 What's what's shaking? Well, all right, then what's shaking guys and girls if you're wondering why I'm dressed like I just came from a Charles Boyle family reunion It's because it's hard as hell today. It's too hot for me to dress up for you guys today. I'm sorry It is the 10th of November. We're about a third of the way through Nana Rima Although when you watch this it's probably gonna be closer to halfway. I gotta be honest with you guys. I'm I'm not doing great. I am falling a bit behind but most importantly I want to point out that I am having more fun doing Nana Rima this year than I think I ever have before That comes down to a few factors. First of all, I'm loving what it is I'm actually writing which I'll get to in a minute. I'm way more comfortable with where I am writing I did a recent video called setting up my writing office where I talked a bit more about that But most importantly, I've never felt this involved with the writing community before What do you have him buddy, you know what don't worry I got it How's the writing going? Nearly every time I jump on the computer to get some writing done now There's a live stream happening or specifically a writing sprint if you're not familiar with writing sprints That's completely fine. In fact, I wasn't too sure what they were until recently either But let me tell you they are fantastic. Essentially, what a writing sprint live stream is is it's a live stream where the host or the Creator will chat with you for a little bit chat with everyone in the stream And then everyone will stop a timer will come up on the screen It might be for like 20 minutes half an hour 10 minutes and until that timer is up Everyone will just write. I'll admit when I first heard about writing sprints. I wasn't too interested to be honest I was like that sounds super distracting Why wouldn't I just dedicate like an hour or two just to pump out some writing without Breaking it up and you know chatting with people in between but I ended up giving it a chance And I can honestly say that it is it's amazing. There's just something so motivating and exciting about Writing with other people 90% of the writing that I've gotten done for nanorimer has been because of writing sprints You're gonna drink this buddy. Oh My god, I've actually hosted a couple of writing sprints myself already so far and aside from Spilling tea on myself to the point where it's becoming a running joke. It's been a ton of fun I also got to co-host a writing sprint with two of my buddies on author to Brooke Passmore and Kate Kavanaugh And that was super fun as well, even if everyone in the stream started calling me They started calling me a boomer at one point I need to pull up the boomer comment again. I'm totally I shouldn't have put the glasses on it was a mistake. I was about to make a mean comment Cuz I read comments. I'll read them like this Hopefully you'll see more of us teaming up in the future simply put guys I'm having more fun as a writer now than I think I ever have and as corny as it sounds It's because I really am starting to feel like I'm a part of a larger community the support and the Participation from all of you guys who watched my videos and my streams has been nothing short of incredible you guys humble me You really do. Thank you. That's the positive stuff out of the way. I'm having a lot of fun. Sure Maybe a bit too much fun Because I'm falling a bit. I'm falling a bit behind. I'm about 5,000 words behind To be fair, I do have a full-time job obviously that takes most of my time I also had a birthday party this last weekend So I'm not for myself just for a mate, but but I did have a few drinky poos And I woke up the next day feeling like I'd been bitch slapped by the Hulk So writing was out of the question. That's the thing with nanorimer, right? Like you can fall so far behind so damn quickly I think a lot of people underestimate just how many words 1600 words a day is for Sellouts like me with a nine to five. You know what I mean? What do you think? Nanorimo? Who cares? We are but dust in the wind born to die Wonderful. Okay, so let's let's have a look at my stats As you can see the line graph for my overall progress has bigger gaps than Dwight Schrute's fringe Not as bad as it could be but in my opinion Not really optimal either and my average is about up to 1,000 words a day Despite all that I still feel pretty confident that I can bring it back once I have a few days off If I can be optimistic for a moment, if that's okay I look at this and the main thing I see is that I've written about 10,000 words in just a couple of weeks. I haven't been this productive in a super long time. So quite frankly I'm stoked. You might know that during nanorimer. I am writing a horror anthology of short stories There is going to be around 10 short stories. That's the goal. So far I've finished about four I'm nearly done with number five. So in the grand scheme of things I am practically halfway there, which is kind of crazy to me I just finished one of the stories that I'm most excited for people to read It's about two young boys playing hide-and-seek and then one of them finds themselves in a bit of a tight spot I have an exciting idea to get some real catch up done this month, but I'll be honest It's a bit scary to even propose. I'm thinking I might do an all-day writing stream I'm talking 10 to 12 hours of straight writing sprints. What would you guys think about that? Let me know Cheers. I have done a video on the past where I tried to write for 24 hours straight. It didn't go great I'll be honest. It was impossible for me. I think I made it about 12 hours before I ended up descending into Complete madness. I think I could do a 10 hour stream though. I think that could be fun It could either go well, or you could end up seeing me Speaking in tongues before the day is out. Hey, by the way guys are just very quickly I am growing a moustache during November for the Movember Foundation You can find a link in the description below to my Movember page If you can spare just a few dollars, that would be really great because we're trying to raise some money to help prevent Suicide. If you are doing NaNoWriMo, best of luck to you my friend. Go ahead and wish me luck too I need it. And hey, stick around if you like videos about writing. That should do it Closing time. Thanks for watching guys. Catch ya