nanowrimo

NaNoWriMo Update #2

| xeyeti

Sitting at 12,052 words this morning. Didn’t get as much written yesterday as I’d have liked (I mean, i should be writing about 2000 words a day at this rate every day), but I did get the rest of the book plotted out this afternoon, so I know where I’m going from here at the very least. Plotting is probably my weakest area, so having a plan – even if it’s rough and not at all fleshed out just yet – is better that fumbling forward with no plan or end goal in mind.

That said, I need to crank out about 8000 words today to really feel good about it all, but I don’t think that’ll happen. Maybe 3000 or 4000? Let’s see where we get.

NaNoWriMo Update #1

| xeyeti

As of this moment, I’m sitting at 10,032 words, which isn’t exactly as far along as I’d like to be (at this point, I should be closer to 15,000 words), but isn’t too terrible, honestly. Breaking that 10,000-word mark was nice, and felt relatively easy, all things considered. There’s still lots of story to go through, and I’m only just now getting into the meet of Act II.

Granted, I also didn’t get a comic done last night, so now I’m behind in two artistic endeavors. Three, if you include all the music I want record and haven’t yet. Why are there only 24 hours in a day?

NaNoWriMo

| xeyeti

So what the hell, I’ll try to write a novel.

November is National Novel Writing Month, a time when amateur (and possibly less-than-amateur) writers attempt to create a draft of a full, 50,000-word novel in a single month. It’s a daunting challenge, but it’s one I’ve always wanted to try. I’ve written a number of short stories in my day, including a few that were quite lengthy (upwards of thirty typed, single-spaced pages), but I’ve never managed an actual novel-length work. I mean, 50,000 words is a lot (at an average of 250 words per double-spaced, type-written page, that’s…um…200 pages. Had to do that math). A heckuva lot.

But hey, nothing ventured, nothing gained, right? So I’m going to give it a shot. I’m already behind where I need to be (50,000 words in 30 days averages out to about 1700 words per day, and I’ve only got 6700 after six days), but I think I can catch up on the weekends. I’ve already written the first act, and I’ve got Act II mapped out and part of Act III. We’ll see what happens, I guess, and I’ll keep everyone here up to date.