Day 3, making up for lost time.
In two writing sessions today, I completed 4378 words for a total of 9358. That's almost 1/5th of the way.
My husband asked if the founder of nanowrimo was going to read every novel completed. He wondered what the point of the exercise is if not to get some feedback.
So, just to clarify for those unfamiliar with nanowrimo, the point is not to prove that I'm a great novelist. That can't be proven in one 50,000 word novella. The point is to see if I can produce 50000 words ina month. Why? Because to be a novelist, it's not enough to be able to come up ith great scenes, great dialog, complex characters and believable scenes. You must be able to produce! Lots of words. A novel would be about 100 to 150, ooo words. So if you can't get through 50000, how can you possibly get through 100,000.
No one promised they would be readable words, thought I hope they are.
So the interesting thing this has shown is that I can produce that many words and maybe even more. I've been spending about an hour to 2 hours a day on the 3000 plus I'm producing and no one ever said a whole novel had to be written in a month. So I think I have proven that the work of writing my thoughts down would be reasonable. So once I finish this, I can move on to EdMo and get some kind of idea as to whether my thoughts are those that someone would want to buy.
Who knows. Maybe once I move to Ohio, I can spend all my days at a desk in front of a big window overlooking the vast expanses of Dayton, clicking away on my keyboard and creating the next NYT best seller.
And then, she woke up.
My husband asked if the founder of nanowrimo was going to read every novel completed. He wondered what the point of the exercise is if not to get some feedback.
So, just to clarify for those unfamiliar with nanowrimo, the point is not to prove that I'm a great novelist. That can't be proven in one 50,000 word novella. The point is to see if I can produce 50000 words ina month. Why? Because to be a novelist, it's not enough to be able to come up ith great scenes, great dialog, complex characters and believable scenes. You must be able to produce! Lots of words. A novel would be about 100 to 150, ooo words. So if you can't get through 50000, how can you possibly get through 100,000.
No one promised they would be readable words, thought I hope they are.
So the interesting thing this has shown is that I can produce that many words and maybe even more. I've been spending about an hour to 2 hours a day on the 3000 plus I'm producing and no one ever said a whole novel had to be written in a month. So I think I have proven that the work of writing my thoughts down would be reasonable. So once I finish this, I can move on to EdMo and get some kind of idea as to whether my thoughts are those that someone would want to buy.
Who knows. Maybe once I move to Ohio, I can spend all my days at a desk in front of a big window overlooking the vast expanses of Dayton, clicking away on my keyboard and creating the next NYT best seller.
And then, she woke up.
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