Faltering Right Out the Gate
Apparently it's a good idea to have a strong plotline and characters you enjoy writing about for NaNoWriMo, because otherwise you start to falter just a few days in. I'm now faced with the task of deciding whether to scrap my first chapter and start fresh, or keep going with what I've got. Neither option sounds terribly appealing.
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My piece is chaos on a stick right now. The characters haven't settled into their right roles yet, things are happening too fast, and the only thing I know so far is where I want this piece to end up eventually. It's gonna need heavy revision when I'm done, and I'm guessing I'll end up scrapping the first 3000+ words, or changing them completely.
The goal of NaNo is nothing more than just words - side words that help you figure out characters should count, as well as stuff you'll scrap later. Any words matter. Leave em, let 'em accumulate, and move on to a part you like more or a character study or something. At the end of the 30 days, you'll have a lot of material to work with, and then you can figure out what the gem is in all the rough.
Keep going! Pom Poms!
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Yeah, that was always one thing that seemed a little...odd about NaNo, that you could write crap for plot (or no plot, technically...) and all it was about was getting word count (and writing whatever you considered a "novel", but that's not really tracked at all).
Salt does have a point, though, re: the just keep writing part (now I've got Dory's song from Nemo in my head, "Just keep writing, just keep writing. Writing, writing, writing..." to paraphrase) ;)
If you can get to the good parts, where you do have a story, then having to throw out (or heavily edit) the crap would be worth it. Since otherwise you wouldn't have that good stuff, just nothing! :)
So, keep going! :)
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