Well, I'm making some progress, that's for sure. Five days in, and I'm up to 14,103 words. I'm well ahead of where I wanted to be at this point. By now, I should be at 8,333 words, so I feel pretty good. Of course, as is my fear, that's when things usually fall out from under my feet. It's always the easiest for me to write the beginning of a novel because that's the part I've spent the most time thinking about. I might need to take a little break and think (just a bit) about what I want to happen in chapter two. Granted, I know what needs to happen, but how to get from where I am now to where I need to be...
Well, I'm sure it will all work out. We NaNoWriMo'ers got a nice email from Jasper Fforde today who basically said that what we're writing doesn't need to be good, doesn't need to be anything at all, except practice for the real thing. Even the Beatles, he said (I'm paraphrasing) started out small and practiced until they got good.
Well, I'm not sure if any of us should be favorably compared to the Beatles, or even referred to in the same email, but I see where he's going with that. How many people can say they've written a novel in their lifetimes? I certainly can't. I've written several starts, and one I nearly finished, but I've never completed one. I'd like to, one day, say I did, even if it never gets read by anybody. (Although secretly I'm hoping that if I ever do finish one, K will read it and lie to me when she tells me it was great.)
Oh the other thing I wanted to say was that K and I watched a movie called Antichrist tonight which has completely messed me up, so I think it would be a good thing if I took a little break from writing for a day, maybe two, lest a combination of stillborn deer, talking foxes and genital mutilation work their way into chapter two. Wow, avoid that movie unless you're really interested. It's not for the faint of heart.
3 comments:
Congrats! Keep up the good work!
I'm taking a perhaps easier route and writing the chapters out of order, based on what's on my mind at the moment.
It might turn into extra work in the end, trying to make everything mesh after the fact, I don't know.
I think the rules of NaNo are pretty flexible. However you get your 50k doesn't really matter. The extra work could come afterward, in the editing, but for me, editing is always just as much fun as the writing itself.
By the way, your other NaNo buddy, KCGator, is making us all look bad. Whoever that person is, he (or she) is a writing machine!
Yes, she's a writing machine. I know her goal was to be at 25,000 words by the end of the 7th, the bitch.
I have to wonder, do people like her really need NaNoWriMo to motivate them? Grrr.
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