Friday, November 9, 2012

Day 8 of NaNoWriMo

I am eight days into NaNoWriMo.  On the days when I have seriously put an effort into writing, I managed to put down about 2,000 words.  Unfortunately, there were a couple days when I could not shake a head ache.  I have learned the hard way not to mess with headaches, so I tried not to look at any screens for a while.  Unfortunately, that meant getting about 3,600 words behind.  The good news is that I am close to catching back up.  As of right now, I am only 1,600 words away from where I should be.  I feel pretty confident that I can keep up.

I am happy with how I am doing so far.  I didn't really have any expectations going into this.  I hadn't expected things would go perfectly, and had doubts whether I would finish.  Now that I am at least a week into this, I know that 50,000 words is entirely doable for me.  However, I think my feet will be dragging by the end.  Writing around 2,000 words a day gets tiring, especially when you aren't always sure what to write about... which I don't.  I usually spend a good fifteen minutes staring at the screen at the beginning of the day thinking "What can I write about?" because I'm simply stumped.  Jordan wonders if having started writing this ahead of time may have made this harder for me now, as at first I had no shortage of ideas.  He may be right, but I think this may be partially due to poor planning on my part.  The good news is that finding the time to write has not been as much as an issue as I had expected.

Although this is not my first large writing project, this one writes differently than anything else I've done.  It may explain why I am having some trouble thinking of what to write.  For a span of two months while I was in college, I would feel bombarded with ideas while I went to class, and then it would be no problem for me to write out around 2,500 words without breaks.  I don't have that this time, and I think that is because this story is really much more complicated than anything else I've attempted before.

I do think I can do this, but I anticipate that I'm going to be exhausted by the end.  Hopefully I'll still have enough in me to write another 22,000 or so in December, so that I can reach 90,000 words by the end of the year, as was my initial plan.

No new beads for my bracelet, sadly.  I tend to get distracted when I go to write-ins, so I've avoided going.  I'll be going to one this Sunday, hopefully, so I can pick up any that I've earned in the past few days.

NaNo Wordcount: 10,875 (21.8% of NaNo goal)
Total Wordcount: 28,175 (31.3% of goal... 80ish pages )

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