Close to halfway

I'm at 20,000 words already.  Things are moving along in my novel.  I'm doing my best to start wrapping up the threads that have been around since the first and the second novel.  It's causing me to hop between character POVs, and that's fine.  It's something that can't be helped, though for the most part I wanted to tell the story from the third woman's point of view.

I feel I'm being a bit obvious in parts of my story and I'll have to tone them down a bit on rewrite.  Don't want things to feel that obvious, but it's currently working for me because the story is moving forward.

I have been avoiding the NaNoWriMo forums, for the most part.  Honestly, I just find that reading about other people's struggles and stories to just be... boring.  They have stories that have extremely flat plots or characters that seem interesting but that's about the extent of their writing acumen.  I'm just not a group player when it comes to writing, I guess.  It's just a lot of posting and reading when I could just be thinking and writing my story.  Some people seem to be really prolific - here it is 11 days into NaNo and they are past 100k.  I don't think NaNo is really for them if they are able to bang out 100,000 words in 10 days.  They need an editor.  100,000 words is about 350 pages of writing, give or take.  That's quite a bit, and I feel that though I'm juggling a lot of plot threads, I'm leaving a lot out that I am not including.  My new research list is growing longer by the day.

Last year I went to a write-in.  It was not what I thought it would be, and I find that I do work best on my own.  I don't want to be distracted by other people talking about their stories.  The people I was with didn't do that, but I just didn't feel the need to go any more to feel like I'm writing a story.  It confirms my theory that I'm not a group writer.  I don't need a committee to tell me where to go in my plot.  I'll either figure it out myself, or change it all on rewrite.

Finally, I find that writing the final book to a trilogy really leaves you with a lot of material that you had skipped over in the first two books.  Heck, I think my second book is terrible and my first book, though better, skips a lot in order to race towards the preconceived ending.  Writing the end to a story is a great way to go back and fix the beginning and try to get the middle to bridge them.

I think I have 75,000 words in me this year.  Possibly 100,000, but I'm going to stick with a number that is realistic with my writing capacity and time.

Comments

[Allycatadventures.wordpress.com]

First, good on ya for NanoWriMo! That's impressive, from where I sit, and and commendable. Second, I totally hear ya on the forums and not being a group writer and all that. I'm not a group writer either ... I'm not a group anything! ... though I will admit to a passion for small writing circles of women (caveat: mitigated by their personalities/characters). I'm greatly distressed by people who claim they're writers and they're not and I can just imagine the many of that ilk populating NaNoWriMo. And the world!

[Ken]

Well I'm not a writer, but I know how to just put my nose to the grindstone, so to speak. I understand there are lots of people not like that out there. Of course my story can be just as boring to them, I'm sure.

When you start talking about gay zombie vampire, how plot bunnies are crapping all over the place, and how your characters are taking over your story, I just lose interest in having a reasonable discussion.

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I seem to remember that I met you, on the blogs, last year, around the time that you were writing your second book. You are now working on your third. What an amazing accomplishment. It sounds like you have learned a lot from the whole process. You could take the three you have written, take the best from all three, and have a book to publish or maybe even two!! Impressive. I hope that the words keep flowing for you!! I agree with you...I cannot imagine the forums where people talk about their struggles writing. How do they then also have time to write, lol. Keep up the good work!