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wordwhackerThe day, she went fairly well. I got a hunk of writing done at work, meaning that I am still keeping up this amazing streak of meeting my word-count goal every day. I'm really liking this "write a little every day" business, ya know? Maybe I should look into doing this year round. Seems to me there's a website dedicated to the idea that everybody should write at least (or is it "exactly"?) 100 words a day, every day, for a year. Or something like that. Something to think about, anyway.
I actually don't think I'll post my writing this time around. This story is significantly less well-planned than last year's endeavour, which is a fact that rears its head in terms of the story's construction. Which is to say: ouch. Sometimes I know where I want the story to go, but getting it there is torture. Sometimes I actually DON'T know where I'm going, and I have to write through it, with varying levels of success.
Occasionally I fall into a groove, and it's all good. But I'm also just ploughing through events sometimes, just to get through them and move on. They ain't pretty. I have no delusions as to whether or not they're going to be permanent residents in my novel, shall we say. But they need to be there, at least for now. Otherwise I'll never get this freakin' thing written. The only way I can convince myself to write the shlock that this requires is to have the knowledge that I'm the only person who has to be tortured with reading it.
Which isn't to say that EVERYTHING SUCKS OMG, it's just a work in progress. It has potential, I think. Figuring out the best way to go at it will be the fun of editing the thing.
Anyway.
As I said in the forums earlier:
"I have reached 10K! I am clearly some sort of omnipotent, god-like being!"
Time to back-up the novel and, uh, maybe sleep. Yeah. Sleep is good.
I actually don't think I'll post my writing this time around. This story is significantly less well-planned than last year's endeavour, which is a fact that rears its head in terms of the story's construction. Which is to say: ouch. Sometimes I know where I want the story to go, but getting it there is torture. Sometimes I actually DON'T know where I'm going, and I have to write through it, with varying levels of success.
Occasionally I fall into a groove, and it's all good. But I'm also just ploughing through events sometimes, just to get through them and move on. They ain't pretty. I have no delusions as to whether or not they're going to be permanent residents in my novel, shall we say. But they need to be there, at least for now. Otherwise I'll never get this freakin' thing written. The only way I can convince myself to write the shlock that this requires is to have the knowledge that I'm the only person who has to be tortured with reading it.
Which isn't to say that EVERYTHING SUCKS OMG, it's just a work in progress. It has potential, I think. Figuring out the best way to go at it will be the fun of editing the thing.
Anyway.
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10,438 / 50,000 (20.9%) |
As I said in the forums earlier:
"I have reached 10K! I am clearly some sort of omnipotent, god-like being!"
Time to back-up the novel and, uh, maybe sleep. Yeah. Sleep is good.
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Date: 2005-11-08 11:34 pm (UTC)I too am not posting my nanovel online. I feel the same way you do about these things...there have been some nice sparkly gems to come out of this, but a lot of my writing has been brain splats onto the page, just to keep the ball rolling.
Speaking of...it's time to get back to writing! Bad Beth for LJing instead of Nano-ing! ;-)
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Date: 2005-11-12 09:42 pm (UTC)