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Nov. 23rd, 2007 04:09 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
triple_flameHmm, the longer that I keep at this blasted plot the more I think that I actually have a chance of making it something vaguely decent on the re-write. I'm discovering more and more little snippets of information that will work just as soon as I edit something. I refuse to edit this month but I'm crowbarring where I can, even if it doesn't quite make sense, (Hey, Hollywood can do it why shouldn't I?!) because it keeps the old wordcount going and I'll find time to edit next year...After I finish the first draft of Pryde and Honour of course.
I'm kinda worried that my P&H characters will think that I've abandoned them and refuse to talk to me. On the plus side this year's Nano has reminded me that I can just skip around when I'm not sure of the next chapter and that I shouldn't be afraid to make new plans half way through if something needs more detail. It might never be a masterpiece but I don't think I can consign it to the depths of my hard drive just because it has taught me a few things (like October really IS for planning).
In general I seem to be over the week three blues thanks to the mini write-in that Simara and I had at her place on wednesday (And possibly the fact that we are now done with week three...). It's amazing just how much of a boost the odd 5k day gives you, not to mention the luxury of knowing that you're two days ahead of schedule and the world can explode for a little while if it really needs to. I think it was made all the more satisfying since my last 5K day was a desperate catch up session because I was two days behind. This year has also gone a long way towards reminding me why I continue to do nano, it's a time when I can make mistakes, can write a load of trash but end with something that just might be polishable. It lets me cut loose so I can find all the mistakes that I'm so terrified of making the rest of the year that I just don't write, it reminds me of how to spot them coming, how to work around them and how to correct them. I might lock my IE up over the course of November but it's mostly so she can get a refresher course on her job description! Possibly best of all though, it gives me something to get stressed about that *gasp* doesn't actually matter. The world will not end if I don't make that ellusive 50k, no one will die, it won't send anyone to prison and the only one who will be disappointed in me is myself. It's something I can rant about without worrying that I'm dumping my problems on someone who has quite enough of their own. If I really need to release some pent up tension I can kill my characters in new and interestingly violent ways and when this world just gets too much I have a whole new one that I can jump into at the flick of a switch. Ok, so all of this might seem a little deep and meaningful for what is essentially creative masochism but there you go.
Anyway, enough of this, I have things to do, forums to procrastinate on and maybe even a bad guy to finish introducing...there's nothing wrong with not introducing your big big bad until 40,000 words in right?
I'm kinda worried that my P&H characters will think that I've abandoned them and refuse to talk to me. On the plus side this year's Nano has reminded me that I can just skip around when I'm not sure of the next chapter and that I shouldn't be afraid to make new plans half way through if something needs more detail. It might never be a masterpiece but I don't think I can consign it to the depths of my hard drive just because it has taught me a few things (like October really IS for planning).
In general I seem to be over the week three blues thanks to the mini write-in that Simara and I had at her place on wednesday (And possibly the fact that we are now done with week three...). It's amazing just how much of a boost the odd 5k day gives you, not to mention the luxury of knowing that you're two days ahead of schedule and the world can explode for a little while if it really needs to. I think it was made all the more satisfying since my last 5K day was a desperate catch up session because I was two days behind. This year has also gone a long way towards reminding me why I continue to do nano, it's a time when I can make mistakes, can write a load of trash but end with something that just might be polishable. It lets me cut loose so I can find all the mistakes that I'm so terrified of making the rest of the year that I just don't write, it reminds me of how to spot them coming, how to work around them and how to correct them. I might lock my IE up over the course of November but it's mostly so she can get a refresher course on her job description! Possibly best of all though, it gives me something to get stressed about that *gasp* doesn't actually matter. The world will not end if I don't make that ellusive 50k, no one will die, it won't send anyone to prison and the only one who will be disappointed in me is myself. It's something I can rant about without worrying that I'm dumping my problems on someone who has quite enough of their own. If I really need to release some pent up tension I can kill my characters in new and interestingly violent ways and when this world just gets too much I have a whole new one that I can jump into at the flick of a switch. Ok, so all of this might seem a little deep and meaningful for what is essentially creative masochism but there you go.
Anyway, enough of this, I have things to do, forums to procrastinate on and maybe even a bad guy to finish introducing...there's nothing wrong with not introducing your big big bad until 40,000 words in right?
