lolz...im so behind

I am! At almost 17k words right now, going to add another 2 or 3k to that today. :)

You should buddy me. :| I'm DanWalker there.

I did so! Siscilym for me. :)

I always feel that Nanowrimo puts too much pressure on writers... forced creativity can be a terrible thing. Plus, I wrote more than 30k words in two days last week, and that was before I even realised it was NaNoWriMo. :D I'd far rather work at my own pace.

Still, I do understand that it does provide some folks motivation, and I'm all for that! The fandom needs more productive writers.

The nice thing about forced creativity is it gets you used to the act of writing. I never, even when I'm thoroughly invested and excited about a project, write every single day. The point of NaNo is to cast off worries about things like 'being creative' and 'writing well' and just WRITING. It's useful. :D It also makes for lots of crappy writing, but that's what editing is for.

Agreed to an extent, but there then comes a point where a story can be beyond editing. I used to put in a page every day on my novel that I'm still working on... one I started a year and a half ago... and man, I am seriously feeling the pain from some parts. In spite of the crunch, come parts are good, some are bad, some are plain old atrocious. The latter are often not reparable.

But actually, NaNoWriMo is not truly forced. Winning the competition involves so much pre-planning and doing EVERYTHING except writing the novel prior to November. Outlines and story summaries are composed by some people throughout the year, so when Nov. rolls around they shoot off like a rocket and can easily finish without any real time crunch... considering they had the time to plan, surely they have the time to write. (Even if not, "no time" is a doodoo excuse :P )

*some. See, now some good proof reading skills might help me too.

That was a good essay. I was just starting to figure all that stuff out myself, actually.

And I do have a wordcount. It's just not for NaNo, and it doesn't necessarily mean anything, because editing isn't a straight-laced job. I keep going backwards and changing things around.
This is way harder than doing NaNo, honestly. Editing takes much, much longer than writing a rough draft. Which means I shouldn't be putting it off by readings journals on FA and writing responses to them.
I'm re-writing a chapter that I thought was unnecessary, and now I'm wondering if my re-write might not also be unnecessary. It's supposed to be sort of a dramatic pause chapter, skipping away from the main story to show something else, to keep up the tension. But I don't really know what to put in it anymore, so I might just kill it and move on. But I had a good idea what to use it for last night, but now I can't figure out how to implement it.
Ugh. Fuck.

*dances around to the song: I got got got no time... no time... not time... not time... not timeeeeee...

*hugs...

V.