Decisions.
So, I've taken in everyone's feedback regarding NaNo and my own weird dream in which I was driving a car in reverse & couldn't stop it (which I took to mean something...), and have decided not to NaNo.
I think it's great for people who want to do it, who think it will jump start them into a new story or help them grow as a writer, but I don't think it is right for me. I'm basically never going to be at a point where I have a brand new story to work on, and trying to come up with one just to come up with one when I have, oh, six or so that could be worked on.... Yeah. Just not the best thing for me to do for me & my career.
However...
I'm going to revise my JoNo goals to include 50000 words in November. I could join up with the group that's aiming for 30000 in November, but since I'm right around there per month anyway, I don't think it will help me. I want a challenge.
So I'm going to try and hit 50000 words. I'm not going to say they'll all be in one story, or even one series, but I will not do my usual round-up*, in compliance with the NaNo word counter. I think this will be fun and it might be what I need to really wrap-up this revision- since it's more of a "rewrite the story from memory to leave out all the boring bits" revision, this will force me to just keep writing instead of stopping to examine/edit/bemoan my overuse of "just," "basically," etc. (That's what Draft 3 is for.)
And who knows, maybe I'll even get to those SFDs of W&F2 or 3 ;-)
*Don't judge- I only round up to the nearest hundred, and not if I think I didn't write/delete enough words to make up for the rounding- if the word count says I wrote 608 words, I say I wrote 600. If it says I wrote 657, I say 700.
I think it's great for people who want to do it, who think it will jump start them into a new story or help them grow as a writer, but I don't think it is right for me. I'm basically never going to be at a point where I have a brand new story to work on, and trying to come up with one just to come up with one when I have, oh, six or so that could be worked on.... Yeah. Just not the best thing for me to do for me & my career.
However...
I'm going to revise my JoNo goals to include 50000 words in November. I could join up with the group that's aiming for 30000 in November, but since I'm right around there per month anyway, I don't think it will help me. I want a challenge.
So I'm going to try and hit 50000 words. I'm not going to say they'll all be in one story, or even one series, but I will not do my usual round-up*, in compliance with the NaNo word counter. I think this will be fun and it might be what I need to really wrap-up this revision- since it's more of a "rewrite the story from memory to leave out all the boring bits" revision, this will force me to just keep writing instead of stopping to examine/edit/bemoan my overuse of "just," "basically," etc. (That's what Draft 3 is for.)
And who knows, maybe I'll even get to those SFDs of W&F2 or 3 ;-)
*Don't judge- I only round up to the nearest hundred, and not if I think I didn't write/delete enough words to make up for the rounding- if the word count says I wrote 608 words, I say I wrote 600. If it says I wrote 657, I say 700.