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Jan. 12th, 2007 03:26 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
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matociquala started a community called "Novel in 90" wherein the goal is to take small but steady bites out of the novel-writing business. Call it the anti-NaNoWriMo. 750 words a day. That's all.
I joined as a way to make sure that I got going on Retrievers5 (aka DOWN INTO DARKNESS), even as I was plowing through on the Nocturne. I wake up in the morning and, while the caffeine makes itself ready, I write. I don't try to force myself past the 750 word goal: it's enough to keep moving, page by page.
So. A week in, and I report my progress: 5,900 words, out of a projected 100,000.
Seems like nothing, doesn't it? I'm averaging 843 words a day. Small, steady bites. If I keep this up, I'll reach draft by April (contract due date is 1 April). Once TNS is handed in, though, I'll probably be able to double my count for most days. The trick is not to falter. Slow and steady.
We'll see how it continues.
(in the meanwhile, I have a short story that's due and tapping its foot impatiently at me...)
matociquala started a community called "Novel in 90" wherein the goal is to take small but steady bites out of the novel-writing business. Call it the anti-NaNoWriMo. 750 words a day. That's all.I joined as a way to make sure that I got going on Retrievers5 (aka DOWN INTO DARKNESS), even as I was plowing through on the Nocturne. I wake up in the morning and, while the caffeine makes itself ready, I write. I don't try to force myself past the 750 word goal: it's enough to keep moving, page by page.
So. A week in, and I report my progress: 5,900 words, out of a projected 100,000.
Seems like nothing, doesn't it? I'm averaging 843 words a day. Small, steady bites. If I keep this up, I'll reach draft by April (contract due date is 1 April). Once TNS is handed in, though, I'll probably be able to double my count for most days. The trick is not to falter. Slow and steady.
We'll see how it continues.
(in the meanwhile, I have a short story that's due and tapping its foot impatiently at me...)
