# Word Dragon Challenge \*THE END\* \[Nov.1~30\]: Share, Chat, Encouragement **URL:** \ **Category:** The Chatters\ **Tags:** chat, writing, hangout\ **Created:** [October 13, 2025, 4:29pm UTC](https://forum.wackywriters.com/t/word-dragon-challenge-the-end-nov-1-30-share-chat-encouragement/15859 "2025-10-13T16:29:43Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 7
**Author:** ![Akje](https://forum.wackywriters.com/user_avatar/forum.wackywriters.com/akje/32/27751_2.png) [@Akje](https://forum.wackywriters.com/u/Akje)\ **Post date:** [November 6, 2025, 3:26pm UTC](https://forum.wackywriters.com/t/word-dragon-challenge-the-end-nov-1-30-share-chat-encouragement/15859/121 "2025-11-06T15:26:38Z")
I’ve been using immersion playlists lately too! It really does help, methinks. (\*＾-‘) 乃 ---
**Author:** ![NatilladeCoco](https://forum.wackywriters.com/user_avatar/forum.wackywriters.com/natilladecoco/32/61679_2.png) [@NatilladeCoco](https://forum.wackywriters.com/u/NatilladeCoco)\ **Post date:** [November 6, 2025, 3:46pm UTC](https://forum.wackywriters.com/t/word-dragon-challenge-the-end-nov-1-30-share-chat-encouragement/15859/122 "2025-11-06T15:46:40Z")
> [@TheTigerWriter](#): > > Having music on in the background is new for me, but I thought if I can write at a cafe with background music and human chatter and concentrate, maybe I could try having BGM I find my best writing sessions are the ones where I have some mood-fitting music on! ---
**Author:** ![alcoholandcaffeine](https://forum.wackywriters.com/user_avatar/forum.wackywriters.com/alcoholandcaffeine/32/28008_2.png) [@alcoholandcaffeine](https://forum.wackywriters.com/u/alcoholandcaffeine)\ **Post date:** [November 6, 2025, 7:24pm UTC](https://forum.wackywriters.com/t/word-dragon-challenge-the-end-nov-1-30-share-chat-encouragement/15859/123 "2025-11-06T19:24:47Z")
> [@TheTigerWriter](#): > > Having music on in the background is new for me, but I thought if I can write at a cafe with background music and human chatter and concentrate, maybe I could try having BGM. Maybe it helps rather then being in complete silence. I was just saying in a similar Inkitt conversation that I found myself unable to write to music lately! which is funny, because I’ve got entire soundtrack playlists for my earlier novels. I’ve also tried the writing at a café thing, and while I love the change of scenery and having good coffee within reach…I really struggled with the BGM 🫠 it’s like I couldn’t hear myself think 😭 * * * on that note, I might have to follow my own advice (recently given in another Inkitt conversation) and scrap my attempts at a chapter so far… after I completed my read-through on Saturday, I was out in the park most of Sunday, and felt too tired to write when I got back up. I typed up some notes, and today I tried to bring the whole chapter together, but it just doesn’t want to 🫤 usually when this happens, I have to scrap everything and start over. I might reuse some of the scraps, but…oh well. ---
**Author:** ![Churro](https://forum.wackywriters.com/user_avatar/forum.wackywriters.com/churro/32/48086_2.png) [@Churro](https://forum.wackywriters.com/u/Churro)\ **Post date:** [November 6, 2025, 7:43pm UTC](https://forum.wackywriters.com/t/word-dragon-challenge-the-end-nov-1-30-share-chat-encouragement/15859/124 "2025-11-06T19:43:43Z")
> [@TheTigerWriter](#): > > Let me know how it goes. I think it’s fun for the writer, too. You know, I always think, us writers, we gotta entertain ourselves while writing the thing. We’re our first audience The word dragons are going to have to be killed off by another story 😂 It’s not working out for me, the gangsters and the romance. The characters are fine but it’s dragging. The plot. I want to focus on something else I can write easier. > [@TheTigerWriter](#): > > This actually sounds really cool. I wonder what it would be like… It might end up being like a chant and what it does is pump the writer up to write the thing 😛 Maybe, who knows? Maybe it will be inspired by something like Kinto Sol (found them at some point, they’re a rap group made up of three Mexican brothers who moved to Milwaukee when they were young. A lot of their music/image contains Aztec/traditional Mexican themes and they typically rap in Spanish). [![]( " - YouTube") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W9RjNfQ8Mpo) This song’s pretty nice, Ella Se Fue. Think it’s one of their more popular ones, afaik. > [@TheTigerWriter](#): > > Oh no! I had a cold last week. It was a weird, annoying cold right before the challenge started 😅 It sucks doesn’t it? I’ve had another day of regaining energy and blowing my nose and coughing haha. Think I might have some honey and ginger green tea or something soon. > [@TheTigerWriter](#): > > Showing up consistently for your writing project doesn’t mean you can’t take a rest sometimes. Word dragons aren’t going anywhere. They like a good fight. They’ll be there waiting 😉 Yes they will be 😃 Looks like they need a different one to fight with me though 😕 haha ---
**Author:** ![TheTigerWriter](https://forum.wackywriters.com/user_avatar/forum.wackywriters.com/thetigerwriter/32/28691_2.png) [@TheTigerWriter](https://forum.wackywriters.com/u/TheTigerWriter)\ **Post date:** [November 6, 2025, 9:23pm UTC](https://forum.wackywriters.com/t/word-dragon-challenge-the-end-nov-1-30-share-chat-encouragement/15859/125 "2025-11-06T21:23:58Z")
Update: Got to 20k mark for my 50k challenge I need to start aiming for the dreaded middle part 😬 ---
**Author:** ![alcoholandcaffeine](https://forum.wackywriters.com/user_avatar/forum.wackywriters.com/alcoholandcaffeine/32/28008_2.png) [@alcoholandcaffeine](https://forum.wackywriters.com/u/alcoholandcaffeine)\ **Post date:** [November 6, 2025, 9:59pm UTC](https://forum.wackywriters.com/t/word-dragon-challenge-the-end-nov-1-30-share-chat-encouragement/15859/126 "2025-11-06T21:59:50Z")
> [@alcoholandcaffeine](#): > > today I tried to bring the whole chapter together, but it just doesn’t want to 🫤 it’s short, but – I have completed chapter 26! hurray! 🥳 I am now at 54.4k words 🥹 ---
**Author:** ![TheTigerWriter](https://forum.wackywriters.com/user_avatar/forum.wackywriters.com/thetigerwriter/32/28691_2.png) [@TheTigerWriter](https://forum.wackywriters.com/u/TheTigerWriter)\ **Post date:** [November 7, 2025, 11:30pm UTC](https://forum.wackywriters.com/t/word-dragon-challenge-the-end-nov-1-30-share-chat-encouragement/15859/127 "2025-11-07T23:30:40Z")
Awesome! 😁 ---
**Author:** ![TheTigerWriter](https://forum.wackywriters.com/user_avatar/forum.wackywriters.com/thetigerwriter/32/28691_2.png) [@TheTigerWriter](https://forum.wackywriters.com/u/TheTigerWriter)\ **Post date:** [November 7, 2025, 11:32pm UTC](https://forum.wackywriters.com/t/word-dragon-challenge-the-end-nov-1-30-share-chat-encouragement/15859/128 "2025-11-07T23:32:00Z")
Update: 2000 more words and I’ll be at the halfway point ![image](https://storage.wackywriters.com/original/3X/f/c/fc139821592db123f509c7a1a1806063b7e71ee0.png) After a two-chapter head start, I’m getting in a chapter a day ---
**Author:** ![Akje](https://forum.wackywriters.com/user_avatar/forum.wackywriters.com/akje/32/27751_2.png) [@Akje](https://forum.wackywriters.com/u/Akje)\ **Post date:** [November 8, 2025, 2:06am UTC](https://forum.wackywriters.com/t/word-dragon-challenge-the-end-nov-1-30-share-chat-encouragement/15859/129 "2025-11-08T02:06:08Z")
I’ve written 9613 words in all so far. If this were NaNo we’d need to have 11,669 by the end of today, so yup! Right on schedule I’m falling behind. This is just about the spot where I started falling off during NaNo every year too–around the end of the first week. ☜(ˆ▿ˆc) ---
**Author:** ![alcoholandcaffeine](https://forum.wackywriters.com/user_avatar/forum.wackywriters.com/alcoholandcaffeine/32/28008_2.png) [@alcoholandcaffeine](https://forum.wackywriters.com/u/alcoholandcaffeine)\ **Post date:** [November 8, 2025, 1:22pm UTC](https://forum.wackywriters.com/t/word-dragon-challenge-the-end-nov-1-30-share-chat-encouragement/15859/130 "2025-11-08T13:22:28Z")
> [@TheTigerWriter](#): > > Update: 2000 more words and I’ll be at the halfway point damn, you’re on a roll! 😮 also, that excel really is some advanced science stuff 😂 ---
**Author:** ![alcoholandcaffeine](https://forum.wackywriters.com/user_avatar/forum.wackywriters.com/alcoholandcaffeine/32/28008_2.png) [@alcoholandcaffeine](https://forum.wackywriters.com/u/alcoholandcaffeine)\ **Post date:** [November 8, 2025, 1:27pm UTC](https://forum.wackywriters.com/t/word-dragon-challenge-the-end-nov-1-30-share-chat-encouragement/15859/131 "2025-11-08T13:27:20Z")
> [@alcoholandcaffeine](#): > > I have completed chapter 26! hurray! 🥳 I am now at 54.4k words 🥹 chapter 27 is also done & dusted 🥹 55.7k words as of right now. hopefully I can churn out 2 more chapters this weekend. so far, I’ve been mostly sticking to the scenes I’ve laid out in my outline for this last stretch, _but_ - they keep taking up more space than I expected lol. my estimated last chapter bumped up to 34 instead of 32 😂 at least I’m happy to have a working outline, because otherwise at this point, I would forget all of the clues/red herrings/etc. I also suspect I’ll do some serious trimming in my second draft, so. just trying to tackle this one chapter at a time. ---
**Author:** ![NatilladeCoco](https://forum.wackywriters.com/user_avatar/forum.wackywriters.com/natilladecoco/32/61679_2.png) [@NatilladeCoco](https://forum.wackywriters.com/u/NatilladeCoco)\ **Post date:** [November 8, 2025, 5:13pm UTC](https://forum.wackywriters.com/t/word-dragon-challenge-the-end-nov-1-30-share-chat-encouragement/15859/132 "2025-11-08T17:13:34Z")
Ive written about 2k total this week and made good progress into Chapter 28 (a chapter Ive been wanting to get to since starting this project, aside from the finale) ---
**Author:** ![TheTigerWriter](https://forum.wackywriters.com/user_avatar/forum.wackywriters.com/thetigerwriter/32/28691_2.png) [@TheTigerWriter](https://forum.wackywriters.com/u/TheTigerWriter)\ **Post date:** [November 8, 2025, 8:53pm UTC](https://forum.wackywriters.com/t/word-dragon-challenge-the-end-nov-1-30-share-chat-encouragement/15859/133 "2025-11-08T20:53:53Z")
> [@alcoholandcaffeine](#): > > that excel really is some advanced science stuff 😂 My partner made it. He’s good at that sort of thing. I’m absolutely clueless and always afraid of messing things up. He added the “words left” part for funsies, I guess 😛 ---
**Author:** ![CoffeebyNight](https://forum.wackywriters.com/user_avatar/forum.wackywriters.com/coffeebynight/32/62352_2.png) [@CoffeebyNight](https://forum.wackywriters.com/u/CoffeebyNight)\ **Post date:** [November 8, 2025, 9:03pm UTC](https://forum.wackywriters.com/t/word-dragon-challenge-the-end-nov-1-30-share-chat-encouragement/15859/134 "2025-11-08T21:03:45Z")
I am behind. I am trying to be not behind. I am officially back on the saddle! Not entirely caught up yet, but I am getting there - aiming for a few more thousand words tonight as my weekend write-in just started ![image](https://storage.wackywriters.com/original/3X/a/1/a13a154140d96a7f4c07fafc5c9d24bf3c120835.png) ---
**Author:** ![Akje](https://forum.wackywriters.com/user_avatar/forum.wackywriters.com/akje/32/27751_2.png) [@Akje](https://forum.wackywriters.com/u/Akje)\ **Post date:** [November 8, 2025, 9:24pm UTC](https://forum.wackywriters.com/t/word-dragon-challenge-the-end-nov-1-30-share-chat-encouragement/15859/135 "2025-11-08T21:24:35Z")
I love how it says the earth will travel 167,229,455 km in that time period. Like, is that meant to make you feel guilty that the earth is accomplishing more than you are? Very motivating! (\>‿◠)✌ ---
**Author:** ![CoffeebyNight](https://forum.wackywriters.com/user_avatar/forum.wackywriters.com/coffeebynight/32/62352_2.png) [@CoffeebyNight](https://forum.wackywriters.com/u/CoffeebyNight)\ **Post date:** [November 8, 2025, 10:04pm UTC](https://forum.wackywriters.com/t/word-dragon-challenge-the-end-nov-1-30-share-chat-encouragement/15859/136 "2025-11-08T22:04:26Z")
Can’t let Earth do more than me!!! ---
**Author:** ![CoffeebyNight](https://forum.wackywriters.com/user_avatar/forum.wackywriters.com/coffeebynight/32/62352_2.png) [@CoffeebyNight](https://forum.wackywriters.com/u/CoffeebyNight)\ **Post date:** [November 8, 2025, 11:57pm UTC](https://forum.wackywriters.com/t/word-dragon-challenge-the-end-nov-1-30-share-chat-encouragement/15859/137 "2025-11-08T23:57:11Z")
![image](https://storage.wackywriters.com/original/3X/0/f/0fe98a0e582f024885c7301792b22eeba792725f.png) I am getting there! 😃 ---
**Author:** ![TheTigerWriter](https://forum.wackywriters.com/user_avatar/forum.wackywriters.com/thetigerwriter/32/28691_2.png) [@TheTigerWriter](https://forum.wackywriters.com/u/TheTigerWriter)\ **Post date:** [November 9, 2025, 9:57am UTC](https://forum.wackywriters.com/t/word-dragon-challenge-the-end-nov-1-30-share-chat-encouragement/15859/138 "2025-11-09T09:57:14Z")
Awesome! 😁 ---
**Author:** ![J.L.O](https://forum.wackywriters.com/user_avatar/forum.wackywriters.com/j.l.o/32/36267_2.png) [@J.L.O](https://forum.wackywriters.com/u/J.L.O)\ **Post date:** [November 9, 2025, 5:34pm UTC](https://forum.wackywriters.com/t/word-dragon-challenge-the-end-nov-1-30-share-chat-encouragement/15859/139 "2025-11-09T17:34:45Z")
I mentioned I had a rough start, by coming in late in another post. Personal goal is 30K, this year. Had a really bad stomach bug make that goal very hard to keep up with. Currently at 8991 words, -795 test words before the month started, being 8196 for the month. Must make 9K to be on track, so I’ve got 804 words to go. ---
**Author:** ![TheTigerWriter](https://forum.wackywriters.com/user_avatar/forum.wackywriters.com/thetigerwriter/32/28691_2.png) [@TheTigerWriter](https://forum.wackywriters.com/u/TheTigerWriter)\ **Post date:** [November 9, 2025, 7:55pm UTC](https://forum.wackywriters.com/t/word-dragon-challenge-the-end-nov-1-30-share-chat-encouragement/15859/140 "2025-11-09T19:55:26Z")
> [@J.L.O](#): > > so I’ve got 804 words to go. You can do it! 😁 [Previous page](https://forum.wackywriters.com/t/word-dragon-challenge-the-end-nov-1-30-share-chat-encouragement/15859.md?page=6) [Next page](https://forum.wackywriters.com/t/word-dragon-challenge-the-end-nov-1-30-share-chat-encouragement/15859.md?page=8)