So how did I do yesterday? Well, I wrote three chapters from scratch and edited a fourth to fit in with the new plot changes. The battle scenes seemed to go well. I'll let those chapters set a while and then go back and take a look at them. I did not get done, though. I'm not sure if I should blame myself or if I had too aggressive a timeline. I know I underestimated the amount of new content I'd have to write. My thought was I'd just have to re-work three or four scenes. Ah, no. Many, many, many of the chapters were either re-written from scratch to better fit in or were so laboriously re-written that writing them from scrartch would have been faster. I tell you revising takes SO much longer than just writing does.
Still, I did pretty well impersonating a full-time writer. I did not do a full eight hours a day, more like 6. I am more and more convinced that I can do this, professionally. I didn't lose my hunger and love for either writing or my characters. I need to keep my nose to the grindstone a bit more but video games were less of a distraction that I'd feared.
Which brings me to my other topic, getting it out. I wrote a bunch of new content yesterday. It is probably not going to go out to publishers like it is. It doesn't matter, I got it out of my head and onto paper. It may be too much 'telling' instead of 'showing'. That doesn't matter either, I can fix that in revision. I got it out. You need to tell first in order to know what needs to be shown, I think. Don't worry about typos, plot holes, charaters misbehaving or dialog not going the way you intended. Get it out. Just write. You NANOWRIMO writers know what I'm talking about. Charge forward, never back up, forward momentum is everything. Just write, just go and keep going.
There's always time to go back and fix it.
Still, I did pretty well impersonating a full-time writer. I did not do a full eight hours a day, more like 6. I am more and more convinced that I can do this, professionally. I didn't lose my hunger and love for either writing or my characters. I need to keep my nose to the grindstone a bit more but video games were less of a distraction that I'd feared.
Which brings me to my other topic, getting it out. I wrote a bunch of new content yesterday. It is probably not going to go out to publishers like it is. It doesn't matter, I got it out of my head and onto paper. It may be too much 'telling' instead of 'showing'. That doesn't matter either, I can fix that in revision. I got it out. You need to tell first in order to know what needs to be shown, I think. Don't worry about typos, plot holes, charaters misbehaving or dialog not going the way you intended. Get it out. Just write. You NANOWRIMO writers know what I'm talking about. Charge forward, never back up, forward momentum is everything. Just write, just go and keep going.
There's always time to go back and fix it.
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