I'm also contemplating whether or not I'll do NaNoWriMo this year (I know it's more than a month away, but still...). I do like the idea of just doing nothing but writing for a month (in my case it will be a bit less than a month, as I'll still have exam marking etc to do in early November), but I'm not sure it really suits the way I write. NaNoWriMo is mainly about just letting yourself go and writing and not editing, even if it's rubbish, and I can't really make myself do that; I would rather go a bit slower and try to concentrate more on quality than quantity. I did NaNoWrimo in 2010 and got 50,000 words, but I only ended up keeping about 12,000. I'd rather write slower and just get, say, 20,000 words and be able to keep a larger percentage of it. Plus, technically for NaNoWriMo you have to start a completely new novel and I'd rather keep working on Dark and Silent Waters (I have other story ideas/fragments but DASW is the one that I really care about, really want to see finished). Eh, I'll probably end up NaNo-ing anyway, if for no other reason than it will give me an excuse to consume insane amounts of chocolate and energy drinks without feeling guilty :D
Anyway, I'm off to try to do a quick drawing before going to bed. One day of uni tomorrow and then holidays :)
(edit to update: finally managed to get some art done :D This is my first soft pastel drawing, a pear drawn in Faber-Castell and Rembrandt pastels)
Judgemental Dog has his priorities right:
Ha... you know, I completed my first nano last year and wrotoe the first draft of the second Supes series. I haven't even looked at it yet! I can't till Ive finished the first, for some reason, although I know the changes Ive made on the 1st mean huge changes to the 2nd - thats before anything else. And there will be A LOT of that!
ReplyDeleteBut I'm still hoping to do this years. It isn't ideal, but it totally pushed me, focussed my attention. I even got competetive - (I'm so NOT competitive - ever!) so it really got me to motor :) And hey, I know plenty of entrants who simply said they were doing a re-write of an old MS, or began with 20K and took only two weeks to complete the word count. (These things irritated me at the time -Grr!). So you can do the same - put in your first drafts or beginnings and just go from there.
Loking at JD I think f my Bobby... who is twitching, deep in REM with his eyes wide open. :)
Am looking forward to NaNo although not at all sure which of 2 ideas I will play with -I enjoyed the buzz of just letting the mind flow -without the worries of picking every word - time enough later:) see you next round and I hope you get some painting time
ReplyDeletePersonally, I "use" Nano to just get a lot of writing done on a single project and don't worry too much about whether I win or not. The community is great. :)
ReplyDeleteHope you've recovered from the illness!
I was ill, too. It irks me to lose days from my writing, but it happens.
ReplyDeleteI keep saying I'll do NaNo, but I never do. I'm in the middle of revising and editing manuscripts, so I have nothing new to start.