A quick NaNo update
Nov. 5th, 2010 08:39 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
apocalypsosCigarettes And Shambles:
A few thoughts:
1. Yes, I am a bit behind, but I'm still basically even for yesterday's goal anyway, which is pretty surprising since I did absolutely no plotting before I started and barely any character work at all. The sad thing is that I won't be able to work on adding more words today mostly because I have both my day job and Wegmans today, but I do have all weekend to work on upping my word count, so there's that.
2. I'm still a bit amazed I'm writing anything at all, quite frankly. :D
3. I haven't been writing in order, but that's nothing new. I keep writing down scenes I want to see or things I want the characters to do and then writing that way. What I'm hoping to do this weekend is bulk up the scenes I've written to the point where I can do what I normally do in these situations, which is print out everything I've written, cut each scene out onto separate slips of paper, tape them all into a notebook, and write the outline for the book around them sometime next week. Oddly, that way of writing usually works really well for me.
4. No, I really do dislike my main character. But she's not a very likable person so much as she's an interesting read.
5. I still have something like only two named male characters in the whole thing. Meanwhile, I've got something like twenty named female characters. Well, if I ever did finish this and manage to pound it with a stick into a publishable draft, the one thing I can say about the damn thing is that if it did develop a fandom, it would spawn a metric fuckton of femmeslash if only out of a lack of available penises.
6. Okay, off to go write another 168 words so I can at least be at yesterday's goal.
6500 / 50000 (13.00%)
A few thoughts:
1. Yes, I am a bit behind, but I'm still basically even for yesterday's goal anyway, which is pretty surprising since I did absolutely no plotting before I started and barely any character work at all. The sad thing is that I won't be able to work on adding more words today mostly because I have both my day job and Wegmans today, but I do have all weekend to work on upping my word count, so there's that.
2. I'm still a bit amazed I'm writing anything at all, quite frankly. :D
3. I haven't been writing in order, but that's nothing new. I keep writing down scenes I want to see or things I want the characters to do and then writing that way. What I'm hoping to do this weekend is bulk up the scenes I've written to the point where I can do what I normally do in these situations, which is print out everything I've written, cut each scene out onto separate slips of paper, tape them all into a notebook, and write the outline for the book around them sometime next week. Oddly, that way of writing usually works really well for me.
4. No, I really do dislike my main character. But she's not a very likable person so much as she's an interesting read.
5. I still have something like only two named male characters in the whole thing. Meanwhile, I've got something like twenty named female characters. Well, if I ever did finish this and manage to pound it with a stick into a publishable draft, the one thing I can say about the damn thing is that if it did develop a fandom, it would spawn a metric fuckton of femmeslash if only out of a lack of available penises.
6. Okay, off to go write another 168 words so I can at least be at yesterday's goal.
