As far as NaNoWriMo goes, I had a few above-par productive days, and then a couple of below-par days. Yesterday I ran out of outline, so a large chunk of my time today was taken up sketching out an outline of the next umpteen thousand words. Hoping to do a bit more writing after dinner ... www.jayeless.net
@BenSouthwood Oof, yeah. Sometimes stream-of-consciousness writing and backstories can be useful, and clarify stuff for yourself as the author, but it is hard to write tens of thousands of words of that! I definitely intended to have a full outline but I just ran out of time… hopefully next time (assuming there is a next time) I’ll be more organised!
@BenSouthwood Yeah, I can relate to that. For me, some times have been tough (even when I’ve had an outline it’s turned out to be inadequate in several places), but there’ve also been those “aha!” moments, where a good idea came to me that didn’t when I was just outlining – like I needed to be closer to the work for those ideas to actually emerge. Of course now I’m resisting the urge to just re-outline and rewrite the part I already have!
@BenSouthwood Yeah, I’ve been trying to do similar. I also think there’s nothing wrong with working on another story, if you have to, to reach the 50,000 – after all the idea is to use the momentum of the month to be super productive, and if you’d be more productive on a second story rather than your first, well, go for it :)