| NaNoWriMo 2005 ends | | Date Created: Nov 30, 2005, 08:35 AM |
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| I'm pleased. I knew that I was still too far behind with my postgraduate reading and examining to give NaNoWriMo the sort of shot that I'd have to in order to get through with 50,000 words. But I also knew that I didn't want to wait another year to play. So I promised myself not to let it get in the way of my work and to aim for 20,000 - 25,000 this year, just to take a stab at some fiction writing. |
 It did get in the way a little bit. Mostly, I allowed it to totally wipe out any pleasure reading for the month but it also didn't help with the old blog. Nevertheless, I'm pleased to report that although I failed the challenge of 50K (as expected), I did manage to rack up just over 25,500 words by the official NaNoWriMo word counter. Whee! What I've written is absolute pig swill: the characters are flat, the plot has holes big enough to drive the planet Jupiter through without jostling its moons on the door jambs, but, hey, my weaknesses are the kind of stuff I wanted to find out.
Next year, if I can clear my calendar a little more -- which might be tricky as I may actually have a different writing project actively on the boil at the same time -- I plan to go into it with better ideas about plot points and particular characters; and I plan to go for the full 50,000. |
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