Showing posts with label nano wramo. Show all posts
Showing posts with label nano wramo. Show all posts
Thursday, November 10, 2011
Slowly Healing
I did end up re-writing my novel, I am really behind. I have decided to stop being so OCD about it, and to stop dividing the days by how many words I have left, therefore calculating how many words a day I should write. But it still bugs me as to how much I have to catch up on. Today is the tenth of November, and if I had not started from the beginning and I had followed my original plan of doing two thousand words a day, then I would be a twenty thousand words. But since I have decided to start over, my story is a lot better, but it is only at three thousand-ish words.
Friday, November 4, 2011
Ehh Well...
Update on my novel-
When I first started writing my novel, I didn't have an outline prepared, or even a story line going until about the fourth day, (which just happens to be today). I found out today that there is a website for teens to do their novels, so I joined that website, aswell (Yes I'm making swell one word. I believe it should be. That and homeschooling.) On the website they have a 'workbook', that you can fill out. It was just basic things, like who my main characters would be, what my main plot would be, and even things like what my mint plots are going to be. Things I thought I had already figured out. But now that I'm about six thousand words into the novel, I find that I am wrong. I feel now, that I have wrongly gone about this whole thing, and I would like to start over. I have even re- written my synopsis and everything. I just don't know if I do start over if I can catch myself up. Because this time I would like to have an outline written. And as much as I'd like to re-do the whole thing, I would be ten thousand words behind. But hey, who's timing me? I am the one that puts my word count in to the website everyday, which I have given up on, because I am tired of it lying to me. (Read my last post.) I finally just decided to put that I had written fifty thousand words into the word count, just so it would leave me alone. Ha! Take that stupid word count! Anyway, the gist of it all, is that I'm stuck at a junction, and I need to take the right path. But because there are no signs in England, (where allegedly my day dreaming takes place), I don't know which road to take.
When I first started writing my novel, I didn't have an outline prepared, or even a story line going until about the fourth day, (which just happens to be today). I found out today that there is a website for teens to do their novels, so I joined that website, aswell (Yes I'm making swell one word. I believe it should be. That and homeschooling.) On the website they have a 'workbook', that you can fill out. It was just basic things, like who my main characters would be, what my main plot would be, and even things like what my mint plots are going to be. Things I thought I had already figured out. But now that I'm about six thousand words into the novel, I find that I am wrong. I feel now, that I have wrongly gone about this whole thing, and I would like to start over. I have even re- written my synopsis and everything. I just don't know if I do start over if I can catch myself up. Because this time I would like to have an outline written. And as much as I'd like to re-do the whole thing, I would be ten thousand words behind. But hey, who's timing me? I am the one that puts my word count in to the website everyday, which I have given up on, because I am tired of it lying to me. (Read my last post.) I finally just decided to put that I had written fifty thousand words into the word count, just so it would leave me alone. Ha! Take that stupid word count! Anyway, the gist of it all, is that I'm stuck at a junction, and I need to take the right path. But because there are no signs in England, (where allegedly my day dreaming takes place), I don't know which road to take.
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