Ah! (nano)

[likethebeer]

I thought I should update my word count and found out I had a LOWER NUMBER. Well, screw updating THAT.

I deleted a bunch of stuff. Still, not very satisfying, since i worked on it for several hours tonight. darn. And I'm nowhere near the end--I'm cleaning stuff up throughout the story until I get the gumption to get to that last part. I should hope so--Nov. 30 is closing in. I do want to finish this by the 30th even though I've "won" because I want to have the whole thing in a package so to speak.

Other than that, I'm tired and hungry. Where's that damned boy off to? Or, yeah, computer lab stuff. rrrrrr.

Comments

[anterastilis.livejournal.com]

I'll play Nano Cop.

Don't worry, you had the 50K and now you want a GOOD story. Or at least one that meets your other goals. So fear not, good citizen, you're not in any sort of violation.

It's really early. I'm still half asleep.

[likethebeer.livejournal.com]

Fortunately I'm still above 50k. And what I got rid of so far was really unnecessary, still I thought I wrote enough to compensate. It's funny how much I write that is completely unnecessary. How wasteful!

[lynedd.livejournal.com]

No writing is unnecessary. It may not be relevant to the story at hand, and may have no place in the finished draft, but it teaches things about the story which ultimately makes the final draft tighter.

Every story I've ever polished up and submitted comes with an iceberg of previous writing which stays submerged in my awareness about the tale, even though the reader won't know it as part of the tale. But that iceburg of hidden knowledge makes the story richer for the hint of history and depth behind it.

No words written are ever unnecessary.

[likethebeer.livejournal.com]

I think I was thinking of all those times when I write the words, "basically," "actually," "sometimes," "although," "really," and on and on (as in, "I think I was thinking"!). They work at times but I re-read the novel and those words come up so often! Sometimes just chopping them out feels so good (see? "just" "sometimes").

And I did go off for 5 pages (5! Single-spaced!) on some event that had no correlation or affect on the story whatsoever. Hence, the lowered word count once I looked at it and said, "awww. Dump it."