#antinano

[novelember]

Even rereading your story can be a part of writing.

[amerraka]

1200 words this morning

Not as much as the other days for some reason (less time?) Last night I had an hour+ and wrote 200 words

I am looking for quality not quantity. That is, I do not jump into the scene blind without looking at my notes first. And I make sure I am looking from protag's eyes and seeing what she sees, feeling what she feels. It is genuine, not just a bunch of words for the sake of words. It may not be perfect and need editing later- in fact I do go pretty fast once I start, I just stop when I change scenes, (that is, action/reaction) to take stock again and I flail around for words. But I believe it will be a better finished product even before editing than one I just rush through. It is the characters that are important to me, more than the plot. I need to know them; that is most important... and I am also working on plot and a hundred other things at the same time (but not all, that would be impossible.)

[amerraka]

snip of Fire

“I lost control. That is unforgivable.”

She stepped closer to him. “Of course I forgive you. It’s nothing.”

“It’s not nothing.” His eyes fell to her scars; a deep flush suffused his cheeks beneath his golden-brown skin. “I am so sorry, Sky. If there is anything I can do for you, anything at all.”

She grasped his hand. “They’ll be gone in a few days. And your kisses took care of the pain.”

[amerasdreams]

I will try everything once (within reason)

I reserve the right to loathe it, tho

[aewenaiyana]

2800 words today!

nice time to write today, had as much time as i wanted, not have to cut off before noon. had to figure out the logistics of what was happening, if it made sense. it didn’t at first, had to figure out just what things would cause the other thing--why the characters would do it etc. That’s why you can’t just write ahead without thinking-- bad logic can unravel a whole story. hope it doesn’t here... something I don’t catch...maybe  i will always be writing stories that don’t quite work and starting from scratch over and over and they’ll never be ready 

almost 12k words total.... 

[aewenaiyana]

1300 words today!

I told myself i’d write because I was going to focus extra on writing in November even if I’m not doing Nano. started this afternoon, after a semi-nap. i was like, why am i wasting my day sleeping? idk if i was even sleeping totally. so tired. for some reason. extra tired getting up. sunny out. should i go outside? no i said i’d write. Didn’t feel like it. looked on tumblr. started crying about something someone wrote. about what i am...stuck and unable to think of what to do etc etc. No, focus! just look at word doc, that’s enough. I ended on a question from a character so it was easy to start up. i had an idea of what he’d be talking about. So they just kept up the conversation for me. But hopefully they’re not too floating in thin air, head without feeling of setting around them-- except one actually is, because she’s a hologram lol. got the 2nd half of that conversation done. and began the next. hope it’s not getting too talky and expositiony. o well. i like writing it, can’t like it too much if I’m being nitpicky. immerse in the world and write what I like and feel what the POV character feels. 

[aewenaiyana]

700 words today!

I typed up the words I wrote yesterday in my notebook. Well, when I write in my notebook it usually kind of diverges from anything and everything and grammar becomes nonexistent and there are run-on sentences, it’s basically stream of consciousness bc maybe it’s not taken as seriously or because of the medium of the pencil running across the page rather than more structured one of typing. SO when I type it it usually diverges quite a bit from the notebook writing. Which happened today. It went off on a different path and I added more detail and cut out some of the thoughts-- can’t be in POV char’s head too much, it’s action that draws you into a story. 

but it’s more vivid in my mind, actually more of a scene, than the 5k words from before. And it’s in the action, and in media res, starting as late as possible, so I barely know how he got to this point. But thrown right into it. That’s key, especially with Jet stories, and idk why I didn’t do it from the first, except i got bogged down with notes and irrelevant things and too many details. gotta start with a few bold strokes and let the rest figure itself out as you go along. otherwise it devolves into a tangled mess. 

[aewenaiyana]

well with just the plot stripped to its essentials, distilled from things I learned from during previous incarnations, a few notes to steer me in teh right direction, I attacked my notebook with my pencil and began with a vivid scene, a strong feeling