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NaNoWriMo a Go Go! November 6, 2003
I'm going to run out of cute headlines soon.
National Novel Writing Month is progressing well for me. Even though it means getting up at 5:00 am to get in a couple hours' worth of writing each day, I'm having fun and feeling (ever so slightly) proud of the work I'm doing. That makes it a success, I think.
I do have to say that this is not the way that I would write a novel. It's too fast, too loose, and too unstructured. I long for more time not only to tweak, but to just sit and think about the story and specific scenes. I want to skim a book on riverboats. I want to think things through.
Instead, I just keep pushing in order to hit my word count goals without slowing down to polish or build really solid foundations. Knowing that is like having something stuck in your teeth and not stopping to pick it out. For a month.
On the other hand, the irony is that this apparently is the only way I'll write a novel. My long history of not writing novels before this bears me out. I hope, though, that because I'm enjoying this I'll not only rewrite this one January, but write more in general. I don't have (many) daydreams about getting published, but I could see myself doing this as a hobby. I used to. Maybe it will even supplant games.
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