Dec 17 2007
The Devil’s Playground: Reached My Word Count
Yippie! Following the method I used when participating in NaNoWriMo, where I allowed the characters to take over, I reached my goal of 5,000 words. It’s amazing what happens when one doesn’t over think and simply trusts the writing process.
Me: I wrote 5,000 words this week.
Friend: How many are good words?
Me: What?
Friend: Out of the 5,000 words how many are good?
Me: I don’t know. That’s not the point.
Friend: Well, if you wrote 5,000 crap words then you haven’t made progress with your novel.
Me: It doesn’t work like that. This is a first draft. Many things will change during the rewrite process. I may have to delete a well-written scene because it won’t work. On the other end of the spectrum, a scene may need polishing, but it will make the cut.
Friend: hmmm…so everything you have written so far may be crap.
Me: What?
Friend: You’re writing crap.
Me: I guess I am.
[…] an IM conversation I had with a friend of mine (the one that says I’m writing crap): Friend: hey Me: hey Friend: whats u doin’ Me: not much…writing Friend: how’s it going […]
It is not crap. First drafts are not crap. I need to do this. I don’t understand all the blog games played, MOJOBO something, see it, no idea where they ae going. Who starts this stuff anyway?
is good.
But writing every day, even free-range
Yes, writing every day is good. Some agrue it’s essential.