{"id":323,"date":"2013-11-06T20:33:46","date_gmt":"2013-11-06T18:33:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/suchwanderings.wordpress.com\/?p=323"},"modified":"2013-11-06T20:33:46","modified_gmt":"2013-11-06T18:33:46","slug":"nanowrimo-this-feels-different","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/snuu.kapsi.fi\/saranorja\/2013\/11\/06\/nanowrimo-this-feels-different\/","title":{"rendered":"Nanowrimo: This feels different"},"content":{"rendered":"

It’s really weird not to be writing a feverish 50K this November. But I still think it’s a good decision to forgo a new zero draft this year – there’s so much work to do with Dim Vanities<\/em>. Also, I’ve had a bit of a cold and am insanely tired, so yeah. Being merciful to myself and setting lower goals is a good thing. From previous years, I know I can <\/em>do Nanowrimo ‘properly’ even when stressed out; so I don’t have anything to prove to myself in that sense. <\/p>\n

So, what have I been doing, then? Well, during the weekend I worked on my story goals, organised my notes, and made a couple of spreadsheets to track my editing progress and my chapter outlines. I also started out simply going through the first draft, making comments and highlighting terrible words\/sentences. I’ve done 8 chapters out of 31. The going is slow – editing is way slower than actual writing. But I’m trudging along, at least, despite my lingering cold and aching neck. <\/p>\n

I’ve read a lot of advice on how to edit a novel, but I think it’s one of those things you learn best by just doing<\/em> it. I have no idea if Dim Vanities<\/em> will ever be good enough to even consider sending out somewhere, but in the meantime, this is an excellent exercise. I’m experimenting, finding out techniques that work for me. <\/p>\n

Who knows, this might even become a coherent, not-totally-plot-holey novel when I’m done. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

It’s really weird not to be writing a feverish 50K this November. But I still think it’s a good decision to forgo a new zero draft this year – there’s so much work to do with Dim Vanities. Also, I’ve had a bit of a cold and am insanely tired, so yeah. Being merciful to […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35,14,17,8,10,11],"tags":[39,9,12,15],"class_list":["post-323","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-discussion","category-dv","category-nanowrimo","category-novelling","category-personal-babble","category-revision","tag-discussing-the-craft","tag-novels","tag-writing","tag-zero-draft"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/snuu.kapsi.fi\/saranorja\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/323","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/snuu.kapsi.fi\/saranorja\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/snuu.kapsi.fi\/saranorja\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/snuu.kapsi.fi\/saranorja\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/snuu.kapsi.fi\/saranorja\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=323"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/snuu.kapsi.fi\/saranorja\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/323\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/snuu.kapsi.fi\/saranorja\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=323"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/snuu.kapsi.fi\/saranorja\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=323"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/snuu.kapsi.fi\/saranorja\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=323"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}