NaNoWriMo Day 5
I’ve been avoiding doing a daily post, mostly because I don’t want to talk too much about my “novel” (I feel weird calling it that. It’s really just a long story, lol), because I don’t want to give away too much of it. Suffice it to say, however, that I’m very excited about what’s come out of the effort, so far. I am just under 1/3 of the way to the minimum word requirement, though if I know myself, I’m going to exceed 50,000 words.
I’m still working through the major story lines— I like to just dive in and let the details set themselves up and work themselves out. Every few chapters or 5,000 words or so, I do some fact checking and make sure certain details stay true, then plan out a little further, then write some more and plan out a little further. It’s going well, so far. I feel like when I plan out the entire thing, I lose my zest for the story and I feel like I’ve written it already. That’s no fun.
So far? World building and story writing and writing something new in a big damn hurry is a lot of fun. Everyday I post my word count over at the Nanowrimo site and I feel really proud of myself, and I’m so in love with the story. It’s been such a nice break from the story I’ve been writing for uhmmmmmm almost a year. Wow. Need that one to end, and soon.
But now, Mama is tired, and have already put away the piece for the night. I’m off to sleep, perchance to dream, while visions of plotlines and realistic, believable dialogue and story arcs and stylebooks and well rounded characters dance in my head!
1 Kalannaon 07 Nov 2009 at 3:26 PM link to this comment
good luck to ya M. any chance we’ll get to read the final product?
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2 MissMon 07 Nov 2009 at 3:29 PM link to this comment
Thanks for the well wishes! Banging away today! Most certainly! I’ll be posting it in my personal archive once it’s complete, and link anyone there who wants to read it.
(I’m a dork and realized I replied to you via email and not on the blog. Duh.)
3 Kalannaon 08 Nov 2009 at 12:14 AM link to this comment
good to hear. lemme know when you are done!
and hehe email me anytime. ;)
.-= Kalanna´s last blog ..The Butterfly that Stamped =-.