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What I Learned During NaNoWriMo
Nov. 29th, 2008 04:20 pmOkay, people, we're coming up on the end of NaNoWriMo now.
As of this moment, my word count is 47,323. It probably would have been higher had I not had a major family crisis earlier in the week, but I'm only 2,677 words away from winning and I'll be damned if I don't finish this thing.
It's been a crazy ride, but so much fun. I can't believe that I've lacked the motivation to win before. But I really do think that once you get past your mental barriers, and 10,000 words, it gets a lot easier. I've really learned to let go this month, and let my writing be crap if it's going to be, and brilliant if it wants to be that, too. I've realized that if I just keep writing, no matter how weird or bad or repetitive it is, in the end it's still 50,000 words of fiction that I've written, and that's more than most people can say they've done.
Congratulations to all the writers on my friends list! You guys are all incredible. Thanks for being there for me, and keep digging through your own imaginations for stories, too, because the more greatporn literature we have out there, the better the world will be.
As this month comes to a close, I'm making a resolution to write at for at least ten uninterrupted minutes every day. For those of you who haven't used it yet, Write or Die is an incredible tool, and I can't stress enough how much it's helped me add to my word count in the past week and a half or so, even when I didn't feel like writing. Even if whatever I write for those ten minutes gets filed into the Never Look at This Again folder, it's still several hundred words of me, and that's gotta be worth something.
I think I may be starting to ramble now, so I'm going to end with a quote from My Doctor. For all of us who have conquered this incredible challenge this month:
"Before I go, I just wanna tell you, you were fantastic. Absolutely fantastic. And d'you know what? So was I." -Nine
As of this moment, my word count is 47,323. It probably would have been higher had I not had a major family crisis earlier in the week, but I'm only 2,677 words away from winning and I'll be damned if I don't finish this thing.
It's been a crazy ride, but so much fun. I can't believe that I've lacked the motivation to win before. But I really do think that once you get past your mental barriers, and 10,000 words, it gets a lot easier. I've really learned to let go this month, and let my writing be crap if it's going to be, and brilliant if it wants to be that, too. I've realized that if I just keep writing, no matter how weird or bad or repetitive it is, in the end it's still 50,000 words of fiction that I've written, and that's more than most people can say they've done.
Congratulations to all the writers on my friends list! You guys are all incredible. Thanks for being there for me, and keep digging through your own imaginations for stories, too, because the more great
As this month comes to a close, I'm making a resolution to write at for at least ten uninterrupted minutes every day. For those of you who haven't used it yet, Write or Die is an incredible tool, and I can't stress enough how much it's helped me add to my word count in the past week and a half or so, even when I didn't feel like writing. Even if whatever I write for those ten minutes gets filed into the Never Look at This Again folder, it's still several hundred words of me, and that's gotta be worth something.
I think I may be starting to ramble now, so I'm going to end with a quote from My Doctor. For all of us who have conquered this incredible challenge this month:
"Before I go, I just wanna tell you, you were fantastic. Absolutely fantastic. And d'you know what? So was I." -Nine
