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not a NaNoWriMo post
Nov. 1st, 2011 07:33 pmThe Mob got convinced to do NaNoWriMo this year by her girlfriend. The fact that I am not the only one with a novel outline up on the wall in notecards makes me happy.
My goal of revising A Returning Power by the end of 2011 still stands. The problem is that I have never really revised a novel before, and ARP is the first one I've even rewritten (from loose-first-draft stage).
So I'm trying to take inspiration from the NaNoWriMo mood around me, to let that push me into working on the novel. We'll see how it goes--I may end up posting updates here, just to keep track. (Today I took my printed-out outline of the current draft and scribbled on it with arrows to show what Shannon's motivations were at which points.)
The problem with having lots of classes, etc., is that none of the revisions I want to make are linear, I-must-change-this-word-to-that. I have a section I need to rethink, but apart from that, everything seems nebulously "I need to add this general vague idea across the length of the novel". Which probably is better served by just sitting down with a computer and changing a bit here, a bit there, some more over here.
At any rate. If I go do physics homework now, maybe I'll emerge before I have to go to bed and I can start working on ARP? Fingers crossed.
My goal of revising A Returning Power by the end of 2011 still stands. The problem is that I have never really revised a novel before, and ARP is the first one I've even rewritten (from loose-first-draft stage).
So I'm trying to take inspiration from the NaNoWriMo mood around me, to let that push me into working on the novel. We'll see how it goes--I may end up posting updates here, just to keep track. (Today I took my printed-out outline of the current draft and scribbled on it with arrows to show what Shannon's motivations were at which points.)
The problem with having lots of classes, etc., is that none of the revisions I want to make are linear, I-must-change-this-word-to-that. I have a section I need to rethink, but apart from that, everything seems nebulously "I need to add this general vague idea across the length of the novel". Which probably is better served by just sitting down with a computer and changing a bit here, a bit there, some more over here.
At any rate. If I go do physics homework now, maybe I'll emerge before I have to go to bed and I can start working on ARP? Fingers crossed.