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Okay so my word count is a little padded today, because of a scene I cut from my first novel that was supposed to go in the volume I'm writing now. The scene is not much more than a 1000 words but it does look scary when added in the total.
It's that time when most people in NaNo are already realizing that it's going to be tough to get to 50,000 words this month. My grand total may look pretty good for less than two weeks. But I have to admit that my ability concentrate at this level is only good for about two weeks. I'm starting to desperately want to do other things. If I don't take a few days break soon, my mind will automatically slip into neutral and I won't get much done any way. So don't feel bad if you are behind me in word count. I have to work the way I have to, but that means flirting with burn out constantly.
As some of you know I wrote a story for![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
wisewoman recently. It took a long time to finish and did not end up as long as I'd wished. I'm not unhappy with the end product, but it showed me I can not write in a linear fashion on this kind of thing. Too many good ideas come after I've written quite a bit. It's too easy to make a major mistake as I did in the recent story. Because I was writing in installments I had to do some fancy footwork to make it work out instead of fixing it at the source. My current book is complex. I haven't begun all the threads much less gotten them to weave together. Chances are its going to be insanely long and unpublishable like the first one. But, I know over time I'll be glad I put the effort in.
Not-NaNo word count for yesterday 3973 for November 10,068 (total 19,682)
PSmamculuna, I got your message. My provider seems to be having trouble with outbound email this morning. But I'll try to get it to you later today.
It's that time when most people in NaNo are already realizing that it's going to be tough to get to 50,000 words this month. My grand total may look pretty good for less than two weeks. But I have to admit that my ability concentrate at this level is only good for about two weeks. I'm starting to desperately want to do other things. If I don't take a few days break soon, my mind will automatically slip into neutral and I won't get much done any way. So don't feel bad if you are behind me in word count. I have to work the way I have to, but that means flirting with burn out constantly.
As some of you know I wrote a story for
wisewoman recently. It took a long time to finish and did not end up as long as I'd wished. I'm not unhappy with the end product, but it showed me I can not write in a linear fashion on this kind of thing. Too many good ideas come after I've written quite a bit. It's too easy to make a major mistake as I did in the recent story. Because I was writing in installments I had to do some fancy footwork to make it work out instead of fixing it at the source. My current book is complex. I haven't begun all the threads much less gotten them to weave together. Chances are its going to be insanely long and unpublishable like the first one. But, I know over time I'll be glad I put the effort in.Not-NaNo word count for yesterday 3973 for November 10,068 (total 19,682)
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mamculuna, I got your message. My provider seems to be having trouble with outbound email this morning. But I'll try to get it to you later today.Tags: