{"id":268,"date":"2012-11-10T15:25:50","date_gmt":"2012-11-10T20:25:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.stellamortis.com\/?p=268"},"modified":"2012-12-07T22:09:31","modified_gmt":"2012-12-08T03:09:31","slug":"nanowrimo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.stellamortis.com\/?p=268","title":{"rendered":"NaNoWriMo"},"content":{"rendered":"

First, because not everyone knows what it stands for, NaNoWriMo is National Novel \"\"<\/a>Writing Month. The objective is to write a novel, consisting of 50,000 words, during the thirty days of November.<\/p>\n

Something to keep in mind–50,000 is at the low end of word counts for a novel. \u00a0To give a comparison, novellas go up to around 40,000. \u00a0Most novels, at least in Urban Fantasy–the genre I’m currently writing–come in somewhere between 85,000-100,000.<\/p>\n

My opinion on NaNo is that it’s good for writing a rough draft.<\/p>\n

So, I’m unofficially doing this. \u00a0I say unofficially because I’m not signed up at the website (nanowrimo.org<\/a>), and I’m not trying to ‘win’. \u00a0I’m mostly curious to see if I can do it, and to get my head back into writing mode. \u00a0Three or four months with little-to-no writing is not the best thing for me, and it’s possible that I would’ve been in a better headspace if I’d been writing, considering the circumstances.<\/p>\n

In the past, I never tried NaNo because I was always in the middle of trying to write and finish a story or revise a draft. \u00a0This time, I wanted to let the first story sit a bit before really jumping into revisions, and I decided to start on the second and get a draft of that done. \u00a0Though even if \u00a0I do hit the target, I expect to be maybe halfway through the story.<\/p>\n

50,000 words in thirty days breaks down to 1,667 words a day. \u00a0I started the month lagging behind because two days without power and heat make writing difficult. \u00a0Not because I couldn’t recharge my laptop–like I’ve said before, I write with pen and notebook. \u00a0The problem was more that no heat meant trying to write with cold fingers. Writing-wise, the power outage only affected knowing the actual word count. \u00a0Saturday was a minimal writing day–there were errands to be run–and I don’t write on Sundays. \u00a0That’s the day I do laundry and play games and generally relax. \u00a0Most Saturdays I write more than enough words to make up for Sunday.<\/p>\n

Overall, I have 6,350 words, not counting Friday (those aren’t typed up, but should be around 1,000), and I should be at 15,003 (including Friday, but not today).<\/p>\n

I’m not worrying about that. \u00a0I tend to do the majority of my writing on Friday nights and Saturdays when I have larger blocks of time to spend writing. \u00a0 My typical daily goal is 500, and I can write at least that much in thirty minutes at lunch. \u00a0While I can write 2,000 on a weekday, those days tend to be rare, and they’re days when I don’t exercise and have no other distractions. \u00a0Plus, the clearer an idea I have about what’s going to happen, the more I write.<\/span><\/p>\n

And I write less when I use my writing time on blog posts. \u00a0Which, yes, means I should be writing instead of doing this.<\/p>\n

So, I will write.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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