Sunday six thoughts about my nano novel
Dec. 6th, 2020 06:46 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
marcicat1. Started doing a read-through yesterday, to at least check for anything easy to fix. (Any time I type on my phone I tend to end up with weird spacing.)
2. So far I've mostly fixed Daqing's name and the aforementioned weird spacing, as well as one point where I wrote "always" but very clearly meant "not always."
3. I'm almost halfway through -- the first 5000 words were pretty interesting! Way to go, me of November 1-3! I dozed off a bit reading Section 2, but that's very common for me when I re-read my own writing.
4. “We can’t join the Alliance yet; we have to go to the moon first.” WOW I had sort of mostly forgotten about the moon trip! That's the 20,000s for you.
5. Did I write multiple conversations into this story just to set up overly subtle joke references to the show? Yes, yes I did.
6. It turns out I mostly wanted to write about people talking with each other, and I didn't feel like figuring out the details of a plot, so the whole story is basically: things happen (off-screen); people talk about them, but never explain exactly what happened or why. Since that's pretty common for my nano novels, at this point I'm just going to go ahead and call that a 'stylistic choice,' which sounds much better than 'I didn't feel like writing that part.'
2. So far I've mostly fixed Daqing's name and the aforementioned weird spacing, as well as one point where I wrote "always" but very clearly meant "not always."
3. I'm almost halfway through -- the first 5000 words were pretty interesting! Way to go, me of November 1-3! I dozed off a bit reading Section 2, but that's very common for me when I re-read my own writing.
4. “We can’t join the Alliance yet; we have to go to the moon first.” WOW I had sort of mostly forgotten about the moon trip! That's the 20,000s for you.
5. Did I write multiple conversations into this story just to set up overly subtle joke references to the show? Yes, yes I did.
6. It turns out I mostly wanted to write about people talking with each other, and I didn't feel like figuring out the details of a plot, so the whole story is basically: things happen (off-screen); people talk about them, but never explain exactly what happened or why. Since that's pretty common for my nano novels, at this point I'm just going to go ahead and call that a 'stylistic choice,' which sounds much better than 'I didn't feel like writing that part.'
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Date: 2020-12-06 07:57 pm (UTC)Hee!