Count Down

As of today we have 11 days left of NaNoWriMo. Are you close to your 50k? If not hop over to Twitter. There are many that are running sprints so you can get motivated and make it.

Here's a list of some:

@NaNoWordSprints

@FriNightWrites Their website

@TheSprintShack Their website

@virturalwriters Their website

and of course

@GetWordies

Making it to 50k is not as hard as you think. Several I know wrote 10k and more in a day. Having 11 days fives you 11 days to hit it. If you can write 1k every day you'll make 11k in the days left. If you write the daily goal (1667) for NaNoWriMo you can manage 18337 wordies. If you manage 500 wordies in a 30 minute word sprint you can have 1k every hour and 10 minutes. You can do it. Updating your count on NaNoWriMo will help motivate you. 

If you have made it to 50k, WooHoo! You can now validate over at NaNoWriMo.org 

As the last few days come you may feel as if you won't make it. Well, you're wrong. You can. Take it 1 wordie at a time. 

That's it for me today. I gotta get my wordies on.... 

WRITE my WORDLINGS

Week 2 of NaNoWriMo

As NaNoWriMo week 1 comes to an end, either you are stressing because you are behind or jumping up and down cause you are ahead. As of today you should have 12,000 wordies to be on target. If not don't worry! @FriNightWrites is having a writathon. Saturday will be our last NaNo Writathon. This is the time to catch up on wordie counts or even get ahead. Check out our Writathon page for info on the many changes made for this  one.

Here's the details via FriNightWrites
#WriteClub NaNoWriMo Marathon
Midnight Friday morning in Sydney Australia, Nov. 7th
through
Midnight Friday night on the US East Coast, Nov. 7th.
(The time-math is crazy, but it’s basically almost forty-eight hours, guys.)
For the US, it means Thursday morning to Friday night.
Aussies, midnight Thursday night/Friday morning until midnight Saturday night.
UK, you guys are somewhere in between, and my brain isn't functioning at full capacity so I don’t know what times to tell you. 
FriNightWrites will have tons of prizes being given away during their Writathon. 

As for our last one:
Saturday Nov. 15th
9am-9pm CST
This is a change from the last one. 

So, lets get those wordies flowing. You can make it to 50k in no time! I know you can!

NaNoWriMo Writathon Changes

It was great to have those who participated in our 10kWritathon on the 2nd. However, I noticed most wrote during the same times. I am changing the 10kWritathon Nov. 15th to a Writathon. No preset themes just different amounts of time for each sprint. There will be 10, 15, 20 and 30 minute sprints (Maybe 1k1hr) for 12 hours with 2 hours off for food and house cleaning. It will be from 9am-9pm CST(GMT-5:00). This makes it easier for me though I hate to leave all but the US out. You can always join in any time while we are sprinting. No word count is too small. I will be on Twitter the whole time this time. Though most sprints will be set up on TweetDeck. 

So here is the tentative schedule: 

Saturday November 15th

9am-12pm Sprints

12pm-1pm Break

1pm-5pm Sprints

5pm-6pm Break

6pm-9pm Sprints

All CST (GMT-5:00) times

This would be a good day to use a crockpot (slow-cooker) meal. Make sure you also have ready to grab snackies. We have plenty of recipes and ideas. Check out our Writer's Food and Pinterest.

Hope to see your wordie counts climb on the 15th.