I think I really do like deadlines. This Saturday starts my personal writing challenge... 2k every day. I need to finish up my plotting so I can have a day or two of break before I start.
I had to put a few of them on the rack, but I finally got my main characters to talk to me, and I think I know a little more of what goes on in their heads. Enough to be getting on with anyway. I just need to set up my timeline then, and I should be ready.
Deadlines though... They're such good motivation for me with writing. My deadline for plotting is Friday, my deadline for writing this is every day, in a way. I have to write 2k every single day. That's my requirement. The goal is either 116k by October, or a finished story (preferably a finished story. 116k would a little long of a manuscript for me). Hopefully I can make it.
Tuesday, July 21, 2009
Wednesday, July 8, 2009
Plans
It was about this time last year that I started training for NaNoWriMo. 2,000 words every day, except Sundays. Day of rest ya know.
Anyway, I've been thinking that it's about time I started with that again. Maybe I should plan for JulNoWriMo like I know people do... Anyway, all sorts of things got turned upside down in my head. I've been plotting on Crystal Glare so I can rewrite it, but now I'm thinking that if I wanted to do my other idea for NaNo, I would want to wait until afterwards to write on CG, since I excell at setting stories down and never picking them back up again, or when I do, not remembering what to do, despite my plots.
My brain hasn't been working lately. Usually I'd see the solution instantly. Since Crystal Glare is so long, why don't I do it for NaNo, and this other shorter piece as prep? I don't know what's up with me. My habits ran away, and apparently so did my brain. Anyway, I've set myself a challenge: Even with Sundays off, if I write 2k every day starting the 25th, I should be able to write 116k of story. That should be plenty for what plot I've got right now. So I'm plotting until that day, and then I set off on another insane pre-NaNo journey!
Anyway, I've been thinking that it's about time I started with that again. Maybe I should plan for JulNoWriMo like I know people do... Anyway, all sorts of things got turned upside down in my head. I've been plotting on Crystal Glare so I can rewrite it, but now I'm thinking that if I wanted to do my other idea for NaNo, I would want to wait until afterwards to write on CG, since I excell at setting stories down and never picking them back up again, or when I do, not remembering what to do, despite my plots.
My brain hasn't been working lately. Usually I'd see the solution instantly. Since Crystal Glare is so long, why don't I do it for NaNo, and this other shorter piece as prep? I don't know what's up with me. My habits ran away, and apparently so did my brain. Anyway, I've set myself a challenge: Even with Sundays off, if I write 2k every day starting the 25th, I should be able to write 116k of story. That should be plenty for what plot I've got right now. So I'm plotting until that day, and then I set off on another insane pre-NaNo journey!
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