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The worst part about November is I enjoy the rewriting and editing process more than the writing process itself. But when I edit, I end up with a negative daily word count.
I'm really happy for my protagonist. He's gone through a lot, but he never gave up. He kept his head high and kept grinding until -

Oh, wait, it's still only the second act. The protagonist tries to save the day but he still sucks so everything goes wrong and everyone he cares about pays the price for his incompetence.
I love when the writing process comes to a screeching halt so I can open up a browser window to see if I can trace the etymology of random words to at least as far back as the Middle Ages.

I don't care if the word originated from Latin, Old French, Old English, or whatever. If someone uttered the word anywhere near Europe before 1500, then it was in use in Medieval Scandinavia because shut up it was.
From now until the end of November, all of my characters are forbidden from using contractions.
The adventures of having to invent a new character on the fly to be the villain because I decided the original villain would make a better redeemed secondary protagonist.

Tune in next week for a new episode of "Let's Rewrite the First Act Because a Handful of What Happened Is Now Inconsistent with My New Redemption Arc."
Me: Dang. I didn't get any writing done yesterday. That's okay. If I do an extra 100 words each day, then I'll make up the difference and then some. That's entirely doable.

Also me:
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I feel the same way! I'm about 5,000 words off pace for the month... a completely manageable gap to overcome with 20 days left in the month. And yet, for some reason my brain keeps telling me that I'm never going to finish in time. *RollEyes*
I'm off to spend more time calculating my required daily word count pace than actually increasing my word count.
I wrote a scene where one of my secondary antagonists gets a taste of her own medicine, but I went so hard on her that I actually feel sorry for her. Now I have to change the ending so that she can become one of the secondary heroes of the story.
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If you feel for her then likely the readers will also.
And as the day comes to an end, I return to my writing station to create a world where Sorcerer saves Girl from Monster because I can't be bothered to come up with names for my characters right now.
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There's nothing wrong with using placeholders for names.
I have "Farm guy," "Buddy X," and "Buddy's assistant."

You're not alone!
The glorious adventures of spending an hour trying to find a word processor for my Kindle Fire only to find out it comes with one preinstalled that does everything I need.

I'm cutting myself a little slack because the word processor is a feature buried within the Files application.
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I have been through similar struggles with my Amazon device - they don't make it straightforward!
I need to learn to write poorly. Normally when I write, I try to find the perfect words, but that's inefficient. I need to shift my mindset to "I don't care how bad it is because I can fix it later" for the rest of this month.
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Yup, that’s the spirit! Write on!!
Someone teach us how to disable the backspace and delete button for NaNoWriMo.
A couple of months ago I bought a tablet specifically to be used as a dedicated writing device. Now I can write while lying in my bed and wearing my soundproof earmuffs and silicone color-changing dog lamp.

Last year I completed the 50,000-word challenge on a virtual machine running Windows Millenium Edition. My new tablet is far superior, if only because it doesn't crash all the freaking time.
For those of you struggling to come up with story ideas, here's a really quick and dirty structure I like to use, which I would describe as a simplified version of the Hero's Journey.

Part 1: Hero is chilling out but everyone hates him because he sucks at something
Part 2: Villain shows up to bully Hero but everyone loves/fears Bully
Part 3: Hero tries to fight Villain but Hero loses because Hero sucks
Part 4: Hero grinds for XP
Part 5: Hero tries to fight Villain again but Hero wins because Hero gained a bunch of levels

I'll be working on a few stories using this structure to get to 50,000 words. If you want an immediate example of the Hero's Journey, go watch the original Star Wars trilogy.
My life has reached a point where I have regular conversations with an AI chatbot about a 12-year-old sports video game.
And we've reached my favorite part of the year: the last week in October, where all of my writing progress grinds to a screeching halt because I want those words to count in November.

I feel like I'm committing the creative-writing equivalent of accounting fraud.
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