NaNo/FAW wrapup etc

[pauraque_bk]

Thanks for the snowflakes guyz! Very appropriate since I just saw snow fall for the first time. (I'd seen it on the ground, just not in the air.) Consider yourselves all snowflaked by me.

So NaNo is done, I did win. But I didn't really get the same rush of inspiration that I did last year when I was so busy and struggling to get it done. I think this year I spent too much time on it to get that frenzy of creativity, but not enough for it to be "good" like finished-good. So it was kind of a discouraging experience in that way, but at least I did it, and later if I want to turn that material into something good, it's not going anywhere.

Somewhat similarly I am done with posting a fic a week. The plan was to do it for a year, and I guess it seemed like a good idea at the time, but I think it's reached the point where it's counterproductive. I did write a few things that were good, but it has become evident that I can't and shouldn't write things quickly. They come out... um, bad. How embarrassing! Well, live and learn. Next year, how about Fic a Month?

And now to clean up to make room for forthcoming Christmas tree.

Comments

[thimble-kiss.livejournal.com]

Congrats with the Nano win! You do have that material now and it may look more useful with some distance, and if nothing else it's been great exercise in dedicated writing. :)

As for the Fic a Week, I can't recall that I ever saw anything you should have been embarrassed to post, but lots that you should definitely be proud to post. Just my humble opinion, of course. :) But Fic a Month sounds good too!

[muridae-x.livejournal.com]

Congratulations on completing Nano, even if you didn't get the same rush out of it this year. You hit the target anyway, and that's not a bad achievement in itself. Maybe the rush will come later, if you come back to the story after letting it lie fallow for a while and feel inspired to tweak it so that it feels finished-good?

I started re-reading my Nano story from last year while laid up in bed with a cold last week, and while I was itching to tear it apart and start making major edits to it as I went along, I found that I did still quite like the story. So I'm thinking that even though I didn't do Nano this year, I might try to make it a target for 2010 to carry on and write the other two-thirds of it.

Completing it in a year rather than a month sounds like a more realistic target - so I can see what you mean about setting your sights on a fic a month. We all have different writing paces that suit us best, and if a fic a week doesn't make you happy, experiment until you find what does.