There's one written every minute.

[metame]

I have written 40,029 words of a novel so far this month. That's at the "required" rate of 1 a minute

Comments

[secondhand_rick]

Hispano-Suiza might be your car.

I'm not going to finish with 50000, in fact I estimate that I'll probably bimble in about 30000 all told. That doesn't matter though, the exercise of writing without editing has had the desired effect of getting me past the blank-page paralysis.

[metame]

As featured in Blandings, of course...

Just getting used to getting words on a page has been very helpful, and is the point of the exercise I reckon.

[secondhand_rick]

I'm pretty sure Bertie Wooster drives a Hispano-Suiza as well.

[bateleur]

I nominate the classic Silver Ghost.

[lathany]

Excellent progress!

Any chance of a read when you're done?

(Don't know about the car, I'm afraid).

[metame]

Any chance of a read when you're done?

Of course. I'll probably spend a few days or a week polishing it up a bit and then make it available to them as would kindly give feedback/be entertained. I'd really like your opinion.

[undyingking]

Heh, spookily enough I wrote a murder mystery for 36 people during just the first two weeks of November, a total of 72,000 words - and thought to myself that next year I should try NaNoWriMo, as it must be light relief by comparison.

[metame]

Nice work!

[undyingking]

Immovable public deadlines are wonderful things! Ran the game last weekend, it went pretty well I think considering the rush.

As a displacement activity alongside, I wrote an XSL that scrunches the raw data to show which characters are involved in which plots, and by how much, in a pretty coloured matrix -- which hopefully should be handy in the future. Good to be able to switch to some fun left-brain activity between the right-brain pounding.