Word Count And Such
November 3rd 2009 11:05
By now to be on track you should be at 3, 333 if you're aiming for 50K. If you followed my suggestion and managed to write more than that on the first, that's great. I hope you still wrote yesterday, and that you intend to write today-because you never know when there will be an emergency and you'll really need those backup words you wrote on the first.
You probably won't be able to write as much on the weekdays as you will on the weekends, but aiming for a goal of 2, 000 words each day is a good idea. If you have to cut out certain activities like watching TV or surfing certain areas of the web to hit your desired word count, so be it. This is a self-challenge, and trust me, when you have that winner's certificate and the icons as well, you feel like you're at the top of the writing world.
Remember that you're not aiming to write a perfect novel, you're aiming to write a 50, 000 word (or more) first draft in the month of November. First drafts are never perfect. In fact, they often suck. Indeed, the novel I'm working on right now is a great story but my characters are going on tangents and rambling quite a bit; it happens from time to time.
So go ahead and give yourself permission to write crap. Go ahead and take some dares from the Nanowrimo forums and write something insane into your novel, something that doesn't make any sense whatsoever. Do it and do it with pride.
As for me, my word count is 20, 005 so I'm about where I want to be. I'm looking forward to this weekend, when I can write a nice 60K over the course of two days.
Don't worry if your word count never compares to mine-everyone finds different levels challenging in the writing world along with everything else. Even if you only wrote one sentence today, it's still better than nothing.
Conquering the blank page,
~Dianna
You probably won't be able to write as much on the weekdays as you will on the weekends, but aiming for a goal of 2, 000 words each day is a good idea. If you have to cut out certain activities like watching TV or surfing certain areas of the web to hit your desired word count, so be it. This is a self-challenge, and trust me, when you have that winner's certificate and the icons as well, you feel like you're at the top of the writing world.
Remember that you're not aiming to write a perfect novel, you're aiming to write a 50, 000 word (or more) first draft in the month of November. First drafts are never perfect. In fact, they often suck. Indeed, the novel I'm working on right now is a great story but my characters are going on tangents and rambling quite a bit; it happens from time to time.
So go ahead and give yourself permission to write crap. Go ahead and take some dares from the Nanowrimo forums and write something insane into your novel, something that doesn't make any sense whatsoever. Do it and do it with pride.
As for me, my word count is 20, 005 so I'm about where I want to be. I'm looking forward to this weekend, when I can write a nice 60K over the course of two days.
Don't worry if your word count never compares to mine-everyone finds different levels challenging in the writing world along with everything else. Even if you only wrote one sentence today, it's still better than nothing.
Conquering the blank page,
~Dianna
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I know people who are already over 60K... I can personally write up to 30Kish in a day, if I have the whole day to do it. I could write more, but I don't have the focus for that. I feel that I write as much as I can and however much that is, it's enough.
~Dianna