Can't. Stop. Writing.
Nov. 7th, 2013 08:52 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
in_the_blueWell, I'm finding my NaNoWriMo experience to be very interesting. I decided that first day that in order to be successful, I had to bite the bullet and treat writing like a job. That was the only way I was going to gear myself up to writing in an undistracted way every day. Natural skeptic that I am, I didn't necessarily believe that it would work, but it is. I'm cruising along. Today I'm at a word count of 31,701. What can I say: I write fast when I set my mind to it.
I stopped into the overachievers forum on the NaNo website. Those of you who know me know that I have a love/hate relationship with word count. It's only one measure of success. But for NaNo it's the measure of success, so I'm using it. I was suprised to read that a lot of people with high word count (50, 60, 100k) are getting hate mail about it. INTERNET, WHAT IS WRONG WITH YOU. I suppose if someone measures their own success by competing with others, they might get peeved at someone who's just flying through their word count. But hate mail? Really? I'm not spending a lot of time on the forums there, because I'd rather be writing.
Speaking of that. My favorite things so far: a few key plot points have presented themselves. A few other key things have veered away from my outline, but I'm really quite okay with that. I like when writing is an organic process and I like to let it go where it will. That's probably backlash for the years I spent as a technical writer. Have I told you I'm contrary by nature?
All thing sconsidered, I'm having a ton of fun. I really do like this wake-up-and-write business. I know some people use internet blockers so they're not tempted to mess around and check all sorts of things, but I'm not having too much trouble with distraction. Long story short: it's working. If I don't have you as a writing buddy over there, tell me your NaNo username so I can add you? Desite being contrary, I'm really quite nice.
In non-NaNo news, I found this article in the New York Times about not giving away writing to be very interesting.
How are all of you?
I stopped into the overachievers forum on the NaNo website. Those of you who know me know that I have a love/hate relationship with word count. It's only one measure of success. But for NaNo it's the measure of success, so I'm using it. I was suprised to read that a lot of people with high word count (50, 60, 100k) are getting hate mail about it. INTERNET, WHAT IS WRONG WITH YOU. I suppose if someone measures their own success by competing with others, they might get peeved at someone who's just flying through their word count. But hate mail? Really? I'm not spending a lot of time on the forums there, because I'd rather be writing.
Speaking of that. My favorite things so far: a few key plot points have presented themselves. A few other key things have veered away from my outline, but I'm really quite okay with that. I like when writing is an organic process and I like to let it go where it will. That's probably backlash for the years I spent as a technical writer. Have I told you I'm contrary by nature?
All thing sconsidered, I'm having a ton of fun. I really do like this wake-up-and-write business. I know some people use internet blockers so they're not tempted to mess around and check all sorts of things, but I'm not having too much trouble with distraction. Long story short: it's working. If I don't have you as a writing buddy over there, tell me your NaNo username so I can add you? Desite being contrary, I'm really quite nice.
In non-NaNo news, I found this article in the New York Times about not giving away writing to be very interesting.
How are all of you?
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Date: 2013-11-08 06:13 pm (UTC)Hate mail, eh? Weak. Weak with a side of stupid sauce.
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Date: 2013-11-09 12:24 am (UTC)Putting my book away for the day and going to cook, which sounds a lot more fun. I'm sorry you're under the weather, here's to a speedy recovery.