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NaNoWriMo 2018

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  • #52
    pixelburp
    Moderators, Category Moderators, Entertainment Moderators Posts: 36,711 CMod ✭✭✭✭pixelburp


    Wrote about 10k on a story; then got frustrated, junked it and started again, writing about 5k. So ... can I say 15k? :D


  • #53
    km85264
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 146 ✭✭km85264


    It's great to hear that people aren't too worried about the 50k target and are still engaged at this point. That makes me feel better about the whole initiative.
    Well done on the 28k Hesthea, that's a very impressive total. I guess the trick now is to wind down a bit come Saturday but not stop altogether.


  • #54
    Mr E
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 55,533 ✭✭✭✭Mr E


    I got to about 8k. With work commitments, family commitments and no free weekends, November was a bit of a write off (pun intended). :)

    I'm still going to work away on the story in my spare time, but at my own pace from now on.


  • #55
    Das Kitty
    Moderators, Arts Moderators Posts: 17,231 Mod ✭✭✭✭Das Kitty


    pixelburp wrote: »
    Wrote about 10k on a story; then got frustrated, junked it and started again, writing about 5k. So ... can I say 15k? :D

    Yes!


  • #56
    pixelburp
    Moderators, Category Moderators, Entertainment Moderators Posts: 36,711 CMod ✭✭✭✭pixelburp


    I also got a little side-tracked just trying to write out a few random scenes, unrelated to that 10k blob; they were a few vignettes I couldn't stop thinking of, so took the time out to scribble them down.

    But that's me to a tee: start out with one brilliant idea; get a few thousands words down; lose steam & heart; declare the idea rubbish; get distracted by newer, shinier idea :D


  • #57
    echo beach
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,252 ✭✭✭echo beach


    I am on about 11k, also a lot less than my last attempt in 2016, but it is 11k more than I wrote in October or September or (insert month of choice) and it has thrown up some new ideas and new characters so I'm happy(ish).
    I see quite a few people at or about the target so it can be done...maybe next year.


  • #58
    Hesthea
    Registered Users Posts: 201 ✭✭Hesthea


    pixelburp wrote: »
    I also got a little side-tracked just trying to write out a few random scenes, unrelated to that 10k blob; they were a few vignettes I couldn't stop thinking of, so took the time out to scribble them down.

    But that's me to a tee: start out with one brilliant idea; get a few thousands words down; lose steam & heart; declare the idea rubbish; get distracted by newer, shinier idea :D

    The advice i could give t you about that is to not bin it. Just keep it in a different folder. Maybe you will end up connecting the two or takes pieces from one to add to the other.


  • #59
    Hesthea
    Registered Users Posts: 201 ✭✭Hesthea


    Mr E wrote: »
    I got to about 8k. With work commitments, family commitments and no free weekends, November was a bit of a write off (pun intended). :)

    I'm still going to work away on the story in my spare time, but at my own pace from now on.

    That is the best plan. After November i will keep writing it but at a slower pace too. There are also things i want to change and others i want to do so that i can advance with it.

    I saw a few bullet journals in which people gather their ideas, character info and not only in it and that might me help a lot in keeping my story on its tracks. Not to mention is also an idea of when i feel like my chara doesn't feel quite right i can always read the info about his/ her personality traits, things they like/ dislike. How they would act in certain situations to better understand them and don't lose them along the plot x)


  • #60
    pixelburp
    Moderators, Category Moderators, Entertainment Moderators Posts: 36,711 CMod ✭✭✭✭pixelburp


    Hesthea wrote: »
    The advice i could give t you about that is to not bin it. Just keep it in a different folder. Maybe you will end up connecting the two or takes pieces from one to add to the other.

    Ah, for better or worse everything I write is on Google Drive so I don't bin anything, even if abandoned :) I have come back to old stuff, but it's maintaining the mental interest / enthusiasm that does for me every time!


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  • #61
    km85264
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 146 ✭✭km85264


    Glad to hear so many positive stories. My advice would be: take a few days off then get right back into the daily writing habit. Set yourselves a really easy target, 100 words say, barely a paragraph, but do it _every_ day. Ramp that up to 250 words over time. It's getting into the habit, and staying there, that's the hardest.
    Best of luck :-)


  • #62
    Hesthea
    Registered Users Posts: 201 ✭✭Hesthea


    pixelburp wrote: »
    Ah, for better or worse everything I write is on Google Drive so I don't bin anything, even if abandoned :) I have come back to old stuff, but it's maintaining the mental interest / enthusiasm that does for me every time!

    I think that ist when our story and characters start to have a life of their own that does not follow our own ideas that we start to lose the interest in it. We imagine one way but along the way something else happens that changes its course and we start to get frustrated because we don't want to go back to fix it which only deepens the differences and the trajectory of the plot/ characters.


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