It has been so busy around here–birthdays, back to school, family visits, my hubby getting a new job (so insurance/doctor changes), writing. Yeah, I’ve even been writing. Thursday I wrote 21 pages on a paranormal hen lit proposal. Friday 15 pages. I had to take Saturday basically off because we had company, so only 3 pages and then Sunday, I finished the first three chapters. Exhausting.
I think 21 pages is about a record for me. Actually, it is kind of enlightening how easy it is to do if you do two things. 1.) turn off the editor. This is something we all talk about, but it is hard to do. And 2.) have the book plotted out and clear in your head. The better you have things thought out, the easier it is to just sit down and write.
Okay, but is it decent? I think so. I will admit it took more tweaking than things I written at a slower pace, but overall it was still faster to write it quick and then tweak more.
So, are there any power writers out there? NaNo Writers? Does it work for you?
Hiya Lori!
Well, I’ve done NaNoWriMo for the last two years and I’m going to do it again this year. Last year I got the 50,000 words done in 30 days and I would say that what it showed me was that it can be done. And I was working a full-time job at the time.
I had to do 1,666 words a day to make the deadline and some weeknights, after spending the day at work, trust me, the last thing I wanted to do was write, but I did it.
The local NaNoWrimers (I guess that’s what we’d call ourselves) would meet every Wednesday evening at a coffee shop or wherever to write. It was great, being able to feed off the energy of the group. At the end of it all we had a little celebratory get-together.
So, yeah, at least for me it worked. Now, I will confess that what I wrote last year was a mess but this year I’m going to spend more time in prepartion. Actually, my plan is to use NaNoWriMo as a means to get a formatted outline done, like the one Karen showed us at the RWA meeting.
And I totally agree. The more you’ve thought things out ahead of time the smoother and faster the writing goes. That’s not to say you still don’t have surprises when you write. You do. But I think the fact that you are power writing and have done the necessary preping to fuel that power writing helps to generate those wonderful little jewels of insight or language that seem to pop out of nowhere.
by Diane G. September 26th, 2005 at 1:37 pm