This is the final time you’ll be blogging for us before it’s all over. How are you feeling?
Not bad. I recently hit the 50,000 mark! *woot woot*
Word count:
It’s day 23 and I’m on 55,075 words.
Last week you mentioned how you were “good for word count but behind on plot”. Have you made a conscious effort to work on that this week?
Not really. The first draft will be and will take as long as it needs to. I’m not going to rush the rest of the story just to get to ‘The End’ in time for the 30th; that would be crazy!
The potentially massive word count doesn’t bother me. I want plenty of material to work with when I come to editing. Of course, I am going to have to ease off the pace a little bit; my friends have forgotten what I look like and I should probably think about Christmas. However, I’m not too disappointed about having to continue writing for a little longer.
Your biggest triumph this week:
I finally have all the major players in place. Once I've set up the characters and their wants and needs, the rest is inevitable. From here on in, everything sort of snowballs.
Oh, and hitting the 50,000 word target. That was a plus.
And the bit that has made words harder to come by:
Getting the words to flow hasn’t really been a problem (what can I say? I’m longwinded). Getting the right words, on the other hand, is always a struggle and it will continue to be for as long as I am a writer.
I’m looking forward to editing. The number of times I’ve written something and thought ‘ugh, it’ll do’ is far too high for my liking.
Talk to us about your ending. Are you excited to be writing it? What’s the biggest challenge you think you’re going to need to overcome to get there?
Welp, I’m not there yet. Far from it. I’m sure I’ll be excited about writing it when I get there, but Nova and Sam have got a long way to go yet.
The biggest challenge is going to be keeping up the momentum I’ve built up thanks to NaNoWriMo. It’s been wonderful to be a part of something so large and communal yet so personal all at the same time. I’m not sure how I’m going to cope without the NaNoWriMo stats page!
Hopes for next week:
The right words, however many they may be.
NaNo in a nutshell (week three):
Can’t I just stay in this writing bubble? It’s nice here and they have stats.
It is a pretty sweet tankard :) As for the word count, like I said, I'm pretty long winded.
I hope you managed to finish on time. Sorry for the late reply. I don't seem to get notifications from this site when people comment *shrugs*. As for incoherence, I believe good things can come out of it. A lot of what I've written feels like a place marker for when I come back to edit and make it not shit.
I'm planning to just finish this draft then let it sit for a while. Then I'm planning to come back to it and just be brutal. I planned out the story in advance, so I know all my major twists and plot points. I hope they survive the edit, but that's first draft me talking.
How about you? What works for you?
I want one of those tankards. And the word-count.
I should probably be plugging away at it but after a half-dozen attempts at starting the next scene I'm admitting defeat for tonight - bad writing I can deal with later, incoherence will just kill the whole project.
Do you have a plan for the second draft yet, or are you waiting until you're done - just in case you don't leave room for that brilliant twist at the end you haven't thought of yet? :)