Fakey NaNo-ing, Day 1
I'm still undecided as to whether or not this will be a good thing for me, but so far, I'm leaning toward good.
Knowing I have to write 1666/7 words/day to meet the 50000 word/month mark means I don't get to slack off. I opened the chapter I'd left off on in my revision. I stared at it. I had no idea what happened next. So I just carried the conversation along a little (*yawn* I'll probably be cutting quite a bit of that), then threw in a curve of a question, one I needed to have one MC ask and the other answer; I just had nowhere to put it before. Now it's there.
I went on to put in a bit more tension in the one MC's family situation (not a lot, I'll up that later) and an argument between two characters who hadn't argued like that before, but probably needed to for it to be more realistic.
I'd have stopped before the tension and the argument if I hadn't been pushing to hit the daily goal.
Is this the best stuff I've ever written? No; but this is a weird sort of revision. It's more of a rewrite- from memory. Some stuff's the same, some's changing. But I think this goal is going to push me to the end a lot faster than if I just kept going at the pace I've been going.
If Wild & Wonderful Writer's Retreat was the kick-in-the-pants I needed to get back to my characters/world/story, Fakey NaNo is what (I hope) is going to keep up the momentum.
Day 1 Word Count: 1889
Knowing I have to write 1666/7 words/day to meet the 50000 word/month mark means I don't get to slack off. I opened the chapter I'd left off on in my revision. I stared at it. I had no idea what happened next. So I just carried the conversation along a little (*yawn* I'll probably be cutting quite a bit of that), then threw in a curve of a question, one I needed to have one MC ask and the other answer; I just had nowhere to put it before. Now it's there.
I went on to put in a bit more tension in the one MC's family situation (not a lot, I'll up that later) and an argument between two characters who hadn't argued like that before, but probably needed to for it to be more realistic.
I'd have stopped before the tension and the argument if I hadn't been pushing to hit the daily goal.
Is this the best stuff I've ever written? No; but this is a weird sort of revision. It's more of a rewrite- from memory. Some stuff's the same, some's changing. But I think this goal is going to push me to the end a lot faster than if I just kept going at the pace I've been going.
If Wild & Wonderful Writer's Retreat was the kick-in-the-pants I needed to get back to my characters/world/story, Fakey NaNo is what (I hope) is going to keep up the momentum.
Day 1 Word Count: 1889