Alrighty, this is attempt number three to get this post out. I’m bad at new year’s posts. Unless I write the silly thing ahead of time and schedule it, I almost never can get one out.
Extremely belated Happy New Year’s!
Okay, so I had said that I would post a second post in December about something, but after visitors for the holiday week, I came down with a pretty nasty stomach virus and really didn’t do anything for several days.
Well, I managed to cross the finish line yesterday, and I managed to get quite a bit done. (Long post, ahoy!)
So, if you’ve been hanging around the NaNoWriMo world recently, you have more than likely discovered mention of a “Word Crawl”.
What is a word crawl, you ask?
A word crawl is a very neat thing. It takes something you either need to do, or are a fan of, and gives you writing challenges in that theme. The most popular ones are Harry Potter ones this year, though I myself wrote a star trek one.
Word crawls tend to net an average of 2k to 3k words for the participant, and they seem to be great fun for the participants.
I am currently working my way through the Harry Potter Year One crawl, and I’m having a lot of fun doing it. {LINK for those interested, only valid until the 2016 forum wipe} I’ve already added 2.2k to my word count while doing it, and I’m not even to the school yet in the challenge.
I’ll probably do my own crawl, the Star Trek one, later. I’ve got lots of trekkie friends, and they seem to like it.
Enjoy your NaNoWriMo, I know I am.
As is actually quite normal, honestly, I’m behind. It varies every single year as to when I get behind.
In 2009, I was behind for the whole first week, and then I managed to catch up and make my first win.
Normally, it yo-yos back and forth between the line between weeks two and three, and thanksgiving week.
I’m almost always behind going into week four. I’ve done dictation in the past, to catch up on a twenty thousand word deficit. I’ve managed a 6k day to finish out a ten thousand word catch up in two days.
I’m good at being behind. Usually somewhere in the range of eight to fifteen thousand words behind. Currently I’m just short of a full ten thousand behind. Well, I was this morning. I’ve managed to cross 19.2k putting me right at something like nine thousand behind. My plan? Well, it currently includes making that gap as short as I can over the course of a couple of serious writing sessions today. I’m not quite aiming for a 5kday, but I’m sure as hell going to try. (I’m also going to try one of these word crawl things that are seriously taking off this year. Harry Potter Year One – here I come – provided I find some digital dice. I should add my dice to my ML kit.)
Basically, the TL:DR of this post is quite literally – IF YOU ARE BEHIND, YOU STILL CAN WIN.
The 2015 NaNoWriMo season starts in full for me tomorrow! It’s so fantastic!
This is the one time of the year that I don’t end up feeling terrible about being me.
This is also my second year as a Municipal Liaison for the Memphis region, and my co-ML and I have some great things planned for the upcoming year. I can’t wait to get to the meet-and-greet / kickoff party as that’s the official beginning of the chaos that is NaNoWriMo.
Expect me to be even more sporadic than usual.