NaNoWriMo: Week Three

[shazafram]

Boo-yah!

I hit the 50k mark on Friday, btw.

This has truly been fun for me. My novel is not finished, so I'm still writing (I've decided to hit the goal every day until Nov 30th, who knows I might even hit 75k). I managed to complete something this long (LOL I'm always giving up on things).


On my novel:

1) I am still not happy with my summary, mainly because my work has deviated from it a great deal. I am going to rework it when I get a chance.

2) I finally understand the people who claim to love inventing characters for their fan fiction. It is fun writing your own characters and their own quirks. However, I still have no intentions of making OCs the focal point of my fics. After all, I (not speaking for anyone else, just me) read and write fan fiction for the canon characters.

3) I limited myself to a 8PM to 11:45PM writing slot for the most part, except for a few instances where I did not meet my goal the prior day. Then, I would start a bit earlier. I usually completed a chapter in that time slot (my chapters are short, ranging from 1800-2800 words depending), but I never forced myself to go beyond it. Mainly because I did not want to burn myself out, and give up on myself like I usually do.

4) I got the idea for a least four other novels while writing this one. None of them are sequels.

On the experience:

As I said above, it was fun overall. I'm just surprised that I churned out so many words.

How NaNo changed me:

1) I found out that I work well under a certain time frame for writing, though I would not curb any inspiration that came out of that time.

2) I work better when I do a complete outline of what I want to write, as opposed to writing on a whim. I think I polish things up better.

3) Now that I have had a taste of writing Original fiction, I have decided that I like it very much.

Comments

[chalp.livejournal.com]

Congrats!! ^^

[batty-gal.livejournal.com]

Thanks! ♥