nano update
Nov. 20th, 2010 11:58 pmWords: 22,300
Expected words: around 33,300
AHAHAHAHA. At the 2/3 mark and not even halfway there. I'm torn between "this is utterly hopeless" and "this is totally doable." Because if I write 3,000 words a day for the next ten days, then I'm there. But I can't do that, because I have to go to work for three of those days, and to Thanksgiving dinner with my family on a fourth. Post-T'giving I'll have four or five days to do nothing but write, and that will help, but I honestly don't know if it will be enough to get me there.
And I don't know if I care, either. I mean, obviously I care about finishing something I said I'd do, and proving that I can do it, and all that. But the writing is crap, enough so that it's making me twitchy about how bad it is. My characters are either flat or contradictory, my worldbuilding is an incoherent mess (even though it's drawing on someone else's world, the reader will see it as an incoherent mess, because I've not given nearly enough pacing and small hints and all that), and the plot is... serviceable, I think, that part I can do pretty well. I suspect that I shall finish this and lock it away in a Drafts folder and never touch it again.
I'm not sure whether Just Write The Damned Thing is doing me any good or not. It might in smaller doses. I /do/ think that a thousand words a day is a sustainable pace now, which is an improvement. I can understand how people can just sit down and knock out a story in a night, when it used to be a struggle for me to get four hundred words at a stretch. So that much has been good.
We shall see.
Expected words: around 33,300
AHAHAHAHA. At the 2/3 mark and not even halfway there. I'm torn between "this is utterly hopeless" and "this is totally doable." Because if I write 3,000 words a day for the next ten days, then I'm there. But I can't do that, because I have to go to work for three of those days, and to Thanksgiving dinner with my family on a fourth. Post-T'giving I'll have four or five days to do nothing but write, and that will help, but I honestly don't know if it will be enough to get me there.
And I don't know if I care, either. I mean, obviously I care about finishing something I said I'd do, and proving that I can do it, and all that. But the writing is crap, enough so that it's making me twitchy about how bad it is. My characters are either flat or contradictory, my worldbuilding is an incoherent mess (even though it's drawing on someone else's world, the reader will see it as an incoherent mess, because I've not given nearly enough pacing and small hints and all that), and the plot is... serviceable, I think, that part I can do pretty well. I suspect that I shall finish this and lock it away in a Drafts folder and never touch it again.
I'm not sure whether Just Write The Damned Thing is doing me any good or not. It might in smaller doses. I /do/ think that a thousand words a day is a sustainable pace now, which is an improvement. I can understand how people can just sit down and knock out a story in a night, when it used to be a struggle for me to get four hundred words at a stretch. So that much has been good.
We shall see.