Your name:angrboda. My real name is none of your concern How many years you've written for NaNoWriMo?: Four years now. Three of which I won. What genre you like to write for: For NaNo, fantasy. I've tried other genres, but I got bored with my own story. The rest of the year it's fanfiction for me. Outline or a Pantster? No outline. I do ignore the 'start something new' rule though, and continue on what I wrote on the previous year. Since I've barely touched it at all for eleven months, it almost counts as something new. The one I've worked on for the last two years is full of inconsistencies and nonsense because I just write whatever pops into my head. I don't know my own plot either, so I don't know what's important. Consequently, everything gets added. Best cure for writer's block ever is... Describe stuff. NaNo is about quantity rather than quality. There isn't time to sit and polish something until it shines. It's the first draft and nothing more. You can tell, in mine, where I've been uncertain about which way to go because those are the places where everything is described in detail right down to the knots in the floorboards. Okay, not that far, but you get the idea. It keeps you going, words put down on the page, while you think about what to do next, and sometimes you'll discover that there's something in the surroundings that prompts you to continue. You can always bin it when you finish the draft and get to the re-write and edit stage. Also, if you're having trouble concentrating on what you're doing, I can recommend this method. Working for a fixed but manageble amount of time before allowing yourself a short break totally works. I tend to work in 15 minute spurts myself, and if it goes well, I may even skip the minibreak rather than break the flow. After a while you might even discover that seeing how many words you can get down in 15 minutes has turned to sport.
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How many years you've written for NaNoWriMo?: Four years now. Three of which I won.
What genre you like to write for: For NaNo, fantasy. I've tried other genres, but I got bored with my own story. The rest of the year it's fanfiction for me.
Outline or a Pantster? No outline. I do ignore the 'start something new' rule though, and continue on what I wrote on the previous year. Since I've barely touched it at all for eleven months, it almost counts as something new. The one I've worked on for the last two years is full of inconsistencies and nonsense because I just write whatever pops into my head. I don't know my own plot either, so I don't know what's important. Consequently, everything gets added.
Best cure for writer's block ever is... Describe stuff. NaNo is about quantity rather than quality. There isn't time to sit and polish something until it shines. It's the first draft and nothing more. You can tell, in mine, where I've been uncertain about which way to go because those are the places where everything is described in detail right down to the knots in the floorboards. Okay, not that far, but you get the idea. It keeps you going, words put down on the page, while you think about what to do next, and sometimes you'll discover that there's something in the surroundings that prompts you to continue. You can always bin it when you finish the draft and get to the re-write and edit stage.
Also, if you're having trouble concentrating on what you're doing, I can recommend this method. Working for a fixed but manageble amount of time before allowing yourself a short break totally works. I tend to work in 15 minute spurts myself, and if it goes well, I may even skip the minibreak rather than break the flow. After a while you might even discover that seeing how many words you can get down in 15 minutes has turned to sport.