thank you sir, may i have another?

[lookingland]

off to a slow start this morning and feeling sluggish about the whole thing.

three short scenes, 1,692 words.

5,692 / 50,000 (11.4%)

i've half a mind to stop, seeing as i've already made the day's quota and am sorta ahead of the game. but i know if i get lazy now and start slacking off, i will lose momentum and start falling in the hole.

so i'm picking three more scenes. some of the day's prompts include:

There was somethin' sweaty about Crabbits that rubbed me wrong..

That night I dreamt about a train fallin' from the sky. (ooo the train scene!)

I woke up feelin' like I's bein' crushed.

I meant to post something last night but got home late and was tired. i also realized this is the first NaNo i've done using a first-person narrative and it's a lot harder than i expected ~ i mean the writing is really bad and will need a ton of work. i'm sorta thinking that what i would like to do is try to finish the 50k well ahead of the deadline and then start the process of editing as soon as i have enough scenes to start putting the puzzle together. i can already tell that most of what i'm writing (and in some cases whole scenes) will be totally cut from the final. that's okay though, i'm exploring the characters and learning some inneresting things subtextually that will be useful in the rewrite.

how's everyone else faring?

: D

Comments

[jamiekswriter.livejournal.com]

You're doing awesome! Keep up the momentum! You can do it! :D Don't worry about the editing, that will come *after* November.

[java-fiend.livejournal.com]

Looks like you're making some good progress. Good luck with NaNo the rest of the way!

[bachsoprano.livejournal.com]

Pie.....there's pie at the end of November :)

Yay you! So, what is it about first person that's giving you grief?

I am progressing with NanoEditmo....one short story down (I think...I might go back and tweak it a little this morning), several chapters of line-edits done on a friend's project, and I'm a-thinking I'm going to tackle O&F this morning...or, if I'm truly brave, Songbird...we'll see :)

[lanyn.livejournal.com]

Dig your prompts! They make me want to write something, particularly that train dream one.

I get started tonight. Hopefully the brain won't freeze on me!