Comments on: Aleksa’s Demon

By: Larkk

Larkk — Tue, 03 Nov 2009 12:20:31 +0000

Thanks!
I was really starting to second guess myself, and the fact that I had not included enough clues about the time or the location. I’ll push on and try to write it in the upcoming chapters.

By: Holly Lisle

Holly Lisle — Tue, 03 Nov 2009 05:03:15 +0000

Hang in, Lisa. If you got almost 10,000 words for October, you did great. Figure, that’s a 10th of a novel, and it’s words you didn’t have in September.

Don’t get hung up on the numbers. Just celebrate the success you had, and move on.

By: Holly Lisle

Holly Lisle — Tue, 03 Nov 2009 05:01:36 +0000

Good for you.

Sometimes you gotta dance with the one who brought you.

By: Holly Lisle

Holly Lisle — Tue, 03 Nov 2009 05:00:42 +0000

Cool. Care to offer a teaser on what it is?

By: Holly Lisle

Holly Lisle — Tue, 03 Nov 2009 04:58:53 +0000

Congrats.

By: Holly Lisle

Holly Lisle — Tue, 03 Nov 2009 04:58:26 +0000

Welcome back. And hugs. My last couple of weeks have been like that, too.

Still have my brother-in-law’s surgery pending. But everything else has calmed down.

I hope everything turns out okay for you and yours.

By: Holly Lisle

Holly Lisle — Tue, 03 Nov 2009 04:57:11 +0000

. I lived NaNo in real live for years. I did several novels on that sort of forced-march schedule.

Doing it this way is a glorious luxury…and a lot more fun. But you can write workable first drafts at a NaNo pace.

Glad to see you’re making progress. And had to laugh at the vomiting. For some weird reason, that ends up in a lot of my books.

By: Holly Lisle

Holly Lisle — Tue, 03 Nov 2009 04:54:51 +0000

That’s huge progress.

The not rewriting is good advice. Write straight through. Think of it as getting the primary layer of a painting down all at once. You paint a little thin, but once the paint has dried (or in this case the words have had about a month to sit and cool on you), you’ll have something you can see as a whole, and not just the pieces you’re creating each day.

By: Holly Lisle

Holly Lisle — Tue, 03 Nov 2009 04:51:52 +0000

Wow. That’s one amazing writing day. Congrats!

By: Gabby

Gabby — Tue, 03 Nov 2009 03:37:01 +0000

I have definitely been keeping to my Nano goal of writing 2 hours a day. I am new user of Scrivener so yesterday I spent over 8 hours breaking up scenes, creating key words, writing synopses. Unfortunately I haven’t figured out how to get word count on synopses so no word count for that (sort of low on my priority list). Today I finished up with the synopses and breaking out scenes and so starting tomorrow I have to start pushing ahead on the story and get some actual word counts.

Synopses are pretty cool. I didn’t know if it would fit my writing style but I definitely feel more organized and encouraged about everything that’s happened so far. Also a combination of key words and synopses work handed me a couple of muse bombs. Very excited about 1 of them.

So today only about 111 words on the ‘project proper’ but lots of other uncounted stuff. Congrats to everyone doing NANO. You guys are getting some amazing word counts!