Day Seven Check-in
So, seven days into NaNoWriMo 2011.
Who is winning, me or the naysayers?
Both!
Revolutions: 7,380
Twenty Years After: 6,286
Total: 13,666
If I were sane and were writing only one story, my word count would be very pretty indeed. But I am not sane. At this point in NaNo, participants writing steadily would be at about 11667 words. That means I, in my insanity, should be at 23334.
I keep telling myself that "tomorrow" I'll put my nose to the grindstone and catch up, but I'm starting to realize that even on a day when I push my hardest, I have trouble breaking the 3000 word mark. Perhaps later in the month momentum might push me to places I can't get to now, but in the interests of my mental and physical health I can only depend on an average daily count of 2000.
But I still stand by my assertion that were I only writing one book, my word count would be somewhere down under the ten thousand mark. It surely says something bad about my character that I never push myself quite hard enough to actually meet goals and I need to do crazy things like double-NaNos to get myself to put words on the page.
All that aside, it really is nice to be drafting again. I admit part of me is tempted to take one of the stories and plough ahead with it until I get to 100,000 (minus whatever I've written so far on the other), but I'm enjoying both stories enough that I don't want to give either of them up, even if it means no NaNo winner's badge.
(Oh, and I'm very amused to find that Revolutions still has no sign of Highlander and seems to want to be a tale of Percy and Marguerite's courtship. C'est la vie -- though I do intend to get to that Highlander crossover another time.)
So as of right now, I don't have plans to change my strategy, though I reserve the right to revisit things on the 15th or thereafter.
Cate
Who is winning, me or the naysayers?
Both!
Revolutions: 7,380
Twenty Years After: 6,286
Total: 13,666
If I were sane and were writing only one story, my word count would be very pretty indeed. But I am not sane. At this point in NaNo, participants writing steadily would be at about 11667 words. That means I, in my insanity, should be at 23334.
I keep telling myself that "tomorrow" I'll put my nose to the grindstone and catch up, but I'm starting to realize that even on a day when I push my hardest, I have trouble breaking the 3000 word mark. Perhaps later in the month momentum might push me to places I can't get to now, but in the interests of my mental and physical health I can only depend on an average daily count of 2000.
But I still stand by my assertion that were I only writing one book, my word count would be somewhere down under the ten thousand mark. It surely says something bad about my character that I never push myself quite hard enough to actually meet goals and I need to do crazy things like double-NaNos to get myself to put words on the page.
All that aside, it really is nice to be drafting again. I admit part of me is tempted to take one of the stories and plough ahead with it until I get to 100,000 (minus whatever I've written so far on the other), but I'm enjoying both stories enough that I don't want to give either of them up, even if it means no NaNo winner's badge.
(Oh, and I'm very amused to find that Revolutions still has no sign of Highlander and seems to want to be a tale of Percy and Marguerite's courtship. C'est la vie -- though I do intend to get to that Highlander crossover another time.)
So as of right now, I don't have plans to change my strategy, though I reserve the right to revisit things on the 15th or thereafter.
Cate