Saturday, November 6, 2010

NaNoWriMo Laments

1. While I like my story (mostly), I'm pretty sure no one else will.

2. The main impetus for my story is something I know nothing about (drugs and drug dealing). Eh... once I get past the part I'm slogging through right now, it will mostly be relegated to MacGuffin status (hopefully).

3. I was writing like a beast for the first 4 days. I would sit down, write for about an hour, hit all the plot points I'd planned to and hit my goal for word count. But I've slowed down am already behind and it isn't even the end of the first week.

I think I've slowed down mostly because I've hit a really boring point in my story. I'm trying to write it chronologically because I'm pretty sure if I let myself skip around, I'll end up with all the main episodes of my novel and nothing to connect them to each other. Or only the exciting parts will get written and huge chunks of the story will be missing. Hopefully I'll be able to make myself bust out this one bit quickly and be back on track to finish on time.

And not a lament:

I'm actually having fun. It's kind of cool to just type words (I think my typing might have improved in the last few days). There's been very little editing, lots of crap coming out, possibly tons of continuity errors (it's impossible to keep track of all the small details of the plot when writing this quickly, but it's liberating. It's crap, who cares? I'm writing for the first time in forever, and I'm going to reach my goal of 50,000 words. Unless it kills me.

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