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I think besides the ‘Write or Die’ tool one of the best things I’ve done zo far is not to calculate. Because when I calculate how much words I have to write every single day until I meet the 50k goal on November the 30th, I kind of paralize. It’s demotivating. Instead of this I just write as much as I can. Lucky for me in this case is the fact that here is not that much to do. You see, in New York you have more distractions. Distractions in a nice way, don’t misunderstand me. There is always something more important or more interessting to do. That is what I’ve seen.

In one way or the other the tool that all NaNo’s are talking about has made a computergame out of my NaNo-novel. Why? Easy to explain: I always choose to write 400 words in just ten minutes and sometimes I get it and more often I don’t, but it’s a funny challange to do it this way. This is much more spellbinding than playing Pacman online and it has much more result. Most of the time I come above the 350 or near the 350 in ten minutes and I just try it over and over again. If you do this ten times a day, you have spent 100 minutes, what is 1 hour and 40 minutes (the length of a movie), writing your novel. This is not that much time but in the end you have managed to write at least 3500 words. This makes in 10 day’s 35000 words. In other words: it is doable for everyone. Savvy? I am not a magican who can do this. Look at Gamwyn, SantJoi and JustJason who are already reached the 50k mark in the first two weeks of NaNoWriMo 2008.

Alas, tommorrow it will take a little longer before I am able to start writing, because I have an appointment that I already postponed one time and I can’t stay postponing it.

I hope all the participants are staying motivated. Let’s see what the next days bring.

See you soon!

Mario

P.S.: I seriously consider to use the tool for writing my posts.

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If NaNo wouldn’t have been a challenge until now, than it finally would be (and is) right now. Especially when you look at the wordcounts of all the fellow NaNo-writers. Not surprisingly SaintJoi and Gamwyn have surpassed everybody else with a wordcount from hell. That would be the point of saying: ‘Ok guys, you won. I give up.’
But hey, this is not a competition with the other writers. NaNoWriMo is pure a competition with yourself. Other writers are there to communicate with and to motivate you. And yes, they do.
So, after considering not to go ahead with the NaNoWriMo novel of 2008, because of the fact that I fell behind for nearly 2 weeks, I made the decision to go ahead and win in 2008 just as I did in 2007. No doubt about it.
Of course I will not be able to catch up with all the video’s that are posted on the NaNo-group on Viddler, but from now on I will follow them closely. At last this is the most of the fun of NaNoWriMo. The community.
In other words: the challenge is now twice as big as it was and I am ready for it. Luckily I get all the support from my fellows.

If you are on the same point and you are considering to give up or go ahead with full power, here is the tool that can help you with it: Write or Die!