tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-881842661768630727.post305468595606607904..comments2023-06-27T03:23:48.156-07:00Comments on Manual Entry: thoughts on NaNo and remington KMCnotagainhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02915679111849352765noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-881842661768630727.post-51944221147187025602010-12-03T18:16:30.845-08:002010-12-03T18:16:30.845-08:00It was very satisfying to complete my NaNo -- I...It was very satisfying to complete my NaNo -- I'd dreamed of being a novelist forever, and now I am one! (Never mind that it's a first draft of an unpublished novella. I wrote it, dammit.)<br /><br />I started off with only the vaguest of ideas and let the plot emerge. Sometimes I had to actively make it come out, which was painful, and sometimes it just popped out of my unconscious. That was really fun and interesting. <br /><br />I've come to believe that, at least for me, making up the story in advance is a bad idea.Richard Phttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16232053429935587826noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-881842661768630727.post-22033894706530808022010-12-02T18:19:54.129-08:002010-12-02T18:19:54.129-08:00Yeah, one of these days, I want to just "know...Yeah, one of these days, I want to just "know" my characters and see where they take me. Haven't done that yet, as both Nanos I have done, they characters were either shadows of real people or already defined and the plots were pretty well worked out before I started writing.<br /><br />And I'm with you. Knowing that you can complete a story, no matter how crappy, means you can do it and that can be improved upon.<br /><br />I calculated if I write 4 pages a day (1,800 words) for 300 days a year, then that is over half a million words. My experience tells me, that if I can do something that regularly, I'm either going to be good at it or I'll definitely know I won't.<br /><br />Knowing either way is quite valuable.deekhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/18140131381076720375noreply@blogger.com