On Friday, November 30th, I wrote 14,000 words in one day — all the word count that had been lacking due to Thanksgiving or school. It was a grueling experience and I finally stumbled across the finish line at about 10:30pm. My arms ached by then.

On Wednesday or Thursday I’m going to write more fully about my experience, including some very important lessons I learned during this NANOWRIMO, which I think was my best yet. I’ve been doing this since 2004 and I still love doing it because every year I find out something about myself and what I can do, and I also learn a little more about what it would be like to do it full time, and ways to make my writing better.

Unfortunately, disaster struck a few days later when my USB key device broke off my keychain and is now lost — probably forever. So, remember everyone, back up your information obsessive-compulsively, because I didn’t and now I’m up a creek without a paddle and about 16,000 words, on varying projects, to rewrite. I’ve read about authors who backup to such an extent that they print out their work weekly and file it away, just in case. *sigh* I’ve been quite angry at myself for loosing the USB key and forgetting to backup last week.

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3 Responses to “I made 50,000 words! (part 1)” 

ID: 189 December 8th, 2007 at 1:15 pm Jo says: I’ve been tossing around half-baked ideas as to whether or no I too should try Nano for myself. Thank you for sharing your own venture with your readers… it proves very helpful and inspiring. Keep on writing! - Jo

ID: 190 December 8th, 2007 at 4:10 pm Wynderlon.com: the feverish dreams of a feverish mind. says: [...] now that’s out of the way, I promised in the last entry that I would write more about my Nanowrimo experience, because I really do believe that this time I [...]

ID: 197 January 8th, 2008 at 8:03 pm Wynderlon.com: the feverish dreams of a feverish mind. says: [...] than I like. The major problem is that I wrote about 14,000 words that I completely lost due to the Great USB Fiasco of 2007. Now, I find myself thinking, Wait, I can’t do that because of this…oh wait, I lost [...]

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