NaNo Crisis 14/?
Nov. 23rd, 2010 05:55 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
peroxidepirateYeah, okay.
I know.
I'm the hell out of practice at writing original characters, so maybe I should not have started with an original character who's supposed to be straight? Given my propensity for writing a lot of (fem)slash for even canon!straight characters? No, I don't know why that seemed like a good idea.
But, okay. It's about rolling with the punches, right? I'm not turning it into a romance story or anything, so I suppose there's no reason the hopeful but ambiguous ending can't work just as well with Anna and Olivia as it would have with Olivia and Meredith. Anna was supposed to be like Luke Skywalker and not get involved in that sort of stuff (except possibly later, but in an effort not to panic completely, I can't think about later just now), and Meredith was not supposed to be such a flake. But Meredith is a flake, and Anna's just spent 4000 words hanging out with her and wishing she was with Olivia instead, and Olivia is jealous of Meredith, and I think I have to let this go this way.
Okay then.
ETA: 39,900 words.
Yes, I might possibly be able to stay up all night writing and hit 50k tonight. But it would be bad, bad, bad for both me and my novel to do it. Right?
I know.
I'm the hell out of practice at writing original characters, so maybe I should not have started with an original character who's supposed to be straight? Given my propensity for writing a lot of (fem)slash for even canon!straight characters? No, I don't know why that seemed like a good idea.
But, okay. It's about rolling with the punches, right? I'm not turning it into a romance story or anything, so I suppose there's no reason the hopeful but ambiguous ending can't work just as well with Anna and Olivia as it would have with Olivia and Meredith. Anna was supposed to be like Luke Skywalker and not get involved in that sort of stuff (except possibly later, but in an effort not to panic completely, I can't think about later just now), and Meredith was not supposed to be such a flake. But Meredith is a flake, and Anna's just spent 4000 words hanging out with her and wishing she was with Olivia instead, and Olivia is jealous of Meredith, and I think I have to let this go this way.
Okay then.
ETA: 39,900 words.
Yes, I might possibly be able to stay up all night writing and hit 50k tonight. But it would be bad, bad, bad for both me and my novel to do it. Right?
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Date: 2010-11-24 01:52 am (UTC)As you said to me: don't force it. Unless you really can and want to pour out that much (by which, if so, my jaw will be permanently attached to the ground).
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Date: 2010-11-24 02:45 am (UTC)Yeah, I just got overexcited when I realized how close I am. An informal chat poll last week, plus talking to my overachieving saati, convinced me that 10-12k in a day is totally doable. Though maybe not on a day I start writing at 3 p.m.
So I stalled out at 40,600 just now -- which still means this was a 4,100 word day, which is nothing to sneeze at. The first 3000 came so easily, though, I was like, "hey, I can just keep going forever!" Only it doesn't work like that. And that's okay. :)
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Date: 2010-11-24 08:34 am (UTC)