Nanowrimo: day 13
I had a second wind!
I can write again. The answer has two parts:
1) The destination is important, not the journey. If Character A needs to be temporarily blinded by some weird gas in the engine room and she's in the sickbay... GET HER THERE. As wordily as possible, with a very wordy pretext for being there.
2) Digress. Have the characters think a lot. Or dream. Or not use contractions. Or have a really bad memory so they repeat themselves. If you make a mistake, don't cross your valuable words out! Obviously if you're not taking part in a word-count challenge you don't want to do this, but if you are... anything goes. In addition, you can just cut out all the "telling" thought parts and use them to help you in the rewrite. It's never a bad thing to add more words.
Spent day in library after having the most delicious tuna-filled baked potato known to man. It gave me a formidable burst of writing energy; I think I got at least 3500 words done in between working on some German exercises. And all because I stopped caring. As far as I am concerned I was put on this earth to, er, write 50,000 words - sorry, handwrite 50,000 words - in one calendar month, along with a bunch of people who are kind of wimping out by taking the computer route. I, though, am a hardcore Nanoer. A hardcore Nanoer in a very good mood, even though I'm still quite behind. But who cares? I'm writing, and I've now written enough not to stall. I've built up enough momentum to ride out the next few days, and it's all thanks to not caring so much.
Word count: 19959. Behind, but considering my mental state this week, not too shabby at all.
I can write again. The answer has two parts:
1) The destination is important, not the journey. If Character A needs to be temporarily blinded by some weird gas in the engine room and she's in the sickbay... GET HER THERE. As wordily as possible, with a very wordy pretext for being there.
2) Digress. Have the characters think a lot. Or dream. Or not use contractions. Or have a really bad memory so they repeat themselves. If you make a mistake, don't cross your valuable words out! Obviously if you're not taking part in a word-count challenge you don't want to do this, but if you are... anything goes. In addition, you can just cut out all the "telling" thought parts and use them to help you in the rewrite. It's never a bad thing to add more words.
Spent day in library after having the most delicious tuna-filled baked potato known to man. It gave me a formidable burst of writing energy; I think I got at least 3500 words done in between working on some German exercises. And all because I stopped caring. As far as I am concerned I was put on this earth to, er, write 50,000 words - sorry, handwrite 50,000 words - in one calendar month, along with a bunch of people who are kind of wimping out by taking the computer route. I, though, am a hardcore Nanoer. A hardcore Nanoer in a very good mood, even though I'm still quite behind. But who cares? I'm writing, and I've now written enough not to stall. I've built up enough momentum to ride out the next few days, and it's all thanks to not caring so much.
Word count: 19959. Behind, but considering my mental state this week, not too shabby at all.