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2008-11-14 02:09As I said previously, I am feeling like taking a small break from writing to ensure my class work gets done. I know I will soon grow restless if I am not writing but I am also feeling tired lately and it seems like it would be nice to stop pushing myself on writing for a bit.
My enthusiasm for the project I was going to tackle next has waned a bit since last month. I am not quite eager to start working on it immediately, in part because I do not see when to stop and move on to something else. I suspect I will start work on it soon, once I have a bit of a break and some time to think about it again.
Yes, this means I finished the first draft of Epic Fantasy. It was surprisingly anticlimactic and surprisingly lightening to do; "that's it?" blended with "it's done!" I also feel a bit bad for killing off a character. It was someone who by the rules of the story was never meant to survive and yet, yes, I do feel a little lousy for actually writing it.
I'm tired. I think this is all the articulation I can manage now. Let's have some numbers to finish.
Epic Fantasy Pt3 (since yesterday)
Unfortunately the meter will not work if I tell it to give me a 'finished' graph or match my desired total to my present total.
As for how much of the story I have done since resuming writing in October:
Epic Fantasy
Just pretend it says 'Finished!'
A couple of days ago I poked around a bit at definitions, wanting to see if this story of mine qualifies as novelette or novella and whereabouts the lines are. I was stunned to discover the line is at 40,000 words and therefore at 46,945 words what I have written is in fact a novel. This is part of my disinterest with repeating NaNoWriMo more 'properly' next time - having written one novel-length work, writing another does not seem an appealing goal in itself. I would rather focus on writing something as good or interesting as I can manage.
This is just a first draft. After a month or so working on other projects I intend to go back and substantially edit Epic Fantasy. It may get significantly longer or shorter depending what happens. Certainly there is plenty I would want to cut out or express more succinctly; plenty of room for it to slip back over the line to novella.
It amuses me that I started out wanting to write a set of three short stories and ended up writing a novel. Fitting, since one of the common features of the epic fantasies I intended these stories to encapsulate is 'growing in the telling' and ending up as vastly expanded volumes or numbers of volumes. Amuses me, too, that counting strictly by length parts 1 and 3 are themselves novelettes while part 2 is a novella itself. I think that is mostly amusing because, taken alone, any of the three parts would be one of the largest writing accomplishments of my life.
I don't think it is very good, but it has been fun. I hope with some editing it can be improved enough to show to some people, but Epic Fantasy is always going to be 'fun' rather than 'good'.
And now I need to sleeeeep.
My enthusiasm for the project I was going to tackle next has waned a bit since last month. I am not quite eager to start working on it immediately, in part because I do not see when to stop and move on to something else. I suspect I will start work on it soon, once I have a bit of a break and some time to think about it again.
Yes, this means I finished the first draft of Epic Fantasy. It was surprisingly anticlimactic and surprisingly lightening to do; "that's it?" blended with "it's done!" I also feel a bit bad for killing off a character. It was someone who by the rules of the story was never meant to survive and yet, yes, I do feel a little lousy for actually writing it.
I'm tired. I think this is all the articulation I can manage now. Let's have some numbers to finish.
Epic Fantasy Pt3 (since yesterday)
| |
12,243 + 978 (8.0% more) |
Unfortunately the meter will not work if I tell it to give me a 'finished' graph or match my desired total to my present total.
As for how much of the story I have done since resuming writing in October:
Epic Fantasy
| |
33,782 + 13,163 (39.0% more) |
Just pretend it says 'Finished!'
A couple of days ago I poked around a bit at definitions, wanting to see if this story of mine qualifies as novelette or novella and whereabouts the lines are. I was stunned to discover the line is at 40,000 words and therefore at 46,945 words what I have written is in fact a novel. This is part of my disinterest with repeating NaNoWriMo more 'properly' next time - having written one novel-length work, writing another does not seem an appealing goal in itself. I would rather focus on writing something as good or interesting as I can manage.
This is just a first draft. After a month or so working on other projects I intend to go back and substantially edit Epic Fantasy. It may get significantly longer or shorter depending what happens. Certainly there is plenty I would want to cut out or express more succinctly; plenty of room for it to slip back over the line to novella.
It amuses me that I started out wanting to write a set of three short stories and ended up writing a novel. Fitting, since one of the common features of the epic fantasies I intended these stories to encapsulate is 'growing in the telling' and ending up as vastly expanded volumes or numbers of volumes. Amuses me, too, that counting strictly by length parts 1 and 3 are themselves novelettes while part 2 is a novella itself. I think that is mostly amusing because, taken alone, any of the three parts would be one of the largest writing accomplishments of my life.
I don't think it is very good, but it has been fun. I hope with some editing it can be improved enough to show to some people, but Epic Fantasy is always going to be 'fun' rather than 'good'.
And now I need to sleeeeep.
