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Well, of course, it doesn’t.
However, writing after rejection kicks ass because I’m having fun writing, even though I had all reasons to feel discouraged. Which means two things:
a) I am really writing because I like writing (which is cool, as it is a reason less dependent on others),
b) I am getting used to rejections (which is cool too, because that’s part of the job, especially for me, I guess).
So I wrote 500 words on the tram today, and it seems that lately I’ve been getting ~500 words on the tram all the time. Basically, I can write 2500 words a week while not overexerting myself and taking the weekends off. That means full-blown novel (80 K) in seven months, thus a novel a year (considering edits), and oh yes, I’m good at maths. The funny aspect being that if I ever get a driver’s licence and go to work by car, all this carefully laid-out plan to write, hmmm, 40 novels until I get retired, will go down the drain.
Also, I decided to pretty much wing the ending. I now have ~20 K to write, and I think I can’t mess up big time. It’s logical to plan in the beginning when a small mistake can create an avalanche effect, but now I think I cannot mess up the whole novel, I can mess up the ending only.
As far as I know myself, I’m more likely to mess up the ending by writing cautiously and reminding myself not to go over the board. That’s something that would be very hard to fix because editing is certainly not the time when I go wild and write something crazy and mindsweeping. So I’m writing crazy NOW and tune it down, if necessary, in edits.
That frees up a lot of time for NaNoWriMo planning as well as my usual doodling around.