2006/11/30 21:56
Write Off
And that's it for November. It couldn't have come sooner -- I am officially out of ideas. Plus, these bruises on my fingers from all the typing? Not attractive.
I'm impressed that despite having to reach harder and more frequently for ideas in posting every day, I've managed to mostly avoid talking about NaBloPoMo. Until now, anyway. More than once I had to fend off the temptation to throw down a placeholder just to say I'd posted every day this month. But I did it, because that was never the point of the exercise. Thanks to this month, I feel like I'm a better blogger ... maintaining my focus, not fearing the short entry, not talking about what I had for lunch, and seeing beauty and humor in the little things.
On the opposite track -- the big things -- I didn't complete NaNoWriMo. I got stuck about 15,000 words in and realized I had a lot more character and plot development to do before I can write the story. At this point, I've already pushed it out once, and there's no sense doing it again unless I can improve markedly on the original. Which I think is what my mom said when my brother was born.
However, if you add up all the words I did write in November:
... I got pretty close, actually. If you count the e-mails, the bulletin board posts, the reports and other assorted crap I had to chunder out for work, I probably made it. Not that it counts when all the sources are separate.
But then again, that's not what's important. What's important is that I continue to push myself to write better, to keep refining my skills and improving my storytelling. That's the real goal, not some arbitrary word count. If I use more words to hit a number and thereby muddy the message, I've failed.
That said ... holy crap, I am so done refining for a while. Well, at least the weekend. Unless I have an idea. I make no promises -- you're not off the hook that easily.
I'm impressed that despite having to reach harder and more frequently for ideas in posting every day, I've managed to mostly avoid talking about NaBloPoMo. Until now, anyway. More than once I had to fend off the temptation to throw down a placeholder just to say I'd posted every day this month. But I did it, because that was never the point of the exercise. Thanks to this month, I feel like I'm a better blogger ... maintaining my focus, not fearing the short entry, not talking about what I had for lunch, and seeing beauty and humor in the little things.
On the opposite track -- the big things -- I didn't complete NaNoWriMo. I got stuck about 15,000 words in and realized I had a lot more character and plot development to do before I can write the story. At this point, I've already pushed it out once, and there's no sense doing it again unless I can improve markedly on the original. Which I think is what my mom said when my brother was born.
However, if you add up all the words I did write in November:
| Novel: | 15,234 |
| Blog: | 9,212 |
| LiveJournal: | 24,212 (holy shit!) |
... I got pretty close, actually. If you count the e-mails, the bulletin board posts, the reports and other assorted crap I had to chunder out for work, I probably made it. Not that it counts when all the sources are separate.
But then again, that's not what's important. What's important is that I continue to push myself to write better, to keep refining my skills and improving my storytelling. That's the real goal, not some arbitrary word count. If I use more words to hit a number and thereby muddy the message, I've failed.
That said ... holy crap, I am so done refining for a while. Well, at least the weekend. Unless I have an idea. I make no promises -- you're not off the hook that easily.
i was surprised not to here more about nanowrimo from you. but for some reason this year it seemed to be a big deal EVERYWHERE, bigger than last year, because everybody was talking about it EXCEPT you.
that having been said, what i had for lunch is totally fucking interesting dammit!
<3
that having been said, what i had for lunch is totally fucking interesting dammit!
<3
Is that high total in LJ from mostly memes and the like? Because if so, I don't think it should count.
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