Thursday, November 7, 2013
I had planned to write a post about making a schedule for NaNoWriMo before it actually started, but it seems a little pointless now. So instead, I'm going to report on my progress during this week.
It's been fun and rather productive so far. I had my doubts about entering; I'm a slow writer because I edit as I go, but this time, I needed something that pushed me into writing this draft so that I'd have something to pull a proposal from. I need to register for thesis. So NaNoWriMo sounded like a good idea, and so far, I'm glad I've done it. It's true that as I'm working on my novel, I know that I need to make changes, adjustments and even cut some of the scenes I've been working on; but I'm writing. You need to write first so that you have your story down on paper and then you can revise what you have done so far. There's always that fear that what you write during NaNoWriMo is utter crap; it may happen. But you did achieve something during the time you were writing: you wrote a draft. And also, you know what? A first draft is never going to be perfect; there's always some room for editing. So if you're beating yourself up because you think that what you're writing is crap, don't. The point of NaNoWriMo is not to produce polished drafts; it's to write. For further convincing that what I'm saying is not crazy, check out this post from Chuck Wendig. And if you find that you need a push to continue writing, check out the NaNoWriMo pep talks from some amazing authors.
If you want to keep an eye on my progress, you can check the widget in this blog and look at the word count. Hopefully I'll continue in track and either finish my novel or have a good chunk of it written. I can't wait to finish it and dive into edits to polish it. Because that's the other good thing about NanoWriMo; you know that some of what you're writing is so crappy, you can't wait to return to it to make it better even if it takes you some time. Because writing of any type takes time and effort.
We can do this. See you on the other side!
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