NaNoWriMo - Almost Hitting the Halfway Mark
Monday November 12th 2007, 11:40 pm
Filed under: Writing & Other Storytelling Attempts

So… I submitted another section of text to NaNoWriMo for counting. 3523 words! Yay! Only need another 46,477 words. At this rate, I need to write 2582 words per day, or about 5.2 pages per day.

You know, the thing is, I find that I do better hand writing the story. At least for a first pass through it. I must be more old school than I thought.

So I have bits and pieces of scenes that occur later in the story hand written. Then I come to the computer, type it all in, edit it (which sucks up all my time) and voila! I don’t really submit very many words per submission.

Hopefully, as this story progresses and I reach those scenes, this word count thing will jump faster.

Until then… err, yeah, guess I should stop wasting words on blogging and spend it on the story.


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Umm, forgive me if I’m wrong, but isn’t NaNoWriMo about writing en masse and not editing it? *ducks*

Comment by NitohRyu 11.13.07 @ 12:29 am

Yeah, yeah, yeah…

I can’t function that way. I HAVE to go back to edit things in and out.

and it’s not “en masse” which generally means “group” as in: something
done as a group / all together.

No, I think NaNoWriMo is more like vomit writing, or at least it is for me
- bursts and spasms of writing interspersed with pauses to recuperate
before the next heaving torrent of words come out. You get the picture,
nasty as it is.

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