24 Hour Write-A-Thon // 15,000 Words in 1 Day! 

*Tells herself to never do this again* *9 months later does it again and we encouraged it*

You mad woman! That looks miserable. Now I have to do it too. I’m scheduling it in my planner right now!

"I think I'm going to run to Starbucks, I have a free - oh a hummingbird!" Oh, Kate. You're amazing😘😂💖

What's better than writing on a rainy/snowy day, having a warm drink, and your favorite furry companion by your side?

I love how you can SEE the decline from normal person to sleep-deprived crazy lunatic near the end. Tooooootally me every day during Nano. I can't believe you still managed to write so much at the end, though-my brain shuts down after 8pm and I will sit there for an hour and only squeeze out 50 words. You did an amazing job! I'd love to do a 24-hour writeathon, but with kids it just ain't gonna happen!

I'm procrastinating my writing by watching a video of someone writing for 24-hours... :') anyways, I LOVE your videos 💕

"Let's get back to the deal body, guys.. Woo!" -A medical student studying anatomy and dissecting a cadaver for the first time.

I once wrote a screenplay in five days straight, no sleeping. My son brought me tea and food and I took bathroom breaks. I just had to keep going. Once done, I slept for almost three days. Then I edited and rewrote it a couple of times. Everyone loved it. It never sold. Never again. PI books are almost always written in first person. Like you, I switched back and forth, until I got tired of editing for consistency. I'm currently writing a cozy mystery series. The first couple of books will be through the eyes of one of the main characters, but the next will be through the other main character because the first will be away. Be well, write well, and get some sleep! Jon in BC, Canada

Kate, I think writing 52 stories at a time is not healthy girl XD Even your puppy knows it. I wish I had time to do a 24 hrs Write-a-thon, but school tho, and yeah... :( hahaha Good luck in your stories!

Would I ever do a 24-hr write-a-thon? Hell yes....but, probably only once, lol. I've always taken the first week of NaNo as vacation from work, so now I'm thinking I might "try" and have a 24-hr session just to see what happens...it might be fun to do a "first-week-no-pressure-yet-session". I'm game! In the 12-ish years I've done NaNo, there have been 2 high wordcount days that I can remember. My highest wordcount (which was probably during an unofficial write-a-thon, lol) was a little over 17K. This was a "last-day-of-NaNo-and-I-don't-want-to-lose" session, but I had the whole day off work, so I don't remember this being an overly "stressful" day...just looooong. And, I think it didn't register as stressful because I'd already had the worst "last-day-of-NaNo-ever" several years before. For the record, I've never lost NaNo--I refuse to allow it, apparently, lol. So, about 8 years ago, I came home from work (around 6p) on the last day (so 6 hrs left) and I still had to write 12K. And, this was before I knew about the "sneaky hack" of adjusting your time zone to add a couple hours to the ABSOLUTE deadline, lol... It was the biggest stream-of-consciousness mess I've ever written. But, panic? adrenaline? demon-possession? something? worked to get me to the end. I averaged 1k words/30 min. I can remember taking bathroom breaks, but I don't remember eating or drinking anything--- It was the absolute worst/best writing session ever. It was pure, unmitigated insanity. By the end, my arms were shaking, my hands were throbbing, and my fingers felt like they were still hitting keys for several hours after. I hit 50k with about 10 mins to spare, went to validate, and the NaNo bots ate about 200 of my words. So I had to add some 250 words in an "I'm-about-to-pass-out-from-hyperventilation-but-I-CAN'T-lose-frenzy" but, I did it. I managed to get it validated 1 (that's ONE) minute before the window closed. The Winner's page materialized and I bawled like a baby for an hour straight. And, I had to take about half a bottle of Ibuprofen over the course of the next couple of days because of how bad my arms burned... The relief of finishing was paralyzing for a while. But, the thrill of doing it was such a high. Not sure I could ever do that again. Not to that intensity. I'd probably have a heart attack. (x_x)

I wrote “dogs” instead of ‘gods’ with a non sleep deprived brain...I don’t know what I’d do during a 24 hr thon lol

This was so freaking entertaining to someone who has always wondered how writers work.

24:08 I know this is random but this reminds me of minecraft where when you put bookcases around an enchanting table it gives you stronger enchantments and theres those little white things that flow from thr book case to the enchanting table. I just got this image in my head of kate at her desk and the little white symbols flowing from the bookshelves into her head giving her words/inspiration. XD i need to sleep

Everything about this was super impressive - 15k words in a day AND going for a run AND being funny at 3 am etc. etc. :- ) Also, yay for a murder mystery! The other story sounds very intriguing, too :- ) I think now I'm going to remember how to spell occasionally - thanks! :- D

Holy crap I could never do this- I need minimum 8 hours of sleep every 24 hours,- although I think I would love to try a 12 hour write a thon... maybe with a 500 word an hour goal? Hmmm..

I like how u list your different projects at top of spreadsheet, then mark up how many words u do for each in the 24 hours

do NOT ever start a video with that sound xD god dangit, i thought i was dreaming and about to wake up, surreal

I don't think I'd ever do a 24hr write-a-thon. I'd be wiped out it for a week after. If I ever hear you say you're going to do one again, don't worry, I'll tell you it's a crazy idea! Still, congrats on getting 15k done!

I have watched this video thousand times and I am not exaggerating this is so perfect it's funny it's interesting to watch and inspiring. I really miss her old editing style 😭

I have ptsd with that alarm ringtone

I'm so happy I found this channel. Kate, you're adorable and I love your laugh.

You are so amazing I’m not sure how I ran across your channel but I am hooked on your videos. You’re so awesome, I hope I can be this dedicated very soon just by watching you it is very inspiring! Thanks for sharing. 💕

This was such a fun video! Good for you for doing this and congrats on the 15k. I think I would try this, but maybe start with a 15-hour one first? And.. I totally switch tenses in my novel too 🙃

Girl, you a fancy coffee maker. I'm fully convinced I need to schedule one of these writeathons very soon. If anything, just for the torture. Congratulations on reaching a new words in one day record! Side note: I also have a line of hummingbird feeders outside my office window haha.

This is incredible!! Seeing you hit such an insane goal in one day is so inspiring! I'm nervous about hitting the daily goals for Camp NaNoWriMo but this has shown me how much is physically possible. It's all about that drive and perseverance! You're amazing! Also loved the gummy bear champagne break in the middle of the night 😂

You did such a good job documenting this! The pacing was so nice. Congrats on 15k!

Can i just say you're living my dream life. ❤️ Caffeine ,writing, dogs, and running. I can't wait to have this life. I don't have a laptop though.

Did anyone else notice how much different her voice was while talking to the camera rather than talking to the drive in person??? I totally thought it was someone else XD

This is the first video I’ve seen of you and I absolutely love you. I’m definitely subscribing.

Im doing one of these after next week, during my summer vacation in order to finish on time for Pitch Wars. Can’t wait to look like a lunatic😂

I'm gonna do this today (2/25/19) Starting at 9:30AM (so in 2 minutes) I am excited and terrified. Lets see how well I do I'll update you'll each hour.

Please do WRITING LIKE DAN BROWN.

I just want to say that this video made me obsessed with mochi ice cream for like two weeks! XD

Another day, another writing vlog... and yet the first thing I notice is that you are wearing the exact same friggin's socks I have. Power to you for weathering another writing experiment and for cool looking socks! ^_^

I'm currently writing a murder mystery/history/romance book right now and I am loving it! I am 70K in after just two weeks. I wish I could do a 24 Hour Write A Thon but I get too distracted by all of the author tube videos

After watching a few of your videos now I want to write soooo bad on one of my stories! Hopefully tomorrow, lol.. but also Im super curious about yours! It'd be cool to read some of your stuff. 😍 enjoying your videos so much, been binge watching. Lol.

Wow wow wow I've been hard on myself to start writing one of my story ideas cuz I was over thinking it thinking I was allowed to only work on one at a time. but with you're like 10 story ideas on that chart it gives me more hope slash confidence to write it all. You're awesome, keep it up

😂 lol. This was awesome to watch, especially timely for me since I endured an insanely stress-filled 16 hr work day today and I watched this to unwind! 😉. Congrats on the crazy word count! ( I may try this myself one day )

This was so much fun to watch! And congrats on hitting 15k!! I think I would actually like to try my hand at a 24 hour Write-A-Thon... But I think it'd be more fun (and maybe a little easier?) to do it with a writer buddy or in a group. Maybe... The most words I've ever written in a day is just under 13,000. And yes, the "writing hangover" hit hard after and ended up lasting a couple of days.

You are an inspiration! I wish I could write this much!

The very first thing I heard from this video is my alarm sound and it scared me so much. That sound is linked with me waking up at 5:45 and getting ready for school.

I love your videos! Have a great day!

Wow, this was amazing to watch!! You made so much progress in a single day, 15k words is incredible! It's great that your story is flowing so well, I hope it continues to go that way for you! I would totally attempt a 24-hour write-a-thon someday...when my migraines aren't constant, unabating disasters lol. But I also have the feeling that if I attempted this on a good day, it might set off a migraine lol, so who knows. Maybe if I'm feeling brave. 😂I would love to make this kind of progress in a day, haha. Would you do this again? I feel like it's maybe fun to try once, but then you know you can get a lot done in a day, so if you wanted to try to write for half the day, a few days in a row, like a week-long write-a-thon or something lol. That would be interesting as well because you'd still made good progress but maybe not wear yourself completely down in a single day. I think I'd like to try something like that out, do a week-long event and see how much writing I can get done by writing as much each day as possible (as much as I want). No rules, no stress, haha. Thank you for sharing, Kate, this was so much fun to vicariously experience, haha! :D

I was drawn to this video because I just had myself a bit of a writing weekend or a Solo Writing Retreat (can't decide which sounds better/more crazy) this weekend just passed. Had a brand new wip, an outline that I'd at least semi thought through and a TON, and I mean, A FRIGGING TON of coffee and plenty of junk food and I just wrote. Woke up 8am on Saturday, started writing 9am, didn;t stop (minus necessary breaks lol) until 00:30 on Sunday, crashed, re-awoke 7:30 on Sunday, began writing bout 830 and barrelled through until 22:30. While not as epic, or insane, as 24hr straight I got to say I have to hand out mega props to you. This looked brutal! Congrats :D (Also well jealous of the scenery you get to run in)

36:40 EMTs would so woo over dead bodies. They have weird dark humor.

I'm doing this today because you inspired me when I watched the video a few years ago! And yes, I'm using this video as a way to procrastinate my words for this hour...

I've been wanting to try this for SO LONG !! Now I'm going to have to schedule it asap!! hahahah

Drinking rum soaked gummy bears in Champaign at half three in the morning, that's when you know your life is going in the right direction.

Champagne and honey buttered chicken biscuit? Um, best writing snack combo ever omfg. You are a glorious genius, Kate.

I had never heard of this before, but as I'm falling more and more behind on NaNoWriMo this year and a deadline looming, I'm intrigued. As a Texan in Paris, France right now, I had to rewatch the section about the honey butter chicken biscuit. I had one during every all-nighter I ever pulled in college. They don't have them here T.T Also, rum-soaked gummy bears and champagne? I've never tried that but it sounds good!

I always wanted (wanted?) to do something like this. Also I died when you said “I’m gonna start drinking” 😂😂

Lol i basically do this every time i have a couple pg essay for school...im definitely not a writer. But i love watching stuff like this!!

I’m just wring for 3 hours but this really gave me inspiration

i came back to rewatch this video and i did not realize it was from 2018 WHAT the time has passed so quickly XD i remember seeing the notification for this video when it came out and being so excited to read it! BUT IT FELT LIKE THREE WEEKS AGO JEEZ

I'm an academic writer who spends most of her days writing for law reviews and I cannot imagine how you manage to pull it off. Your videos are so inspirational! Thank you! Good luck with your work :))

A LITERAL reenactment indeed ;) Great video, and great job! 15k is quite the feat! I've managed once, on a day off, and I'm tempted to try again (the year after I think I managed 17,5k in a day, aiming for 20k). My brain was complete mush at the end, and when I went back to read what I'd written, I couldn't remember any of it. But at the same time, it's a fun challenge and I do want to try again, at some point. :D

Honey Butter Chicken Biscuit sounds like the best thing in the world 👀 plus it's just fun to say 😂

I've seen some 24 hour challenge videos...but not with writing! It's fun to watch and might try it one day. Question: Do you have any published works? After seeing your channel and the little that you've said of your writing seems really interesting, and I just wanted to know if anything is out yet available to read.

omg half my heart playing in the background for a bit i do that to!!

For a while, I used to write in first person present tense. I thought it was okay at the time and some people liked it. Then I wrote a fanfiction in third person present tense and it also seemed good. And then I decided to write in third person past tense for Nano. Now I cannot stand writing or reading present tense. There's just something disgusting about it now, lol. Anyway, good luck to me for writing a full book in a few days. I probably just jinxed myself.

I am planning to do one of these and lordy I'm glad you took breaks for food and reading, otherwise I think I'd die XD

I'm totally planning on doing one of these, maybe more lol. I am curious to see how I would do and what my work would look like the next day

CONGRATS!! You’re amazing!! Awwww, I love that Duke just wants to be near you at all times. He’s so cute my head is going to burst! (And I love that you too have what I call “Drive-thru voice!” lol! I have the same thing, where my voice goes up an octave) Your expression was priceless when you hit hour 11. That sense of dread that you weren’t even half-way through lol. Exactly how I’d feel hahaha! I wish I could do over-nighters again! I used to do them in my 20s and I loved them. But now that I’m older, I’d be out of commission for a few days if I did that lol! I used to do the tense thing too, but not because I couldn’t decide, but because I’d been writing screenplays for so long which are all present tense and I’d find myself slipping into it by accident even though I wanted the novel to be in past tense. I freaking hate tenses lol. You looked so tired by the end lol!

I can comfortably write 4,000 words per day. I could do 5,000 if I had to. Any more than that and my brain would be fried!

I love the pup!

Very inspirational how you were able to get so much done, by pushing forward even in midst of drowsy spells! Thanks for sharing your life example Kate.

I love the Scooby Doo x Princess Bride close up. I have friends who would be very interested in this idea.

So cute pup!!!!!!!!!!

Carries videos are the bestttttttt

I occasionally switch to third person or present tense if I've been reading something in third person or present tense recently.

Hi. I've been binging a LOT of your content over the last two days. And I was really thinking "for being from Texas, she doesn't have that heavy of an accent". But Hour 22 Kate? You can hear it. It suddenly appears. Just something I noticed. Keep up the great work! :)

Does anyone else only type with their pointer fingers? I wish I could type normally

Yesss

Aaw puppy is so excited to go walkies, he earned it, he worked hard. I wonder if you were shifting tense because your braineum wanted part of it to be a recounted past tense story, and another thread of it to be happening in the here and now? I always find that an interesting state because it's closer to the world our minds live in, we have the past to remember and we have the present always co-existing.

I like this video :D

Over 40 minutes of Kate? Yes, Please😆! I would so do a 24 hour write-a-thon. I don't know if I would make it but I'd like to at least try. I'm a very slow writer but I think the most I've ever done in a day is around 9k.

I totally want to do this! Just... I'd like not to do it alone...lol.

2089 sounds like such a great idea! I would totally read that :D

All of your effort makes me feel bad about myself. How dare you Kate...

You average 2500 words a day? Holy freaking golden Pope bunnies Kate! I'm inspired to write more. My environment isn't ideal but I can't let that be an excuse. Also, great job, 15k in 24 hours is a great accomplishment. If you only do it OCCASIONALLY. ;)

woo good job!! I should really try to do something like this because i need discipline when it comes to my writing hahaha

What are you using to write on? Is it just the Mac app that’s on there or did you download something? Right now I’m using the OneNote on my Microsoft computer and it’s going pretty good.

Congrats, Kate on your progress!!! This video was hilarious and I'm so jelly you got to do a 24-hour write-a-thon... Kinda hard to do one of those with a 5 month old in the house lolz. Mine would be 24 hours EVENTUALLY but not consecutively lolz. However, nephew isn't gonna be a baby forever so sometime in the future.... In the meantime, I haven't exactly been writing these days but I have been stimulating my creative well (does writing for Episode Choose Your Story count?) If you haven't heard of it, it's an app where you use code in script and you can create your own cartoon basically. Check out Joseph Evans YT tutorials (you'll be hooked). But I digress, this "diversion" has helped me with dialogue and shaping my own novel stories. In a way, stalling has helped me be a better writer. I'm sure you get that. Writers are complex, this video is proof of that lolz.

This might sound weird, but the sound of your videos with headphones is MAGICAL. Like when your pour water in the coffee maker, it's kind of calming. Anyways I'd like to try this one day but it would be actual torture Lol.

i had to press pause so that you can take a rest

What software do you use? 24-hour write-athon sounds like fun 😄 🤣

I really want to know what program you use to write your story. I tried scrivener but the feel of it doesn’t suit me. Its too confusing. I have a lot of problems with it. I really want to experiment with different programs to use for writing.

Where did Duke stay during your Super Mega Solo Roadtrip? O_O You look great in this video, btw! The lighting and focus are perfect.

A shudder when your alarm went off. I hate that sound haha.

Oh god, now I have to try this XD I'm competitive; I wanna see if I can beat your word count

What tracker are you using? I can't make those things for squat lol! Btw, you did great!

24 hr write-a-thon, you mean NaNoDayMo? ;) 15k in one day is nothing to sneeze at though! Good job!

Nashville is awesome af btw

I did a 36 hour one a couple years ago, but I only got up to go to the b room. The story is good, but I got stuck and still haven't went back to it.

I would try this over the summer

I was surprised in the beginning of this video just because I have the SAME ALARM SOUND! I thought something was wrong for a moment^^

I keep coming back to these challenge videos because I want to do them but UGH I gotta get my work schedule to cooperate.

Hello, me again. Watching videos out of order. I am in TN. If you come to Nashville, please do a meet up of some kind! Or better, if you do a book tour when you get Murder Mystery Tennessee published.

I have the same alarm as you (and I hate it so much), so when the video started, I was so confused and kind of annoyed. Also why would you do this to yourself?!?!?

How do you make your charts?