This is my first Nano, and I’m fully breaking the rules: no novel, no word count goal! Instead, I’m finishing the first draft of my creative writing thesis, so I need 45-60 pages of poetry by the end of the month!
I call it the "Inconvenient Ad Break"; like when you're watching a tv episode and the ad plays over the show and then won't let you go back and see what you missed.
Lol I came here to post the same thing. I’ve been planning for this day and completely forgot 🤦♀️ I literally just got a habit tracker in the mail 10minutes ago. Maybe it’s time to open it 😂
I'm doing 500 words/day in any form, so today I've gotten 150 just from a diary entry. I'm sitting on my porch writing to the sound of rain - it's great! Just what I needed on a bad day. I think that little gap in time could be so fun! I want to hear all the awkward explanations.
Hooray! Happy Camp! I’ve been recently going through a writing rut as all my 3rd person projects started sounding the same, so I’ve started a completely new 1st person project for Camp! I’m doing 50k words and I’ve already written 3,800 ish today! Starting strong! I haven’t done a camp since 2020
Omg I am obsessed with that puzzle! 😍 For revisions I actually track my progress by 'problem fixed' rather than words/scenes/chapters. I find especially for later drafts, this allows me to jump around a bit more and tackle things out of order. Of course it's not exactly linear cause one problem can be take me a week to fix and then the next problem might take me an hour, but I still find it's worth it for the ability to jump around easier and focus on one thing at a time.
I love your puzzle tray!!! I want one like it to keep my cats off my puzzles. My first day of camp went really well! I've got a little over 4k right now and I'm debating if I want to try and make that an even 5k before I go to bed. The trick is going to be keeping up with writing throughout the month, LOL.
Aaaaah Camp time! I'm going for the full 50k this camp because I'm not sure if I'm going to be able to do November, I'm mainly focusing on one project, but I'm also doing a whole summer long event in a writers discord server that I'm in, so that'll fill in some gaps where I need to take a break from my main project. I hope camp goes well for you, Kate, I believe in you!
I think that skip can be done well. Like a bunch of school kids get caught doing something naughty by the teacher and then it just skips to them in detention. Or if it skips to a really bizarre outcome and you slowly figure out through dialogue or POV character how they got into this new situation. But whether that trumps just showing the scene in real time I think depends on how important it is to the actual story.
I agree! I think it's great when used for a comedic delivery. That said, when it's a result of lazy writing it's insufferable. In Misery Annie Wilkies was ready to kill over it!XD
As authors and writers, we make puzzles for readers to solve in reality. My goal is to work on well written monologues. A very important mode for getting characterization and goals across to the reader. Another new buzz word for me is: Counter-Punctual Writing. It basically keeps the readers awake with changes of all sorts. (Maybe even the writer as well ??? ) They never said writing was easy.
i’ve written 501 words so far for camp on a project i have 25,000 words so far on. my goal for camp is 50k so i can finish book. i haven’t done camp nano before so i’m superrr excited :) good luck kate
You've made me commit to nano again this time. Let's see how much I can get done. I think just working on something more often is better than hitting a certain word count goal. I have also lost the last five or so camp nanos in a row haha T-T
Yessss, agreed! Sometimes it's just the extra motivation boost needed in order to write a hundred words on a day when you really don't feel like it. I've known lots of people who have used Camp or November's NaNo just to help set a routine. GOOD LUCK! YOU GOT THIS. :)
progress is progress! I am starting late in camp nanowrimo because I was sick the first couple of days but I am only hoping to get 30K done this month since I am also working on some edits of my previous novel.
I do revisions in scenes or chapters. I'm also an edit as you go kind of writer. I don't do heavy edits while drafting unless I feel it is absolutely necessary. More like small things I forgot to add or lightly changes to how an argument went. It makes me feel like I have all my ducks in a row. Plus, you're totally right, I hate it. What happened?? Don't skip over that stuff!
My goals are very easy - some writing (whether 5 mins or an hour) every day plus one pic a day. I'm travelling for 20 days to Europe and moving provinces this month so the focus isn't on the novel, just on not losing momentum. 😁 While I'm travelling, it'll be travel writing and while I'm home, it'll be my novel. So yes, multiple projects.
I always forget about Camp NanoWrimo until the last day of June, this year I forgot about it until the 2nd July so I quickly set myself a small goal. I have a project I have been working on for a while but I have been slipping out of the habit of writing, so this July I am giving myself just a 6,000 word goal so that I don't feel overwhelmed.
It’s camp! 🥳 I’m coming fresh off of edits of part 1 of my duology and diving right into drafting part 2. I have a very rough outline I’m following and hoping to bank 30k for the month
i'm using camp to read my novel and write notes to prepare for the second draft. So my "word count" goal on the nano website is just 62 for the 62 chapters in the novel
My primary goal for nano is to finish the draft of the book I'm currently working on. I'm at almost 90k words so I set my goal for camp nano at 100k. There is a strong possibility that I go over the 100k word mark since I still have a 3 or 4 major plot points before I can get to the climax. My second goal--more of a hope--is that once I finish the draft of my book I would also like to write a novella in this same world. I don't know if this is realistic and may have to push the novella back to August but it is my hope.
I'm keeping up my slow and steady pace for camp! only about 500 words a day - I have so many edits for other people on right now that I can't do more than that. Trying to remember to update daily is already proving hard (it's the 3rd here), but I just remembered how to go and update for a previous day, so, yay!
I'm hoping to get 30k written on the novel I started for the 24hr challenge so I get to the halfway point and then hopefully another 15k on a fantasy novel 🎉 The "No whammy!" is from Press your Luck. Used to love that game show!
That puzzle is my favorite design! I have the poster but now I'm wondering if I need the puzzle 😅 I'm not a fan of the cliffhanger scene jumps. It has to be done very well to make up for the miserable dissonance for me.
YESSSSSS get you the puzzle! I think I’ll use puzzle glue on this one and hang it up like a poster once I’m done! YES. Thank you for expressing this much better than I could bahaha. Exactly my problem.
Best of luck all. This year for camp nano i am... moving house. No novel for me, most likely, but i really hope everyone else is able to make progress!!!
I'm using some notes I've been taking while playing DnD as an outline and I set the goal to only 15k words. I fear I don't have much time for it but even if I don't write that often I always get motivated during Nano season 😁💖💖
NaNoWriMo sells it!! It looks like it’s still in stock. You can find it here: store.nanowrimo.org/collections/shop/products/copy-of-nanowrimo-2008-city-of-novelists-poster Happy puzzling!!! :)
I actually forgot July was Nanowrimo but I was planning on starting a rewrite of a sci-fi story so I started it today and got two chapters done! (Though the chapters are still very short because it's only like the second draft so I only got like 1,400 something words)
I'm still working on my discovery outline/zero draft and I do hope that 15,000 or even more this month take me to the end 😅 because I'm already starting to get scene ideas for the 2nd book and I think I already have the first sentence of book 2 also😅
First day has gone fairly well, I am already at 2800 ( 7 pages that I am counting as 400 words a page) seams like a slow day. Trying not to push myself.
It's a Ubotie!! My sister-in-law bought it for me off Amazon. They have a ton of different color schemes. Some of the letters have rubbed off a bit after so much use, but it's still so cute, would totally recommend it!
I was so close to finishing my draft and I set a goal for camp nano and now I'm super close to being done and it's only been 7 days and I feel like I've cheated😂
I had a good first day of Camp. I haven't written or edited since Feb of 2020 and was afraid I might still be stuck. Since I'm editing, as set up for camp I counted the words in each chapter. My goal is to edit 100k but my hope is to edit a chapter a day. If I do that I will be way over the goal but the book will be done with edit one.
*gasp* 5 MINUTES AGO! I'm FIVE MINUTES LATE??? That Nanowrimo puzzle is so freaking cute. Lmao just tried update the Nanowrimo site and for some reason it kept telling me that I already won with 2329 words like lmao tf do you mean?! 😂 The first day of camp is going pretty good so far. I'm trying to stick to Project Mafia, but only have the beginning leading into Act 2 as well as the Dark Night of the Soul and everything after that figured out so I have a lot of brainstorming ahead of me. But I'm tracking moreso by scenes completed and less by word count- though obviously for Camp Nano sites sake (wow trying that 5 times fast) I am tracking my words because I want to win (even though I technically already have hahaha).
Loooool, I’d take that win and run with it! 😂 that’s so funny. And yesssss I love it so much. The second the email came in, I ran to the site and scooped one up.
That’s smart!! It’s always great when you learn from the past and pivot. I hope you have fun at music camp! Good luck on your words AND I hope you have fun at music camp!’
My first day of nano was spent on a train, getting no writing done, but I'm editing this month, and I'm counting 1h of editing time as 1K words, so I'm not concerned about already being behind. I try to reward myself, just in general, with as many things as possible that don't require spending money, so I often reward myself with things like time spent on a hobby I don't give myself much time on. And yes, sometimes that means building a jigsaw puzzle :). My biggest pet peeve in reading that I refuse to ever do is using reductive descriptors instead of pronouns just because there's more than one person using the same pronoun. It becomes so stilted and bad. "bla bla bla, said John. The Brunette shook his head and took the blonde's hand. "I'd rather we go to lunch" The Brit agreed, because when the Asian boy held the baker's hand, the taller boy couldn't think straight." How many people are in this scene? Just two, but see how bad it is.
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This is my first Nano, and I’m fully breaking the rules: no novel, no word count goal! Instead, I’m finishing the first draft of my creative writing thesis, so I need 45-60 pages of poetry by the end of the month!
I call it the "Inconvenient Ad Break"; like when you're watching a tv episode and the ad plays over the show and then won't let you go back and see what you missed.
YESSSSS, I love that! I'm going to start calling it that too hahahaha, thank you!
Me who missed the first day of Camp bc I forgot…💀Thanks for the reminder, Kate😭
Lolol you’re welcome! Now that you’ve remembered, happy camping! Bahaha. 🏕️
Lol I came here to post the same thing. I’ve been planning for this day and completely forgot 🤦♀️
I literally just got a habit tracker in the mail 10minutes ago. Maybe it’s time to open it 😂
@@KateCavanaughThank you!!! Same goes for yaa
same here!
Lol same.
I'm doing 500 words/day in any form, so today I've gotten 150 just from a diary entry. I'm sitting on my porch writing to the sound of rain - it's great! Just what I needed on a bad day. I think that little gap in time could be so fun! I want to hear all the awkward explanations.
Ooh I'm intrigued with the tarot draw for writing sprints. Tell me more!
I just started today and did 2,000 words. Best of wishes to all writers out there!
For camp nano i'm editing my entire phd thesis...i thought putting it into the nano website would make real work more fun hahaha
I wish you the best of luck for this round of Camp NANOWRIMO!
Hooray! Happy Camp! I’ve been recently going through a writing rut as all my 3rd person projects started sounding the same, so I’ve started a completely new 1st person project for Camp! I’m doing 50k words and I’ve already written 3,800 ish today! Starting strong! I haven’t done a camp since 2020
Omg I am obsessed with that puzzle! 😍
For revisions I actually track my progress by 'problem fixed' rather than words/scenes/chapters. I find especially for later drafts, this allows me to jump around a bit more and tackle things out of order. Of course it's not exactly linear cause one problem can be take me a week to fix and then the next problem might take me an hour, but I still find it's worth it for the ability to jump around easier and focus on one thing at a time.
A nano puzzle is such a good idea!! It’s the perfect break from screens 😂
RIGHT. Although my posture is not much better doing a puzzle vs shrimping over a keyboard bahaha.
The puzzle reward is so real 😄
I started reading Delicious in Dungeon after you mentioned it and it is delightful! I’ll definitely be purchasing my own copies
RIGHT?! Delightful is truly the best word to describe it! I’m so glad you’re enjoying it too. :)
I love your puzzle tray!!! I want one like it to keep my cats off my puzzles. My first day of camp went really well! I've got a little over 4k right now and I'm debating if I want to try and make that an even 5k before I go to bed. The trick is going to be keeping up with writing throughout the month, LOL.
First day went good! But I figured it would because the first couple of days will just be rewrites for me before starting to actually draft
Aaaaah Camp time!
I'm going for the full 50k this camp because I'm not sure if I'm going to be able to do November, I'm mainly focusing on one project, but I'm also doing a whole summer long event in a writers discord server that I'm in, so that'll fill in some gaps where I need to take a break from my main project.
I hope camp goes well for you, Kate, I believe in you!
You can do it! This is my first time I am doing it for the first time. It’s scary!
AHHHH!! GOOD LUCK ON YOUR FIRST CAMP! YOU GOT THIS!
@@KateCavanaugh Thanks! Good luck to you too!
You've got this Kate!
At 10:17 to 10:20 I think the God(esse)s of -Queerness- Unlabelled Girl-Liking Coolness smiled upon you 🌈💖✨💖✨🌈
I think that skip can be done well. Like a bunch of school kids get caught doing something naughty by the teacher and then it just skips to them in detention. Or if it skips to a really bizarre outcome and you slowly figure out through dialogue or POV character how they got into this new situation. But whether that trumps just showing the scene in real time I think depends on how important it is to the actual story.
I agree! I think it's great when used for a comedic delivery. That said, when it's a result of lazy writing it's insufferable. In Misery Annie Wilkies was ready to kill over it!XD
As authors and writers, we make puzzles for readers to solve in reality. My goal is to work on well written monologues. A very important mode for getting characterization and goals across to the reader. Another new buzz word for me is: Counter-Punctual Writing. It basically keeps the readers awake with changes of all sorts. (Maybe even the writer as well ??? ) They never said writing was easy.
Dude, I am right there with you. Haven't won Nano since July 2020 and not for want of trying!! Here's hoping we both smash it and break the dry run. 😂
FINGERS CROSSED FOR BOTH OF US. This is our month!!! 😂
i’ve written 501 words so far for camp on a project i have 25,000 words so far on. my goal for camp is 50k so i can finish book. i haven’t done camp nano before so i’m superrr excited :) good luck kate
i love this workout
Im on exactly the same boat! Im finishing up 2 projects this camp! *high five
You've made me commit to nano again this time. Let's see how much I can get done. I think just working on something more often is better than hitting a certain word count goal. I have also lost the last five or so camp nanos in a row haha T-T
Yessss, agreed! Sometimes it's just the extra motivation boost needed in order to write a hundred words on a day when you really don't feel like it. I've known lots of people who have used Camp or November's NaNo just to help set a routine. GOOD LUCK! YOU GOT THIS. :)
progress is progress! I am starting late in camp nanowrimo because I was sick the first couple of days but I am only hoping to get 30K done this month since I am also working on some edits of my previous novel.
I definitely think of revision in terms of scenes, but actually share progress online based on chapters 😅
First time doing anything nanowrimo so I'm taking it slow with a 10k goal lol love the vids btw
10K is a great goal!! So happy for your first Camp and first NaNo experience, that's AWESOME. Good luck with the words!! :)
@@KateCavanaugh I appreciate it 😊
I do revisions in scenes or chapters. I'm also an edit as you go kind of writer. I don't do heavy edits while drafting unless I feel it is absolutely necessary. More like small things I forgot to add or lightly changes to how an argument went. It makes me feel like I have all my ducks in a row. Plus, you're totally right, I hate it. What happened?? Don't skip over that stuff!
My goals are very easy - some writing (whether 5 mins or an hour) every day plus one pic a day. I'm travelling for 20 days to Europe and moving provinces this month so the focus isn't on the novel, just on not losing momentum. 😁 While I'm travelling, it'll be travel writing and while I'm home, it'll be my novel. So yes, multiple projects.
I always forget about Camp NanoWrimo until the last day of June, this year I forgot about it until the 2nd July so I quickly set myself a small goal. I have a project I have been working on for a while but I have been slipping out of the habit of writing, so this July I am giving myself just a 6,000 word goal so that I don't feel overwhelmed.
Happy Camp Nano, guys!
happy camp!!!
Crushed my camp goal for today! Aiming for the full NaNo. 50k words during the month, and today got 1698. I'll take it!
I hit my goal for the day! I told myself 1000 words a day on my primary project then I can play with other ideas after that
It’s camp! 🥳 I’m coming fresh off of edits of part 1 of my duology and diving right into drafting part 2. I have a very rough outline I’m following and hoping to bank 30k for the month
Hi Kate! THE NANOWRIMO MUG!!! Where'd ya get it?
I bought both from the NaNoWriMo store website a few years ago! They have some other designs still up there currently. :)
@@KateCavanaugh Okay, thanks! Love your channel!
i'm using camp to read my novel and write notes to prepare for the second draft. So my "word count" goal on the nano website is just 62 for the 62 chapters in the novel
My primary goal for nano is to finish the draft of the book I'm currently working on. I'm at almost 90k words so I set my goal for camp nano at 100k. There is a strong possibility that I go over the 100k word mark since I still have a 3 or 4 major plot points before I can get to the climax. My second goal--more of a hope--is that once I finish the draft of my book I would also like to write a novella in this same world. I don't know if this is realistic and may have to push the novella back to August but it is my hope.
My word count goal for this camp is 16,000 and first day I got 1,012 words, which I can rarely get in a day of writing!!
I'm about halfway to my daily goal. Got a late start, but I'm determined to reach 4,000 words today. (I'm at 1,231 so far.) Good luck to everyone! 🤞
I'm keeping up my slow and steady pace for camp! only about 500 words a day - I have so many edits for other people on right now that I can't do more than that. Trying to remember to update daily is already proving hard (it's the 3rd here), but I just remembered how to go and update for a previous day, so, yay!
What deck did you use?
I'm hoping to get 30k written on the novel I started for the 24hr challenge so I get to the halfway point and then hopefully another 15k on a fantasy novel 🎉
The "No whammy!" is from Press your Luck. Used to love that game show!
That puzzle is my favorite design! I have the poster but now I'm wondering if I need the puzzle 😅
I'm not a fan of the cliffhanger scene jumps. It has to be done very well to make up for the miserable dissonance for me.
YESSSSSS get you the puzzle! I think I’ll use puzzle glue on this one and hang it up like a poster once I’m done!
YES. Thank you for expressing this much better than I could bahaha. Exactly my problem.
Best of luck all. This year for camp nano i am... moving house. No novel for me, most likely, but i really hope everyone else is able to make progress!!!
I'm using some notes I've been taking while playing DnD as an outline and I set the goal to only 15k words. I fear I don't have much time for it but even if I don't write that often I always get motivated during Nano season 😁💖💖
Where did you get the puzzle? 😮😍
NaNoWriMo sells it!! It looks like it’s still in stock. You can find it here: store.nanowrimo.org/collections/shop/products/copy-of-nanowrimo-2008-city-of-novelists-poster
Happy puzzling!!! :)
@@KateCavanaughThank you!
I call it "apps and desert" -- I think there is a way to do it correctly, but god sometimes it is very noticeable that a main course is missing.
I actually forgot July was Nanowrimo but I was planning on starting a rewrite of a sci-fi story so I started it today and got two chapters done! (Though the chapters are still very short because it's only like the second draft so I only got like 1,400 something words)
Kate bringing the whole library to her house 12:33
EVERY. TIME. 📚
This is my first ever camp nanowrimo! My first ever novel!
AHHH congrats on your first Camp AND your first ever novel!! Good luck and you've got this! :)
@@KateCavanaugh omg thank you so much!
I'm still working on my discovery outline/zero draft and I do hope that 15,000 or even more this month take me to the end 😅 because I'm already starting to get scene ideas for the 2nd book and I think I already have the first sentence of book 2 also😅
Plis blog, you are my writting buddy😊
What kind of writing program is that?
First day has gone fairly well, I am already at 2800 ( 7 pages that I am counting as 400 words a page) seams like a slow day. Trying not to push myself.
If you want to win for the sake of winning, you can just set a small word count and be done with it 😆😆😆 I just checked your project list 👍
I'm sure you've gotten this question before but what kind of keyboard do you use?
It's a Ubotie!! My sister-in-law bought it for me off Amazon. They have a ton of different color schemes. Some of the letters have rubbed off a bit after so much use, but it's still so cute, would totally recommend it!
I am not doing Camp. Historically it is too damn hot for me to be able to do any work. I will be doing some rereading.
I was so close to finishing my draft and I set a goal for camp nano and now I'm super close to being done and it's only been 7 days and I feel like I've cheated😂
I had a good first day of Camp. I haven't written or edited since Feb of 2020 and was afraid I might still be stuck. Since I'm editing, as set up for camp I counted the words in each chapter. My goal is to edit 100k but my hope is to edit a chapter a day. If I do that I will be way over the goal but the book will be done with edit one.
*gasp* 5 MINUTES AGO! I'm FIVE MINUTES LATE???
That Nanowrimo puzzle is so freaking cute.
Lmao just tried update the Nanowrimo site and for some reason it kept telling me that I already won with 2329 words like lmao tf do you mean?! 😂
The first day of camp is going pretty good so far. I'm trying to stick to Project Mafia, but only have the beginning leading into Act 2 as well as the Dark Night of the Soul and everything after that figured out so I have a lot of brainstorming ahead of me. But I'm tracking moreso by scenes completed and less by word count- though obviously for Camp Nano sites sake (wow trying that 5 times fast) I am tracking my words because I want to win (even though I technically already have hahaha).
Loooool, I’d take that win and run with it! 😂 that’s so funny. And yesssss I love it so much. The second the email came in, I ran to the site and scooped one up.
@@KateCavanaugh Oh I'm absolutely taking that as a win. If Nano says I win, then I win... Don't I? 🤨
Made my goal super low for this camp 'cause I'm also doing a music camp the second week....I can't do both. I tried last year and failed. Lol
That’s smart!! It’s always great when you learn from the past and pivot. I hope you have fun at music camp! Good luck on your words AND I hope you have fun at music camp!’
@@KateCavanaugh I’ll definitely have fun with both!! Get to study with some of the current Irish music legends like the band, Lúnasa. 😃🍀
its 6 pm on day 1 and I havent even started yet rip
Same here ! But I'm sure we can still write a lot of words tonight 🙃 we can do this! 💪
You’re just going for that night owl stat! 🦉
@@catherinel.7837 yes we got this!!!!
I want there to be a photoramo for amateur photographers. LOL
To be fair I've never won Nanowirimo ever but MAYBE this year will be different...mainly because it'll be my first attempt ever 😂
WAIT IT'S CAMP NANO??? IT'S JULY??
guess i'm pantsing! lmaooo
👖👖👖👖
My first day of nano was spent on a train, getting no writing done, but I'm editing this month, and I'm counting 1h of editing time as 1K words, so I'm not concerned about already being behind. I try to reward myself, just in general, with as many things as possible that don't require spending money, so I often reward myself with things like time spent on a hobby I don't give myself much time on. And yes, sometimes that means building a jigsaw puzzle :). My biggest pet peeve in reading that I refuse to ever do is using reductive descriptors instead of pronouns just because there's more than one person using the same pronoun. It becomes so stilted and bad. "bla bla bla, said John. The Brunette shook his head and took the blonde's hand. "I'd rather we go to lunch" The Brit agreed, because when the Asian boy held the baker's hand, the taller boy couldn't think straight." How many people are in this scene? Just two, but see how bad it is.
Hey Kate? Did you get my buddy request? I'm KaliAngel
keep it up 🙂ヾ(＠⌒ー⌒＠)ノ
Anyone else go out of their way to find distractions in their designated writing space? 😂🤣
I got 247 words. My aim is 200 a day.