So, my third year's novel has somehow given my inner editor a strength it didn't have before. Last two years, it took atleast a week before his screams could be heard from the store cupboard that is the office of my creativity. But no... This year, he's sat right at the main desk telling me that it'll never work.
Right now I know that this chapter will be deleted in the revision(s), but I can't go back and delete it now. Sure, it's only 1000 words, but it's 1000 words that I don't want to have to write again. Ugh. Anyone else going through this?
I've found the odd paragraph so far in every chapter that's cheered me up - it's usually a character introduction. Chapter 5, so far, is a no go.
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38,078 / 50,000
nov. 2, 2009 - 14 29
This is my 3rd year too (not won yet) and my inner editor seems to be happily taking a back seat for once. I'm just churning out lame prose and cliches and having a fine old time!
----------50,067 / 50,000
nov. 2, 2009 - 14 32
I envy your carefree editor.
Chapters 5 & 6 were, I'll admit, dire. Luckily, Chapter 7 was decent enough to stifle my editor's creams and now that my characters are sticking to the plot again, he seems more content. It's all good. Will definately be revising or cutting 5 & 6 come december, though.
41,882 / 50,000
nov. 2, 2009 - 14 33
What's often stunted the growth of my word count in recent years has been that nagging voice that everything must be perfect, trying to convince me that Nano is more about writing a masterpiece rather than just having a blast in a madcap writing pace to make 50,000 words.
Thankfully, said voice seems to have been banished to the Nth Dimension this year as I'm quite whimsically typing the first things that come into my head and loving it! My editor will no doubt be back with a critical vengeance in December but until then, I find myself with the wonderful ability to sit down, shut up and just start typing :)
----------2006: So You've Fallen in Love - 1,477 words.
2007: Not-So-Lonely Road of Faith - 11,522 words.
2008: Faux - 13,366 words.
2009: The Coleridge Tape.
jayintheclouds.livejournal.com / twitter.com/jayintheclouds / facebook.com/onsentamago
42,616 / 50,000
nov. 3, 2009 - 02 12
I've been writing more lately, all short pieces that I've edited remorselessly. And it's made me see that the quality of the first draft really doesn't matter, it's what I do with it that matters.
So now I'm just getting my story on the page and it doesn't look like I thought it would and it certainly doesn't look like I'd like it to. But come December, or maybe January, I will have a lot to polish.
Who was it who said, "You're not NOT editing, you're just not editing YET"?
----------My Blog
41,882 / 50,000
nov. 3, 2009 - 05 47
Couldn't help but notice this gem from today's Breaking News:
Where it will likely require medical attention.
These are words to live by. Resist the tyranny of the delete key!
If that doesn't motivate a wrimo to push aside his / her inner editor, I can't think what will ;)
----------2006: So You've Fallen in Love - 1,477 words.
2007: Not-So-Lonely Road of Faith - 11,522 words.
2008: Faux - 13,366 words.
2009: The Coleridge Tape.
jayintheclouds.livejournal.com / twitter.com/jayintheclouds / facebook.com/onsentamago
20,778 / 50,000
nov. 3, 2009 - 05 54
Ack, I can feel the resentful glares of the NaNoWriMo angels even now...!
----------Lily
Municipal Liaison for London, England
'Nil Desperandum!'
60,010 / 50,000
nov. 3, 2009 - 07 54
Andufus - December was MADE for revising. :) As was January, and February...
Relax, let the words flow and try not to take it to bits just yet. Your plot rocks (no, really, it does - I'd read it!) :D
----------On Twitter @orbiting_star
NaNo 2008: Through the Yellow Mist (73,000)
50,067 / 50,000
nov. 3, 2009 - 10 51
Thanks Orbiting_Star! :D
Chapter 8 was a bit against the planning but it was enough to please the inner editor, and he's now scheming away in his little store cupboard it's all good :D
38,378 / 50,000
nov. 3, 2009 - 16 55
I'm kind of meeting him halfway, he's letting me write what I want as long as the pacing is right and I don't use extra words just to bump up my count. He screams at me sometimes if I'm trying to force a boring scene out, but in those cases I find it's easiest to just wrap it up and move on, then the words start flowing again.
6,501 / 50,000
nov. 4, 2009 - 15 19
I can't write three sentences without going back for revisions. That, along with the fact that I haven't written more than 300 words at a time, doesn't bode well for my NaNoWriMo #2.
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Please only speak to me if you use correct apostrophes.
13,788 / 50,000
nov. 4, 2009 - 16 46
"I can't write three sentences without going back for revisions. That, along with the fact that I haven't written more than 300 words at a time, doesn't bode well for my NaNoWriMo #2."
Sounds like me! I didn't plan my novel and as such keep adapting the overall outline twice a day! End up revising huge chunks, changing facts, even tenses in wild panics of inspiration. I'm hoping at some point I'll stop this and satisfy myself with editing once a day, or even better at the end of the month!
----------6,501 / 50,000
nov. 4, 2009 - 17 28
Ha!
Actually, changing from past to present tense gave me a major boost yesterday. I wonder what I'll do tomorrow.
----------dogbitesback.blogspot.com
Please only speak to me if you use correct apostrophes.
35,095 / 50,000
nov. 5, 2009 - 01 26
I've never done NaNo before and am finding it very difficult to keep on my anti -inner editor ear muffs.
I usually constantly re-assess my writing as I go along. Not edit it as such, but bear in mind things that need changing, adding souping up etc.
I usually keep notes within the text and then come back to them when appropriate.
The idea of ignoring that, is very hard, I find.