In terms of starting this post with something prophetic, it would seem I have failed. However, today is not about fortune telling, it is about hard numbers and some considered thought.
Day six of NaNoWriMo is done. The scores on this Scrivener's board stand at a total 6872 shiny new words, which falls some way short of the mean average requirement of 9996 words.
However, if I have learned anything this past year, it is that writing is not about numbers. I've experimented a lot. Writing is about story and characters. Word count is just a number. Numbers are only cool if you're writing math.
What NaNoWriMo has made me realise, is the importance of setting aside time to write each day. Another no-brainer, it sounds like. But I mean writing each day no matter what. To write every day even if it is an internal monologue about how you're going to make the next book, twist, character schism or cultural viewpoint play as entertaining narrative. Or how you will build, block by block towards it.
Magic happens if you write, nothing happens if you don't.
Write every day, not just 30 days in Autumn. Don't count words. Count every moment as precious. Your characters need you.
In keeping with the spirit of the event, the next Potter word count check-in will be November 11, which should, if one is keeping to the mean average, tally 18k.
Another post tomorrow, on the quantitative quality of the currently accumulated 6872 words.
NaNoWriMO - The Handyman Day 5
Day six of NaNoWriMo is done. The scores on this Scrivener's board stand at a total 6872 shiny new words, which falls some way short of the mean average requirement of 9996 words.
However, if I have learned anything this past year, it is that writing is not about numbers. I've experimented a lot. Writing is about story and characters. Word count is just a number. Numbers are only cool if you're writing math.
What NaNoWriMo has made me realise, is the importance of setting aside time to write each day. Another no-brainer, it sounds like. But I mean writing each day no matter what. To write every day even if it is an internal monologue about how you're going to make the next book, twist, character schism or cultural viewpoint play as entertaining narrative. Or how you will build, block by block towards it.
Magic happens if you write, nothing happens if you don't.
Write every day, not just 30 days in Autumn. Don't count words. Count every moment as precious. Your characters need you.
In keeping with the spirit of the event, the next Potter word count check-in will be November 11, which should, if one is keeping to the mean average, tally 18k.
Another post tomorrow, on the quantitative quality of the currently accumulated 6872 words.
NaNoWriMO - The Handyman Day 5
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