsheep.livejournal.com]

Congratulations on the word count.

The extracts you've posted here have all been well worth reading too.

[tawek.livejournal.com]

Many congratulations :)

After several breaths, I opened my eyes, frustrated. Nothing. I took a sip of my juice, and closed my eyes to try again. Seemingly random and disconnected images flitted across my mind’s eye.

Sounds like a great description of post-Pico relief :)

[catskin.livejournal.com]

My arms and wrists held out! Huzzahs and medals for all here at picowrimo I say.

I reached for the tissue box next to my recliner and padded my gun wound. The bullet had shot through the muscle and tissue of my upper thigh, passing clean through. The tissues did nothing to stem the blood flow. I staggered for the kitchen and my first aid box. ‘I don’t have it,’ I snapped, collapsing onto a stool. So it didn’t hurt, but being shot in the leg is still an inconvenience. ‘I passed it onto my client. Why don’t you go shoot her? She’d scream for you.’
He followed me, a pitbull in Armani, ready to attack again.

[espresso-addict.livejournal.com]

Fantastic! Especially if you've been suffering RSI.

[espresso-addict.livejournal.com]

Mainly a reading and taking notes day, but started my yuletide story with a massive 83 words. Monthly total...

[spiralsheep.livejournal.com]

Congratulations!

Good luck with the rest of the Yuletide story.

[tianaluthien.livejournal.com]

Well, I had set 5000 words as my goal. And I don't know what my *final* total will be (haven't written yet today), but so far I am up around : 5350.

*bounces* I did it! I did it! I did it!

And now, here's a wee excerpt:

Thew newcomer removed his coat and hung it on the wall hook before turning to survey the room; given that he wore a suit and carried no equipment bag, it was obvious he was not here to train.

It was equally clear that he was looking for someone.

He stood for a moment, cold eyes examining each face before locking on a tall man with pale hair at the back of the room.

AND I'd like to say a HUUUUUUUUUGE THANK YOU to everyone for all the encouragement I received -- it really helped. :)

[spiralsheep.livejournal.com]

Congratulations!

::bounces with you::

[tawek.livejournal.com]

Phew! At 11.59pm, I uploaded my file to NaNoWriMo - to confirm my wordcount using NaNoWriMo's and not just my local one. 20136 words. So I made it before midnight by the skin of my teeth.

It's been a great journey... and it's only just begun. My secondary goal was to finish a second chapter, and I'm very close to doing so. I'll do that first. Then I want to set a goal for December with our ongoing Pico/EvMoWriMo or whatever it'll be called. The rest of my novel still lies before me!

I can't tell you how grateful I am to all you guys for your encouragement. This Pico has been everything I hoped for. Lots to celebrate and, although it's a first draft, I don't think the prose has been utterly useless. In particular, a thank you to Altariel1, for the idea, and your example in offering gentle encouragement as we've suffered together the highs and lows of Pico.



Lytellia looked down and realised, not only her dress, but her hands were covered in flecks of blood. It felt primal, exciting. Then she shook her head, “I agree. These oafish men around us are hardly better than the barbarians themselves.” She looked around with a sneer.

[forodwaith.livejournal.com]

Excellent! Nice to see you're feeling recharged.

[forodwaith.livejournal.com]

Total words on my PicoWriMo project: 5010
Total for the month: 7154

My goal was to have the first rough draft of a fantasy pirate story; I ended up with 5000 rather disjointed words. But even if I can't mold them into something more coherent, it was good to learn that I can write at a pace (slightly) faster than glacial.

And when I think of all the distractions in my life these past four weeks, 7000 words doesn't seem like such an insignificant achievement.

[paranoidangel]

Getting that 5000 words is great, and doing another 2000 this month too.

[salsify.livejournal.com]

I reached my goal of 5000 words, though it ended up being the middle section of an entirely different story than the one I'd intended to write. It needs a fair amount of editing, but all the parts are there now.

I meant to participate here more, but ended up lurking most of the time. Still, I did write about 4500 words more this month than I did the rest of the year, so it worked!

[paranoidangel]

As long as it worked, that's the main thing

[vilakins.livejournal.com]

I haven't written any more of my story due to being out a lot, but at least I did my 5000 words: 6787 so far in fact. I hope to finish the thing this month, but December's always a bit fraught with extra seasonal workload, various end-of-year parties, and having to buy and make gifts.

[paranoidangel]

Well done! (I know what you mean about December)

[six-old-cars.livejournal.com]

WooHoo! Congratulations to EVERYONE! We're all winners in our own different ways, and many of us far more so than we'd expected.

[valderys.livejournal.com]

Well, I didn't win in that I wanted to finish my UnderMistletoe fic this month, but thanks in large part due to the lovely, lovely encouragement here, I did do my 5000 words. In fact there were 7673 of them! :)