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wyntir_knight) wrote2006-12-04 09:20 am
wyntir_knight) wrote2006-12-04 09:20 am
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NaNWriMo 2006
Well, NaNo is now completely over. All that's left to be done is to change my user name on the system, once they get that option up and running.
Once again I failed to cross the finish line, but this year I got further along than last so I'm pleased. I've also learned something this year that I'll take into all of my future writing.
While I can come up with some great ideas and get the first few chapters written on the fly, I really need an outline in order to keep going. I know that in "No Plot? No Problem!" Chris Batty suggests that the best way to write in NaNo is to just write and that you are more likely to freeze up if you have a major outline and background for your work. But I've come to notice that I tend to get easily distracted, and without a guide, I tend to get sidetracked after a short time. It's almost like writer's ADD. I'm happily writing along and then I see a shiny new plot bunny and I'm off on another tangent.
This time the shiny was the Mecha Erotica November challenge. For those int he group, I won't tell you which one is mine, but I think my writing style makes it pretty obvious. ... maybe that's just me.
I think that if I have an outline, then I can come back to it and use it as an anchor. So I'm planning on doing that with all my on-going projects. I'm not so worried about Vingettes, since it's a series of one-shots. But I'm finding myself a bit stuck in Life After Death and Return to Darkness. I know what i want to say, but there's a gap between where I am and where those scenes need to be.
I'm also hoping that I can use the same method to keep my plot bunnies firmly caged. Metamorphosis and Life After Death are quickly becoming part of a giant AU in my mind and I can't let myself get distracted. But plot bunnies keep popping up and breeding in my mind, and since I can't convince my kittens to eat them (they're too busy decorating the house for Christmas with my yarn), I'll just have to keep them caged. If I write them down in a nice handy notebook, then they shouldn't starve to death, and if they're not on my computer or PDA then I shouldn't be tempted.
Next year's NaNo is the first bunny in the book. It will quickly be followed by Hound and Jazz and Raphael and Casey and ... I think I might have to stick some beer/high grade into the book too. I might help lure them out of the dark recesses of my mind and onto the page.
Once again I failed to cross the finish line, but this year I got further along than last so I'm pleased. I've also learned something this year that I'll take into all of my future writing.
While I can come up with some great ideas and get the first few chapters written on the fly, I really need an outline in order to keep going. I know that in "No Plot? No Problem!" Chris Batty suggests that the best way to write in NaNo is to just write and that you are more likely to freeze up if you have a major outline and background for your work. But I've come to notice that I tend to get easily distracted, and without a guide, I tend to get sidetracked after a short time. It's almost like writer's ADD. I'm happily writing along and then I see a shiny new plot bunny and I'm off on another tangent.
This time the shiny was the Mecha Erotica November challenge. For those int he group, I won't tell you which one is mine, but I think my writing style makes it pretty obvious. ... maybe that's just me.
I think that if I have an outline, then I can come back to it and use it as an anchor. So I'm planning on doing that with all my on-going projects. I'm not so worried about Vingettes, since it's a series of one-shots. But I'm finding myself a bit stuck in Life After Death and Return to Darkness. I know what i want to say, but there's a gap between where I am and where those scenes need to be.
I'm also hoping that I can use the same method to keep my plot bunnies firmly caged. Metamorphosis and Life After Death are quickly becoming part of a giant AU in my mind and I can't let myself get distracted. But plot bunnies keep popping up and breeding in my mind, and since I can't convince my kittens to eat them (they're too busy decorating the house for Christmas with my yarn), I'll just have to keep them caged. If I write them down in a nice handy notebook, then they shouldn't starve to death, and if they're not on my computer or PDA then I shouldn't be tempted.
Next year's NaNo is the first bunny in the book. It will quickly be followed by Hound and Jazz and Raphael and Casey and ... I think I might have to stick some beer/high grade into the book too. I might help lure them out of the dark recesses of my mind and onto the page.