word count: your mom

[spatch]

Nano, schmano.

He says, fatuously, after looking over story notes for an all-new RED SHIFT live show in January and already scrabbling together half a draft of its first episode, while using spare brain cycles to hammer out the episodic structure of the second studio-recorded series with Michael and also planning post-production work on the first series with Neil.

(Howzabout you find your 50,000 words one way and I'll find mine another, 'kay?)

Comments

[plumtreeblossom.livejournal.com]

I feel sorriest for all the literary agents right after Nano month. Raw Nano spew, excitedly called a "novel" by the "author," Piles up on their desk each December like the worst Christmas present ever.

[spatch]

One of my quibbles with NaNo is that it encourages quantity over quality, and as someone who is prone to constantly rewriting sections until he's perfectly happy with them, it infuriates me to no end.

It's "nice" to encourage "writing habits" and "dedication" to a work, but by "god", "editing" is also "very", very "necessary"!

[archangelsk.livejournal.com]

That's what March is for! (http://www.nanoedmo.net/)

[neddiheht.livejournal.com]

Rob - the point is to convince you that you can finish, if you set aside your inner editor. A lot of us spend so much time editing chapters over and over again that the story stagnates and never gets completed. The idea isn't to finish an edited novel, but to finish an entire novel draft so that you CAN do the editing. You aren't alone in rewriting sections over and over till they're perfect. I've got a novel I've been doing that with for over ten years. But you know what? That novel sits at 38,000 words - stuck in time, while my nanonovels, while they still need some work done on them, are completed and just need some editing and revision.

NanoEdMo, a month dedicated to spending hours and hours editing your novel (that you finished and set aside after november) is in March. It's not forgotten, just delayed.

[spatch]

I understand the point of an editing month and everything and how nice it is for some to light a fire underneath themselves and strive for completion; speed writing, however, just ain't my thing and when asked what I'm doing for November, I bring folks over to the fire and show the irons already in. I believe the fruits of those labors will be more beneficial to future projects than anything else.