{"id":3532,"date":"2018-11-08T22:19:56","date_gmt":"2018-11-09T03:19:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/juliesondradecker.com\/?p=3532"},"modified":"2020-11-10T00:22:48","modified_gmt":"2020-11-10T05:22:48","slug":"my-first-week-of-nano","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/juliesondradecker.com\/?p=3532","title":{"rendered":"My first week of NaNo"},"content":{"rendered":"

National Novel Writing Month is going well for me. I wasn’t sure if it was going to. I have so much going on during November, and this is maybe the busiest November I’ve had yet. I basically kicked all this off doing some of my writing on the dang airplane because I didn’t have time to do it any other time.<\/p>\n

What’s really interesting about NaNoWriMo for me is that the pacing gives me an excuse to\u00a0stop<\/i>.<\/p>\n

I’m such a binge writer. When I get into things I just get absorbed and want to finish, and I sacrifice a lot of sleep and attention to do so.<\/p>\n

NaNo is supposed to press people into short-term sustainable writing patterns to get them writing, push them to turn off the inner editor, incentivize them to write\u00a0something\u00a0<\/i>so they get some practice and have something to sculpt later if they like what comes out. I haven’t historically had those problems, but the problem I do have is that I know how much writing takes out of me and I have been reluctant to start a project because I’m already overwhelmed and stressed.<\/p>\n

But if I write a little bit each day and pace myself, and keep an eye on the word count, and stop when I’m around the goal, I don’t have to make huge adjustments to the rest of my life just to write a book in a relatively short amount of time.<\/p>\n

It’s neat.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n
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Observations about my book so far:<\/b><\/p>\n

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  • The word count on Day 8 is 14,001.<\/li>\n
  • I think this is my first third-person novel.<\/li>\n
  • This is a science fiction story set in the distant future. The worldbuilding for it is very quiet, and I’m worrying that the reveals are a little too as-you-know-bob.<\/li>\n
  • Lots of dialogue.<\/li>\n
  • It’s more romantic than I thought it would be–the romance is front and center, and early.<\/li>\n
  • I got the main characters to kiss. It took me 12,798 words to get there.<\/li>\n
  • I’m not good at naming alien places. Who names a continent “Dry Lace”?<\/li>\n
  • I am obsessed with\u00a0Steven Universe<\/i>, which has a lot of space lesbians in it. I am also\u00a0writing about lesbians in space. And yet, it is nothing like\u00a0Steven Universe<\/i>.<\/li>\n
  • However, I think I’ve learned more about slow reveals for worldbuilding and character history from watching that show.<\/li>\n
  • I’m reusing concepts and names from the short story I’m basing this book on. The short story was written almost 20 years ago. I’m not sure why I feel a loyalty to the names even though I’ve changed a lot of the specifics of their lives.<\/li>\n
  • I cut and pasted a tiny bit of the original text into an interlude and I didn’t like the flavor, so I won’t do it again.<\/li>\n
  • I like the book so far but I’m not super excited about it. Maybe it will totally surprise me soon.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

    National Novel Writing Month is going well for me. I wasn’t sure if it was going to. I have so much going on during November, and this is maybe the busiest November I’ve had yet. I basically kicked all this off doing some of my writing on the dang airplane because I didn’t have time […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36,44,5,6],"tags":[49,50],"class_list":["post-3532","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog","category-contests-2","category-news","category-novels","tag-in-bloom","tag-nanowrimo"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/juliesondradecker.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3532","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/juliesondradecker.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/juliesondradecker.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/juliesondradecker.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/juliesondradecker.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3532"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/juliesondradecker.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3532\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3533,"href":"https:\/\/juliesondradecker.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3532\/revisions\/3533"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/juliesondradecker.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3532"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/juliesondradecker.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3532"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/juliesondradecker.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3532"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}