Quote from a fellow
Bettendorf Public Library Write-in writer/participant: You have to let yourself write badly.
That goes along with turning
off your internal editor.
Well, I’ve had many good days
of writing badly and last Wednesday I got my tally is up to 25,000 words. Still
short by one day, but so much closer to the needed average than I was before I
came to the Write-in.
Big Plus: I’m half way to
50,000 words and I get another nifty little badge for my NaNoWriMo home page.
All those little incentives
do help out.
·
I like watching
my word count go up.
·
I like the daily
count turn green when I reach the target number of 1667 words.
·
I like the upward
slope of the bar graph.
·
I’m ecstatic if
my completion date is in Nov. instead of Dec.
Wish I had those graphics
available all year round. It all helps keep me going.
I’ve read a couple of pep
talks all ready. I’ll get the others soon.
I’m busy writing EVERY DAY SO
FAR.
I read and loved Maggie Stiefvater's pep talk on doing the impossible: fighting TIME.
ReplyDelete1. Know the project.
2. Never sit at the computer without knowing what needs to be written.
3. Unwind each day with 30 minutes of reading.
4. [use brackets to insert the needed scenes.]
5. Move forward & backward.
6. Ignore word count. Plot-first.