NaNoWriMo Begins
I kept Destiny home from school this morning, as she was constantly complaining about her stomach. Shed initially said she wanted to go to school anyway, but at the bus stop she kept coughing and I told her if shes sick she needs to stay home. Shes had pretty good attendance this year so it shouldnt be a problem.
After midnight last night I got started on my NaNoWriMo novel, Eyes For Betrayal (working titlehopefully Ill think of something better soon). I didnt get too far before I had to crash, but I brought my word count past the thousand word mark after working on it a bit more this morning after Destiny went back to bed. According to my writing log, Ive not written over a thousand words in a day since January.
Im finding the key is to keep reminding myself that its just a rough draft. Its not going to be rated on quality and if I really want to make something readable out of it I can edit the hell out of it later when Im not on a deadline to get the draft done. In addition to being a horrible procrastinator, I have a hard time not spending fifteen minutes trying to rework a few sentences because Im not completely happy with how well they flow together. Im trying to write this novel more like I write my journal entries and just let it flow.
A lot of people keep asking me what my NaNoWriMo novel is about so I should probably just go ahead and write it here. Im tentatively calling it Eyes For Betrayal until I can think of something better. Its a fantasy novel involving swords and sorcery and a pair of mismatched protagonists working together to solve a murder that threatens to rekindle a bloody war only recently brought to a truce. Ive really wanted to write these characters for a long time. Edgewood is the infamous black sheep of the royal family who chose a life as an adventuring swordsman rather than being entangled in the usual politics surrounding a kings nephew. Raifalu is a reclusive necromancer who has little interest in the affairs of the living, having not laid eyes on a person with a heartbeat in years. The interplay between the two is going to be the really fun part of the novel for me.
I feel a bit disheartened reading the NaNoWriMo boards and seeing how much faster other people write than I do. I feel like Im handicapped or something because apparently even when Im in a groove by my standards I write only about half as fast as most of the others. The only people who havent left me eating their dust either havent started or are the ones that have no idea what theyre going to write about. At least I have a definite story in mind to tell, I guess. I dont understand what its like not to have a zillion story ideas jumping around in your head going Pick me! Pick me!
Word Count: 1,011 / 50,000
I kept Destiny home from school this morning, as she was constantly complaining about her stomach. Shed initially said she wanted to go to school anyway, but at the bus stop she kept coughing and I told her if shes sick she needs to stay home. Shes had pretty good attendance this year so it shouldnt be a problem.
After midnight last night I got started on my NaNoWriMo novel, Eyes For Betrayal (working titlehopefully Ill think of something better soon). I didnt get too far before I had to crash, but I brought my word count past the thousand word mark after working on it a bit more this morning after Destiny went back to bed. According to my writing log, Ive not written over a thousand words in a day since January.
Im finding the key is to keep reminding myself that its just a rough draft. Its not going to be rated on quality and if I really want to make something readable out of it I can edit the hell out of it later when Im not on a deadline to get the draft done. In addition to being a horrible procrastinator, I have a hard time not spending fifteen minutes trying to rework a few sentences because Im not completely happy with how well they flow together. Im trying to write this novel more like I write my journal entries and just let it flow.
A lot of people keep asking me what my NaNoWriMo novel is about so I should probably just go ahead and write it here. Im tentatively calling it Eyes For Betrayal until I can think of something better. Its a fantasy novel involving swords and sorcery and a pair of mismatched protagonists working together to solve a murder that threatens to rekindle a bloody war only recently brought to a truce. Ive really wanted to write these characters for a long time. Edgewood is the infamous black sheep of the royal family who chose a life as an adventuring swordsman rather than being entangled in the usual politics surrounding a kings nephew. Raifalu is a reclusive necromancer who has little interest in the affairs of the living, having not laid eyes on a person with a heartbeat in years. The interplay between the two is going to be the really fun part of the novel for me.
I feel a bit disheartened reading the NaNoWriMo boards and seeing how much faster other people write than I do. I feel like Im handicapped or something because apparently even when Im in a groove by my standards I write only about half as fast as most of the others. The only people who havent left me eating their dust either havent started or are the ones that have no idea what theyre going to write about. At least I have a definite story in mind to tell, I guess. I dont understand what its like not to have a zillion story ideas jumping around in your head going Pick me! Pick me!
Word Count: 1,011 / 50,000