time flies . . .
Dec. 14th, 2004 10:22 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
eimarraHas it really been almost two months since I started this journal? And I haven't posted one new thing in all that time. This month isn't going to be much better, though I think I'll get a couple posts in. Is it too early to make a new year's resolution for next year?
November and NaNo went well. I squeaked out just over 50k; the last 13k were written between the 27th and the 30th. I still have another 20k or so to go on that first draft. Then I'll set it aside for aging. When I come back to it, I fully expect it to pick up another 20k or so. My first draft is really dialogue-heavy, with little in the way of description or exposition. Better to get something down and have something to work with.
The project that I mentioned being stalled on is moving forward slowly, but mostly by moving in reverse. First, I threw out the 16k I'd already written. (OK, I saved it on my hard drive because I may discover that those words belong elsewhere.) I started to outline again. I wrote a few hundred words. I stalled. Yesterday, I saw the end of the book with sudden clarity. I think I can complete the outline now and start writing in earnest.
The next few weeks are going to be primarily given over to family matters, but with a PDA, a flash drive, and a laptop, I can work on my writing whenever there's a spare moment. It's good to feel that my writing's going somewhere.
November and NaNo went well. I squeaked out just over 50k; the last 13k were written between the 27th and the 30th. I still have another 20k or so to go on that first draft. Then I'll set it aside for aging. When I come back to it, I fully expect it to pick up another 20k or so. My first draft is really dialogue-heavy, with little in the way of description or exposition. Better to get something down and have something to work with.
The project that I mentioned being stalled on is moving forward slowly, but mostly by moving in reverse. First, I threw out the 16k I'd already written. (OK, I saved it on my hard drive because I may discover that those words belong elsewhere.) I started to outline again. I wrote a few hundred words. I stalled. Yesterday, I saw the end of the book with sudden clarity. I think I can complete the outline now and start writing in earnest.
The next few weeks are going to be primarily given over to family matters, but with a PDA, a flash drive, and a laptop, I can work on my writing whenever there's a spare moment. It's good to feel that my writing's going somewhere.
