#NANOWRIMO
Following my previous post, you'll probably understand that I've been busy.
So: I managed to write 50950 words between the 1st of November until the 30th of November. It's Epic for me :)
I can safely say that I've never managed to write this much before. But now that the month is done, and I've had time to evaluate what I've done well and what I could have done better, I realise that, although this experience has been great, after a month of writing so much on top of all the other things of life, I felt drained.
Like, really drained: near collapse and sleep for a week kinda drained!
It's been a week exactly now that the challenge has been passed, and I've not written that much, comparatively.
Pros:
-I've managed to write more than ever, as I've already said.
-The target is a great way to boost me. But the diagram is what really helped.
-I felt a lot more enthusiastic about my characters and messed about a little with a couple of side techniques that I didn't incorporate in the word count, but that still helped ideas along.
Cons:
-Exhaustion.
-The stress: that diagram boosted me, definitely. But I felt stressed at times when I was a lot behind. Which in itself goes in the cons column, but it could turn to a pros argument for deadline purposes.
-Aftermath: I did not feel like writing much throughout the week.
Also, I don't know if this would go in either column, but, the challenge has made me see that I wasn't ready yet for the next stage of the book (finding an agent, think about publishing agencies, etc). This isn't me crying about it or anything like that; it's an observation that I've made through this past week.
Now I don't know if this point will look bad with agents, but I feel that if I am not ready yet, then for me it's a good thing. After all, how can I expect other people to "be awed" by my book, if I don't think that my book is ready yet? Maybe I will ask an agent their opinion about this one day...
Anyway, I'll be posting some recent work I've done on the side, so as usual, feel free to leave comments and share my blog, but please do not copy and paste for your own purposes (at least, not without asking me first. After all, that would be polite, and the right thing to do.)
~Until next time.
So: I managed to write 50950 words between the 1st of November until the 30th of November. It's Epic for me :)
I can safely say that I've never managed to write this much before. But now that the month is done, and I've had time to evaluate what I've done well and what I could have done better, I realise that, although this experience has been great, after a month of writing so much on top of all the other things of life, I felt drained.
Like, really drained: near collapse and sleep for a week kinda drained!
It's been a week exactly now that the challenge has been passed, and I've not written that much, comparatively.
Pros:
-I've managed to write more than ever, as I've already said.
-The target is a great way to boost me. But the diagram is what really helped.
-I felt a lot more enthusiastic about my characters and messed about a little with a couple of side techniques that I didn't incorporate in the word count, but that still helped ideas along.
Cons:
-Exhaustion.
-The stress: that diagram boosted me, definitely. But I felt stressed at times when I was a lot behind. Which in itself goes in the cons column, but it could turn to a pros argument for deadline purposes.
-Aftermath: I did not feel like writing much throughout the week.
Also, I don't know if this would go in either column, but, the challenge has made me see that I wasn't ready yet for the next stage of the book (finding an agent, think about publishing agencies, etc). This isn't me crying about it or anything like that; it's an observation that I've made through this past week.
Now I don't know if this point will look bad with agents, but I feel that if I am not ready yet, then for me it's a good thing. After all, how can I expect other people to "be awed" by my book, if I don't think that my book is ready yet? Maybe I will ask an agent their opinion about this one day...
Anyway, I'll be posting some recent work I've done on the side, so as usual, feel free to leave comments and share my blog, but please do not copy and paste for your own purposes (at least, not without asking me first. After all, that would be polite, and the right thing to do.)
~Until next time.
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