I decided not to do NaNo after all--I've almost finished the first "act" of my WIP, and I'm in a place where I want to go back and do some rewrites rather than push forward.
I always thought the name Serenity had a vaguely funereal sound to it.
Simon ,'Out Of Gas'
The Great Write Way, Chapter Two: Twice upon a time...
A place for Buffistas to discuss, beta and otherwise deal and dish on their non-fan fiction projects.
Susan W. - Oct 28, 2007 2:57:07 pm PDT #9449 of 10001
Good Trouble and Righteous Fights
Connie Neil - Oct 28, 2007 3:41:11 pm PDT #9450 of 10001
brillig
The place my head is in, I could probably use NaNo to write this short story I promised. But deadlines and I are unmixy things, I get stubborn and think I'm proving something to the universe by saying, "I'm not going to get it done, and you can't make me!"
It is not helpful when you have authority issues with the inside of your own head.
Laga - Oct 28, 2007 7:40:04 pm PDT #9451 of 10001
You should know I'm a big deal in the Resistance.
Hee hee! I love the email I got from NaNoWriMo, especially this part:
leave ugly prose and poorly written passages on the page to be cleaned up later. Your inner editor will be very grumpy about this, but your inner editor is a nitpicky jerk who foolishly believes that it is possible to write a brilliant first draft if you write it slowly enough.
erikaj - Oct 29, 2007 9:48:07 am PDT #9452 of 10001
Always Anti-fascist!
I *have* written brilliant first drafts. But that is more like something working through me than my great efforts. You can't predict that.
Laga - Oct 29, 2007 9:53:45 am PDT #9453 of 10001
You should know I'm a big deal in the Resistance.
I can imagine writing a brilliant first draft of a poem, maybe a short story, but cranking out a perfect 175 page novel in one go is incomprehensible to me.
erikaj - Oct 29, 2007 10:15:29 am PDT #9454 of 10001
Always Anti-fascist!
No, probably not likely. I was just talking about reviews and such.
Zenkitty - Oct 29, 2007 1:49:25 pm PDT #9455 of 10001
Every now and then, I think I might actually be a little odd.
I'm toying with the idea of attempting NaNoWriMo. Or maybe it's toying with me. I have an idea for a story, anyway. Except now I'm invested in it, so I don't know if I can write it without caring if it's good or not.
Laga - Oct 29, 2007 2:00:47 pm PDT #9456 of 10001
You should know I'm a big deal in the Resistance.
Go for it! Join us! One of us! One of us!
You really do have to turn off the little squeaky mice and just concentrate on typing or you'll never win. Not that I have won. I think I got to 100 pages last time I tried. 100 very crappy pages iirc.
-t - Oct 29, 2007 2:27:52 pm PDT #9457 of 10001
I am a woman of various inclinations and only some of the time are they to burn everything down in frustration
Crank it out and edit and polish later, Zenkitty. I'm using it as a way to get the plot all worked out, almost a really really detailed outline.
Zenkitty - Oct 29, 2007 4:02:28 pm PDT #9458 of 10001
Every now and then, I think I might actually be a little odd.
That's exactly what my problem is - this would have to be a training exercise in It's Good Enough Dummy Stop Editing Now And Just Write. I can't stop editing long enough to write anything.