NaNoWriMo Day 17
Nov. 17th, 2009 04:58 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
sinanjuI'm less than 3,000 words from the end of my 50,000 word novel now. I should hit the goal tomorrow! Go me!
This novel will never see the light of day, of course. It will remain a deep, dark secret, shared with no one. Not even my lovely and talented wife. It's purely for practice, and as such I'd prefer it not be exposed to even the kindest eyes.
But I'll have a novel under my belt. Which means the next one will be a lot easier to write. I'll know--not think, but know--I can write a novel. And I've learned things from this effort. I need to be crueler to my characters. More conflict. Lots more conflict. Get deeper into their heads. And other lessons I'll be contemplating for a while to come.
But I'll have written a novel, damn it! And someday I'll mine this one for characters or ideas, I expect. I will certainly recycle the title and the character names, if not the characters themselves. Even some of the ideas for places and events. But done, you know, better.
Project: Strange Attractors
New Words Written: 3,423 (very good)
Present Total Word Count: 47,132 words
Goal: 50,000 words by November 30
Stories in Circulation: 12
Rejections: 20
Stories Accepted: THREE!
This novel will never see the light of day, of course. It will remain a deep, dark secret, shared with no one. Not even my lovely and talented wife. It's purely for practice, and as such I'd prefer it not be exposed to even the kindest eyes.
But I'll have a novel under my belt. Which means the next one will be a lot easier to write. I'll know--not think, but know--I can write a novel. And I've learned things from this effort. I need to be crueler to my characters. More conflict. Lots more conflict. Get deeper into their heads. And other lessons I'll be contemplating for a while to come.
But I'll have written a novel, damn it! And someday I'll mine this one for characters or ideas, I expect. I will certainly recycle the title and the character names, if not the characters themselves. Even some of the ideas for places and events. But done, you know, better.
Project: Strange Attractors
New Words Written: 3,423 (very good)
Present Total Word Count: 47,132 words
Goal: 50,000 words by November 30
Stories in Circulation: 12
Rejections: 20
Stories Accepted: THREE!