Post by newburydave on Oct 28, 2012 15:14:43 GMT -5
AuroraW.;
RE: NanoWriMo (NNWM)
The goal is to bang out a rough first draft in 30 days of consistent writing.
The advice I was given was "give yourself permission to write junk".
Just write, don't go back and edit.
What I found is that my inspiration kicked in as I wrote "holistically" much more than when I write cautiously. I got a novel draft v-0.0 which gave me the bones and much of the meat for a novel that I'm polishing now.
The main takeaway is that to hammer out 50,000 words you have to discipline yourself to write a daily "tally of words" every day (or do the make up work to make up the expected cumulative total). I thought of it as a glide-slope, kind of like landing an airplane. You have to hit the cumulative totals in order to finish in the month.
This is how professional authors have to work when they write to a contract with hard promise dates. IMHO it is a discipline we all need to develop. NNWM is a guilt free challenge that allows you to test yourself and get bragging rights when you meet the challenge.
Professional authors tell me that it takes about a year to bring a 100k novel from concept to finished work, with the help of a professional editor for the final cut. So NNWM is a good training ground to start upon.
Write on sis
SGD
dave
RE: NanoWriMo (NNWM)
The goal is to bang out a rough first draft in 30 days of consistent writing.
The advice I was given was "give yourself permission to write junk".
Just write, don't go back and edit.
What I found is that my inspiration kicked in as I wrote "holistically" much more than when I write cautiously. I got a novel draft v-0.0 which gave me the bones and much of the meat for a novel that I'm polishing now.
The main takeaway is that to hammer out 50,000 words you have to discipline yourself to write a daily "tally of words" every day (or do the make up work to make up the expected cumulative total). I thought of it as a glide-slope, kind of like landing an airplane. You have to hit the cumulative totals in order to finish in the month.
This is how professional authors have to work when they write to a contract with hard promise dates. IMHO it is a discipline we all need to develop. NNWM is a guilt free challenge that allows you to test yourself and get bragging rights when you meet the challenge.
Professional authors tell me that it takes about a year to bring a 100k novel from concept to finished work, with the help of a professional editor for the final cut. So NNWM is a good training ground to start upon.
Write on sis
SGD
dave
