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NaNoCheaMo
Nov. 3rd, 2008 06:22 pmThus far I've revised about 24k of Miledrop, which is fairly significant in that I'm not just tightening up my sloppy drafty prose, but I'm actually excising a superfluous character from the main action of the book and that means not only pulling him out but reassigning all the stuff he does, all of which has a snowball effect in terms of exponentially increasing changes to the plot. So while I've only increased my total wordcount by about 1300 words, significant changes have occurred in rewriting, so I'm not really sure what to claim for my NaNo wordcount. Average the two? I dunno, I'll figure out something that seems a fair reflection. Those of you who are also cheating, how are you counting your progress?
Anyhow, all this puts me a little over half-way through the partial first draft I'd had going before I realized I'd turned down a blind alley a ways back and had to retreat and start over. From here on out the slogging gets harder and the balance of work will shift further from revising to writing, which'll slow me down -- maybe I should count it as the full 24k, just so I don't feel like a total loser come the end of the month. Especially since I now have internet access back, and all the distraction and procrastination-enabling that goes with it.
Anyhow, all this puts me a little over half-way through the partial first draft I'd had going before I realized I'd turned down a blind alley a ways back and had to retreat and start over. From here on out the slogging gets harder and the balance of work will shift further from revising to writing, which'll slow me down -- maybe I should count it as the full 24k, just so I don't feel like a total loser come the end of the month. Especially since I now have internet access back, and all the distraction and procrastination-enabling that goes with it.
