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Commander Oblivious Captain
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 Posted: Tue Nov 30, 2010 9:39 pm
It was fun, it was hard, and sometimes, it was stress-filled suck. But most of us made it, it wasn't too bad, and now that it's over we get to regard our novels with fear and just a little bit of excitement as we begin the editing stages.
What was the best part of this for you? The worst? The most troublesome? What was your NaNo experience like?
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Posted: Wed Dec 01, 2010 7:25 am
the only time writing for nanowrimo felt different than the writing i do every day on a regular basis otherwise was those couple days when, for some reason, i actually wrote without editing or reading back and just cranked out text. theoretically, i should have done that from the very beginning, but i didn't because old habits (like editing every sentence during and after writing it) die hard.
but day one, i wrote about 5k, and then day thirty, i wrote just about 4k. those were my biggest days of productivity, and i'm not going to lie: i cringe thinking about going back to edit all the plot inconsistencies my haste created.
(like in chapter five, using mystical phoenix hair to tie someone up with the driving motivation being that said hair can't ever be broken without the phoenix's will, and then in chapter seven having that same someone walking around miraculously untied. damned plot gremlin.)
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Posted: Wed Dec 01, 2010 11:29 pm
The best part of writing this was the way my not fully fleshed out characters started taking on a life of their own as the story went on. That never ceases to amaze me.
The worst part was the actual writing. Seriously, it's hard. It's work. And I know it's not very good because it's a first draft, so in addition to the feeling of "Yay, I finished NaNoWriMo!" there's a feeling of "I spent a month on THIS?"
Halfway through the month I was forgetting what day it was. It was really weird to throw myself into writing like this. I'm glad I did it, though, because it's not as if I would have done anything more worthwhile with my free time if I hadn't chosen to write. I think that's part of what I needed this challenge to show me-- that if I apply myself, I can do something with that free time instead of sitting around.
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Posted: Thu Dec 02, 2010 12:26 am
Waltzkrieg The best part of writing this was the way my not fully fleshed out characters started taking on a life of their own as the story went on. That never ceases to amaze me. The worst part was the actual writing. Seriously, it's hard. It's work. And I know it's not very good because it's a first draft, so in addition to the feeling of "Yay, I finished NaNoWriMo!" there's a feeling of "I spent a month on THIS?" Halfway through the month I was forgetting what day it was. It was really weird to throw myself into writing like this. I'm glad I did it, though, because it's not as if I would have done anything more worthwhile with my free time if I hadn't chosen to write. I think that's part of what I needed this challenge to show me-- that if I apply myself, I can do something with that free time instead of sitting around. Sounds almost exactly like me to the t, man. Not even kidding. I felt empty the first day or two after I finished.
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