NaNoWriMo - Day Eighteen
Nov. 18th, 2015 08:33 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
meridian_roseQuick update: 30,136 words!
Things I'm doing in NaNo that I sometimes do but am doing even more: placeholder names for people and places that I'll have to fix in editing, but which I know I can't stop and choose now because I'll waste so much valuable writing time and interrupt my flow. Having no clue about directions (also placeholders for NORTH, SOUTH, etc) until I get a rough map of the territory planned out. Having only a vague idea about the layout of the main residence where most of the action takes place and hedging details.
Things I'm doing in NaNo that I know are a good thing but sometimes it's nearly painful: writing crappy sentences and not stopping to fix spelling errors. I'm trying to write what I mean, so later I can come back and express it in a more polished manner, rather than rewriting a sentence three times and maybe using the thesaurus and then editing the previous sentence as well because now it doesn't work as well.
That's not to say I'm not rewriting at all because occasionally I do need to merge or rearrange a couple of sentences. But I'm limiting it, a lot.
I'm still concerned about So Many Things.
But I've written over 30k in 18 days. Not the suggested minimum every day but close enough, and making it up on others, that I don't get too far behind.
And I've also written this month at least 1k on my Small Fandom Big Bang; about 3.5k on the first draft of my Yuletide fic; about 3k in meta/reviews.
Other things have fallen by the wayside and I want to explore more what I'm learning and how I might move forward after NaNo.
For now, I'm reeling a little at the enormity of it, how far I've come, and how far I have yet to go.
And I want to say a quick thank you to everyone who's been cheering me on!
Things I'm doing in NaNo that I sometimes do but am doing even more: placeholder names for people and places that I'll have to fix in editing, but which I know I can't stop and choose now because I'll waste so much valuable writing time and interrupt my flow. Having no clue about directions (also placeholders for NORTH, SOUTH, etc) until I get a rough map of the territory planned out. Having only a vague idea about the layout of the main residence where most of the action takes place and hedging details.
Things I'm doing in NaNo that I know are a good thing but sometimes it's nearly painful: writing crappy sentences and not stopping to fix spelling errors. I'm trying to write what I mean, so later I can come back and express it in a more polished manner, rather than rewriting a sentence three times and maybe using the thesaurus and then editing the previous sentence as well because now it doesn't work as well.
That's not to say I'm not rewriting at all because occasionally I do need to merge or rearrange a couple of sentences. But I'm limiting it, a lot.
I'm still concerned about So Many Things.
But I've written over 30k in 18 days. Not the suggested minimum every day but close enough, and making it up on others, that I don't get too far behind.
And I've also written this month at least 1k on my Small Fandom Big Bang; about 3.5k on the first draft of my Yuletide fic; about 3k in meta/reviews.
Other things have fallen by the wayside and I want to explore more what I'm learning and how I might move forward after NaNo.
For now, I'm reeling a little at the enormity of it, how far I've come, and how far I have yet to go.
And I want to say a quick thank you to everyone who's been cheering me on!
