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  • Nanowrimo update

    So far, about the only thing I have done with success (out of the three things I am signed up for that happens in November, as mentioned in an earlier blog post) is Nanowrimo.

    I’m a rebel this year. I am actually not writing a novel. Instead, I am sort of journaling the mood of the day. I am trying to figure out my anxiety and depression and panic attacks and fatigue and everything that comes with it. Just writing. All the crazy things in my head.

    The goal is still 50,000 words. The goal is still to see if there can be a book manuscript out of it. (After about a shitload of editing, obviously.)

    But it is more about getting stuff out of my head. So I can sleep. So I can try to get back to a normal function again.

    Making notes from things that are helping me. Trying to swim my way to the bottom and back up to the surface.

    Halfway in – I am kind of feeling more stable about it all. But also wary. I am over halfway in my word count.

    As long as the writing is going well, the knitting and the reading isn’t. But at the moment it feels like the writing is of paramount use to me so I can’t be bothered.

  • Nanowrimo

     Also… I finished Nanowrimo in November! A triumph because it has been such a long time since I actually sat down and enjoyed the process of writing.

    The one thing I said to myself every day as I was writing: don’t stop to research, just write. And I wrote. And I am sure it was crap, but I finished the very rough draft of a story of 50000+ words.

    My goal for January is to print the story out, and then start with editing, and researching and rewriting…

  • Nanowrimo vs. 12 week year

    The past couple of years I have failed at Nanowrimo. (National Novel Writing Month.) Like many others.

    Pure and simple – I either –

    • didn’t have the time to sit down every day and get in the 1667 words on average that is required to reach 50,000 words.
    • Didn’t get a good enough start the first couple of days so that missing a day here or there later didn’t matter.
    • or  had a plot that made me want to bash my heroine’s head in by the end of the first week. (more…)

  • Nano, yet again

    I think I have my Nanowrimo strategy now.

    I have sorted out some characters and a basic plot. But my “winning” strategy back when I actually managed 50,000 words in November was to start with a scene and not plot anything in advance.

    It made the story go everywhere, but at least I got the word count in, and character development happened along the way.

    Also a good strategy: actually sitting down to write.

  • National Novel Writing Month in November

    For those of you who participate in National Novel Writing Month – how much preparation and research do you do beforehand?

  • National Novel Writing Month

    Have you heard of National Novel Writing Month, or nanowrimo for short? It is an approach to writing a novel in 30 days.

    From November 1 to November 30, the goal is to have written a 50,000 words novel. (You can, of course just write a single word and copy it up 50,000 times in the document and then verify it at their website, but I doubt anyone’d call it a novel…)

    50,000 words in 30 days is 1666-1667 words each day. It’s entirely do-able.

    I’ve done it a couple of times, but I’ve only been successful once.

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