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Thought it would be good for those who've finished (or accepted defeat...those who are still in the chase should be writing and not reading these boards ) to give some personalized "lessons learned" from their NaNo experience...
1. 50K words is hard work...it took me writing every day since Nov. 1, several hours per day, to hit the 1667/day mark. To be a writer of that speed would require me to give up on most things in life...
2. I'm much better at writing when I have my plot lined out. The last 10-15K of this novel was on-the-fly writing, and was vastly harder for me to do than the first part.
3. I definitely work much faster with my internal editor turned off. Whether this helps matters when I get into editing remains to be seen.
4. Tracking my progress is something I should be doing even more than I do (through my monthly and weekly goals). When I see where I am compared to where I need to be, word-wise, it drives me to work harder toward those goals.
Any one else care to share?
1. 50K words is hard work...it took me writing every day since Nov. 1, several hours per day, to hit the 1667/day mark. To be a writer of that speed would require me to give up on most things in life...
2. I'm much better at writing when I have my plot lined out. The last 10-15K of this novel was on-the-fly writing, and was vastly harder for me to do than the first part.
3. I definitely work much faster with my internal editor turned off. Whether this helps matters when I get into editing remains to be seen.
4. Tracking my progress is something I should be doing even more than I do (through my monthly and weekly goals). When I see where I am compared to where I need to be, word-wise, it drives me to work harder toward those goals.
Any one else care to share?