Exercise and the NanoNovel, redux

[rowyn]

NaNoWriMo is kicking my ass.

It's going ... weirdly, in fact. In some ways, I'm doing better than I'd expected to. Actually, if I view it just right, I'm on schedule

Comments

[ladyperegrine]

I'm really loving the story. It doesn't feel bloated to me; I think the pacing's good so far.

Please keep going!! :-)

[level_head]

A delightful surprise!

I just noticed that LiveJournal was slow, due apparently to heavy traffic -- and it occurred to me that you might have just updated Unfinished Tales.

Indeed -- that must have been it!

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[tuftears]

Personally I'm happy with how the story is going but I also agree that it's going to be 50% done by the end of November, at this rate. Maybe you should give yourself permission to skip chunks of story, then go back and fill those in later? It can be kind of a 'Don't you wish you knew what'd happened? Well, I'll tell you someday' thing.

I'd suggest 'just finish the story as it's meant to be, don't worry about length or deadlines' but I do think that 'finishing on time' is a powerful incentive, and if you didn't have that, it might rob you of the interest in actually finishing it, period. So the question is, what can you do to try and get done on time?

It's kind of a choice - skip some story in the name of a finished novel for November, or treat it like Silver Scales, it'll get done when it gets done.

[jordangreywolf]

Hey, as long as I get to read a Rowyn story, I'm happy! It's not like I really care about the NanoNeenerNeenerWhazzit anyway