NaNoWriMo: D-U-N. Done.

[dawn_felagund]

Since a picture is worth a thousand words ...



So clearly, I finished NaNoWriMo today ... well, at least in terms of word count. The story is naturally nowhere near being finished, although I think it might actually be about as close to being finished as the Midhavens story that I work on for two NaNos in a row. But anyway.

That said, I would like to point out that muses are ridiculous, stupid, and annoying bastards. Sound harsh? Damn right it is. For three weeks now, working on my NaNo has been a trial. This wasn't an easy year. The story did not want to be written, and I had to force out every word. I've been pushing myself because I got so many awesome prompts for my thanksgiving/holiday stories, so I wanted to be done with the NaNo to get started on those. After that, I will (hopefully) be finishing the Midhavens novel that's now been in the works for more than two years now.

So it figures that over the past couple of days, the story has started to work for me. Not really a dilemma, you think? Yeah, but why couldn't it have worked when I had time set aside to write five- or six-thousand-word days? Now that I have other projects that I need to work on, the stupid muses decide, "Yeah, we'd like to continue with this one, if you don't mind, Author."

Well, I hate to be blunt, muses. Too fucking bad. Starting tomorrow, you are writing your thanksgiving/holiday prompts, and you're going to like it.

(Actually, even as the NaNo started to really work for me, I am still looking forward to this project even an eensy bit more. The novel will be around come January and February when I'm depressed and usually unproductive and would like to accomplish something this year aside from much LJ whining.)

Sometime in the next few days, I'll try to make a graph and do my NaNo conclusions.

Comments

[dawn_felagund]

Oh, I think that you have a good excuse for not having finished ... or started. ;) (Though I know you've started and finished at least one by now!)

But like we've said in email, you and I write in pretty much exactly opposite ways. I am definitely a high-volume writer; my first year in NaNo (with very few RL distractions and very little work at work too), I finished in two weeks, which one house, two active dogs, and a now-busy job later seems pretty incredible, even to me.

[heartofoshun.livejournal.com]

Ah, yes, with a lot of help from you, I finished one of them. The other is on track, due to massive incompetence on my part. I thought it was due this past weekend, when actually it’s due the end of this week and, therefore, I'm OK. It is 3/4 written. (Reminds me of how I always used to tell my father-in-law, who drove us to airport when we lived in Mexico, that our flight left an hour earlier than it really did--that way we had a real chance of making it! Wish I could that with myself more often.) Thanks again for doing even more extensive copy checking than usual on my piece for the SWG today.