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WTG, Tracey!!  Pam -  Alexis - hang on in there! Keep feeding that Muse chocolate. LabRat 
Athos: If you'd told us what you were doing, we might have been able to plan this properly.
Aramis: Yes, sorry.
Athos: No, no, by all means, let's keep things suicidal.
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No writing on Wednesday (cleaning house) or Thursday (cooking, eating, and cleaning).
508 words on Friday.
No writing on Saturday (grading) or Sunday (responding to outlines).
512 words on Monday.
<sigh> It's going way too slow, but I've written 7575 words this month. More grading tomorrow, but maybe I can sneak in some writing, too.
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Small update: Yesterday I wrote: 211 words. Early this morning I typed: 1,233. I'm about two scenes away from being done with the writing and then it will ALL be typing!  Thanks for the support everyone! 
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I hadn't seen this topic before, but I had made an unofficial promise to myself and Carol Malo to finish my second ever story by Thanksgiving. And I made my deadline! It's 32 pages / 13,749 words long, which is roughly double the length of my first story. Gerry has beta read it, and Carol is finishing up with reading the ending. I should begin posting to the boards soon. Susan
You can find my stories as Groobie on the nfic archives and Susan Young on the gfic archives. In other words, you know me as Groobie. 
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Yay, Susan! We are definitely going to have to do this again. PJ
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Um...what counts as finished? What with Buffy-sitting last week (who is so high maintenance that getting any serious pc time was impossible) and coming down with a sickness bug the past couple of days (which means I've spent most of that time sleeping or upchucking <g>) I've had no chance to open the file. I think with a final push I'd still get it finished though. But...erm...that would be first draft finished. You know me - the Rewrite Queen. I'd probably have to rewrite bits of it a dozen times before I'm happen with it. But do think I can make it to complete story with no gaps in it and 'The End' written at the bottom by the 30th. Does that count? LabRat
Athos: If you'd told us what you were doing, we might have been able to plan this properly.
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Just dropping in to tell you all that I have done abysmally.
That's it.
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What we've got here is failure to communicate...
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Awwwwwwwww - but don't give up, Chris and Anna. So what's a little deadline between friends? Keep on plugging away and so long as we get a story in the end, we'll be happy. LabRat
Athos: If you'd told us what you were doing, we might have been able to plan this properly.
Aramis: Yes, sorry.
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Yup! I agree with Rat! Don't give up, guys! I'm not. There's no way I'm going to finishe my story by the end of this month, but that doesn't mean that NaFinWipMo wasn't a success! If it motivated you to write, then it worked!  Keep plugging away, as will I. We can do it! Sara
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Okay quick update! I spent most of my day writing so in that case I'M DONE!!!! YAY ME! I wrote 1,400 words today! My biggest number so far. I won't however but "officially" done until it's typed up and sent off...so you can all imagine what I'll be doing into the wee of hours of the night. lol I'm just excited that I almost have another story completed (my second) and it's for the Fundraiser!
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I stole half an hour and wrote another 107 words. This is hard because I'm hitting the end of the semester and students are turning in make-up work and revised essays, as well as their normal work, so all I seem to do when I'm not at work is grade assignments. Ah, well. Grades are due in 15 days, and I'll have lots of time after that.
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Woohoo!!! Great job, Alexis!! 107 is better than nothing, Sheila! I've had nothing written for the past two days... or was it three... Unless you count essays and literary analyses. Sara
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I didn't had time to write a word sunday.
Monday, I had many hours free straight, and since it's pretty unusual, I used them to read the fundraiser story I was assigned to to do a trailer, and I did the trailer. So I hadn't written a word either.
Yesterday, I didn't have time. It's funny how quickly the time goes when we're student and we have a job at the same time...
And today, I wrote a little during my lunch break.
Actual word count: 8349
Previous word count: 7266
So today, I wrote 1083 words. I've finished part 5. I was hoping to write the firsts 6 parts before the end of the month. I've failed, but I think I did great nevertheless, since I wrote 6783 words since november 12.
So, even if I hadn't meet my deadline, I won't give up, and I hope that all the others in my situation won't either.
Congratulations to all the one who succeed to finish their stories in time: Tracey, Pam, Groobie, LoisLane9397,...
And special congratulations to the ones who finished well before the end of the month. You did great! We all have something to read because of you. Thank you.
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YAY! I'm officially done! I emailed my story off to LabRat today. 
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Congratulations, Alexis! And everyone else who finished. That's brilliant! Well, November is over and so, therefore, is NaFinWipsMo... for now, at any rate. I know we'll do it again! For me, this has been a huge success. I finished a long story that had been languishing on my hard drive for months, and I also finished (all bar a short conclusion, which my co-author will write) a shorter fic. And I almost managed to finish a third mid-length story. The nightly word-count duels on IRC were a major part of getting this done, for me. Sara and Pam, you were such a great help! It really, really helps that this is a group effort: we all encourage and support each other, and that's fantastic. Thank you so much! Congratulations, too, to everyone else doing this. Okay, so not everyone actually finished their WIP, but you all made progress. Some of you made a huge amount of progress, more than in a long time, more than you ever believed you could in a month. Sara, your 20,000+ extra words is wonderful - well done! And let's do this again some time! Wendy
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Well, I managed to squeak in an extra 358 words in the last few hours of November. I'd love to claim the 20,000 + words, Wendy... but I'm afraid it wasn't quite that much. :p Here's my tally for the month: 14,065 words written 33 pages written And... I don't believe I wrote that much in a month. I'm so glad this was a smashing success for so many people!! I'll still be FinWipping in IRC until I'm done. Should we call it IGFTSIITLTID? Yes, it's not as catchy, I know. But, really, I'm going to finish this story if it's the last thing I do. Sara
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Thanks everyone for your encouraging words during all of this, I really appreciated it! I hope we do this again sometime soon!
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Yay, us! It took me 13 months to write the first 25,000 words, and one month to write the last 20,000. Wendy, I enjoyed the word count duels, too -- I don't think I ever beat you, but it was fun giving you a run for your money! We are definitely going to have to do this again sometime -- and Sara, keep going and try not to let it kill you, okay? PJ
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I didn't get my story finished, but I never really expected to. With the 207 words I wrote yesterday, my total for the month was 7888 words, about a third of what I'd hoped for, but it was definitely progress. Now I'm sitting at 13,656 words.
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