NaNoWriMo 2011

[DubaiSis]

Originally Posted by Jen

I am having a rough time. I'm ahead on word count, but I really don't like what I'm writing. Not in the usual "omg this sucks" kind of vein, but more that I just don't have any interest in what I'm writing at all.

I think part of it is how busy I am with work right now and until next week is done, it's really sucked a lot of the fun out of it. I find this to be a chore right now rather than fun like usual.

I've thought about scrapping everything and trying to write something new or different, but I can't think of anything that inspires me, so I'm trying to slog through this too.

This is kind of what got in the way of my writing last year. I set out to write a book about how to move to the other side of the planet and what it was like for me. I got through about 10,000 words no problem. They just fell out of me. But after that it got boring and I just didn't care any more. I could probably go back to that piece and clean it up for a substantial essay or magazine article, but there's just not enough in my personal experience to make 50,000 words. Maybe once my husband has completed the process of losing his job, searching for a new job and FINDING one, I can add another 10K to the story about that. Or maybe when this whole adventure is over I can finish it off with the repatriation process, which is more frightening to me than the expatriating process was.

But I've never written straight up fiction. Maybe I should try that. I think I need CougADPi's kid to supply me with a base plot!

[AGD1978]

Originally Posted by Jen

I'm noticing I really miss the progress bars on everyone's posts at the Nano forums. I think it spurns me on to get going when I see how much others' write. Now you have to click on profiles to see and it's not as fun.

I was a little vexed over this too and went on a hunt for info in the tech tips (but I can't remember exactly where I found it in the NaNo forums) and one of the moderators said they were working on it. Possibly up in a week or so, from what I read.

[CougADPi]

50,031! w00t!

[MysticCat]

Originally Posted by CougADPi

50,031! w00t!

Originally Posted by Jen

Congrats! I finished on the 21st. I still don't like my story, so I'm very relieved to be done. Next year I'm writing something original. I thought fan fic would be a fun thing to do, stress free, but I was so not into it so it was a huge struggled.

Congrats to you both. Primarily thanks to work, this turned out to be a horrible month for me to try to do this. I think I'm at about 12,000.

I think it made it harder that the story was almost completely plotted before I started, so stream-of-consciousness/vomiting-on-the-page writing didn't work well. Oh well. At least I have more of it written than i did a month ago.