So – you may be wondering how I have been since the end of NaNoWriMo – and how I went?
Well – technically I failed. I didn’t make my 50k for the month. However, I did write 45k, and that I am proud of. It was a strange November for me. I managed to get a new Evil Day Job, and started that, as well as some cover design work. So I spent a fair bit of time doing cover mock-ups, and going through interviews and trying to settle into a new job. It was a weird month. Usually I love doing NaNoWriMo each year – but this year it was hard to try and juggle so many different facets of life.
And I’m still in that mode of trying to juggle writing the end of this book, which I estimate to be about another 20k, work full time, be mummy, and do cover design work. I guess I need to fall into a better routine, and get myself sorted out.
My Dark-Horse-Writing-Buddy, Richard did a great post on how he felt about NaNo 2013, and he asked me to contribute a little about how I felt and went for the month. You can read it over at Punk Killed Disco.
Will I ever do NaNo again? Probably. But right now I do need a bit of a break. I don’t want my writing to suffer from the whole ‘Words for Word’s Sake’ pressure that NaNo puts on me. I want to write decent quality books, and not something that it going to need serious serious revision and editing, all because I was writing crap to get my word-count up. While a lot of the time NaNoWriMo Words often have nuggets of gold in them that you never would have considered if you were writing like a normal person… this time round though, my biggest goal was to do this storyline some serious justice. I need to. It’s a great story – but I need it to be a seriously awesome book. And to do that – I need to go at my own pace, and not feel too pressured.
So – I guess that’s my debrief. Head over to Richard’s blog and have a read. In the meantime, I’ll be doing cover designs, and trying to get the end of this book wrapped up before Christmas.
Here’s a great post on 13 Ugly Truths About Nanowrimo, which I found rather entertaining. I can honestly say that they are all relevant.