Comments | nanoljers: image inspired exercise

welby in nanoljers

image inspired exercise

Sep 10, 2007 15:34

A single slip. The blur of raising the axe above his head too fast, the wooden handle slickly slipping through grasping hands, sweaty hands suddenly clutching at the air. It went nearly straight up then into an arc, tumbling in his view - blade, handle, blade, handle. He had jerked his head back to watch and was falling backwards onto the brown ( Read more... )

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welby September 11 2007, 17:46:17 UTC

I don't disagree with the POV bit ... it's a stretch to switch POV in a story this itty bitty. There is quite a lot of word choice that I would do differently, too. I was treating this exercise as throwing down the words without letting myself edit them. I'm always so uptight about showing rough-draft fiction, but there's no way I'll get a 50,000 word count in my NaNoWriMo blog if I don't just write, write, write instead of write, edit, write, edit.

Thank you for the exercise and thank you for the gentle treatment...

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welby September 12 2007, 17:04:07 UTC

I've intended to do NaNo before, but never got beyond setting up an account to post things in. I'm going camping this weekend, taking my laptop and outlining heavily. I'll probably be posting the outline in my NaNo journal with the exception of the outline of the last chapters.

I presume you've NaNo'ed before ... any tips for a newbie?