tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1111229284977476511.post713884278161380527..comments2023-07-02T01:18:22.626-07:00Comments on The WriteRunner: NaNoWriMo 2010 Post-MortemAndrew Rosenberghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09215333688753781447noreply@blogger.comBlogger8125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1111229284977476511.post-79978024825625915152010-11-29T10:39:22.112-08:002010-11-29T10:39:22.112-08:00Congrats on the win and the finish! I'm only h...Congrats on the win and the finish! I'm only half way to 2/3rds through mine, so I'll have to keep chugging along to finish this draft. Now that I've hit 50K though I can take it slower.<br><br>I think I have the same problem with my villains. We'll both have to work on that. As for the telling, I see how that's a problem. I noticed I wrote slower this year because I tried to keep showing so I don't have to re-write as much later. <br><br>Telling is definitely faster though. There are spots I had to just tell to keep the ideas flowing, but when I could I tried to make sure I didn't just tell.Charity Bradfordhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01960821077619680661noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1111229284977476511.post-71623545162526714442010-11-29T10:55:45.452-08:002010-11-29T10:55:45.452-08:00Congrats! I learned the same lesson with SteamCon,...Congrats! I learned the same lesson with SteamCon, and Harry Potter premier the same weekend, and visiting friends, and Thanksgiving the next week. I took a two week break now I need to finish five chapters by the end of the month! (tomorrow.)<br><br>My favorite bullet point of your is the "lack of villainy". Got to have those evil baddies. A lot of the time I like them as much or better than the main character. They just add so much to a story, such depth!Vickie Motterhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15791034462866079818noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1111229284977476511.post-26918734734136846382010-11-29T12:43:05.961-08:002010-11-29T12:43:05.961-08:00Kudos on your Nano stick-to-it-ness and the win......Kudos on your Nano stick-to-it-ness and the win...good for you!<br><br>Your complaints actually hit home for me and I didn't even participate in Nano. The lack of villainy...why are diabolical plans so hard to concoct? Am I too sane?<br><br>Glad that the Steam Con thing went well. Networking is a definite plus.<br><br>Good job.<br><b><a href="http://nitewriter6.blogspot.com/" rel="nofollow">Edge of Your Seat Romance</a></b>Raquel Byrneshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12870113745683162915noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1111229284977476511.post-63250362731433100532010-11-29T12:49:37.989-08:002010-11-29T12:49:37.989-08:00Don't hate it yet! It may be a brilliant piece...Don't hate it yet! It may be a brilliant piece. Let it rest if you want to kill it, maybe put it through a quick beta (send it my way I'll look through it), but don't delete ad hoc, don't delete angry.<br><br>Congrats on getting some writing done. You make a great point that my deserve a blog post of its own and it's this: Moving from EDIT to WRITE mode.<br><br>You said you had a hard time making that transition, and ain't that the truth. It's hard to do both at once. Maybe that's the finer point to my post today about writing forward -- turning off your inner editor so you can just WRITE.<br><br> - EricEric W. Tranthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13842968931062056407noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1111229284977476511.post-32464914477175521252010-11-29T21:22:59.470-08:002010-11-29T21:22:59.470-08:00See, you're already back into edit mode. And ...See, you're already back into edit mode. And you have a completed first draft - or outline if you prefer to call it that. You already know what you need to work on.<br><br>Not editing during the writing phase was probably the most difficult part of the development. But you did it, finished it. Give yourself a break Andrew. And give your novel a break too. I like all the Kudos you gave yourself :) Well deserved.<br><br>I hope you feel better soon. Good luck with the upcoming conferences.<br><br>........dholeDonna Holehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08715849844092553699noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1111229284977476511.post-58522469038901264082010-11-30T08:10:24.236-08:002010-11-30T08:10:24.236-08:00Great post. Very honest. I sort of felt the same w...Great post. Very honest. I sort of felt the same way when I completed my first draft of my first novel - I just wrote and wrote and wrote (based on time and word count) but then the rewriting took years! Now I don't participate in NaNoWriMo, because for me I've learned that going slower at first actually gives me better time overall (writing a novel is like a marathan- you know) Congrats for finishing though!Diana Orgainhttp://profile.typepad.com/6p0133ecd91104970bnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1111229284977476511.post-29154743061640616082010-11-30T08:58:36.560-08:002010-11-30T08:58:36.560-08:00@Charity: Keep going! Congrats on the 50k! They sa...@Charity: Keep going! Congrats on the 50k! They say the hero is only as good as the hero he faces, so that's something I need to work on.<br><br>@Vickie: Ditto. Maybe I should write a story based around a villain. I actually have one in the works called "The Immortals" where the main villain is an all-powerful deity-like evil person. <br><br>@Raquel: Thanks! Must...be...more...evil<br><br>@Eric: I wouldn't want to torture you like that :)<br>I didn't really turn off the inner editor, I just ignored it for a while in the effort to get words on the page. <br><br>@Donna: Editor never left ;). Will put it down for a while. I'm already working on a new idea.<br><br>@Diana: I will be writing draft outside of NaNo the "right" way, but I think NaNo does have it's place.Andrew Rosenberghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09215333688753781447noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1111229284977476511.post-10403545174758683092010-11-30T13:01:07.150-08:002010-11-30T13:01:07.150-08:00Congrats! Finishing is always awesome and walking...Congrats! Finishing is always awesome and walking away with so much usable stuff is great.catwoodshttp://catwoods.wordpress.com/noreply@blogger.com