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Time to re-evaluate my goal?
Nov. 18th, 2004 05:39 amOkay, I’ve made it to 14,296...which you math wizards out there may notice is not 6000 words more than the 12,515 I had two days ago when I said I had to write 3000 words a day to make the goal.
I’m still working on the novel, and I still have lots of scenes to write, so I can probably make it to 50,000 eventually. Can I do it in the time left? I don’t think so. I mean, I’ll give it a shot, but I don’t think I’m going to make it.
Part of the problem is that I don’t work on this every day, or for long enough when I do work on it. But another problem seems to be that I’m trying to make my writing nice, polished writing in which every word matters. Low-fluff writing doesn’t appear to be the recommended way to go for NaNoWriMo, though.
A lot of the suggestions from people on the NaNoWriMo forums for boosting word count are abhorrent to me. One person suggested that I add lots of useless descriptions and then remove them after November is over and I’m cleaning up my text. Why would I ever want to flood my writing with stuff that I'm planning to remove later? Isn’t that just more work in the long run, with the only "gain" being a higher word count during the month of November?
Instead of having a 50,000 word jumble of garbage including 20,000 words of flowery, unneeded description, perhaps I should be satisfied if I manage a 25,000 word story that’s actually a pleasure to read. As much as I’d like to reach the 50,000 word target, I find that I’m more interested in quality than quantity.
I’m still working on the novel, and I still have lots of scenes to write, so I can probably make it to 50,000 eventually. Can I do it in the time left? I don’t think so. I mean, I’ll give it a shot, but I don’t think I’m going to make it.
Part of the problem is that I don’t work on this every day, or for long enough when I do work on it. But another problem seems to be that I’m trying to make my writing nice, polished writing in which every word matters. Low-fluff writing doesn’t appear to be the recommended way to go for NaNoWriMo, though.
A lot of the suggestions from people on the NaNoWriMo forums for boosting word count are abhorrent to me. One person suggested that I add lots of useless descriptions and then remove them after November is over and I’m cleaning up my text. Why would I ever want to flood my writing with stuff that I'm planning to remove later? Isn’t that just more work in the long run, with the only "gain" being a higher word count during the month of November?
Instead of having a 50,000 word jumble of garbage including 20,000 words of flowery, unneeded description, perhaps I should be satisfied if I manage a 25,000 word story that’s actually a pleasure to read. As much as I’d like to reach the 50,000 word target, I find that I’m more interested in quality than quantity.
