Momentum. It's all about momentum.
Mar. 14th, 2007 09:01 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
mousme::Stuff about writing follows, uncut. If you don't want to read it, you may want to skip this whole post.::
I started writing again last night, after doing No Writing At All since the end of November. NaNoWriMo kind of burnt me out. Remind me never to produce 100,000 words in a month again unless I'm getting paid for it, okay?
Right. Onward.
So now that I'm writing again, I'm going to try and maintain my momentum. Writing for me is always about momentum. An author in motion will tend to remain in motion, and all that. I chucked about 3,000 words of Crisse, des Zombies! last night (shoved them unceremoniously into another word processing document, where they will likely stew for all eternity), and wrote nearly 4,000 more last night and this morning to compensate. I feel less like I'm going backwards now that I've "made up" those 3,000 words, and I'm hoping that I'll be able to move past this difficult bit with which I'm having problems.
I also hand-wrote a new instalment of Beyond the Pale while at work. i have no idea how long it is, but I know that 6-7 pages of handwriting usually gets me to roughly the right length for an instalment, and I've brought it to an appropriate cliffhanger. I'm looking forward to finishing this story arc and moving into the next one, because there are exciting things up ahead.
Question for author-types on my flist: For the first time in my life I'm facing the very real possibility that I might finish a novel that I'm working on. Trouble is, I am not at all good at the whole revision thing. I have a very, very rough first draft on my hands, and no idea how to go about turning it into a second draft. Any tips/techniques/answers concerning the meaning of life?
More writing tonight when I get home, I think. It's all about momentum, after all.
I started writing again last night, after doing No Writing At All since the end of November. NaNoWriMo kind of burnt me out. Remind me never to produce 100,000 words in a month again unless I'm getting paid for it, okay?
Right. Onward.
So now that I'm writing again, I'm going to try and maintain my momentum. Writing for me is always about momentum. An author in motion will tend to remain in motion, and all that. I chucked about 3,000 words of Crisse, des Zombies! last night (shoved them unceremoniously into another word processing document, where they will likely stew for all eternity), and wrote nearly 4,000 more last night and this morning to compensate. I feel less like I'm going backwards now that I've "made up" those 3,000 words, and I'm hoping that I'll be able to move past this difficult bit with which I'm having problems.
I also hand-wrote a new instalment of Beyond the Pale while at work. i have no idea how long it is, but I know that 6-7 pages of handwriting usually gets me to roughly the right length for an instalment, and I've brought it to an appropriate cliffhanger. I'm looking forward to finishing this story arc and moving into the next one, because there are exciting things up ahead.
Question for author-types on my flist: For the first time in my life I'm facing the very real possibility that I might finish a novel that I'm working on. Trouble is, I am not at all good at the whole revision thing. I have a very, very rough first draft on my hands, and no idea how to go about turning it into a second draft. Any tips/techniques/answers concerning the meaning of life?
More writing tonight when I get home, I think. It's all about momentum, after all.
