| week 2 of NaNoWriMo | | Date Created: Nov 09, 2005, 02:52 PM |
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| Apparently, it's completely normal for folks in week 2 of NaNoWriMo to feel like chucking the whole thing in, to feel that it's not really something for them after all. |
 Those thoughts have certainly crossed my mind. Yes, I decided to try it after all, but I'm only in half-heartedly. To 'win' you have to get to 50,000 words. I'm aiming to 'lose' this year and net 20,000 - 25,000 (which is still a massive amount of words) in order to learn enough about my weaknesses and the processes to give next November a more serious go. So I'm trying to accumulate words every day and I'm also reading up on other people's views about fiction-writing.
And I have learned a lot, although I'm not sure it will be very interesting to any of you. Partly, I've learned that I'm rubbish at improvising plot and rubbish at improvising characters. Or maybe that's 'rubbish at plot because rubbish at characters.' They just seem like facets of myself rather than other people in their own right. And when I do get my characters into an interesting situation, my instinct is not to let things unfold, but to explain it all. In other words, I seem to think like a non-fiction writer or a teacher rather than a novelist or a story-teller. Not very surprising, but it actually has taught me a lot about what I'd need to do and what I'd need to watch out for when I attempt to write fiction for real. |
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