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daylight_darknight) wrote2011-11-30 08:50 pm
daylight_darknight) wrote2011-11-30 08:50 pm
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NaNo
So there's only a couple hours left and despite the giant sprint forward of the past week, I'm obviously not going to get out the 15,000 more words I need to win, but I'm currently looking at it this way: 35,000 is much better than the 2,500 words I wrote last year which was much better than the year before that when I signed up but wrote nothing which was better than the year before that when I did nothing at all. At this rate hopefully, I'll win next year.
Congratulations to everyone who did win. You are awesome and amazing!!
Things I learned from doing NaNoWriMo
About my writing:
The story I wrote is actually almost done. I still alternate between thinking its crap and thinking it's pretty good so I don't know if I'll get around to posting it or not. I'd still need to finish it off and then do some editing (I have a list of things that I need to go back and change). Unfortunately, my brain was taken over by another rabid plot bunny yesterday, so I just spent the past couple hours writing 1000 words of something completely different.
Congratulations to everyone who did win. You are awesome and amazing!!
Things I learned from doing NaNoWriMo
About my writing:
- I can actually get off of a long day of work and write 2000 words (before I wouldn't bother even trying)
- I can actually write something long if I put some effort into it and it doesn't turn into a complete confusing mess
- I seem to have developed a tendency to use the word 'amidst' a lot
- Hating your novel is normal
- Taking a week off is a bad idea especially if you're already behind
- Forget research. Just fake it. You can look facts up later
- Picturing scenes from Hercules: The Legendary Journeys when trying to set something in the Bronze age will probably not make your story very accurate but it is very useful.
- Using your own experiences hiking in a forest isn't always useful when the forest you're trying to describe is on the other side of the continent (red spruce does not equal western red cedar)
The story I wrote is actually almost done. I still alternate between thinking its crap and thinking it's pretty good so I don't know if I'll get around to posting it or not. I'd still need to finish it off and then do some editing (I have a list of things that I need to go back and change). Unfortunately, my brain was taken over by another rabid plot bunny yesterday, so I just spent the past couple hours writing 1000 words of something completely different.