Waltzkrieg
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- Posted: Fri, 25 Nov 2011 20:13:29 +0000
It's not quite the end of the month yet, but most of us are deep enough into this by now to have acquired some of that special variety of perspective known as "hindsight". With the validators over at the NaNo official site fully operational, it is time, now, to reflect, and over-think the sometimes regrettable creative choices we made this month.
For those who know you aren't going to be able to finish: Aside from external circumstances, was there anything process or craft-related that contributed to your falling behind? Did you plan too much? Not enough? Did one of your characters cooperate with you for half of the novel only to scream, "I DO WHAT I WANT!" at you at a critical moment, thereafter taking the story into a completely unworkable direction that made all your planning moot anyway?
For those who are already winners, and those who can see themselves making the grade in the next week or so: What went right? Did you pick up some habits that helped you get the writing done? Did you rely on pure butt-in-chair determination? Was it the practice of giving yourself treats, as if you were a particularly verbose family pet? Maybe you have the coffee to thank, or perhaps your dear friend Jack Daniels, or your habit of giving anyone who interrupted you an uncomfortably drawn-out Clint Eastwood-like death glare and saying nothing at all until they went away and left you to your writing. Share, please.
Bonus question: You can probably already name a few things that are going to be a huge pain in the neck when you go back through to edit. Let's talk about how these things screwed us over so we can all at least attempt to not do them again next time.
For those who know you aren't going to be able to finish: Aside from external circumstances, was there anything process or craft-related that contributed to your falling behind? Did you plan too much? Not enough? Did one of your characters cooperate with you for half of the novel only to scream, "I DO WHAT I WANT!" at you at a critical moment, thereafter taking the story into a completely unworkable direction that made all your planning moot anyway?
For those who are already winners, and those who can see themselves making the grade in the next week or so: What went right? Did you pick up some habits that helped you get the writing done? Did you rely on pure butt-in-chair determination? Was it the practice of giving yourself treats, as if you were a particularly verbose family pet? Maybe you have the coffee to thank, or perhaps your dear friend Jack Daniels, or your habit of giving anyone who interrupted you an uncomfortably drawn-out Clint Eastwood-like death glare and saying nothing at all until they went away and left you to your writing. Share, please.
Bonus question: You can probably already name a few things that are going to be a huge pain in the neck when you go back through to edit. Let's talk about how these things screwed us over so we can all at least attempt to not do them again next time.