Halfway Through Camp!

Today marks the halfway point for April 2015's CampNaNoWriMo.

Is you wordie counts on target? You should be halfway to your goal. If not, never fear, you can always catch up.
Our grabbing times are increased for this month to see the schedule click here.

Also Fridays are #WriteClub days. Check out @FriNightWrites for info.https://frinightwriteswriteclub.wordpress.com/

Need encouragement?

Look at what the CampNaNoWriMo sponsors have for you. There are a great many deals that can help you out.
Camp 2015 Sponsors

Always remember to check in with your cabin-mates too. They can be a great help if you get stuck or just need to bounce something off of someone (Not a ball or anything physical. LOL) You may have checked in and found many aren't chatting, that's ok, just keep updating you wordie counts and maybe post asking how everyone is doing.
My cabin has 11 and only 3 of us are active. We are having fun and motivating each other.

Now off to the WRITING CAVE we go!

Happy writing my Wordlings.

A Tentative CampNaNoWriMo Sprint Schedule!

Since CampNaNoWriMo has started, I've decided to fix a word grabbing schedule. It's a tentative one and may change. I'll tweet if there are changes. So, watch for them!

Here we go:

Saturday April 4th & 18th

We will be switching it up. #1k1hr and 30 minute grabbings.
So from 1:00pm - 9:00pm CDT (GMT/UTC -5:00) we will have a #1k1hr, 10 minute break, 30 minute grabbing and continue with that schedule.

Saturdays April 11th & 25th

We will be having our #10kWritathons
GMT: 2:00pm - 2:00am
EDT: 10:00am - 10:00pm
CDT: 9:00am - 9:00pm
PDT: 7:00am - 7:00pm

Sunday April 5th, 12th, 19th, 26th

30 minute grabbings
2:00pm  -8:00pm CDT (GMT/UTC -5:00)

Mondays-Wednesdays

30 minute grabbings
10:00am - 1:00pm CDT (GMT/UTC -5:00)
4:00pm - 9:00pm CDT (GMT/UTC -5:00)

Thursdays

NO scheduled grabbings- that doesn't mean we won't have them. They just won't be scheduled.

Fridays

NEVER Fridays are left for #WriteClub with @FriNightWrites Click to see the times. They are a great bunch that run it.


Still looking for meals and snackie ideas for our #10kWritathon?
 Check out our Writer's Food
Our Pinterest has ideas and character ideas.

REMEMBER use hashtag #wordgrab when reporting daily wordie counts and #10kDay for our writathons.

Wordie Counts for Your Work!

Ever wondered how many wordies make a novella or novel?

I've been searching every web page that has a list. let me tell you, it got confusing. Finally I took all the amounts and found a median for each type of book. I found that Writer' Digest and How-To-Write-a-Book had the most average of all the ones I read.

Here's the jest of it (averages):

Pic Books : 350-600 wordies
Tweens: 20,000-55,000 wordies
Chapter Books: 5000-10,000
Young Adult:55,000-90,000
Short Stories: under 75000
Novelette: 7500-17,500
Novella: 17,500-40,000
Novel: 50,000-109,000
Epic Novel/World Building: 90,000-110,000
Western Average: 50,000-80,000
Memoir: 80,000-89,900

Writer's Digest broke it down a bit further. 

Adult Novel:
70,000-79,000 might be too short
80,000-89,000 Good
90,000-99,000 Usually safe
100,000-109,000 Might be too long
110,000 & over Too long
100,000-115,000 World building

I hope this gives you some idea as to the wordie counts you set.