NOVEMBER 2008 = EPIC WIN
Dec. 1st, 2008 10:50 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
defrogNational Novel Writing Month is over. Here’s how that went:
Yay me.
As usual, this doesn’t mean I can complete a novel in 30 days so much as it means I can type 50,000 words (or in this case, 56, 492 words). As predicted, the actual novel – Bras From Mars – isn’t anywhere near done and will require about another 50K before I can call it a first draft.
But hey, Rome wasn’t built in a month, right? Anyway, I’ll push on as usual until it’s done. And unlike Planet Of The Bulls, I don’t think it’ll take another three years to finish. PotB is on its fourth rewrite and has been troublesome because every time I revised the draft, I came up with far better ideas than I initially had, which meant more rewrites. With BfM, it seems to be more straightforward – there’s not nearly as much world-building required, and because the central premise revolves around high-tech bra engineering, I can have fun with it (as you do) without having to spend much time dithering over additional research.
Result!
Meanwhile, I also successfully completed National Blog Posting Month (a post a day, every day), although to be fair, I manage to pull that off almost every month. Still, it’s nice to be recognized. And at least I didn’t have to resort to posting the video about the Philadelphia hot dog cannon.
Not that I object to hot dog cannons. That’s how America became a superpower, after all.
Sing when yr winning,
This is dF
Yay me.
As usual, this doesn’t mean I can complete a novel in 30 days so much as it means I can type 50,000 words (or in this case, 56, 492 words). As predicted, the actual novel – Bras From Mars – isn’t anywhere near done and will require about another 50K before I can call it a first draft.
But hey, Rome wasn’t built in a month, right? Anyway, I’ll push on as usual until it’s done. And unlike Planet Of The Bulls, I don’t think it’ll take another three years to finish. PotB is on its fourth rewrite and has been troublesome because every time I revised the draft, I came up with far better ideas than I initially had, which meant more rewrites. With BfM, it seems to be more straightforward – there’s not nearly as much world-building required, and because the central premise revolves around high-tech bra engineering, I can have fun with it (as you do) without having to spend much time dithering over additional research.
Result!
Meanwhile, I also successfully completed National Blog Posting Month (a post a day, every day), although to be fair, I manage to pull that off almost every month. Still, it’s nice to be recognized. And at least I didn’t have to resort to posting the video about the Philadelphia hot dog cannon.
Not that I object to hot dog cannons. That’s how America became a superpower, after all.
Sing when yr winning,
This is dF
