This is my NaNo slogan. SLOW DOWN.
See, last year, I did a plot outline. And then I jumped from plot point to plot point, without really transitioning much (or at all), and I ran out of plot at 40,000 and had to fudge the rest. 10,000 words of fluffing is never good. I haven't gone back and read it, even after a year. I'd kinda like to read a few parts, but I'm pretty sure that it mostly sucks balls.
So this year, I'm taking my time... while trying to speed up. I'm trying to do more words a night this year, so I can get done earlier, but I'm also writing in bursts, apparently. I thought of the beginning in the car on the way home, wrote that first 1,000 words in like 45 minutes, then stopped and got something to eat, thinking about where they'd go next. I came back, and in another 40 minutes, while eating a sandwich and IMing with someone, I knocked out another 600 words, next scene done.
And now I'm at another break point, trying to figure out where to go next, trying not to worry about being slow-paced and bogged down in details, just wondering how much to write about what happens next. And wondering what they call the subway in Boston, if they have special lingo for it.
See, last year, I did a plot outline. And then I jumped from plot point to plot point, without really transitioning much (or at all), and I ran out of plot at 40,000 and had to fudge the rest. 10,000 words of fluffing is never good. I haven't gone back and read it, even after a year. I'd kinda like to read a few parts, but I'm pretty sure that it mostly sucks balls.
So this year, I'm taking my time... while trying to speed up. I'm trying to do more words a night this year, so I can get done earlier, but I'm also writing in bursts, apparently. I thought of the beginning in the car on the way home, wrote that first 1,000 words in like 45 minutes, then stopped and got something to eat, thinking about where they'd go next. I came back, and in another 40 minutes, while eating a sandwich and IMing with someone, I knocked out another 600 words, next scene done.
And now I'm at another break point, trying to figure out where to go next, trying not to worry about being slow-paced and bogged down in details, just wondering how much to write about what happens next. And wondering what they call the subway in Boston, if they have special lingo for it.
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