Comments on: and so it begins https://globalspin.com/2006/11/and-so-it-begins/ a glimpse into the tiny mind of Chris Radcliff Sat, 01 May 2010 03:53:44 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.8 By: Global Spin » Blog Archive » nanowrimo day 11 - outlier days https://globalspin.com/2006/11/and-so-it-begins/comment-page-1/#comment-7650 Sun, 12 Nov 2006 08:01:10 +0000 http://globalspin.com/2006/11/01/842/#comment-7650 [...] Aha, you say, but the second rule clearly stated that no one reads this draft, so why worry?  But you forget the same thing I did: I’m reading this draft.  Even if I tell myself not to, even if I never actually go back to previous days’ work, there’s a part of my mind that remembers all the steaming crap I’ve written, and it asks me every day, “Wouldn’t you rather do something you actually enjoy, rather than write more steaming crap?”  And that’s a hard one to answer, so I watch Lost or catch up on podcasts, or do any one of the hundred entertaining timewasters I have at my disposal.  Last night K and I watched the first three episodes of the new Doctor Who.  (I like them, BTW.)  Each time it’s easy for my Inner Editor to make the case for anything but space monkeys, and each time I feel worse afterward for passing up another opportunity to write.  I can see how that could spiral into not writing entirely, giving up on bloody WriMo and getting back to my life. [...]

]]> By: Chris https://globalspin.com/2006/11/and-so-it-begins/comment-page-1/#comment-6695 Thu, 02 Nov 2006 06:36:54 +0000 http://globalspin.com/2006/11/01/842/#comment-6695 Yes, I didn’t realize that the word count thing would update itself as I went along. As of this post, it’s up to 2420 words. Yay! K wrote an amazing number, something like 3000+ in the first day. I think we know who’s going to win this first…

]]> By: Deana https://globalspin.com/2006/11/and-so-it-begins/comment-page-1/#comment-6693 Thu, 02 Nov 2006 04:33:04 +0000 http://globalspin.com/2006/11/01/842/#comment-6693 Trying to put a word count thing in like Chris has. Sigh.

]]> By: Deana https://globalspin.com/2006/11/and-so-it-begins/comment-page-1/#comment-6691 Thu, 02 Nov 2006 03:13:45 +0000 http://globalspin.com/2006/11/01/842/#comment-6691 By: Deana https://globalspin.com/2006/11/and-so-it-begins/comment-page-1/#comment-6688 Thu, 02 Nov 2006 02:40:04 +0000 http://globalspin.com/2006/11/01/842/#comment-6688 I’m aiming at the just-above-1600 words a day. My first line is “My first conscious thought on Saturday morning, October 16th was how incredibly comfortable I was. ”

I’m writing in the first person, but as I was working out a general plot outline today I was visualizing my characters as Jonathan and Jennifer Hart and that helped a lot.

I have to go figure out how to post to my site now.

]]> By: Edward O'Connor https://globalspin.com/2006/11/and-so-it-begins/comment-page-1/#comment-6669 Wed, 01 Nov 2006 17:35:50 +0000 http://globalspin.com/2006/11/01/842/#comment-6669 Good luck to the both of you! :)

]]> By: Parand https://globalspin.com/2006/11/and-so-it-begins/comment-page-1/#comment-6667 Wed, 01 Nov 2006 17:20:28 +0000 http://globalspin.com/2006/11/01/842/#comment-6667 A friend of mine did the novel in a month thing. His advice: just write. Don’t think about it too much and definitely don’t edit. He ended up completing the book in a month. I’m not sure how he liked the finished product, but he definitely liked the process and is doing it again this year.

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