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bookgazing) wrote2009-11-03 01:55 am
bookgazing) wrote2009-11-03 01:55 am
Other things I'm not doing: Nanowrimo
I know I’m a wuss right?:)
Here’s the thing, the 3,000 words I’ve written for Nanowrimo so far have given me courage. I’ve learnt my ability to construct a crazy, but fun plot is still very much a part of me and that my base, action writing and dialogue writing are pretty solid and that I can be quite funny. These are all great things, so yay for me. I now feel like I can write that book that I really wanted to write for Nanowrimo, but needed to do research for, because even though a ton of what I write may suck I know I can form a book and that with some serious, serious editing I can create decent passages. This is major progress for me. So yeah, um that's what I'll be doing with my cretaive writing for the foreseeable future, being busy working on that novel I really want to write hopefully, but at a slower pace than those doing it during Nanowrimo.
However as I looked back on my writing I realised I was creating characters who were a background for the action, rather than action that was a very cool background for some wonderful character relationships. That’s not the kind of novel I want to write and once I realised I was headed in the wrong direction I didn’t have time to go back and fix it (as you may know, with Nanowrimo you go forward, or you die, you can’t go back until national editing month) I kind of decided to end it instead of slogging on without any enthusiasm. Maybe my inner critic got to me, but I don’t think so, I think it mostly had to do with the fact that this wasn’t the book I wanted to write at this moment (yes perhaps I should have worked that out before starting).
So I’m officially retiring from the event and going into full cheerleader mode for those still in it to win it. Medievalbookworm especially deserves some support, she’s writing a historical romance and is about 6,000 words in, oh and she’s blogging as well.
If you’re still (ha still it is two days in) plugging away you’ll be needing some writer help (if you’re procrastinating writing any more of your novel you really should be reading about Nanowrimo). Maureen Johnson will be answering questions relating to the event, and she especially advises that you cheat on your job and just write anywhere. Justine Larbalestier and her husband Scott Westerfeld will have a tip every day, for the whole month of November. Yesterday Scott talked about writing the dialogue spine, which I found really helpful. Finally you might find Emma Darwin’s none Nano post about the many disguises of your inner critic funny and useful.
Here’s the thing, the 3,000 words I’ve written for Nanowrimo so far have given me courage. I’ve learnt my ability to construct a crazy, but fun plot is still very much a part of me and that my base, action writing and dialogue writing are pretty solid and that I can be quite funny. These are all great things, so yay for me. I now feel like I can write that book that I really wanted to write for Nanowrimo, but needed to do research for, because even though a ton of what I write may suck I know I can form a book and that with some serious, serious editing I can create decent passages. This is major progress for me. So yeah, um that's what I'll be doing with my cretaive writing for the foreseeable future, being busy working on that novel I really want to write hopefully, but at a slower pace than those doing it during Nanowrimo.
However as I looked back on my writing I realised I was creating characters who were a background for the action, rather than action that was a very cool background for some wonderful character relationships. That’s not the kind of novel I want to write and once I realised I was headed in the wrong direction I didn’t have time to go back and fix it (as you may know, with Nanowrimo you go forward, or you die, you can’t go back until national editing month) I kind of decided to end it instead of slogging on without any enthusiasm. Maybe my inner critic got to me, but I don’t think so, I think it mostly had to do with the fact that this wasn’t the book I wanted to write at this moment (yes perhaps I should have worked that out before starting).
So I’m officially retiring from the event and going into full cheerleader mode for those still in it to win it. Medievalbookworm especially deserves some support, she’s writing a historical romance and is about 6,000 words in, oh and she’s blogging as well.
If you’re still (ha still it is two days in) plugging away you’ll be needing some writer help (if you’re procrastinating writing any more of your novel you really should be reading about Nanowrimo). Maureen Johnson will be answering questions relating to the event, and she especially advises that you cheat on your job and just write anywhere. Justine Larbalestier and her husband Scott Westerfeld will have a tip every day, for the whole month of November. Yesterday Scott talked about writing the dialogue spine, which I found really helpful. Finally you might find Emma Darwin’s none Nano post about the many disguises of your inner critic funny and useful.