Camp NaNoWriMo
Jul. 2nd, 2017 02:58 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
balganwallI kind of like Camp NaNoWriMo better than the regular NaNoWriMo. With the regular NaNo, you have to meet the goal of 50K words within a month to "win." With Camp, you set your daily limit. It's more manageable in a busy schedule.
I'm revisiting an old project that I'd started over ten years ago and finally got around to writing during last year's NaNo. NaNo novels are never meant to be polished drafts, but they serve the crucial need to simply write a story. Skimming over the draft, I can already tell that the story needs a heavy rewrite. But you know what? I got started on it and I have a better idea of how it needs to be rewritten.
But I never finished that draft. I don't think I was even near the midway mark when I reached 50K words. (Yes, it's going to be one of those novels. Maybe not thick enough to be used as a weapon, but a big enough to move into for a couple of weeks. Or months, depending on your dedication or reading speed.)
But now that I'm revisiting the project, others want to pop up again. New stories are vying for attention. And it sure is tempting to write something else, especially if it's shiny and new and unexplored.
Besides, I already have two webcomics that take up most of my free time. These bickering children will have to wait.
I'm revisiting an old project that I'd started over ten years ago and finally got around to writing during last year's NaNo. NaNo novels are never meant to be polished drafts, but they serve the crucial need to simply write a story. Skimming over the draft, I can already tell that the story needs a heavy rewrite. But you know what? I got started on it and I have a better idea of how it needs to be rewritten.
But I never finished that draft. I don't think I was even near the midway mark when I reached 50K words. (Yes, it's going to be one of those novels. Maybe not thick enough to be used as a weapon, but a big enough to move into for a couple of weeks. Or months, depending on your dedication or reading speed.)
But now that I'm revisiting the project, others want to pop up again. New stories are vying for attention. And it sure is tempting to write something else, especially if it's shiny and new and unexplored.
Besides, I already have two webcomics that take up most of my free time. These bickering children will have to wait.
