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Nov. 10th, 2010 01:18 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
kageisukeOh, God, I have work at 6 and yet I am not sleepy... despite having gotten up at 7 this morning.
Steaming along with NaNo, 16069 words strong. I am resisting all of my urges to go back and read the things I've written. Further resisting going back to take out the ricockulous amounts of exposition that's in this thing. As the only story I have planned from Blake's point of view, I am succumbing to the temptation to include his thoughts on everything and everyone around him to a fanatical extent since I realize that this is a novel in 30 days and will need to be marked to bits before I'm anywhere near happy with it. And I have a word count to fluff. Only exception to my going back rule? Adding details about items I forget he needs. I will not have magically transporting items in my story. At least not this one.
But right now, I'm happy to be writing it, and to have avoided the 'Terror' and 'Despair' portions of the Five Stages of NaNoWriMo so far. Happier still to not have reached a part where I was bored with it. Today was the hardest day, simply because I couldn't figure out how to connect my thoughts to move the story forward. Then I just bulldozed it and thought 'I'll smooth it out later.'
Imma have a lot of smoothing. Going back even a page ago I see the most horrible of word switches and misspellings. But I'm not changing a thing unless it'll confuse me on what I meant later on. Assuming I catch it before then since I don't re-read a lot of what I write when I do 2-3 rambling 8 sentence long paragraphs at a time. Which happens a lot.
Considering I haven't finished my outline yet [got stuck lol] and it is the scantest bit short of 2/3rds of a page with two out of the 4 major bulleted sections already completed, I am doing well. Perhaps better than 08 when I took it on the first time. Take THAT preparation!
Here's to hoping I can get a printed copy of this story for free like I could the year before last. Since this is a full, stand-alone story, I feel like it wouldn't be a waste of paper to print it out for me take to the book store with me to mark all over and stick post-it's on and scribble notes all over it. As long as I can give it one good read through and fix as many spelling and word switcharoos beforehand. Those easy mistakes I don't want to have to mark all over the copy for.
And let me finish my word count of the day before diving into scenes from other books entirely.
Steaming along with NaNo, 16069 words strong. I am resisting all of my urges to go back and read the things I've written. Further resisting going back to take out the ricockulous amounts of exposition that's in this thing. As the only story I have planned from Blake's point of view, I am succumbing to the temptation to include his thoughts on everything and everyone around him to a fanatical extent since I realize that this is a novel in 30 days and will need to be marked to bits before I'm anywhere near happy with it. And I have a word count to fluff. Only exception to my going back rule? Adding details about items I forget he needs. I will not have magically transporting items in my story. At least not this one.
But right now, I'm happy to be writing it, and to have avoided the 'Terror' and 'Despair' portions of the Five Stages of NaNoWriMo so far. Happier still to not have reached a part where I was bored with it. Today was the hardest day, simply because I couldn't figure out how to connect my thoughts to move the story forward. Then I just bulldozed it and thought 'I'll smooth it out later.'
Imma have a lot of smoothing. Going back even a page ago I see the most horrible of word switches and misspellings. But I'm not changing a thing unless it'll confuse me on what I meant later on. Assuming I catch it before then since I don't re-read a lot of what I write when I do 2-3 rambling 8 sentence long paragraphs at a time. Which happens a lot.
Considering I haven't finished my outline yet [got stuck lol] and it is the scantest bit short of 2/3rds of a page with two out of the 4 major bulleted sections already completed, I am doing well. Perhaps better than 08 when I took it on the first time. Take THAT preparation!
Here's to hoping I can get a printed copy of this story for free like I could the year before last. Since this is a full, stand-alone story, I feel like it wouldn't be a waste of paper to print it out for me take to the book store with me to mark all over and stick post-it's on and scribble notes all over it. As long as I can give it one good read through and fix as many spelling and word switcharoos beforehand. Those easy mistakes I don't want to have to mark all over the copy for.
And let me finish my word count of the day before diving into scenes from other books entirely.
