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meteordust) wrote2004-11-16 11:54 pm
meteordust) wrote2004-11-16 11:54 pm
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Day 15
Word count:
Today - 1460
Total - 10010
It's halfway through the month and I'm barely a fifth of the way through my word count. You know, I had some really good advice for myself last year - it's a pity I totally ignored it this time around.
So. I have 15 days left in which to write 40,000 words.
It's time to either give up - or attempt to do the impossible.
Well, the only way to go down is fighting.
How to screw up NaNo in 15 days - AKA What I Did Wrong
1. Do extensive planning in October, into which you pour all of your Week One enthusiasm and energy. By the time November begins, the high will have faded and you will be facing the Week Two doldrums.
2. Get sick for a week. Sleep a lot. Hell, go to bed straight after dinner if you feel like it.
3. Disregard your word count targets. They're really more like guidelines. Beside, you can always catch up later.
4. Allow your internal editor to ride shotgun. You want your words to sound pretty and your plot to be flawless.
How to salvage NaNo in 15 days - AKA Plan B
1. Recalculate your word count targets - and this time, stick to them. Do not go to bed until you have reached your target for the day.
2. Throw your internal editor out the window. You don't have the luxury of lingering over your words anymore. Remember what they say - don't get it right, get it written.
3. Forget about background, build up or transitions - focus on writing the cool scenes. The ones that make you excited about the story again. NaNo is supposed to be about having fun, after all.
4. If all else fails, just write in lots of gratuitous hot slashy sex.
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Never promise to do the possible. Anyone could do the possible. You should promise to do the impossible, because sometimes the impossible was possible, if you could find the right way, and at least you could often extend the limits of the possible. And if you failed, well, it had been impossible.
- Going Postal by Terry Pratchett
Today - 1460
Total - 10010
It's halfway through the month and I'm barely a fifth of the way through my word count. You know, I had some really good advice for myself last year - it's a pity I totally ignored it this time around.
So. I have 15 days left in which to write 40,000 words.
It's time to either give up - or attempt to do the impossible.
Well, the only way to go down is fighting.
How to screw up NaNo in 15 days - AKA What I Did Wrong
1. Do extensive planning in October, into which you pour all of your Week One enthusiasm and energy. By the time November begins, the high will have faded and you will be facing the Week Two doldrums.
2. Get sick for a week. Sleep a lot. Hell, go to bed straight after dinner if you feel like it.
3. Disregard your word count targets. They're really more like guidelines. Beside, you can always catch up later.
4. Allow your internal editor to ride shotgun. You want your words to sound pretty and your plot to be flawless.
How to salvage NaNo in 15 days - AKA Plan B
1. Recalculate your word count targets - and this time, stick to them. Do not go to bed until you have reached your target for the day.
2. Throw your internal editor out the window. You don't have the luxury of lingering over your words anymore. Remember what they say - don't get it right, get it written.
3. Forget about background, build up or transitions - focus on writing the cool scenes. The ones that make you excited about the story again. NaNo is supposed to be about having fun, after all.
4. If all else fails, just write in lots of gratuitous hot slashy sex.
Never promise to do the possible. Anyone could do the possible. You should promise to do the impossible, because sometimes the impossible was possible, if you could find the right way, and at least you could often extend the limits of the possible. And if you failed, well, it had been impossible.
- Going Postal by Terry Pratchett
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At the very least it'll be an honourable death :P
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yeah.
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I thought epic fantasies always have porn in them. XDPoint #4 is an "If all else fails" emergency plan anyway. X3