So I’m slowly, slowly, slowly making progress on my non-novel. Melissa finished her novel along with all the other “National Writing Month” winners, writing 50,000 words in 30 days. I wouldn’t commit to that but I’ve been slowly writing since the end of November. I think I have about 25,000 words. Half the words in twice the time!
Melissa sent me a link to someone who had classified the different types of writers and thought it’d be interesting to post which ones I thought I could relate to.
Ahead-of-Themselves Worrywarts: People who are way too worried about what publishers will accept, and whether they’re going to get in legal trouble for some part of their story. Can I use names of real people? Is it okay if my character blows up a McDonald’s? Can I use X word in my YA novel?
I Would Do NaNoWriMo, But I Want to Put Real Thought into a Story: This wrimo-er isn’t exactly a real wrimo-er! You tell them about NaNoWriMo, and they say ‘Oh, I would LOVE to, but I want to put real thought into my novel.’ They watch your wordcount increase and they might read your NaNo, then you might get it published and it might become a bestseller, but that story that they wanted so badly to put tons of thought into just never seems to get on paper.
“My Characters Won’t Obey Me” NaNoers: whose imaginations run wild to such a degree that their characters become uncontrollable. Then they post a lot of threads wailing, and begging for help with keeping their unruly plots on track.
Obsessive Researcher Authors: who ask oodles of questions for verisimilitude and surf Wikipedia for hours, but it takes them forever to actually write their novels.
Keep working on it. I’m working on my non-novel too. And I’m so proud of it, but I won’t rush it because that’s when I’ll lose my passion and the emotion that I want to put in to it.
It will get done when it gets done. 😀
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