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It's the first day of Camp NaNoWriMo and I am determined to WIN this month. My goal is 35,000 words in 2 projects, one of which I'm drafting, the other revising. And my daily reward? A NaNo puzzle, of course.
0:00 Intro to my goals AAAANNDDD a NaNoWriMo puzzle!!
2:21 Day 1!
12:37 Questions for you and starting the puzzle as my reward lolol.
☟↓ QUESTIONS FOR YOU BELOOOOOW! ↓☟
D I S C U S S I O N Q U E S T I O N S :
How are YOU rewarding yourself for completing your goals??
What's your most random pet peeve in stories? Is there something you see a lot in other books that you swear to NEVER do?
How did Day 1 of Camp go for you (if you're participating)??
What are your goals for this month?
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@manvellvn Год назад

Me who missed the first day of Camp bc I forgot…💀Thanks for the reminder, Kate😭

@KateCavanaugh Год назад

Lolol you’re welcome! Now that you’ve remembered, happy camping! Bahaha. 🏕️

@bellamin4549 Год назад

Lol I came here to post the same thing. I’ve been planning for this day and completely forgot 🤦‍♀️ I literally just got a habit tracker in the mail 10minutes ago. Maybe it’s time to open it 😂

@manvellvn Год назад

@@KateCavanaughThank you!!! Same goes for yaa

@valeriacpla6320 Год назад

same here!

@glowllama Год назад

Lol same.

@emily_byars Год назад

This is my first Nano, and I’m fully breaking the rules: no novel, no word count goal! Instead, I’m finishing the first draft of my creative writing thesis, so I need 45-60 pages of poetry by the end of the month!

@victoriaquackenbush7495 Год назад

I call it the "Inconvenient Ad Break"; like when you're watching a tv episode and the ad plays over the show and then won't let you go back and see what you missed.

@KateCavanaugh Год назад

YESSSSS, I love that! I'm going to start calling it that too hahahaha, thank you!

@theenthugger Год назад

For camp nano i'm editing my entire phd thesis...i thought putting it into the nano website would make real work more fun hahaha

@MS-mv7zi Год назад

I'm doing 500 words/day in any form, so today I've gotten 150 just from a diary entry. I'm sitting on my porch writing to the sound of rain - it's great! Just what I needed on a bad day. I think that little gap in time could be so fun! I want to hear all the awkward explanations.

@tropamediocre Год назад

I just started today and did 2,000 words. Best of wishes to all writers out there!

@ChelseyFuredi Год назад

A nano puzzle is such a good idea!! It’s the perfect break from screens 😂

@KateCavanaugh Год назад

RIGHT. Although my posture is not much better doing a puzzle vs shrimping over a keyboard bahaha.

@itslemons2852 Год назад

I wish you the best of luck for this round of Camp NANOWRIMO!

@MartaCanPixel Год назад

Omg I am obsessed with that puzzle! 😍 For revisions I actually track my progress by 'problem fixed' rather than words/scenes/chapters. I find especially for later drafts, this allows me to jump around a bit more and tackle things out of order. Of course it's not exactly linear cause one problem can be take me a week to fix and then the next problem might take me an hour, but I still find it's worth it for the ability to jump around easier and focus on one thing at a time.

@katozrippla1497 Год назад

Hooray! Happy Camp! I’ve been recently going through a writing rut as all my 3rd person projects started sounding the same, so I’ve started a completely new 1st person project for Camp! I’m doing 50k words and I’ve already written 3,800 ish today! Starting strong! I haven’t done a camp since 2020

@authorashleynicole Год назад

Ooh I'm intrigued with the tarot draw for writing sprints. Tell me more!

@chillgamingchannel1283 Год назад

I think that skip can be done well. Like a bunch of school kids get caught doing something naughty by the teacher and then it just skips to them in detention. Or if it skips to a really bizarre outcome and you slowly figure out through dialogue or POV character how they got into this new situation. But whether that trumps just showing the scene in real time I think depends on how important it is to the actual story.

@cristinaciocca3540 Год назад

I agree! I think it's great when used for a comedic delivery. That said, when it's a result of lazy writing it's insufferable. In Misery Annie Wilkies was ready to kill over it!XD

@DarrianChamblee Год назад

I started reading Delicious in Dungeon after you mentioned it and it is delightful! I’ll definitely be purchasing my own copies

@KateCavanaugh Год назад

RIGHT?! Delightful is truly the best word to describe it! I’m so glad you’re enjoying it too. :)

@annahcreates Год назад

You've got this Kate!

@HollyBrown-pl9cd Год назад

The puzzle reward is so real 😄

@iiiiitsmagreta1240 Год назад

At 10:17 to 10:20 I think the God(esse)s of -Queerness- Unlabelled Girl-Liking Coolness smiled upon you 🌈💖✨💖✨🌈

@dragoneye8808 Год назад

Aaaaah Camp time! I'm going for the full 50k this camp because I'm not sure if I'm going to be able to do November, I'm mainly focusing on one project, but I'm also doing a whole summer long event in a writers discord server that I'm in, so that'll fill in some gaps where I need to take a break from my main project. I hope camp goes well for you, Kate, I believe in you!

@macaronimagpie Год назад

I love your puzzle tray!!! I want one like it to keep my cats off my puzzles. My first day of camp went really well! I've got a little over 4k right now and I'm debating if I want to try and make that an even 5k before I go to bed. The trick is going to be keeping up with writing throughout the month, LOL.

@lakeshagadson357 Год назад

i love this workout

@rissaallen6298 Год назад

It’s camp! 🥳 I’m coming fresh off of edits of part 1 of my duology and diving right into drafting part 2. I have a very rough outline I’m following and hoping to bank 30k for the month

@shelbywhitley6463 Год назад

i’ve written 501 words so far for camp on a project i have 25,000 words so far on. my goal for camp is 50k so i can finish book. i haven’t done camp nano before so i’m superrr excited :) good luck kate

@foundinfiction24 Год назад

Dude, I am right there with you. Haven't won Nano since July 2020 and not for want of trying!! Here's hoping we both smash it and break the dry run. 😂

@KateCavanaugh Год назад

FINGERS CROSSED FOR BOTH OF US. This is our month!!! 😂

@sarahkendle7564 Год назад

I always forget about Camp NanoWrimo until the last day of June, this year I forgot about it until the 2nd July so I quickly set myself a small goal. I have a project I have been working on for a while but I have been slipping out of the habit of writing, so this July I am giving myself just a 6,000 word goal so that I don't feel overwhelmed.

@corvidae_s Год назад

First day went good! But I figured it would because the first couple of days will just be rewrites for me before starting to actually draft

@FidinaQuery Год назад

Im on exactly the same boat! Im finishing up 2 projects this camp! *high five

@johntubbs6617 Год назад

As authors and writers, we make puzzles for readers to solve in reality. My goal is to work on well written monologues. A very important mode for getting characterization and goals across to the reader. Another new buzz word for me is: Counter-Punctual Writing. It basically keeps the readers awake with changes of all sorts. (Maybe even the writer as well ??? ) They never said writing was easy.

@Iwasonceanonionwithnolayers Год назад

Happy Camp Nano, guys!

@KateCavanaugh Год назад

happy camp!!!

@KerriB Год назад

I'm hoping to get 30k written on the novel I started for the 24hr challenge so I get to the halfway point and then hopefully another 15k on a fantasy novel 🎉 The "No whammy!" is from Press your Luck. Used to love that game show!

@omeganine2647 Год назад

You can do it! This is my first time I am doing it for the first time. It’s scary!

@KateCavanaugh Год назад

AHHHH!! GOOD LUCK ON YOUR FIRST CAMP! YOU GOT THIS!

@omeganine2647 Год назад

@@KateCavanaugh Thanks! Good luck to you too!

@AuthorZaraHoffman Год назад

I definitely think of revision in terms of scenes, but actually share progress online based on chapters 😅

@saltywriteralex Год назад

Crushed my camp goal for today! Aiming for the full NaNo. 50k words during the month, and today got 1698. I'll take it!

@raquelgabrielle Год назад

progress is progress! I am starting late in camp nanowrimo because I was sick the first couple of days but I am only hoping to get 30K done this month since I am also working on some edits of my previous novel.

@Anisa-ig6xw Год назад

Kate bringing the whole library to her house 12:33

@KateCavanaugh Год назад

EVERY. TIME. 📚

@ryanwrites Год назад

You've made me commit to nano again this time. Let's see how much I can get done. I think just working on something more often is better than hitting a certain word count goal. I have also lost the last five or so camp nanos in a row haha T-T

@KateCavanaugh Год назад

Yessss, agreed! Sometimes it's just the extra motivation boost needed in order to write a hundred words on a day when you really don't feel like it. I've known lots of people who have used Camp or November's NaNo just to help set a routine. GOOD LUCK! YOU GOT THIS. :)

@sakurakitkat8037 Год назад

I'm about halfway to my daily goal. Got a late start, but I'm determined to reach 4,000 words today. (I'm at 1,231 so far.) Good luck to everyone! 🤞

@jadeitor6280 Год назад

I'm using some notes I've been taking while playing DnD as an outline and I set the goal to only 15k words. I fear I don't have much time for it but even if I don't write that often I always get motivated during Nano season 😁💖💖

@Wiscocards12 Год назад

First time doing anything nanowrimo so I'm taking it slow with a 10k goal lol love the vids btw

@KateCavanaugh Год назад

10K is a great goal!! So happy for your first Camp and first NaNo experience, that's AWESOME. Good luck with the words!! :)

@Wiscocards12 Год назад

@@KateCavanaugh I appreciate it 😊

@glowllama Год назад

I do revisions in scenes or chapters. I'm also an edit as you go kind of writer. I don't do heavy edits while drafting unless I feel it is absolutely necessary. More like small things I forgot to add or lightly changes to how an argument went. It makes me feel like I have all my ducks in a row. Plus, you're totally right, I hate it. What happened?? Don't skip over that stuff!

@76kilosofshade81 Год назад

My goals are very easy - some writing (whether 5 mins or an hour) every day plus one pic a day. I'm travelling for 20 days to Europe and moving provinces this month so the focus isn't on the novel, just on not losing momentum. 😁 While I'm travelling, it'll be travel writing and while I'm home, it'll be my novel. So yes, multiple projects.

@MistbornTaylor Год назад

My primary goal for nano is to finish the draft of the book I'm currently working on. I'm at almost 90k words so I set my goal for camp nano at 100k. There is a strong possibility that I go over the 100k word mark since I still have a 3 or 4 major plot points before I can get to the climax. My second goal--more of a hope--is that once I finish the draft of my book I would also like to write a novella in this same world. I don't know if this is realistic and may have to push the novella back to August but it is my hope.

@Cecedoesthingsx Год назад

I hit my goal for the day! I told myself 1000 words a day on my primary project then I can play with other ideas after that

@cassie_hart Год назад

I'm keeping up my slow and steady pace for camp! only about 500 words a day - I have so many edits for other people on right now that I can't do more than that. Trying to remember to update daily is already proving hard (it's the 3rd here), but I just remembered how to go and update for a previous day, so, yay!

@Chivalrytotem Год назад

If you want to win for the sake of winning, you can just set a small word count and be done with it 😆😆😆 I just checked your project list 👍

@asmrjournals6600 Год назад

My word count goal for this camp is 16,000 and first day I got 1,012 words, which I can rarely get in a day of writing!!

@vhaerya Год назад

i'm using camp to read my novel and write notes to prepare for the second draft. So my "word count" goal on the nano website is just 62 for the 62 chapters in the novel

@Heothbremel Год назад

Best of luck all. This year for camp nano i am... moving house. No novel for me, most likely, but i really hope everyone else is able to make progress!!!

@nildam.bonilla5849 Год назад

I'm still working on my discovery outline/zero draft and I do hope that 15,000 or even more this month take me to the end 😅 because I'm already starting to get scene ideas for the 2nd book and I think I already have the first sentence of book 2 also😅

@ringsroses Год назад

That puzzle is my favorite design! I have the poster but now I'm wondering if I need the puzzle 😅 I'm not a fan of the cliffhanger scene jumps. It has to be done very well to make up for the miserable dissonance for me.

@KateCavanaugh Год назад

YESSSSSS get you the puzzle! I think I’ll use puzzle glue on this one and hang it up like a poster once I’m done! YES. Thank you for expressing this much better than I could bahaha. Exactly my problem.

@jaqofmosttrades Год назад

I call it "apps and desert" -- I think there is a way to do it correctly, but god sometimes it is very noticeable that a main course is missing.

@mjm.6404 Год назад

I actually forgot July was Nanowrimo but I was planning on starting a rewrite of a sci-fi story so I started it today and got two chapters done! (Though the chapters are still very short because it's only like the second draft so I only got like 1,400 something words)

@herothebard Год назад

First day has gone fairly well, I am already at 2800 ( 7 pages that I am counting as 400 words a page) seams like a slow day. Trying not to push myself.

@demikhalid2678 9 месяцев назад

Plis blog, you are my writting buddy😊

@tejaswinisureshkrishnan4228 Год назад

I was so close to finishing my draft and I set a goal for camp nano and now I'm super close to being done and it's only been 7 days and I feel like I've cheated😂

@LessaCaira Год назад

I had a good first day of Camp. I haven't written or edited since Feb of 2020 and was afraid I might still be stuck. Since I'm editing, as set up for camp I counted the words in each chapter. My goal is to edit 100k but my hope is to edit a chapter a day. If I do that I will be way over the goal but the book will be done with edit one.

@SpencerSalt Год назад

This is my first ever camp nanowrimo! My first ever novel!

@KateCavanaugh Год назад

AHHH congrats on your first Camp AND your first ever novel!! Good luck and you've got this! :)

@SpencerSalt Год назад

@@KateCavanaugh omg thank you so much!

@Avikar88 Год назад

What deck did you use?

@debraiversen9214 Год назад

I want there to be a photoramo for amateur photographers. LOL

@rainyhammer9235 Год назад

I am not doing Camp. Historically it is too damn hot for me to be able to do any work. I will be doing some rereading.

@A_Bookish_Obsession Год назад

*gasp* 5 MINUTES AGO! I'm FIVE MINUTES LATE??? That Nanowrimo puzzle is so freaking cute. Lmao just tried update the Nanowrimo site and for some reason it kept telling me that I already won with 2329 words like lmao tf do you mean?! 😂 The first day of camp is going pretty good so far. I'm trying to stick to Project Mafia, but only have the beginning leading into Act 2 as well as the Dark Night of the Soul and everything after that figured out so I have a lot of brainstorming ahead of me. But I'm tracking moreso by scenes completed and less by word count- though obviously for Camp Nano sites sake (wow trying that 5 times fast) I am tracking my words because I want to win (even though I technically already have hahaha).

@KateCavanaugh Год назад

Loooool, I’d take that win and run with it! 😂 that’s so funny. And yesssss I love it so much. The second the email came in, I ran to the site and scooped one up.

@A_Bookish_Obsession Год назад

@@KateCavanaugh Oh I'm absolutely taking that as a win. If Nano says I win, then I win... Don't I? 🤨

@leeleeb.2784 Год назад

Hi Kate! THE NANOWRIMO MUG!!! Where'd ya get it?

@KateCavanaugh Год назад

I bought both from the NaNoWriMo store website a few years ago! They have some other designs still up there currently. :)

@leeleeb.2784 Год назад

@@KateCavanaugh Okay, thanks! Love your channel!

@ash_days_ Год назад

To be fair I've never won Nanowirimo ever but MAYBE this year will be different...mainly because it'll be my first attempt ever 😂

@stardustajm8618 Год назад

I'm sure you've gotten this question before but what kind of keyboard do you use?

@KateCavanaugh Год назад

It's a Ubotie!! My sister-in-law bought it for me off Amazon. They have a ton of different color schemes. Some of the letters have rubbed off a bit after so much use, but it's still so cute, would totally recommend it!

@universalii999 Год назад

What kind of writing program is that?

@fionahowellwrites5302 Год назад

Made my goal super low for this camp 'cause I'm also doing a music camp the second week....I can't do both. I tried last year and failed. Lol

@KateCavanaugh Год назад

That’s smart!! It’s always great when you learn from the past and pivot. I hope you have fun at music camp! Good luck on your words AND I hope you have fun at music camp!’

@fionahowellwrites5302 Год назад

@@KateCavanaugh I’ll definitely have fun with both!! Get to study with some of the current Irish music legends like the band, Lúnasa. 😃🍀

@flameazaleas Год назад

WAIT IT'S CAMP NANO??? IT'S JULY?? guess i'm pantsing! lmaooo

@KateCavanaugh Год назад

👖👖👖👖

@heatherkirchhoffwritesya Год назад

Where did you get the puzzle? 😮😍

@KateCavanaugh Год назад

NaNoWriMo sells it!! It looks like it’s still in stock. You can find it here: store.nanowrimo.org/collections/shop/products/copy-of-nanowrimo-2008-city-of-novelists-poster Happy puzzling!!! :)

@heatherkirchhoffwritesya Год назад

@@KateCavanaughThank you!

@laurlovesliterature Год назад

its 6 pm on day 1 and I havent even started yet rip

@catherinel.7837 Год назад

Same here ! But I'm sure we can still write a lot of words tonight 🙃 we can do this! 💪

@KateCavanaugh Год назад

You’re just going for that night owl stat! 🦉

@laurlovesliterature Год назад

@@catherinel.7837 yes we got this!!!!

@madametrafficjam8347 Год назад

My first day of nano was spent on a train, getting no writing done, but I'm editing this month, and I'm counting 1h of editing time as 1K words, so I'm not concerned about already being behind. I try to reward myself, just in general, with as many things as possible that don't require spending money, so I often reward myself with things like time spent on a hobby I don't give myself much time on. And yes, sometimes that means building a jigsaw puzzle :). My biggest pet peeve in reading that I refuse to ever do is using reductive descriptors instead of pronouns just because there's more than one person using the same pronoun. It becomes so stilted and bad. "bla bla bla, said John. The Brunette shook his head and took the blonde's hand. "I'd rather we go to lunch" The Brit agreed, because when the Asian boy held the baker's hand, the taller boy couldn't think straight." How many people are in this scene? Just two, but see how bad it is.