The Official NaNoWriMo 2013 Thread

[dalesys]

Now I have that song stuck in my head. I hope you're happy.

Earworms4U!

[Amina516]

Wow. So honestly, aside from the school assigned short story, I've never written this much before. As I'm writing, I am honestly surprised at how things are turning out. Like things I hadn't planned on are happening, kinda like Coopers characters. They have a mind of their own.

Ending today at 10729 words. Very happy with how things are turning out.

[KatherineB]

Nearly half-way done! I've just hit the 22,000 word mark!

[Bardmaiden]

Had to take today off from Nano, had windows fitted all through my flat, with depression having strangers disrupting my space was bad. So between the stress and anxiety attacks and my appointment with my counsellor (Not planned but oh so useful). I haven't had time.

[Amina516]

Finishing today @ 13872. I spent most of the day fixing what I wrote so far and adding things here and there.

Do you guys find its easier to better to edit as you go, or do you wait til the end?

I'm a little nervous about being able to keep up this weekend as I have a paper due and I need to work on it to finish by Tuesday. We'll see i guess.

Happy Writings!

[Kaylyn]

I only edit very slightly as I go, basically anything that I remember that I wanted to add, or if I see a sentence on the screen that I can word a bit better (or add MORE words to!) I'll go back and fix it. But, like just now, I decided I wanted to change where my paramedic character works out of (a fire department versus a private service) and I'm not going back to fix all that that I've written where I've alluded to the private service, I'm just continuing on and writing forward that he works out of a fire department now and will fix it when I do my first big edit after NaNo is over.

Currently at 16,668 words, which puts me 3 days ahead, just in time for another trip down south to take care of post-funeral business, where I will likely lose one day of writing.

[AnaKhouri]

How you edit is entirely up to you. Kurt Vonnegut would write a page, go back and revise until it sounded perfect to him. Only then did he move on to the next page.

Me, I'd lose my goddamned mind if I tried to write that way. I get the entire roughdraft out first, no matter how shitty it is. Only once it's complete can I go back and revise.

The spirit of NaNoWriMo seems to indicate that you shouldn't bother revising until you hit the word count. But I suggest trying it however you like and seeing what works for you. Every writer works in a different way so what others do may not be feasible for you.

[Chromatix]

I'm basically doing local editing as I go. Typos, misspellings and things that make the conversation or scene I'm writing right now flow better. It's more efficient to fix them now than to remember what I was aiming for later - that's a lesson (and a habit) I've learned as a software engineer.

Stuff from three chapters ago, however, is going to be left alone unless there's a *really* compelling reason. That's for fixing in a later editing pass.

[Eisa]

Yeah, typos and stuff like that, I fix. Everything else can wait. Even though I'm sure I've already come up with some really interesting contradictions of myself...

[MoonCat]

Topped 18,000 yesterday. Doing way better than last year.

Here's a tip from CJ Cherryh: "It's perfectly okay to write garbage, as long as you edit brilliantly."

She should know. She writes several books a year.

So, forward, ye bastards, and the dragons be damned!!!

[Amina516]

I'm behind. Spent the weekend being ill and writing a research paper in between the moments when I felt less like poo. @16200 hoping to catch up this week.

Thanks for your views on editing, all.

[MoonCat]

I fell behind this weekend, unfortunately. I came home from work on Friday evening to find my heart rat Trix dead in his cage and I spent the weekend grieving I could not write a word no matter how long I stared at my computer. I will be making up for it this week and upcoming weekend though. I may end up writing Trix into my novel so he can live forever in a way

I'm so sorry you lost your little friend! How sad. Yes, put him in the novel! I think that's a cool idea!

[Chromatix]

I spent the weekend doing a major overhaul on a digital locomotive model, which was rather hard work. So yes, I'm quite far behind now as well. Let's hope I can catch up.

[dalesys]

... digital locomotive ...

You have a loco to haul your fingers around the keyboard?

archie envies you.

[Amina516]

I'm so sorry you lost your little friend! How sad. Yes, put him in the novel! I think that's a cool idea!

I agree. Go for it! Sounds like a great idea.