Monday, November 16, 2009

Embrace the NaNo. Be the NaNo.

So, how is NaNo going, you ask?

Super! Thanks for asking!

Seriously. The first week, I got 20K! The most I've ever gotten in a week. I'm now at 34,751 (according to the NaNo bots). The secret? The Alphasmart Neo, and not reading and/or editing over what I've written. The Irony! It's probably going to be the best thing I've written and I know it reads like a barely literate third-grader right now. But that's ok! I'm embracing the write, write, write, and polish, polish, polish later, later, later.

This is seriously freeing! I'm jamming between 2-3k a day and NOT stopping to read, to meddle, to try and make mah werds be all purteh - I'm just getting the story on the paper. Sorry. I don't think I'm makin' any sense, and this blog post is for crap - but I have a good story goin'!

Also - a shoutout to Wayne. You guys know Wayne. In case you didn't know, he's got an agent, who says he will soon have a publisher, a movie deal, and probably a harem-full of women following him around to try to get him to be their babeh daddeh. Suck up to him now, so you can say you knew him when.

6 comments:

  1. I'm all for embracing the non-editing as I write, that's how I normally function. If I edited as I worked I'd never get anything done.

    I'm glad things are going well.

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  2. You rock.

    That is not all.

    You also pwn.

    Adam

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  3. Jade - you are wise. I am also wise. we are now wise.

    Diana - yeah, right! Whoooo!

    Adam - you are on the list. The good list. :)
    luv
    bettielee

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  4. Good for you!

    Oh and Wayne has an agent? Cool.

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  5. T'anks Kath! Yes. We were celebrating in the derail thread. He did snoopy dances.

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