Nanowrimo Sucks...

[prisoner_24601]

... or maybe I'm the one who sucks. Either way, it's official. I am never, ever, ever doing nanowrimo again.

For the last nanowrimo, I managed to churn out about 22,000 words (five chapters) for my fic Common Ground and they were all complete and utter crap. I was trying to write so quickly that everything I wrote is an amazing tangled mess and an incredible pain in the ass to make into any coherent sense. I'm pretty damn sure that in the long run, I would have gotten these chapters out a hell of a lot faster if I had just written at my normal pokey pace.

Making it even worse is that when it comes to the action scenes that I hate writing so much, I was a lazy bastard and left big chunks of things out with notes like: [insert big badass dogfight here] or [nag xenzen into writing this fight].

This is beyond annoying.

Comments

[plutospawn.livejournal.com]

Aww, that sucks. It was a sad day when I realized that the best lines I had ever churned out were done the night before a deadline while I was belligerantly drunk.

I guess not everybody writes the same way, gets motivated to write the same way. You've got a slow and steady way that works for you, so stick with it. Much better than procrastinating and compensating by binge drinking.

[athenaprime.livejournal.com]

This, then, grasshopper, is where you learn the Second Rule of Write Club (first rule being "BICHOK - Butt In Chair, Hands On Keyboard"). The Second Rule of Write Club is "dying is easy, revisions are a real pisser." If you can take the crap that you wrote and edit it into something better--take it beyond what it originally was, you'll learn something new about your writing. Most of the stuff we write out in first draft form has a lot of the "conventional" in it--if you thought of it right off the bat, then chances are, so would everybody else. Now's your chance to go back and look at the progression of those chapters and ask questions like "is there a way I can make this *more?*" More exciting, more dramatic, more insightful, etc. That's where the secondary brain waves come in and you can better see the implications of events in the long-term.

So it's not a total bust. :D

[winterfox.livejournal.com]

Heh. :P See, this is why I don't bother with NaNo. Ever.

Making it even worse is that when it comes to the action scenes that I hate writing so much, I was a lazy bastard and left big chunks of things out with notes like: [insert big badass dogfight here] or [nag xenzen into writing this fight].

Tsk, at least you've got someone you can nag into writing it for you. Suck it up, dudette.

*goes back to her "churn out at least a thousand words a day" routine*

I also hate action scenes

[miakun.livejournal.com]

See what she should do is the:

"And then Carth hit him with a brick.

***

Upon reflection of walking home. That was one kick ass barfight."

All problems solved!

Re: I also hate action scenes

[plutospawn.livejournal.com]

Ahahahaha! That sounds like my sex scenes. They spend three pages worth in their underwear and I give up.

And then they did it. Because I said so. Any questions?

sex = action = sex again = dancing

[miakun.livejournal.com]

My fight scenes tend to turn into and sound like sex anyway.

It all turns into dancing and sex. No matter what it is.