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NaNoWriFail 2007
Aug. 17th, 2007 07:42 pmI haven't been posting about my attempt at NaNoWriMo 2007 this month. That would be because the attempt is failing miserably.
One of the big reasons for the failure to liftoff is primarily because I didn't have the story structure properly worked out before I started. It's taken me up until now to work out where I'm going to put what, and even so, I'm not sure that it succeeds. My doubts include uncertainty as to whether anyone cares what happens to these characters other than me - can I write original characters worth a damn?
Problem is, the uncertainty is crippling. I might as well hand someone a knife and tell them to hamstring my muse.
At any rate, after two weeks of umming and aahing, I think I've reached a kind of plateau in my thinking: I'm going to try to "just write" this story. I've sorted out the backstory of the situation and I'm going to draw up the key plots and themes and see if that can't get me through the writing. If I need to rewrite, then I'll rewrite it later (and not think about how much I hate rewriting things).
Right now, I have 23K words on the story - most of them written in last year's NaNo. The fourth of the five protagonists has just entered the story, and the fifth should be joining them within another 5K. And then...I sorta have to work out how they're going to proceed with what they have to do/endure. I figure another 50K of words will probably tell the tale all told.
I just have to get those 50K out of my brain and into the computer. Which is, of course, the tricky part.
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apocalypse_kree?
One of the big reasons for the failure to liftoff is primarily because I didn't have the story structure properly worked out before I started. It's taken me up until now to work out where I'm going to put what, and even so, I'm not sure that it succeeds. My doubts include uncertainty as to whether anyone cares what happens to these characters other than me - can I write original characters worth a damn?
Problem is, the uncertainty is crippling. I might as well hand someone a knife and tell them to hamstring my muse.
At any rate, after two weeks of umming and aahing, I think I've reached a kind of plateau in my thinking: I'm going to try to "just write" this story. I've sorted out the backstory of the situation and I'm going to draw up the key plots and themes and see if that can't get me through the writing. If I need to rewrite, then I'll rewrite it later (and not think about how much I hate rewriting things).
Right now, I have 23K words on the story - most of them written in last year's NaNo. The fourth of the five protagonists has just entered the story, and the fifth should be joining them within another 5K. And then...I sorta have to work out how they're going to proceed with what they have to do/endure. I figure another 50K of words will probably tell the tale all told.
I just have to get those 50K out of my brain and into the computer. Which is, of course, the tricky part.
--
Anyone know if I can ask for an extension to
apocalypse_kree?
