Author: Kyrce

I have to admit, this year’s NaNo has really suffered from my lack of bandwidth.

Going to the writein was far more helpful than I would have expected–not only did I write over 2k words at the write-in, it reminded me that if i just time myself and focus on spelling later, well, i can get a lot done.

In the end it is important to remember (at least for me) that… well I’m going to agonize over word choice at some point. Because that’s what I do. I didn’t write poetry for years for no reason at all.

But I don’t have to agonize over word choice at the beginning.

This is a story. Tell their story.

Agonize later.

Been enjoying writing but struggling to fit time in. A couple new things this year:

– scenes are set up at five per chapter, each scene at 1000 word goal.
– as it’s a fantasy novella, I’ve added a section where I can write short (about 500 words) myths legends and fairy tales. These will not only be helpful for the story itself, but as they’re outside the narrative flow I can write them when I don’t have access to my scrivener files.

As one of about sixteen people in all of Montclair who did not lose power… well, I’m lucky. Also, I do wish I could have started oh say a week early?

But NaNo has started, and even though I was out much of the weekend I did manage to not get too far behind (even if i’m not ahead).

Managed to figure out a way to approach the fantasy series without boring myself. Problem: this is set up as a novella series. Which means that 50k is on the high side. Still I feel like doing two at 25k is a bit slow. I’ll have to see how it goes.

Heck if I do 35k of story and 15k of world building to be excised later I think I’ll be doing good.

This one even has a working title!