Perpetually catching up
Mon 2003-11-17 23:48:38 (in context)
- 5,657 words (if poetry, lines) long
- 0.00 hrs. revised
OK. Check this out.
Right now - I mean, right now this minute - if I wanted to finish the novel in a week, I'd have to write 7,000 words a day. Well, 7,150.
That kind of makes the daily 3,000-plus-change I actually have to accomplish, in order to chalk up a win for NaNoWriMo '03, seem fairly doable.
(Sorry - just got distracted. FlashbackRadio.com played the opening theme to Fat Albert, and my brain rubbernecked.)
It got easier to increase my word count in a hurry because I reached the bit where the Main Character indulges in a gripe session with his best friend. And for me dialogue tends to come naturally. Both characters end up sounding like me in show-off mode, but at least they're saying things real people might say, and there's an undercurrent of humor running through it.
The only problem is, the story isn't actually going anywhere. The story is, in fact, sitting in a bar griping about its mother and the tragedy of a fine stout going to waste.
At least the word count is growing, and at a rate greater than 300 words a day. And the nice thing about doing something I'm good at, like dialogue, is that it restores my confidence in my writing ability in general. And that's a boost that'll carry me through the next thousand words, easy.
I heartily recommend it, if you're a good 20K behind schedule as well. Warm up to your writing session by doing whatever kind of writing reminds you how much fun writing is. 'Cause if it ain't fun, what the blistering Hell are you doing it for?