Sunday writing session
3526 words for today in two sessions. I'm over 19,000 words and looking forward to early completion of my halfway point of 25000 words by week end. That is if I can keep up the 3000/day which is doubtful. I will be either working or with kids at all times from now on.
A moment of silence for the demise of my free time.
That's right. I'm heading back to the work force today. I'm all dressed up in my business wear with my brief case packed and visions of cubicle life looming on my horizon. The kids pack onto the bus in 10 minutes.
Some musings on the process. It seems my weekend strategy of writing for an hour, taking a break (a very long one) and then returning to the keyboard for an hour or so is working. I'm consistently going past my quota of 3000 using this method. I could continue but I do have to sleep sometimes.
I can see how some people would be very stalled at about the 20000 word mark. As I write, sometimes my characters decide to do thing I had not planned in my outline. These plot tangents sometimes need to be controlled and sometimes make more sense or support the story better. In the case of the errant plot tangent, I simply delete and redo. In the case of the natural evolution of plot, I will need to go back and edit the original manuscript to correct for the change. For example, let's say I decide that Maria has two older brothers, but later in the plot it becomes illogical for her character as it sits in the plot to have two older brothers. It's better in the NaNo world to just continue on as if they never existed, but to go back in rewrites and excise them. It' is verboten in NaNo to go back while you should be writing.
I need to come up with some strategies to remember these things though. I think I will begin using my footnote area or a different color text to write notes about these plot changes as I go. Unfortunately, this may show up in the Word wordcount. So maybe the post it note tool will be better. Will try some notes techniques tonight and see how they show on word count and usability.
A moment of silence for the demise of my free time.
That's right. I'm heading back to the work force today. I'm all dressed up in my business wear with my brief case packed and visions of cubicle life looming on my horizon. The kids pack onto the bus in 10 minutes.
Some musings on the process. It seems my weekend strategy of writing for an hour, taking a break (a very long one) and then returning to the keyboard for an hour or so is working. I'm consistently going past my quota of 3000 using this method. I could continue but I do have to sleep sometimes.
I can see how some people would be very stalled at about the 20000 word mark. As I write, sometimes my characters decide to do thing I had not planned in my outline. These plot tangents sometimes need to be controlled and sometimes make more sense or support the story better. In the case of the errant plot tangent, I simply delete and redo. In the case of the natural evolution of plot, I will need to go back and edit the original manuscript to correct for the change. For example, let's say I decide that Maria has two older brothers, but later in the plot it becomes illogical for her character as it sits in the plot to have two older brothers. It's better in the NaNo world to just continue on as if they never existed, but to go back in rewrites and excise them. It' is verboten in NaNo to go back while you should be writing.
I need to come up with some strategies to remember these things though. I think I will begin using my footnote area or a different color text to write notes about these plot changes as I go. Unfortunately, this may show up in the Word wordcount. So maybe the post it note tool will be better. Will try some notes techniques tonight and see how they show on word count and usability.
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