That's sort of the point. You write the 50,000. That's all you're on the hook for. If you need to write more to complete the book, that's fine. The point is the commitment.
Ah. Some of the discussion I saw on another board made it look like the point was also completing an idea.
Still, not this year. I need to finish this edit on the current project, spend some more time on freelance ideas that have some chance at immediate earnings, and start setting up the pieces for my next project. I couldn't get 50,000 words on it in November. I could make November my big research month to figure out exactly where I'm going to fit the story into whatever Wellington's army was up to in the second half of 1811, and write 50,000 words in
December,
but I really need that research homework first.
Got it Deb, and backflung.
Posted this over on LJ, but waited until the board was better to post here.
I'm back to writing my ongoing column on writing, "Writing from the Real World," for Writemovies.com.
I'm trying a different tact with it this time around, less about screenwriting (which was the space my head was in for the first go round) and this time more general--more about poetry and fiction, et al. It's cynical and bitter and just a wee bit curmudgeonly, and I hope you enjoy it!
This week? The Validation Tango.
Also, if you have any great ideas for areas in the writer's life to explore, please let me know!
Since you've finished a Regency in a year, Susan, I'm not sure you need external motivation. NaNoWriMo is more of a "get up off your ass and WRITE, dammit!" challenge.
Which would actually be tricky unless you had the right desk. Must. rethink. metaphor.
Two years, actually. I started it back in 2001. I need to pick up the pace in the future if I'm going to make a career of this.
Victor, your column rules.(But I think kicking the little punk's ass would make me feel better, at least for the moment,)
Victor, your column rules.
Thank ya!
(But I think kicking the little punk's ass would make me feel better, at least for the moment,)
Well, probably. But it would be an empty, fleeting pleasure...
Eh, you take what you can get, you know.
Yay, Liese!
Am, of course I want to be added to the filter.
I, unfortunately, haven't been able to get back into active LJing since the move, but I'd like to. I can't seem to get up the whatever it is I need to do it. Maybe this will be the incentive I need.
