We are soooooooooooooooooooo behind that it's not even funny. I don't know how to catch up. My laptop's dead, so I'm sharing a computer with other people who always need it and need it for something more important. And the script, i don't know where to go from here. This never happened in NaNo! Anyone else having problems like this?

Don't worry. I'm worse off than you! My computer got infected with a virus that won't let me get on the internet at all (I'm at school right now). My whole script is in Celtx on that computer and I have no way of updating my page count or anything. I have a laptop but it has no internet access so...yeah...I have that white flag in my hand, but I'm not waving it yet!

Don't give up, guys! A few days ago, I was at 18 pages... the same 18 pages I'd been on for the past 20 days, not because of my poor time management skills (which admittedly suck), nor because everyone constantly needs the computer here (I have a large family)... but because the characters I was writing my script about, I associated them with really hurtful things. .___.; Things that happened recently, so that I couldn't even open up Celtx without feeling my heart sink and throat block up.

I've got two exams next week, an ISU, volunteer work and RPing, not to mention I received my first rejection for a novel just two days ago, which really brought my morale down... But you know what? I thought, this CANNOT WIN. I WILL NOT LET A SCRIPT WIN OVER ME. Even if it is a stageplay which I am having so much more difficulty with than with screenplays-- I decided there was no way in hell that I'd let my own story beat me. There's people with loads of busier lives and with more problems doing it, after all.

And each word is still painful to write, but slowly, it's fading away. So let's not let this defeat us; we can win.

Don't give up! You still have 5/6 days depending on where in the world you are - and even if you don't get 100 pages, you have still accomplished something great that you can go onto finish after the month is up! Keep going!

I'm pretty behind too, because I didn't write for a week, but if I get 15 more pages today and 15 tomorrow, hopefully.

Mountains are made for climbing.

Get the hiking boots on and keep going. We're here with you, cheering and commiserating.

Here's a tissue for your tears and hugs. (beat) Now come on and write with us, to the last day of the month.

Good luck

You can all do it. Don't give up now. Think, when you're on your deathbed at age 90, do you really want your life to flash before your eyes and see you quitting screnzy? I don't think so. Blow your nose, wiggle your fingers, and start typing. It dosn't matter if you have no idea what's happening. If you want, have a boulder fall on the heads of your main charecters and make the story about ants instead. You CAN do this!
Good luck and see you at the finish line.

I decided I'm not going to cry (or yell, scream, pull out my hair, etc.) unless I lose this. Right now, I've got only 8 pages written with just 3 days to go. Fortunately, I've got the plot pretty much worked out, possibly too much story material for just one script (NaNo novel adaptation, y'see), and a talent for writing too much script in too little time. Plus, the phone company's coming to the rescue like the cavalry (or other deus ex machina plot mechanic) on the last day of the month to save the day by transferring my phone service to my new place (I moved across town, so I didn't even have computer access for over 2 weeks).

In any novel WriMo, the last week of the month is Panic Time, in which I write the last 30,000 words in a frenzy. Normally, I've won Script Frenzy by now. Still, now that my computer is unpacked, I can use it, and win this thing in the last 3 days. As the saying goes, it's not over till it's over...

I never managed to switch into Panic Mode. But still, I'm not crying. I just sigh and move on. Now that I haven't been able to adapt my '07 NaNo novel (apparently NaNo novels jinx my Screnzy), I'll go back to finishing it.