Day 1

[vilakins.livejournal.com]

Here's today's prompt for you to post your updates and any excerpts and thoughts etc in comments.

I also thought I'd provide a link to a simple word counter, the Picometer at Writertopia.com. To make it easy, just copy the following HTML, changing 1340 to the number of words you've written, and 5000 to whatever your target is:

<img src="http://picometer.writertopia.com/words=1340&target=5000" />

The result for this example is:

Comments

[muninnhuginn]

Started. Yup, late, but there was a Grand Prix to watch.

Four pages done, which is a bit of a cheat what with set description and character list. By page 2 I was wondering whether I was describing a mime show rather than writing a script, but my two protagonists piped up at last and their chorus added its two-penn'orth.

It's all hand-written. Maybe I should put up pictures, except (possibly blessedly) they'd be illegible.

So progress: 4 pages/120 pages

[vilakins.livejournal.com]

So progress: 4 pages/120 pages

Which is exactly right for a month! Well done! Maybe you could change your goal to something like 40000. Wow, that's almost Nano territory! :-P

Large handwriting aids slow progress ;-)

[muninnhuginn]

I have so failed at Nano in the past (my best was 15k of something other than what I'd planned to do) I wouldn't dare attempt it again. Four handwritten pages of script per day with l-o-t-s of white space is (hopefully) manageable.

[azdak.livejournal.com]

Hey, there are plays that have no dialogue at all! If it moves the story on, description is fine.

[fallingtowers.livejournal.com]

Hey, 4 out of 120 pages is exactly 1/30 for this challenge -- a very promosing start.