Camp NaNoWriMo April 2013 - Day 13

[ladyseishou]

Day 13 - 17 days remaining



To be a writer means to see the unusual in the commonplace,
innovation in the routine, hidden beauty in ordinary things.

— Fred White

It’s the weekend, Nano Writer! Time to get some writing done! We should almost be halfway to the finish line by Monday, so it’s a good time to catch up if you’re behind or write ahead and bank those words for busy/crazy/impossible days when writing is just not possible.

Today is also NNWM First Annual Spring Writing Marathon! More details can be found here.

A reminder too to Back Up Your Work! It’s a good thing! And as always: keep writing!

Comments

[eien_herrison]

Finished the week with 21,894 words -- pretty bad, but I have been battling a cold for the past few days (including today where I felt woozy if I did so much as stand up and take three steps).

I'm really, really hoping to get a ton of writing done on Wednesday (day off) and am torn between writing some tomorrow in between work or spending time plotting and planning.

[ladyseishou]

First and foremost, you should take care of yourself! Sounds like you need plenty of rest and fluids. I'm a mom so I get to say these things ;-)

As to writing or plotting, that's a tough call. Of course, my advice is to write as you plot, the worse being that you might take a wrong turn but that's okay - put it aside to edit another day - never delete anything written for a first draft. Who knows? Maybe you'll like it after all. Or not - that's what red pens are for...

I hope that you're feeling better soon!

[eien_herrison]

:) Thankfully I woke up today feeling a lot better.

My writing vs. plotting thing is that I have a large defecit to make up, so do I spend a day plotting and enable myself to do a couple of days of flat out writing, or do I work on writing a little above my minimum goal and then plot? I've not been deleting anything, anything I immediately see which doesn't work is struckthrough, so still counts as words, just words to be removed in the editing process.

[dark_kana]

I finally started decently editting. I'm rewriting as I go and I'm having fun going through the entire story again.
Though, I've just arrived at a point in the story - that should be rewritten, but... I'm scared to start. It's a hard part. Real personal and just really hard. And I'm not sure if I can bring myself to read (let alone write) it again... *sweatdrop*
But other than that, it's going alright... :-)