The Writing Process - A Journey.

[@shirkami]

On Day 28, paraphrased: "I'm worried that I'm not going to finish because I'm so close to being done."

[@valeriewillham7274]

"So why aren't you writing?" "Because I want to watch My Little Pony..." YAS.

[@shannonking9766]

I am 300 words from being done and now I'm on KZbin, procrastinating. Must...get...to...50,000...

[@lucielane606]

This is the most inspirational video on NaNoWriMo I have seen yet. No pep talks, no inspirational quotes, just you being awesome and practicing what you preach. Your reactions and emotions have kept me going this year.

[@TheTheoreticalNewt]

This is like the tenth time I've watched this this month. I should probably get back to writing...

[@januaryembers1146]

Doing it this year so excited! My friend and I are both doing it

[@sharizzle09]

This may be my absolute favorite video of yours ever Kristina!!!!! Thanks for documenting the whole journey... that was truly a blast to watch :) congrats!!! I hope some day you publish a novel (or many!). There are definitely thousands of people who would lovelovelove to read one of your novels!!

[@leenanorms]

this looks like an aweful lot of fun. NEXT YEAR x

[@xKhrypt]

I should do this next year just because we have such different views of NaNoWriMo throughout the month.

[@terralynn9]

Congratulations!! I finished on the 27th at 61,588 words, which is a personal best for me. I think you were one of the inspirations that got me started on NaNoWriMo three years ago, so thanks Kristina!

[@JessicaBiilor]

I'm doing Camp right now, and I come back to this video every day - it is just so inspirational and motivating! Absolutely adore it.

[@homefreylf]

I love that you documented the process, it gives me more motivation to do it next year! I tried this year but only ended up writing about 12 thousand before I petered out and got super busy. Next year though!

[@extremelyparadoxical]

this is my favorite video. not just on this channel, but of all time.

[@JoelJoel321]

After watching this video last year, I was inspired to do Nanowrimo for the first time this year. It's challenging but I'm glad I'm doing it. Good luck Kristina if you're Nanowrimoing again this year!

[@preistnshaman]

I adore you in a totally platonic way. You are a huge inspiration. I didn't get to do NaNoWriMo due to me breaking my back and recovering but, I'm looking forward to trying to write a novel in another month that seems less busy. You are a great role model and I love that I can relate to you (WoW, Ponies) and that you are so human. By human I mean being imperfect and making mistakes and not being ashamed of them. It's a breath of fresh air, really.

[@albinodeer5336]

This has totally inspired me! I have a goal to finish my novel by October 20th!

[@heecharmander]

Congrats on finishing! Wow, 7th year, that's impressive :) And I love what you said on Day 19 about really writing & enjoying a story and not just getting to the count being what nano is really about~

[@gelis33]

I am so so happy for you Kristinaa!!!!, congratulations :D

[@duze88]

loved this video, probably one of my favorites from you. I've never written a novel or even a short story but this kind of makes me want to??

[@0southpaw6]

Didn't manage to do Nanowrimo this year. (I won't bore you with excuses) but well done Kristina! Wish I could have done it with you!

[@gocanadayayyy]

Have fun with it! It's really great and I know you're going to love doing it :)

[@itsmekatiep]

This video really was amazing. I felt like I took a journey with you. I teared up when finished!

[@journalsbysophie]

this is such a cool project! i just love this video!!!! im a writer to and i feel like its a great idea to kinda make yourself write.. even if you have off days i love this! so thanks!

[@abcdefghayley]

this was so interesting and adorable. congrats on making it Kristina!

[@zahraalzuwayed7751]

I love this! so encouraging!!

[@SourShlee0]

Started late this year, Actually this was my first time, finished my novel with 57k in about 13 days, I can't wait for next year!

[@balderdashdarling]

This was great. I think I will do this next year to help keep me motivated.

[@AnalisaCaso]

Love this video. Kristina convinced me to do NaNoWriMo for the first time this year, and it was awesome.

[@sydwaitforitney]

It was my first year and, being an 8th grader, I knew no one doing NaNo. I was watching your wordcount the whole month and made myself stay near you. Thanks for helping me win :)

[@WholeFoodSpark]

Congrats Kristina! I haven't been doing NaNoWriMo but I've been working on an e-book for the last few weeks. Your video summed up my thoughts exactly. I've written over 20,000 words. Some days I wanted to tear my hair out and other times I got into such a groove that I was like HELL YEAH! :D Gotta love writing.

[@JessicaBiilor]

This video is an amazing source of inspiration! I didn't do a "proper" nanowrimo this year because of schoolwork, so I stoped somewhere around 20k, but next year (when I have a blissful gap year), this is really something I want to do :) Thanks for being brilliant.

[@suzannahlikespie433]

I just watched this today and you winning made me cry...I'm not sure why but yeah. Happy almost NaNoWriMo!

[@ofalvo]

I appreciate your you tube posting because it tended to reflect much of my own successes and conflicts. Thankfully, I reached my goal on thanksgiving day. Really appreciate your video posting.

[@thesilentdj]

I first heard about NaNoWriMo three years ago from you vlogging about it and this year was the first year I didn't have time to participate! I was so sad but now I'm so glad you made a video about your writing process cause it made me feel like I still got to experience a bit of it (aside from the moments where I forced myself to ignore all the #wordspring tweets)... thaaaank you for sharing this with us!

[@seanababy16]

This video... is amazing. I wish I had thought to do something like this throughout the month. Maybe next year... hehe Congrats on winning! I won as well, and I feel like I owe a lot of it to your Twitter word sprints! I participated in every one that I could and they were hugely helpful. Happy December! And happy birthday month! :)

[@jillkulwickycom]

This was an amazing video idea! I loved actually seeing how the writing was going each day. I can't even imagine doing nanowrimo!

[@abirox123]

Congratz on finishing, you've definitely inspired me to seriously consider it next year, depending on how exams fall :)

[@Restrictedbeauty]

This is so precious and inspiring. Thank you so much!

[@carriewrites9477]

This is very inspiring. I can't wait to get started with NaNoWriMo.

[@ledra4321]

Found out that my intense classes for school this year end on November 1st! Nanowrimo, here i come!!! :D (got so excited that i had to marathon all my favourite nanowrimo vids...yup)

[@ASMRReads_]

Well done! I didn't do so well, I stopped after the first day :( I will do it one year though!

[@gryffindorsphoenix]

Is anyone else having trouble with the fact that they are almost at 50K but nowhere near done?

[@MrsDoctorShansen]

Story of my life.

[@ifonlyicould]

You are inspirational! Congratulations!

[@emmaleemaysir]

I really love this. Thank you for doing this. Brilliant!

[@Giascreen]

that was such a cool and inspiring video, you should do more like that with like just a couple thoughts about your day and then a rap up for the month...even if its not novermber and your not writing! congrats!

[@Alternhuman]

Congratulations! Good work!

[@alexishope3552]

Congratulations on winning another year, Kristina!! I finished with 24,733 words!! It's not 50k, but I'm still proud of myself for beating last year's word count! And I hope to get even more words next year!!! ^o^

[@yopyopo]

Bless Liz :) , loved this video and congrats on 7th year

[@SuperCanadianCowGirl]

Absolutely doing this next year.

[@casea8551]

I love this video. do this every year, please!

[@miharuhattori]

I don't even have a dryer, but they are also really tight after washing them. And I have one green jeans which I have to wash more often because you can actually see the stains and one time I wasn't sure if I could get in them anymore ;)

[@cleverclogsmerlin]

I loved this, you should make a video like this every year! :)

[@MsIntuitiveThinker]

I really liked what you said on Day 19, in the past 17 days of NaNoWriMo I've really experienced that as well. It feels absolutely fabulous to get an idea down, maybe something you've thought a lot about but never were really able to get out. That's the nice thing about writing, you can say and do a lot of stuff you wouldn't in real life and then be like "Oh no, my characters said that, I didn't." When really it's a peak inside your own brain! Hehe

[@michaelpeeta829]

I can't wait until NaNoWriMo this year!!! I just finished my first draft of my novel though!! So Small Victory!!!!

[@charleanmeat]

This is my favourite video about nanowrimo that I've seen, and I'm making one of myself for this year! :)

[@Kellitorable]

I finally participated in NaNoWriMo this year! :D I've wanted to since I saw your first videos about it, but this year I finally did it... and I succeeded! AND I ACTUALLY LIKE MY STORY! :D Thank you Kristina

[@bookbrooke8]

I tried for the first time this year and got to 14k which is still the longest thing I've ever written even though I didn't finish. All your previous NaNoWriMo vids really helped me keep going in the beginning!

[@WatchTheFunnyShow]

I'm mid writing my own novel, but I'm in no rush. I'm kinda thinking that I want to do nanowrimo next year, but I don't know if you can if you live in Britain, or if there's age restrictions... Maybe I'll just challenge myself! You're an inspiration Kristina!

[@MagicTurtle643]

Congrats! I hit 50,000 somewhere around Nov 20 but didn't finish the book itself by Nov 30. Oh well!

[@PetaHillier]

Good job! It was my 2nd year, and so did I!

[@somethingforsam]

Congrats! I've wanted to do it for three years now and I've never had the chance.

[@silhouette1998]

Thanks, I'm sure I will love doing it. Also, you have a great username (greetings from London, Ontario)!

[@TheMissTokita]

Awesome video, Kristina! Congratulations :D

[@dontswimyoulldrown4260]

*casually waits for july first so i can start camp NaNo*.... *midnight on july 1* NOPE IM DONE I QUIT IM NOT READYYYYY

[@chuppa229]

love this style of video!

[@IngerDuelund]

Congratulations Kristina! I didn't get to 50,000 words, and finished my story at 30,999. I'm still proud though - it was my first year doing it, had a lot of schoolwork, and I'll do better next year :D

[@DanielleOlavario]

Kristina you are amazing! I don't know how you do this, looks scary! But I might try my first nanowrimo next year!

[@TheLittelCuteOne]

This was a really nice video. I might do something like this next year, it seams easier then trying to do proper vloggs through the month ^^

[@Chonch95]

I wish I was as committed to it as you. I started the planning on the first day, and then I just let it sit in my mind until the 27th... then I wrote 8,000 one day and gave up. lol. I'm still gonna write it. It's just gonna take like a year.

[@megashton]

Justin and Joe are great for keeping making you do it and asking you on camera :)

[@LuneFromage]

Lovely video, my favourite part was on day 25 when you were lying on the floor and wanted to watch My Little Pony! November is always the worst month for me to write a novel! I think December or June would be a nice month for book writing... December doesn't really have anything strenuous because most people are celebrating some sort of holiday and June usually marks a nice time for holiday... Anyway, I will finish my novel, I will dash it all!

[@Ta5h]

Really loved this video- congrats on the novel!

[@MattDel1]

I'm tempted to do this next year...but at the same time I don't want to fail at Uni

[@gracetencer293]

this video makes me so happy also I'm doing nanowrimo this year for the first time and I'm super excited!

[@betwixttheseams]

I spent 2 days in the same pajamas during NaNo as well... didn't leave my room at all for those days. Just wrote.

[@JennaBeelack]

This was my first year doing NaNoWriMo, and I finished my story at 54,170! I was really pleased with myself because November is my exam month in college. Needless to say, I got to check "Write a novel" off of my bucket list!

[@PurpleMooZmile]

oh my goodness, this was beautiful. Captured nanowrimo perfectly(: I didn't win this year, but I'm still writing, so I consider this a good second year. Looking forward to sleeping though! Congratulations!!!!

[@writerforever97]

This is awesome! :) Haha my thirty days of NaNo were quite similar to yours.

[@MatthewsLife]

i'll have to do this next year

[@mynoselikesroses]

Well done kristina!

[@DemitriaTeague]

Haha.. I loooved watching your journey... and unfortunately I just realized that I haven't been back to camp nanowrimo since I started my story at the beginning. .....

[@MindfreakDevinaShi]

I..... stopped around 3,000. This month was just too crazy. But on the plus side I got a pretty epic kickstart to a novel I actually planned on writing anyways. And am still writing.

[@LozzerzxD]

I want to try doing nanowrimo so much next year! I should probably write more before then though. I only started writing a couple of months ago and i have two plays in progress for college. I actually like doing it but i always struggle to make it long enough for the requirements set by lecturer. And that's for a play to last about half an hour. Imagine a full length novel! :O

[@xMyAwkwardLifex]

Yeah high school freshman. And thank you!!!! And congrats!!

[@megashton]

Next year? I want someone to do it with me. And I am going to attempt it. Third time lucky!

[@silentdreamer597]

Good for you, Kristina. Some day I shall share in this joy.

[@SpikyEaredPichu96]

Yaaaay 50,000+ words! Good job Kristina!

[@photogrl2]

I loved this video!

[@PaulaCamillabee]

I only JUST made it this year. I lost track half way through so I had to write nearly 10,000 words on the last day. My friends also decided that that day was a good day for a tv show marathon. I only just made it by five minutes . I am never leaving it that late ever again!

[@SourShlee0]

There is Camp in April and July, and the main one is in November. :)

[@98TheNugget]

This video is one of my favorite things in the world because it's so realistic and exactly what happens.

[@BloggedLifeNina]

this is exactly what it felt like going through nano. I'm gonna do one of these for camp nano next year.

[@idrisx4639]

Your song became the fourth most played song in my itunes playlist this November. Thanks to you, my first year of Nanowrimo... DONE. Now I get bragging rights cuz I wrote 50,000 words in 30 days WHILE being in middle school... and middle school sucks.

[@charleshadnoclue]

This was my second year and I still didn't win. I was totally powering through it, like 20,000 words in 10 days due to having NOTHING to do after Sandy hit, but then I just declined from there because of all my schoolwork :/ It was really upsetting to see all the WINNER things people were putting on tumblr, because I let myself down and the feeling sucks. I wasn't even going to watch this video out of spite, but I'm glad I did. You really inspire me. :)

[@ghostxxxrebirth]

about 15k in, i decided to rename half of my characters. this happened right before my charger for my computer died and i had to wait 5 days for a new one. i was able to finish on time however.

[@hurd98]

Congratulations Kristina! :)

[@KlintDemetrio]

Congrats to you guys on the 50k+. wow! Way to go! :)

[@puddin437]

I finished for the first time this year. Now it feels super weird not having to worry about writing every day, even though my story is only half way through the plot. I did get stuck about 35k due to lack of plot planning, but I powere don through, and got to just over 50k on day 29.

[@missmaqqie]

i want to read it!!

[@haliaosorio]

you should do this again this year :)