Posts Tagged ‘Some things I learned from NaNo’

It’s another NaNoWriMo update and I have some good news and I have some bad news. And I have some moderate news that can be perceived as either good or bad.

And a decision.

And an Icy pole.

It’s getting to be freaking hot these days. It’s at 31.5 Celsius today. It’s supposed to be five degrees cooler tomorrow, so I’m crossing my fingers.

It’s going to be a bitch of a summer this year.

So, here’s the reason why I’m here today and not trying to hit my NaNo word quota while wiping the sweat from my forehead.

I kind of… well… finished.

I know! Right? I’m quite a number of words short of the 50,000… in fact I’m still short of getting halfway.

I knew this story was short. It wouldn’t make a thick novel. But when it was just a black spot on my brain I thought it may reach 50,000 words.

Ha.

Half way into it I thought it may reach 30-40 thousand words.

Ha.

I just wrote the last word which was word 19,134.

Now, some of the scene’s were a little glossed over and some were a little *cough* left out. There is also something missing that I haven’t quite put my finger on yet. But even with a complete rewrite I don’t see adding another 10,000 words.

Anyway, it’s definitely in the novella category. But hell, I’m not padding the story out with crap I don’t want just to make the thing longer.

I have learned a couple of things from NaNo this year already…

- I shouldn’t have any trouble hitting 10 grand of words every week. It’s pretty easy If I don’t procrastinate so much. So I plan to keep this up.

- Writing is still fun. It’s obvious but you forget sometimes.

- And some other stuff too.

So here’s my conundrum – which is mildly humorous as well.

Last year I got bored with my story and gave up to work on something else. This year I was going well but ran out of material. HA! (I did say mildly humorous…)

Now, do I…

One – Begin my rewrite now? (Which I believe counts for NaNo since I’m still working on the same novel(la).

Two – Start work on a fresh project and still count it toward NaNo? (Which is a bit iffy on whether or not it counts. It’s a different project but I’m still aiming for 50,000 words)

Or

Three – Forget the NaNo thing and just work on what I want with no set goal… or a personally set goal…

Well, what do you think?