It’s mid afternoon and I’m taking a break from the chaos of work to clear my head for a few minutes. One would think that this would be a good time to put some words into my nanowrimo story. One would think this, yes?
Hah.
The crisis I mentioned last night continues, only in the reverse – why oh why have I forsaken the story that I invested time and thought into for a frivolous, unthought out idea? What is wrong with me? If you work on two novels, can you just add the word counts and call it a day? I don’t think that’s the way it is supposed to work, but boy, am I torn.
Please comment and tell me your writing is going better. At the very least, you can mock me, I accept both forms of interaction.
The trick that I use to avoid revising or going backwards during NaNoWriMo is to take a few minutes after each writing session to jot down some notes about how I might do the scene differently in the next draft.
In the novella I’m working on, I realized that I’m telling it the wrong way, where the narrator is too far removed from the events. But rather than rewrite, I just added a bunch of notes for how I would change the scene in the next draft. I’ll worry about that draft when NaNoWriMo is over.
You might give that a try.
Thanks Jamie, I appreciate that š I think the big internal struggle has mostly been between trying to write in a “world” that’s been brewing for years (and therefor already feels well worn in, like a tired old armchair), and striking out into something new, which is shiny and alluring and scary, like the first time you head into town alone…ok, so the analogy might lack, but you know what I mean š
All of this would be more convincing if I had a pile of finished manuscripts to point at instead of a pile of well thought out ideas.