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⌈ Secret Post #2814 ⌋

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Re: NaNoWriMo Prep

[ryttu3k]

It's my favourite time of the year :D As others have mentioned, I can't imagine NOT doing it, this will be my tenth November (and I've been doing Camp for a few years, too, including both of this year's). I just. Adore it <3

Going to do what I did in 2009 and 2011 and do two this year! (It's definitely doable - try to start with a nice big sprint day, mine have ranged from 6k to 15k - and then try to average 4k a day. Definitely reserve time to do that, I find four hours is a nice buffer.) One is pretty well-developed aside from having no idea how to end it, the other is more solid plot-wise but needs some work for the characters. I'm trying to work out which one would be easier to do first, and I want to have both of those developed sufficiently by November 1st, so that's what I'll be doing this month and October.

Prep-wise, for the stories, I always write an outline - usually just a line for each chapter, maybe a few lines. I also draw... a LOT, trying to work out visuals and stuff. For a lot of them, I end up with a folder of other reference documents - research, or other little bits that I've worked out in the background for the sake of consistency (for instance, for the last Camp, I had a text document which had the room assignments for everyone).

And heh, yeah, I never manage advanced cooking. I DO have the advantage of being in Australia, though, where it's late spring in November, so I can just grab like. Fruit and stuff. Or make a salad.

Re: NaNoWriMo Prep

[inkdust]

15k, good god. Doable for you, I guess.

Re: NaNoWriMo Prep

[ryttu3k]

In fairness, I didn't sleep much that day, heh. Normally my sprint days are more like 8k or sometimes 10k. I actually have really bad insomnia at the moment, so hey, maybe I can use it to my advantage ;)

Re: NaNoWriMo Prep

[inkdust]

10k is still two weeks to a month's work for me. I'll just never get my head around that. Good luck!

Re: NaNoWriMo Prep

[sarillia]

My record is 20k in a day. I'm still trying to beat it. I need to get my typing speed back up to what it was the last time I managed that though. And stop sleeping 16 hours a day.

Re: NaNoWriMo Prep

[inkdust]

I've never written more than 2k in a day. And I've only done that two or three times. I just don't understand.

Re: NaNoWriMo Prep

[sarillia]

It might help that I'm much more about the process than the product. If I get something useable out of it, great, but my first goal is to have fun. The more I write, the more fun scenes I get to experience, so I just keep typing and typing all day because it's like watching a favorite tv show.

Re: NaNoWriMo Prep

[inkdust]

I guess that does make sense. For me, seeing the scene play in my head is the more significant part of experiencing it, and writing it down is more of a crystallizing of that experience. It doesn't fit into words quickly enough for me to write in a stream. I guess I can imagine that for some people it does.

Re: NaNoWriMo Prep

[sarillia]

Things always change when I start writing. There are scenes that I never would have thought of if I hadn't written down earlier ones that went differently than I expected. So the scenes that play in my head are always kind of fuzzy and ephemeral. All the little things that don't come into the vague daydreams I have about my story but have to be written down when the story is actually being put down on paper end up building up and changing things in unexpected ways. I love how that happens.

Re: NaNoWriMo Prep

[inkdust]

And I think all that still happens in my head rather than on paper. Changes happen as I write, but so much of my writing is sitting there getting the moments clear enough in my head to be put on paper. My daydreams about stories remind me of a movie set - cut, another take, cut, tweak this, another take, different details coming clear. Over and over until the one I really want makes its way into words. And that just takes time.

Re: NaNoWriMo Prep

[sarillia]

I'm trying to decide how many words I want to shoot for. I've been going for more than the official 50k for years. But I'm not in the best place right now so I'm not sure how much I can handle.