Today, in Poor Decisions:

[soc_puppet]

Okay, I've done it. I've signed up.

I am now Socchan at NaNoWriMo.org.

...I have no idea what I'm doing! 8Dbb Someone hold my hand please.


Since I'm planning to write by hand, I guess getting a good words-per-page estimate would be a good idea? And/or finding someone to help me count words ._.a I'll scan the damn pages if I have to! ...Alternately, I will work with the estimate, and aim to be finished on the twenty-fifth, so I can have a good five days to type it up.

I'll also be researching the heck out of things like chronic pain. And stuff. Oh, and purchasing drinks with caffeine. Lots of them.



Clearly, my birthday being on the last day of November is divine will, as being done with NaNo will likely be the most wonderful present ever.

Comments

[pellucere.livejournal.com]

Oh, man, good luck! I wish I could do NaNo too this year ):

I found it easiest to aim for a solid 2000 words a day -- it's a nice round number, it's big enough to give you a solid sense of accomplishment but it's small enough to manage, and it gives you those five spare days to type it up. And yeah, if you'll be writing by hand, then you should do the thing where you write a few lines, count the words, divide by number of lines, then divide 50,000 by that number to see how many lines you need to write. Don't stress if you don't do exactly your required amount each day, because sometimes you'll be on a high and doing twice your required amount, and some days it'll be a slog just to get through two-thirds of it. It evens itself out over the course of the month.

Get down at least a basic chapter-by-chapter outline for the plot, but know that it's not the end of the world if you deviate from it -- sometimes stories just morph on you. What I did was sort the plot/subplots into exactly twenty-five sections on the outline, so that I could write a chapter a day and not have to worry too much about picking up again in the middle of a scene. Maybe that would work for you?

[soc_puppet]

T-thanks ^^b

That's about what I was planning to aim for; I did the math to account for the five typing days, and there's nothing wrong with finishing early ;) ...I guess this is a more literal example of a word problem? *ba-dum ching!*

Hmmm, that might require a bit of stretching - which only suggests that my idea wasn't necessarily long enough in the first place. Maybe I'll "pad" it with some short-stories-in-the-same-universe.