NWT Signup Sheet

[Homer Potvin]

Welcome to the November Writing Thing signup sheet! Feel free to post about your goals for the challenge, including the intended wordcount of 15K, 25K, and 50K. Signup is not required for participation but we'd like to gauge potential interest to better serve the community in the future. And the more participants, the more encouragement to soldier through what can be a very arduous challenge.

Please reference the FAQ thread for rules and questions.

Once live in November, please reference the Word Count thread for updates on your progress.

 

[Louanne Learning]

I'm leaving for a trip to Ireland on November 22, so my November is cut short, but I think I'd like to try the 15K goal before I go!

 

[Luxuria]

I am in Uni, but I am going to try for 15K! Wish me luck! I might actually work on my Greek Myth story or something potentially shorter. But I do have novels to finish.

 

[CatrionaGrace]

50,000. I've completed it a couple of times, failed a couple of other times.

 

[Sandor]

I'm leaving for a trip to Ireland on November 22, so my November is cut short, but I think I'd like to try the 15K goal before I go!

I'm gonna be trying to do 25k words, as I want to write a novella before I do a novel. Also Louanne, have fun in Ireland. It's one of my favorite places I've ever been, that and India.

 

[Tallyfire]

I'm aiming for 15K words. I'm veeeery tempted to try 25K because I like a challenge, but I just don't have enough ideas right now and don't want to burn out on the story like I did last time by writing a load of pointless scenes. But who knows, if things go well I may update my word count. Edit: updated to 25K.

Really looking forward to November!

 

[Night Herald]

I've decided I'm gonna be working on the prequel to one of my main series. Not only is that a super fun project, I'd also be furthering the franchise. I already have a bit written for it, plus I can lean on the established world building and lore. With that in mind, and knowing I'll have plenty of time in November, 50K feels manageable. Really hyped for this!

 

[Dogberry's Watch]

Might turn a short story I wrote yoinks ago into a small novel. I'm going to put myself down for 15k because I know my habits. Maybe I'll surprise myself and write more.

 

[Trish]

I'll sign up for 50k for November. I'll be working on book 3 of the current series I'm working on.

 

[Madman Starryteller]

I'm signing up for 15k on a project I'm already working on. This might get my gears turning, it's worth a try. 500 words a day should be doable if I just manage to actually sit down. When I do sit down I can usually do more. But not everyday is the same. And I may not write during the weekends. (Will depend.)

We who are about to write, salute you.

 

[Epic_Null]

I am gonna go with 15K on my existing project. I have a lot of editing to do (recently read up on script writing and ho boy did I make some mistakes), but plenty more to write.

 

[JT Woody]

I'm going to aim for 20k for a research paper that I'll start in Nov.

 

[CatrionaGrace]

Ooo, I love research papers. Care to share the topic?

 

[JT Woody]

Ooo, I love research papers. Care to share the topic?

transferable skills of librarians in the event that the library dies out and we have to jump ship to another career. Typical doom and gloom stuff

 

[defaux]

I'll throw my hat in for 15k, which should get me halfway through my draft that has been on hold for the past 4 months.

 

[Tallyfire]

So I’m upping my goal to 25K. Bring on the chaos! I can write what I have planned and then blast off into the unknown

The Sanderson video actually gave me the idea to steal a format from elsewhere, so I’ll try that.

 

[CatrionaGrace]

Earlier this month, I submitted book synopses for consideration when John the Agent and John the Publisher were working out details of a new book contract. I've done a considerable amount of research for Book A, but haven't actually begun to write it. After some discussion, we decided to go with a Book B first and Book A second. Ergo, NWT provides a perfect way to switch my horses in midstream. I'll have 18 months after signing the contract to complete the book, so I need to hit the ground running.

 

[JT Woody]

Once live in November, please reference the Word Count thread for updates on your progress.

I was venting my frustration of Google Doc not having a wordcount tracker function and @Rzero shared with me a spreadsheet he uses that he programmed to automatically calculate progress (in percentages) from your wordcount goal!

I'm still customizing what he sent me to fit my own project(s), but how about using something like that?

Anyway, I was thinking maybe we could also have a signature line for NWT with our current word count if we wanted

I like the idea of stating our word count in our signature, but I would say just use regular font and size

Y'all go ahead. I'm too lazy to change my signature daily.

Like, having a link to the excel sheet here and in our signatures, each participant having a tab on the excel, and voilà! wordcount tracker and everyone can keep up with eachothers progress!

 

[Catrin Lewis]

All righty, then. I'll throw in for 25k words on my novella project. More, if I get good traction on it.

This means I have to get the cover for my novel done before the end of the month. It's proving to be very fiddly.

(I can but try.)

 

[Homer Potvin]

I'm going to try for the 50K. It's too bad we're not going doing this in January or February when I'm "retired" and will be sitting around eating Bon Bons all day.

Not sure what I'm going to do yet, but I think I'm going to expand the Workshop post a I wrote directly on the forum without thinking. I had another novel idea that I think I can work into what I started there. Not 100% yet. I'm fairly optimistic I can hit the target, though the finished product will be longer than 50K, no doubt. Now that I'm "retiring" my mental real estate is slowly regenerating.