Where were we?

[ksmith]

When last we left our hero, she was bemoaning her lack of NaNoWriMo sticktoitiveness. However, she did manage a few words here and there over the last few days, and while some of them may have been technically written in the month of December, she won't tell if you don't.

So...

Start: 11,874
Wind-up: Let's say 24,659, for a grand total of 12.785 words.

A shade over 25% of goal. Oh well. Truth be told, given the last year it's a big deal for me to have written something almost every day. And bits of business and dialogue are starting to occur to me as I brush my teeth or drive, which hasn't happened in a while.

The brain works it out in its own good time, which is...irritating, but unavoidable.

Comments

[hittite.livejournal.com]

about 426 wpd... Not too shabby--I am trying to do that write-something-daily thing these days, and averaging about 500 lately, but I cheat and count the little notes I write about scenes/parts not yet written. Of course, it remains to be seen if I can keep up the write-daily routine. I don't even think you can actually do the NaNoWriMo anyways--first of all, isn't 50K a little too low a word count for a novel? And second, sure, you can write 50K in a month, but will it be a real novel? (or maybe it doesn't matter?)

Brains--you can't live with them, you can't live without them... :)

[kristine-smith.livejournal.com]

50K is too low for a novel, and most NaNoWriMo folks know that. But the exercise does serve as a jumpstart, a sustained effort carried out over a short enough period of time. You can see the light at the end of the tunnel, which I think is important. Sustaining the pace over a longer stretch or with a more novel-ish wordcount would drive some folks into the ground--I know it would me.

Once again, I envy the people who can write quickly. It's not everything, but there's something to be said for it.