NaNoWriMo 2019
Nov. 3rd, 2019 09:55 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
kurosakiami01Hey! So, I'm doing NaNo this year. I attempted it a couple of times before (once proper NaNo and once Camp, if I remember right) but it really amounted to little. I did finish writing the draft of a fic that had me suffering for months, but that one ended way before the 50k mark. An the one time I attempted an original, I don't think I managed even 1k.
Actually, that original was like, the vague idea of the story I'm writing this year. And I say vague because damn if it didn't change a whole lot since back then. I think my biggest problem was that I didn't really have anything decided. I had the characters (unnamed, and some didn't have a specified approximate age, even) but I hadn't decided who would be my main characters, or even what my conflict was! It was driving me nuts! So it makes a lot of sense that I barely managed a scene, and not a complete one at that. It felt stilted and awkward and nothing like I imagined it. And so I didn't write anymore, and the story has been percolating in the back of my mind ever since.
When October came this year and the madness that is NaNo started popping all over my tumblr dash, I started mulling over it again. I was surprised to find I had a much clearer idea of what I wanted to write this time around, though I still struggled with the conflict and some elements that simply weren't meshing right. I did a bit of freewriting here and there, and thought about tropes I liked and things I'm interested in reading, either in original or in fanfiction. And one day I had a tiny eureka moment and realized what was missing! Fucking werewolves! Ha!
Don't get me wrong, I'm not a planner. I've killed many a story because I tried too hard to plan what was going to happen, and then I lost all will to write the story (as it had already 'been told'). So I jumped into NaNo with a vague plot idea, a main conflict, a bunch of characters (though I already decided who is gonna be my MCs at least!) and a handful of tropes I enjoy, and so far it looks quite good indeed. I'm not writing any kind of masterful prose or anything, but I've definitely embraced the spirit of NaNo in not worrying about any of that until December at the earliest. I'm just writing (sprints and crawls and all those little challenges are a wonder for productivity!) and coughing up words and descovering more of my story as I go, and I'm having a very good time doing so.
I'm almost 8K in and it's barely the third day. I have high hopes!
Any of you doing NaNo and want to be buddies? I'm kurosaki_ami there! :)
Actually, that original was like, the vague idea of the story I'm writing this year. And I say vague because damn if it didn't change a whole lot since back then. I think my biggest problem was that I didn't really have anything decided. I had the characters (unnamed, and some didn't have a specified approximate age, even) but I hadn't decided who would be my main characters, or even what my conflict was! It was driving me nuts! So it makes a lot of sense that I barely managed a scene, and not a complete one at that. It felt stilted and awkward and nothing like I imagined it. And so I didn't write anymore, and the story has been percolating in the back of my mind ever since.
When October came this year and the madness that is NaNo started popping all over my tumblr dash, I started mulling over it again. I was surprised to find I had a much clearer idea of what I wanted to write this time around, though I still struggled with the conflict and some elements that simply weren't meshing right. I did a bit of freewriting here and there, and thought about tropes I liked and things I'm interested in reading, either in original or in fanfiction. And one day I had a tiny eureka moment and realized what was missing! Fucking werewolves! Ha!
Don't get me wrong, I'm not a planner. I've killed many a story because I tried too hard to plan what was going to happen, and then I lost all will to write the story (as it had already 'been told'). So I jumped into NaNo with a vague plot idea, a main conflict, a bunch of characters (though I already decided who is gonna be my MCs at least!) and a handful of tropes I enjoy, and so far it looks quite good indeed. I'm not writing any kind of masterful prose or anything, but I've definitely embraced the spirit of NaNo in not worrying about any of that until December at the earliest. I'm just writing (sprints and crawls and all those little challenges are a wonder for productivity!) and coughing up words and descovering more of my story as I go, and I'm having a very good time doing so.
I'm almost 8K in and it's barely the third day. I have high hopes!
Any of you doing NaNo and want to be buddies? I'm kurosaki_ami there! :)
