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mistressofmuses) wrote2024-12-01 08:24 pm
mistressofmuses) wrote2024-12-01 08:24 pm
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Novella November:
With NaNoWriMo doubling down on disappointing stances, there were quite a few alternative events that cropped up. I unofficially joined up with "Novella November," which was started by someone on tumblr. The goal was a lower 30k over the course of the month.
I made it!
Kind of barely...
You can see that I really had to ramp it up in the last week. I managed to do it, though!
I maxed out at about 2200 words per day, which was conveniently about exactly what I needed when I really tried to get it together. If it had required any more than that per day, I don't know that I would have been able to.
I did not manage to do all of it on a single project. I'd started the month trying to write the Angels and Demons AU, which I ultimately bailed on. I wasn't having enough fun with the project, was dissatisfied with what I did manage to complete, and really just couldn't feel excited about the premise the way I'd wanted to.
After deciding that it would be better to move on from it, I pivoted to an iddier original story.
There were also a few other things that I counted toward the wordcount (meta stuff where I was writing about my writing plans, a couple posts here,) but most of the rest of the month was dedicated to this story.
I haven't been 100% thrilled with it, but have been having more fun with it. I hit a spot (within the last couple of days) where I wasn't happy with the outline I was working from, so I just sort of decided to screw it, and shuffled things around in the way that to me feels better for the story, even though it deviates from the points at which the outline wants major plot points to happen. (Perhaps I should take that as a sign that the story is wrong, but I like it better, so.)
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The rush to get most of the writing done in the last week has meant I didn't have a chance to do much else, so I am painfully behind on basically the rest of everything. Including Dreamwidth, obviously! I will be trying to get caught up in the next few days.
I made it!
Kind of barely...
You can see that I really had to ramp it up in the last week. I managed to do it, though!
I maxed out at about 2200 words per day, which was conveniently about exactly what I needed when I really tried to get it together. If it had required any more than that per day, I don't know that I would have been able to.
I did not manage to do all of it on a single project. I'd started the month trying to write the Angels and Demons AU, which I ultimately bailed on. I wasn't having enough fun with the project, was dissatisfied with what I did manage to complete, and really just couldn't feel excited about the premise the way I'd wanted to.
After deciding that it would be better to move on from it, I pivoted to an iddier original story.
There were also a few other things that I counted toward the wordcount (meta stuff where I was writing about my writing plans, a couple posts here,) but most of the rest of the month was dedicated to this story.
I haven't been 100% thrilled with it, but have been having more fun with it. I hit a spot (within the last couple of days) where I wasn't happy with the outline I was working from, so I just sort of decided to screw it, and shuffled things around in the way that to me feels better for the story, even though it deviates from the points at which the outline wants major plot points to happen. (Perhaps I should take that as a sign that the story is wrong, but I like it better, so.)
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The rush to get most of the writing done in the last week has meant I didn't have a chance to do much else, so I am painfully behind on basically the rest of everything. Including Dreamwidth, obviously! I will be trying to get caught up in the next few days.
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And yeah, it was nice to have a replacement event. I've done NaNo almost every year for a decade, so it was a shame to have it go to shit the way it did. Ah well. It was also nice to be able to import my previous NaNo wordcounts into a new tracking site, because it's nice to still have a record of those counts.
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I feel like it's really common for projects to change as you work on them, and I think it's almost always the right choice to let them! Trying to force something back onto an outline that it's outgrown usually just leads to something that feels stunted.
I hope that my intuition is right in this case, but it definitely feels like the right move for this one. At least so far!
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I feel like writing on various projects should totally count!
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Fortunately, splitting it over multiple projects was even something that was explicitly allowed by the event! Any words for the month could count. I was sort of hoping to get that much progress toward finishing *one* thing, but I'll happily take having it spread out over a few things!
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