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

[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.