Yesterday, I did a quick math about how much would I be able to accomplish if I worked slowly/fast/very fast over several years, played with my speed and varied the planning, writing and editing lengths and frequency to figure out how would I accomplish more without burning out. As a result, I got two years [...]
On January I had one false start on Virgin. I got the protagonist wrong–she was one of those whiny creatures thinking that all the society had wronged her; and even though she was right, I hated her. So I stopped to regroup and figured out the right start in the last quarter in January. The [...]
Everybody must have some resolution, right? Well, mine isn’t really a resolution, it’s a not-too-ambitious plan of what I could accomplish without driving myself nuts (either with burn-out or lazy-crap-writer syndrome that kicks in whenever I don’t write much).
1. Edit Vega to the final, query-able version. (That’ll be the hardest, but I believe that with [...]
So, I’m going to write a novel during NaNoWriMo. (Who isn’t?)
Also, I’m trying to plan my future somewhat (more a cold-shower exercise, not a snuggles-and-dreams one).
One thing that I’ve been avoiding is marking down “then, I’ll edit my NaNoWriMo novel to completion” point. The reasons are obvious: if I write something in that ungodly speed [...]