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I WON!
I didn't think I would actually do it this year, but lo and behold, I did it. While it was harder this year, seeing this just brightened up my entire day. (After all, how many people can boast that they got 50K exactly, according to the NaNo verifier, without even trying? Probably not many.)
However, I probably won't write a novel I care about this much for NaNo again. I thought I could handle writing such an important project for NaNo, but... nope, nope, not really. I went through about a week where I didn't want to write, and that was most likely because... well, this is the novel I want to get published. I want to look at this novel when I'm done with it, all done with all the rewriting and revisions that are always necessary, and say, "This is my book and I'm proud of it."
The no-holds-barred attitude NaNo has the power to give people does not bode well with "serious" novels. So no more books in the Yulian universe written for NaNo. If I try, kick me?
Next year, though... I'm going to go into it in one of two ways: either I am going to go in with only a character and write by the seat of my pants, or I'll think of a plot only during October (not two or three years before I finally commit it to paper) and don't think too much.
That said, I don't regret writing Yulian for NaNo at all.
I have 134 pages of novel.
Novel.
I wrote this during a month. And now I know where things are going. My novel has so much more depth, and I know that I can make Yulian a true great novel. I have the bones. All I need to do is fix the bones and then add flesh.
I can do that.
Just not now.
Now? All I want to do now is watch The Starter Wife (my guilty pleasure) and read until my brain explodes from all the greatness.
No more writing for a while.
(And go ahead, watch me write a 3 or 4K story tomorrow. Just watch.)
I didn't think I would actually do it this year, but lo and behold, I did it. While it was harder this year, seeing this just brightened up my entire day. (After all, how many people can boast that they got 50K exactly, according to the NaNo verifier, without even trying? Probably not many.)
However, I probably won't write a novel I care about this much for NaNo again. I thought I could handle writing such an important project for NaNo, but... nope, nope, not really. I went through about a week where I didn't want to write, and that was most likely because... well, this is the novel I want to get published. I want to look at this novel when I'm done with it, all done with all the rewriting and revisions that are always necessary, and say, "This is my book and I'm proud of it."
The no-holds-barred attitude NaNo has the power to give people does not bode well with "serious" novels. So no more books in the Yulian universe written for NaNo. If I try, kick me?
Next year, though... I'm going to go into it in one of two ways: either I am going to go in with only a character and write by the seat of my pants, or I'll think of a plot only during October (not two or three years before I finally commit it to paper) and don't think too much.
That said, I don't regret writing Yulian for NaNo at all.
I have 134 pages of novel.
Novel.
I wrote this during a month. And now I know where things are going. My novel has so much more depth, and I know that I can make Yulian a true great novel. I have the bones. All I need to do is fix the bones and then add flesh.
I can do that.
Just not now.
Now? All I want to do now is watch The Starter Wife (my guilty pleasure) and read until my brain explodes from all the greatness.
No more writing for a while.
(And go ahead, watch me write a 3 or 4K story tomorrow. Just watch.)
