Post-November Blues
Dec. 3rd, 2007 07:07 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
megwritesNow that it's December, and I have my life back from NaNoWriMo, I'm still wondering if I should finish up the project I was writing or start on a new one that's gathered in my head and demands to be written.
Of course, there are still many revisions of Tower!Guy novel that needs to be done, and as![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
lagringa said, the story needs shaping. And now that I'm a few projects removed from it, I think I can finally go back and look at it with some objectivity.
You know how they say that you need to leave a finished project in a drawer for about a month or so to give yourself fresh eyes? I don't need time, just something to distract me long enough for me to forget. The thing is, when you're writing, you make all these internal notes and have all these ideas that become "canon" for the story, and you read using that lens.
When the lens goes away, you see the story in a truer way.
So I've had time now to wipe off the whiteboard and make new notes on a different project.
Not to mention that some of my latest genre reads have been really fantastic, both from a writing and reading stand point, especially now that I'm making an effort to seek out and read some works that are recent and have garnered a lot of praise from sources I respect. I'm paying close attention to some of the things I enjoy most about those works, and thinking about how they were done, and how I can incorporate the principles of those things into my writing.
I think maybe revisions this time. Frankly, I'm a bit burned out. My final wordcount for November - the one on the file, not on the Nano site - turned out to be 90k. That's a 3000 a day word pace for a month. Whew.
Plus, I wanted to have revisions done or at least very much underway by the new year. Because 2008's resolution (amongst the others of lose weight, etc, etc) is this: submit something. Actually, it's: submit something and have a box of kleenex nearby for the inevitable rejection that will cause you great heartache, but then have a good cry and keep going.
Of course, there are still many revisions of Tower!Guy novel that needs to be done, and as
lagringa said, the story needs shaping. And now that I'm a few projects removed from it, I think I can finally go back and look at it with some objectivity. You know how they say that you need to leave a finished project in a drawer for about a month or so to give yourself fresh eyes? I don't need time, just something to distract me long enough for me to forget. The thing is, when you're writing, you make all these internal notes and have all these ideas that become "canon" for the story, and you read using that lens.
When the lens goes away, you see the story in a truer way.
So I've had time now to wipe off the whiteboard and make new notes on a different project.
Not to mention that some of my latest genre reads have been really fantastic, both from a writing and reading stand point, especially now that I'm making an effort to seek out and read some works that are recent and have garnered a lot of praise from sources I respect. I'm paying close attention to some of the things I enjoy most about those works, and thinking about how they were done, and how I can incorporate the principles of those things into my writing.
I think maybe revisions this time. Frankly, I'm a bit burned out. My final wordcount for November - the one on the file, not on the Nano site - turned out to be 90k. That's a 3000 a day word pace for a month. Whew.
Plus, I wanted to have revisions done or at least very much underway by the new year. Because 2008's resolution (amongst the others of lose weight, etc, etc) is this: submit something. Actually, it's: submit something and have a box of kleenex nearby for the inevitable rejection that will cause you great heartache, but then have a good cry and keep going.
