Camp NaNoWriMo August 2011 - Day 14

[ladyseishou]

Day 14 - 17 days remaining



Stories have a beginning, a middle and an end.
But not necessarily in that order.

- 
Robert Silverberg

The word count today Nano Writers is 22,580. How is everyone coming along?

If you have stalled out and you feel uninspired or unsure about where your main character is headed next, skip a scene or two or even jump ahead to your climatic scene or final scene. There's no rule that you must write your story in sequential order. Shake things up a bit. The change may jump start your enthusiasm and creativity... how does your MC end up on hanging from one of the girders of the Eiffel Tower?

Questions? Shout outs? Last word written today? Mine was rather plain: "see." But it's all good Nano Writers - keep writing!

Comments

[dee_groovy]

That's so true - since I'm stuck on a beginning, I started writing from the middle and went from there (my word count though? :p I'll have to try for next month's camp ^^'

[dark_kana]

*grins* I do that like ... Always. I have my beginning. And after that I have lots of parts of my middle piece. And I have parts of my ending. :p
I often switch between pieces because I'm stuck somewhere. And then I work on another part, until I get stuck there. And then I move back to a previous one where all of a sudden I can continue again. :p
My last word today is "live".

[medicalmouse]

I'm trying to resist the urge to jump around too much because I can never figure out how my characters get from Point A to Point B that way! Thankfully, I'm doing fine working start to finish this time around - I just passed 25k, and I don't think I'm quite at the midpoint of my story yet either, so I'm nicely on track. Oh, and today's last word was "Seth", who may or may not be a good guy. I think my characters will be figuring that one out tomorrow.

[ladyseishou]

Wonderful word count! And I say if you have a method that works for you - don't change a thing. Good luck tomorrow, Seth!

[ladyseishou]

Oh "live" has so many ways to go - a nice place to pick up from.

I have to admit that sometimes when I hit a difficult scene I do a bit of outlining and move on. More often than not, something later makes going back easier, certainly more productive.

[ladyseishou]

Not sure about next month but NaNoWriMo is coming up in 77 days! And I think that I'll need the time just to recover from Camp ;-)

[dee_groovy]

haha, true! How often (aside from the 'official' nano) do you have these Nano Camps? :)

[ladyseishou]

This is the first summer that the Office of Letters and Light (the NNWM organizers) have actually set up and run the Camp version of NNWM. In fact July was more or less a beta trial and this month the real deal.

The idea behind Camp was to be able to provide the opportunity to participate in NNWM to writers who for one reason or another couldn't do November as well as offer more prolific writers another month to write a second novel while sharing the experience with fellow crazies authors. Of course whether or not they do another Camp next summer depends on whether they can pay the bills as they run all of NNWM from donations (direct and by sales of goodies through their shop).

So if things go well, I hope that there will be another Camp next summer!