day 12: 20,000
Nov. 12th, 2022 10:25 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
marcicatI generally don't find advice about nanowrimo to be all that applicable, but I do find it interesting to hear about how other people do things, so here's my Official Three Step Writing Strategy (TM) for nanowrimo 2022:
*I work on writing multiple scenes at once. Usually three, sometimes four. This is the real reason why my stories have chapter headings; it makes it easier to break the scenes up so I can keep track of them.
*I write whatever random bits of conversation or explanation I think would be funny or work in the scene first, and then I start piecing them together.
*Once I get around a thousand words, the scene is done.
Doing it this way helps me not stop writing when I get bogged down about what should happen next in a scene. I can go to a different scene and write some words in that one instead! It's like having the nano procrastination urge (anything sounds more fun than working on nano), but tricking my brain into having the 'anything' actually ALSO be nano.
This absolutely means that my stories have choppy transitions and limited explanation of what's going on, but consider this: if you do it often enough, it's not a mistake, it's an ~aesthetic~.
*I work on writing multiple scenes at once. Usually three, sometimes four. This is the real reason why my stories have chapter headings; it makes it easier to break the scenes up so I can keep track of them.
*I write whatever random bits of conversation or explanation I think would be funny or work in the scene first, and then I start piecing them together.
*Once I get around a thousand words, the scene is done.
Doing it this way helps me not stop writing when I get bogged down about what should happen next in a scene. I can go to a different scene and write some words in that one instead! It's like having the nano procrastination urge (anything sounds more fun than working on nano), but tricking my brain into having the 'anything' actually ALSO be nano.
This absolutely means that my stories have choppy transitions and limited explanation of what's going on, but consider this: if you do it often enough, it's not a mistake, it's an ~aesthetic~.
