Wednesday, November 6, 2013
NaNoWriMo, Week One
If writing is like exercise and a skill that must be
practiced, then I allowed myself to atrophy and weaken in the two months while I
took a sabbatical from the whole business of conceiving novels. The good news is that I was able to slip back
into a familiar routine and push myself to craft and create and image. In the first week of this project, I have
written upwards of 14,000 words, and while I am not sure if this is a personal
best, it does prove that I remember something about how to lay out my
thoughts. I’m sure it also helps that
this is a sequel to the last novel I completed as well as a story idea that I rendered
in my head, figuring and refiguring and wondering about constantly. This novel feels like it’s headed somewhere,
and I have plans to write another, unrelated one next month if everything pans
out the way I hope.
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Are you doing the writing a certain number of words this month challenge? Maybe one day I'll try it but it won't be this year. I think 14000 words is a lot!
ReplyDeleteI managed to pass the 50k word barrier in only fifteen days, but my goal all along has been to get at least 70k within the thirty days. I will admit that, when writing my first novel last year, 50k seemed like a very daunting goal. I've also written as much as 108k, and I have to say that longer novels are a nightmare to edit. It takes an incredible amount of discipline to write an entire novel without giving up, but I think you could do it :)
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