NaNoWriMo 2012 - Day 10

[ladyseishou]

Day 10 - 20 days remaining


Successful writers are not the ones who write the
best sentences. They are the ones that keep writing.

— Bonnie Friedman






Today's word count is 16,670! And it's the beginning of our second weekend - the second of four this month. Weekend writing can be a good opportunity to catch up on your word count or pull ahead if the muse is kind! So I'll leave you to it!

Questions? Comments? Best sentence of the day? It's all good! So keep writing!

Comments

[insomniac_tales]

Hanging around 12k at the moment.

Stalled out. Hated the lack of direction my story suffered. Felt like I'd told the story before.

So I stopped telling it. I'm starting fresh today. I'm keeping the prose I wrote previously; I'm recycling the characters and aging them a bit, putting them in a different setting with different rules. With some tweaking I may be able to use some of it and starting at 0 on day 10 is a horrifying proposition.

I feel much better about this new direction and I think the story (and I) will benefit.

[ladyseishou]

Sounds like you have a plan and I'm happy to hear that you'll be able to salvage some of what you had "in the can" (an old film reference).

And it might not be cheating per se to keep your old stuff and write as a bridge between it and the new story: "And now she realized it was all some kind of weird dream. She (or he) was awake now. Her (or his) eyes were open. Time to accept things as they really were. They were older. Things were different. The rules were different. And it was time to get to work."

Just saying ;-)