Saturday, 29 November 2008 08:19 pm
(no subject)
![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
deckardcanineI just won NaNoWriMo a day early! This after three consecutive days without adding to my novel, tho I did think about what to say.
But I must say, the story isn't nearly finished. It's only at a good temporary stopping point, one that repeats the title.
In the last couple weeks, I've deliberated on whether to keep writing long after I hit 50,000 or call it quits. One issue is whether the story is good enough to keep going (I'm sure it'll never be better than pulp), but the more important issue is time. I am not about to treat the next month like another NaNoWriMo. Even if I didn't sweat the holiday shopping, it'd take up time for things that I've put off all month, most notably "Downscale." But I'm pretty sure that if I don't set a deadline of some kind, I'll forget the novel altogether.
The solution turned out to be simple, especially when I read that someone else on deviantART was doing it: Save the rest for next NaNoWriMo. I believe I have enough room for another 50,000 words, particularly if I don't speed things up. And I prefer that to adding just another 20,000 or so. This will be where the story really gets meaningful -- and a little more challenging for me. It's a change of tone, but not too radical to pass for part of the same story.
The drawback, of course, is waiting 11 months for the next official NaNoWriMo. Oh well. I don't think I'll forget. It's been good fun.
But I must say, the story isn't nearly finished. It's only at a good temporary stopping point, one that repeats the title.
In the last couple weeks, I've deliberated on whether to keep writing long after I hit 50,000 or call it quits. One issue is whether the story is good enough to keep going (I'm sure it'll never be better than pulp), but the more important issue is time. I am not about to treat the next month like another NaNoWriMo. Even if I didn't sweat the holiday shopping, it'd take up time for things that I've put off all month, most notably "Downscale." But I'm pretty sure that if I don't set a deadline of some kind, I'll forget the novel altogether.
The solution turned out to be simple, especially when I read that someone else on deviantART was doing it: Save the rest for next NaNoWriMo. I believe I have enough room for another 50,000 words, particularly if I don't speed things up. And I prefer that to adding just another 20,000 or so. This will be where the story really gets meaningful -- and a little more challenging for me. It's a change of tone, but not too radical to pass for part of the same story.
The drawback, of course, is waiting 11 months for the next official NaNoWriMo. Oh well. I don't think I'll forget. It's been good fun.
![[identity profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/openid.png){kind=small}
no subject
no subject
I like your solution to the "too much story to go, too many other projects to work on" problem. I often take about a year's break from a given story, after working intensively on it for a few months. It seems to give me a better perspective when I finally get back to it; I feel like my ideas have had time to ferment, and I come up with some unexpected new angles on the story.
I really love NaNoWriMo. And I will really love getting up tomorrow morning and not having to crank out several thousand words.