3 posts tagged “nanowrimo”

I have been to the new Barnes and Noble four times since its opening on Tuesday. Each time has been better than the last.

Just the smell of brand new books that smacks one in the face the instant one walks into a bookstore of that size and caliber makes me weak in the knees.

And today I turned in a job application.

Pleasepleaseplease let me get this job!!

Current NaNoWriMo is around 15300. My goal is to be at 20000 by the end of today so, heh, I should probably get to work on that.

My current NaNoWriMo strategy is to write as much as possible without thinking at all about quality. Quantity > quality for this first draft. I just want to get the story down, because that's really my biggest problem. Every time I've ever attempted to write a novel, and I have done so many times, I get hung up on how crappy the quality is and I just give up.

Quality is never the goal of a first draft. I need to focus on getting the idea down, on giving my story some structure, on providing my characters with a beginning, a middle, and an end. I have already planned, in my head, things that I want to change in the second draft, but I'm refusing to let myself go backwards and rework what has already been written.

November will be devoted to articulating the plot. It will not be good, it will not be something to be proud of, but it will be a foundation upon which I will build a strong, good book.

Current word count is about two thousand less than what it needs to be. I lost a lot of time this weekend since I was without a computer, but I think I'll be able to catch up. Hey, three day weekend next week, so that'll be a good chance to make up for my slacking.

Speaking of slacking, I still have a page and a half to transfer from my notebook to the computer, which will help close the gap. It's just so tedious, trying to decipher my chicken scratchings and type as fast as possible and going back to correct typos and realizing that I've lost my place in the notebook and... ugh, tedium.