It’s the fifth already?

Posted: May 6th, 2009 under writing.
Tags: Nick Enlowe, novel, NPI, style, writing

This is what I was trying to post yesterday. But thanks to some glitchcraft, it wouldn’t post. :P

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It’s time to tally. Let’s see how everyone’s doing. (This will not be including Day 5 because not everybody’s posted today’s WC yet.)

1.

Merrilee is smoking us. Smoking us! She’s gotten in a few pretty early respectable WCs this NPI already. And she’s still finding the time to post great blog posts along the way, too. Even one on alien sex. *snicker*

And … she’s almost broken through the 10k barrier on her novel—how cool is that?

Tally:

Previous Total WC: 0.
May…
1st: Check-in @ 424 words.
2nd: Check-in @ 878 words.
3rd: Check-in @ 809 words.
4th: Check-in @ 359 words.

Total so far: 2,470 words.

If that’s not enough words, I don’t know what is. *rimshot*

2.

christopher:

A very steady pace to start, christopher is doing a great job keeping it above 500 words per day. He has expressed how great it feels to be throwing caution to the wind and finally typing, and that’s exactly what NPI is all about.

Tally:

Previous Total WC: 0.
May:
1st: Check-in @ 504 words.
2nd: Check-in @ 547 words.
3rd: Check-in @ 650 words.
4th: Check-in @ 507 words.

Total so far: 2,208 words.

3.

Nick Enlowe:

And lumbering behind as always, Nick Enlowe!! :)

Tally:

Previous Total WC: 0.
May…
1st: Check-in @ 608 words.
2nd: Check-in @ 448 words.
3rd: Check-in @ 382 words.
4th: Check-in @ 412 words.

Total so far: 1,850 words.

4.

RG Sanders:

Uh oh, looks like us NPI veterans are falling behind. I guess you and I need to step it up a little, RG. ;)

Tally:

Previous Total WC: 0.
May:
1st: Check-in @ 401 words.
2nd: Check-in @ 548 words.
3rd: Check-in @ 404 words.
4th: Check-in @ 474 words.

Total so far: 1,827 words.

5.

Joseph Lewis:

Here’s a mystery to be solved…

Tally:

Previous Total WC: 0.
May:
1st: Day of Reprieve(?) @ 0 words.
2nd: Knock-out(?) @ 0 words.

edit-> He dropped a line here. Looks like he’s got quite a wordcount total, too.

1 – 898
2 – 504
3 – 1,001
4 – 907

Total: 3,310 words.

more edit-> ^ How did he do that? Very impressive. And that puts him in first place by a landslide.

I’ll admit I’m a bit confused by this one. So for the moment, this tally is temporary. Does anybody know where Joseph is posting his updates? I can’t find them anywhere… I mean, on May 1st he posted this great post about getting through the first quarter of his novel, so I assume he’s writing atm. I just don’t see where (or if) he’s reporting it. *shrug*

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Anyway, great great job guys. We’re all doing great, keeping a steady pace. I’m looking forward to how things develop through the month.

Keep typin~!

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16 Comments »

Sorry! I forgot I needed to be posting those word counts. Here are some numbers:

1 – 800
2 – 500
3 – 1,000
4 – 900
5 – 1,700

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Comment by Joseph Lewis — May 6, 2009 @ 7:17 am
Give Joe a ping – he may not realise, or may have forgotten, that he has to post a daily wordcount :)

I wouldn’t say I’m smokin’; it’s early days yet. And I always post more on the blog when I’m writing – the words, they tumble out. In fact, I’m procrastinating from writing right now – isn’t teh interwebs awesome?

I wonder what the total tally of words from all of us will be at the end. At least 50,000 words – that’s half a novel right there!

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Comment by Merrilee Faber — May 6, 2009 @ 7:22 am
Haha, thought so :) Less head in clouds, more head in airships, Joseph!

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Comment by Merrilee Faber — May 6, 2009 @ 7:23 am
Yep, I’m all over the place with work, writing, reading, editing, and blogging. But it looks like I’m almost at 5k for this month so far. Not too shabby.

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Comment by Joseph Lewis — May 6, 2009 @ 8:47 am
O_o
Those are awfully … round numbers.
Okay. I’ll go ahead and edit this post. Glad you’re still in it.

All done… do you have any tips for the rest of us?

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Comment by Nick Enlowe — May 6, 2009 @ 9:05 am
Sorry, I just rounded down to the nearest hundred. But I’ll use the actual numbers starting tonight, and put them at the bottom of my daily blog posts from here on out.

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Comment by Joseph Lewis — May 6, 2009 @ 9:14 am
@Merrilee: Yes, you’re shmokin’ us.
Yes, we’ll easily surpass 50k this time with the 350 min wordcount.
And yes, teh interwebs are awesome. xD

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Comment by Nick Enlowe — May 6, 2009 @ 9:18 am
@Joseph: np. Mostly, I’m just glad you’re still in it.

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Comment by Nick Enlowe — May 6, 2009 @ 9:19 am
I recounted. Here are the non-round numbers:

1 – 898
2 – 504
3 – 1,001
4 – 907
5 – 1,716

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Comment by Joseph Lewis — May 6, 2009 @ 9:24 am
fix’d.

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Comment by Nick Enlowe — May 6, 2009 @ 9:35 am
You guys are doing great. I am glad to see Joseph is still in it, I was a bit worried at first not being able to find his WCs, but yay!

I can’t imagine how stressful it is for y’all.. It’s mighty wonderful over here, just sitting back and checking in on y’all. hehe Ok.. I’m taunting now. For real, congrats to you all!

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Comment by Latrina — May 6, 2009 @ 10:19 am
Ugh… I’m sucking. This time it’s been hard getting going for me – time, tiring and lacking in creativity.

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Comment by RG Sanders — May 6, 2009 @ 3:05 pm
Hang in there RG! Don’t give up! Try to look after yourself – try to find just 10 minutes a day for a relax, a sit down and a cup of your beverage of choice. The creativity will be back, you’re just tired, that’s all.

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Comment by Merrilee Faber — May 6, 2009 @ 5:43 pm
Hey making the quota each day is not synonymous with sucking! Sometimes you gotta stay minimal to pull through to the end. No worries, ok? We will all have our ups and downs throughout this month.

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Comment by Nick Enlowe — May 6, 2009 @ 8:48 pm
Thanks guys. It wouldn’t be so bad if I was making to quota with what I could deem as ‘good stuff’, but I’m just not happy with much of what I am doing – so it’s a double whammy.

I’m still going though… got to find that flow again.

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Comment by RG Sanders — May 7, 2009 @ 7:11 pm
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