Yesterday began National Novel Writing Month.
I reached 1,500 words.
However, I only am using 908 of those. The other 600 made up a false start that I just couldn’t continue. If I tweak it around, though, that false start may work pretty well later on…but despite the “anything goes” attitude we’re supposed to have, I still have a firm conviction that quality should come before quantity. Now that I have a firm start, though, I should be able to make up my wordcount today.
November 2, 2009 at 9:05 AM
Just write and don’t mind what your brain comes up with.
November 2, 2009 at 11:25 AM
Same with me. I can’t do the anything goes because I prefer lots of logic in my story. And some of the anything goes things I think of just don’t work with that. :/
November 3, 2009 at 9:14 PM
I made a ‘false start’ of my own last year. A few hundred words in I realized that the story just wasn’t working and scrapped it for a completely different one. However, I did include those words in my final wordcount – because, after all, they were words and I wrote them in November!
November 4, 2009 at 11:10 AM
I pretty sure that scene can work very well later on…but it just didn’t work to introduce the characters in.