NaNoWriMo 2010 Part 7 / Zombie Steampunk #23
Originally published at A Singularity. You can comment here or there.
Word Count: 14,931 (Delta: +1,837[1]) (Prime Delta: +1,595)
So the title is now out of sync. Since I didn’t update on Saturday, I’m a day behind. Kinda annoying. Now my post titles are NaNoWriMo 2010 Part Day-1. Anyway I hit a little under 200 over the goal today. Which is pretty good considering the content I tired to write. Took about two hours again. I think this is a pretty good sign. If I’m going to become an author, I can knock out 1667 words daily in two hours, with a decent outline and a good world outline, I can probably write at a sane pace… right?
Writing Advice (new segment!)
So I’m finding buddy watch not really as useful as it was last NaNoWriMo. Maybe perhaps because I’m not falling behind as much this year. Perhaps because I have more writing buddies now, and a writing group, so I’m not relying upon posting semi-anomalously to the internet in a vain attempt to feel like someone else cares that I’m writing.
So instead I’m going to talk /at/ the internet with advice I’ve collected or found. So for that one person who reads this (likely being future me who is nostalgically re-living that time when he thought he knew how to write) can get something useful out of it other than a bunch of numbers about how I am doing.
So the funny part is that I don’t actually have any advice this time. At least nothing that I can offer as something I actually advise with someone else backing me up except for the following:
Get yourself into your workspace.
So this is a variant on the I Should Be Writing advice Mur Lafferty gives about putting on pants. Basically its that you need to find the right environment to make sure you write. The computer you play your video games on. The room you play your board games in. These are not condusive for me to write in and they might not be good for you either. If you find your self struggling to write. Too easily distracted. To willing to stop after an hour, consider changing your environment.
Coffee shops, sandwich shops, parks, college campuses just to name a few. Anywhere where you can pay them a few bucks to let you loiter for the entire day. I find I write the best when I have something I don’t care about to ignore. I got so much writing done back when I was in high school and college… well actually no I did but I fancied that I did.
Anyway so apparently I lied and I did have advice. Sorry.
Zombie Steampunk Update
Today wasn’t too bad. A little slow to start and I quickly realized why. I was writing a social battle scene. I have my protagonist, my contagonist, and my guardian all in a very small space, bound by the rules of etiquette. So my contagonist is trying to seduce my protagonist, and my guardian is too bound by polite etiquette and the surroundings to really stop them save to continue talking, but my contagonist is directly ignoring my guardian, without trying to make it obvious to the contagonist. Verbal sparing, just as draining as actually writing an action scene, let me tell you. Because words have to be picked, and blows have to be traded, and it can’t just be a natural conversation where people are being honest with each other.
Zombie Steampunk World Stats
Glossary: 1,294 Words (Delta +0) World Setting: 7,630 Words (Delta -48) Character Information: 2,503 Words (Delta +11) Current Outline: 5,778 Words (Delta +11) Draft: 14,931 Words (Delta: +1,837) Grand Total: 32,136 Words (Delta +1,811)
Night folks.
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