NaNo musing

[eirenical]

OK. So, as I said, I'm not really doing NaNo because a) who has time? and b) I'm still afraid of burnout.

But, I think I am going to try something anyway. Lately I keep coming up with all these ideas for LM stories and, much like I once had going for Hair, I have sprawled out into a bunch of WIPs.

...which is highly inconvenient.

They're distracting and I don't have time for them.

SO. I think what I shall do is, in place of "doing" NaNo, I will do my best to finish off these WIPs I have sprawled everywhere. At the very least, I will write every day. Maybe a little. Maybe a lot. But I will write SOMETHING. And hopefully in the middle of all that, I will actually get my exchange stories done. I mean... it's not like one of them isn't due in LESS THAN TWO WEEKS. O_o;;; (But I've got a decent start on that one, at least, which is more than I can say for the other two. -.-;;;)

Also, (though I'll probably cave on this one and start counting anyway) I think I'm going to say "Fuck the word count." This isn't about number of words -- I KNOW I can rack that up if I want -- this is about FINISHING THINGS.

So, instead of posting word counts, I will borrow a trick from one of my favorite WIP memes and every day I will post a sentence from whatever writing I did that day.

I think that sounds like more fun. ^_^

So... here's to FiWriThiMo (Finish Writing Things Month)?

Comments

[rchan.livejournal.com]

Exactly! I feel like the focus on word count and on "winning" Nano forces a focus on quantity over quality. And I sit there and think... quantity is not my problem. I can do quantity. I've proved I can do quantity. And I can do quantity in short spans of time. Finishing what I start and being consistent in my ability to sit down and write, inspired or not, are my two major problems. So, that's what I'm going to focus on. *nodnod*

*laughs* No, that is my definition of marathon writing. I wrote all 12,000 words of "Where Do I Go?" in one day, but... yeah. Normally, I don't do that. ^_^