Mid-point/ Dropouts

[pipking]

Hello, intrepid ZU writers.

A simple truth about being a writer is this: you can have impeccable language, ingenious characters and an incredible plot - but none of it means anything if you can't finish a story.

There was some criticism in the comments on the main site about the nature of this challenge. People said it was stupid, pointless, so simple a typing monkey could do it. To these people I say, bullcrap. Look at the sign-up sheet; look at who's still going.

Marathon writing is hard - dedicating yourself to one piece of writing for 30 days is a genuine challange that deserves recognition. I want to applaud those of you who have been sticking with it. You have a lot to be proud of.

Day 19 of ZuNoWriMo - if you've been following the suggested pace, you should have 19,000 words by now with 11,000 to go to reach the goal.

If you, like me, have fallen dreadfully behind due to work, school, lack of inspiration, dog-ate-my-computer, etc., you are considering dropping out of the challenge. Or you already have.

To these people (and myself) I say - better luck next time. Please make your dropout official in this thread.

If we decide to do this again, I want to make sure we give writers every opportunity to succeed. One thing I'd change is have more than three days between the announcement of the challenge and it's start, so folk can really have time to develop ideas and do a bit of research. Another change would be not holding it the month before NaNoWriMo.

Use this thread for suggestions on how we could improve ZuNoWriMo for the future.

To those of you still writing towards the goal:

Rock on. Keep at it. We're pulling for you.

[Malevolti]

Bah, I new this was going to happen, and for all of the above reasons too (on my third backup computer).

Don't delete my topic as I wish to continue writing sometime but I dont have the technology right now to back it up :/

[pipking]

All threads will be left intact unless requested for removal.

[Power Shot]

Thanks man. I'd really like to let people read it until the next one, or a few months. Will there also be a separate NaNoWriMo section?

[Cio]

Heh... I'm dropping out. Oh, well... Maybe next year. =\ w00t.

[Power Shot]

I just have five thousand words to go, suckas!

[Ricky of Kokiri]

I have 12200 words to go. Yeah, I'm behind... weekends suck, I've been really busy, and my inspiration is low, but I intend to make up for it in the next week. I refuse to be in the "close but no cigar" category just because I lost inspiration!

[Snipe Hunter]

I dropped out awhile ago. Theres so much going on that I won't be able to finish. I also relized that the plot I had going couldn't reach 30,000 words.

To people like Power Shot, keep going and finish!

[Power Shot]

I felt the need to announce that I have 740 words to go on my project. The Epilogue will be posted tomorrow. Comments would be appreciated on the end, though.

Woo! I'm almost done! Then I get to plan my NaNoWriMo novel, about CHRONOS baby!

[Puck]

I'm out, life wouldn't let me go, and I havn't the time to finish a story of this porportion, I tried, but my life had to pick up in October. Oh well better to have tried and failed then never to have tried at all.

[Power Shot]

*does the boo-yah dance*

YES! I'M FINISHED!

Now I get to have a few days break before ZuNoWriMo. If no one has anything to do, comments would be greatly appreciated, if anyone reads it.

[pipking]

Well done, Power Shot.

[Alx]

It's hard, i just started mine. After the story develops, it becomes much easier to write.