I'm only +89 on the budget. Kind of "hit the wall" so to speak.
Tried writing at home last night, that dosn't really work for me. Way too many distractions. The night before I forgot my wife's IPod and had to put up listing to a bunch of snobby "Suburban 40 something" women complain about everything.
I realize that when I go back to revise (in December) I'm going to add a lot of bulk to my story, that now I'm just trying to get it done I'm not really fleshing it out enough. Maybe in week four if I run out of story and I don't have 50K I'll do a few scenes, but not now.
I'm so not editing, I doubt I'm even writing in english anymore, but have invented my own gibberish language.
I've even skipped a whole seen, I just didn't want to write it. Well not right now. It's kinda a crucial scene so it has to happen, I really like it, I just don't feel like writing it now. I'll do it this weekend, after I rest up and unwind.
Ok I'll shut the hell up now.
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1,625 / 50,000
Nov 5, 2009 - 12 01
Actually I do that all the time. Skip over scenes, that is. There are no rules that say you have to write linearly - if that's how you work, great, if that's not how you work, great. As long as you are getting something, right?
There are several spots in my novel-to-be that literally say "stuff goes here" or "they finish the conversation/fight and move on to something more interesting before the next chapter." Yes, really, that is in my manuscript.
You'll either get back to it when the time comes, before the month is out, or not. Either way, you have an idea of what is supposed to be there, right? So don't worry about it.
December is the time to worry about it. November is the time to put your head down and just bull on through.
50,871 / 50,000
Nov 5, 2009 - 12 52
I loved your "stuff goes here"! I was looknig thru last year's draft and saw that I had written, "Blah blah blah ther'es a fire and somebody dies yada yada yada". Sounds crazy, but sometimes that's the only way to not lose your momentum. I like "Stuff goes here".
18,012 / 50,000
Nov 5, 2009 - 13 35
My thing is to use bold and brackets. I had one person's whose name until last night was (Think of a fracking name already!)
18,012 / 50,000
Nov 5, 2009 - 13 39
sorry hit the button twice
12,674 / 50,000
Nov 10, 2009 - 21 29
I agree, under these kind of constraints, don't force yourself to write a scene you're not feeling. Just make some notes about what it is supposed to do, and go on to the next one. I too use brackets. I even do this during non-Nano writing -- if I feel bogged down in something, I make notes about where it is supposed to go, and move on to the next scene. Perfectly normal!
18,012 / 50,000
Nov 11, 2009 - 06 47
I'm panicing, I just realzied that I didn't use my sub-plot that would add tons of development to my main guy and now I don't know how I can fit it in because he has to do things that he can't do in the time line as it's set out on. But then it's great because there's sooooo much story I haven't even touched yet, and this will help space things out (my story moves too fast I'm only 1/3 of the way through my target word count and most of my plot is already done).
Wait no it's not, I just thought of a good ending so I wrote it before I forgot it, it just "feels" done because I've peeked at the ending already (the butler doesn't do it, ha ha... there's n butler!)
(Breaths rapidly into brown paper bad) ... December, December, everything gets fixed in December.
44,091 / 50,000
Nov 11, 2009 - 07 41
Ringo, buddy.... you need to relax and enjoy this a little. remember, you can always go back and add things, background and description to your novel toward the end of the month. Try not to pass out, okay?
54,008 / 50,000
Nov 11, 2009 - 13 03
Ringo -
Don't go back...just keep moving forward, man.
When you get done, like Kahunah said, you can ALWAYS go back in the re-write and add more. Knowing the end will help you find little things when you go back, and it will also help when you go to put in a few "smoking guns."
-suzie
12,674 / 50,000
Nov 12, 2009 - 22 13
Yes, absolutely no rewriting. Rewriting is a NaNo killer. You just get hopelessly bogged down and lose heart. The whole point is to keep moving forward.
If you want to start a separate doc on your PC and write some vignettes from the subplot that you want before you forget them, that's fine. You can do that as you get bogged down on the main plot. Don't forget to add them to your total word count.