Have I recovered yet?
Not quite sure if I’ve completely recovered from my November adventure. NaNoWriMo was a challenge that I took … write 50k words in 30 days. In case you didn’t know, I failed. However, I’m not torn up about it too much, because I did 30k words, had the roughest college class of my life, threw a birthday party for my now 12 year old, cooked for Thanksgiving, and got so fricken ill, I thought I was going to die. BUT I still did 30k words. Woot!!
I learned a few things as well. I would say the first thing is if I’m ever going to do NaNo again, it has to be to write something super familiar. The second thing would be is to never do NaNo again. Seriously. That first problem was probably one of the biggest downfalls for me. I started a fantasy story with characters and scenes that needed so much attention to detail and time to think about things. Not a thing to do during NaNo. During NaNo the goal is to just write and write and write. I couldn’t do that. I had to stop and calculate and think and plan and plot. Meh! It’s fine, really. What I did get out of NaNo, besides an exhausted body and mind is an excellent start of a story. I have the bones … and now I just need to add the flesh. When I write I need the time to mull things over in my mind and work out the scenes. I’m not a fly by 30 night writer.
So, I doubt I’ll ever officially put that pressure on myself again, but I’m no less proud of the 30k words I did during November.
Stay tuned for info about my novel coming out next year and maybe teasers of the fantasy novel I started during NaNo.
Thanks for reading and following!
Agreed: writing is work, and NaNo is doubletime! I think it’s hard for people who aren’t writers to understand just what a monumental, time-consuming task it is to draw from imagination (and research) and create a whole story– world, characters, premise, etc.– from nothing. Congratulations on your 30k AND on your forthcoming novel!!!
Thank you so much!
You understand me! LOL
I’m a “in my head” type of writer. I create scenes in my head and run them over and over until I perfect them enough to put on paper. 30 days just was too much pressure and not enough time to create my scenes. I did a lot though.
And thank you for the Congrats! 😉
You did NOT fail. You have 30K more words than you did before. That is a VICTORY.
Aww, thanks, Lissa. I honestly feel the same way about it. I mean, I’m shocked with what I was able to accomplish on top of everything else, so I’m not really bummed about it.
Thanks for the encouragement. 😀
I can’t wait to read what you wrote! At least you did the challenge and made it a little over half way there. I have a lot stories started and now I have time to be able to spend the time on them writing, but then I also just started a new story. o.O 🙂 Have fun, Jen.
That’s amazing, Shades. I’d love to read your stories as well.
Thanks for reading! 😉
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