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Nov. 17th, 2008
NaNoWriMo Update
Nov. 17th, 2008 10:42 pmDay 17. I'm supposed to have about 28,300 words done.
I managed to get to 20,000 words today. That's about 3,500 words on the day, so that's not bad. Mostly that's just catching up from slacking off on Saturday, though. Still, I'm about 8,000 words behind, and if I can whittle that down another 1,000 or 2,000 words by tomorrow night, I'll be feeling a lot better about my chances of getting to 50,000 by Nov 30th.
It's funny, because the fact that I'm not starting a new story and I'm actually trying to write good scenes makes me a NaNoWriMo rebel. I've posted once on the "NaNoWriMo Rebels" section of the forums. Then I went to the regular section and read a thread where people described all of the things they do to try and pad out their writing in order to get to 50,000 words. Like, have long-winded characters, using 10 words to describe something when 2 will do, etc. All really bad writing techniques. That made me feel a lot better about being a "rebel". I may not be working on a brand new novel, but I'm making an attempt to write decent scenes. They'll still need editing, but I'm not purposely putting in stuff that I KNOW I'll need to remove later.
I've also run into another problem. I hate writing fight scenes. I had trouble writing chapter 16 because it starts with a fight scene. That was why I hadn't written much on my fan fiction story in the last month. Anyway, it's Ranma 1/2, there have to be fight scenes, so I got through it and rolled through the next several chapters. Now I'm in chapter 19 and it's the big fight on Saturday between Ranma and Kodachi... and again, I'm having trouble writing it.
If I get past this, I have a bunch of stuff that happens Sunday... and then things are a little more open. Hopefully I'll even get to the whole "Genma's Revenge" plot, which would be cool because after that I can fit in my "Magical Girl" chapters.
I managed to get to 20,000 words today. That's about 3,500 words on the day, so that's not bad. Mostly that's just catching up from slacking off on Saturday, though. Still, I'm about 8,000 words behind, and if I can whittle that down another 1,000 or 2,000 words by tomorrow night, I'll be feeling a lot better about my chances of getting to 50,000 by Nov 30th.
It's funny, because the fact that I'm not starting a new story and I'm actually trying to write good scenes makes me a NaNoWriMo rebel. I've posted once on the "NaNoWriMo Rebels" section of the forums. Then I went to the regular section and read a thread where people described all of the things they do to try and pad out their writing in order to get to 50,000 words. Like, have long-winded characters, using 10 words to describe something when 2 will do, etc. All really bad writing techniques. That made me feel a lot better about being a "rebel". I may not be working on a brand new novel, but I'm making an attempt to write decent scenes. They'll still need editing, but I'm not purposely putting in stuff that I KNOW I'll need to remove later.
I've also run into another problem. I hate writing fight scenes. I had trouble writing chapter 16 because it starts with a fight scene. That was why I hadn't written much on my fan fiction story in the last month. Anyway, it's Ranma 1/2, there have to be fight scenes, so I got through it and rolled through the next several chapters. Now I'm in chapter 19 and it's the big fight on Saturday between Ranma and Kodachi... and again, I'm having trouble writing it.
If I get past this, I have a bunch of stuff that happens Sunday... and then things are a little more open. Hopefully I'll even get to the whole "Genma's Revenge" plot, which would be cool because after that I can fit in my "Magical Girl" chapters.